Selective Underbrush Clearing in Lindale, TX

Underbrush in Lindale

Underbrushing is thinning out the tangle beneath your trees while leaving the trees themselves alone, and in Smith County that means a fight with yaupon. Yaupon holly grows into a solid, head-high thicket under loblolly pine and post oak, and with greenbriar, privet and young sweetgum it turns a pretty stand of timber into something you cannot see into, walk through or hunt. I grind that understory out with the mulcher and leave a clean floor of chips under the canopy. The result is open, park-like woods: shade on top, mulch underneath, sight lines all the way across the property. It is the first thing most people want done on a wooded homesite in Flint, Whitehouse or Lindale, the way lake lot owners at Lake Palestine and Lake Tyler open up a view, and how hunters and recreational owners on bigger tracts around Mineola, Gilmer and Jacksonville get their woods usable again. The big trees stay. The junk growth choking the ground under them goes.

Land clearing in Lindale

Lindale sits where I-20 crosses US-69 north of Tyler, close enough to Dallas that the interstate has turned it into one of the fastest-growing towns in Smith County. People come for the small-town square and the Cannery district downtown, the blackberry farms, and the room to spread out, and then they buy ten acres off FM 16 or Hwy 110 North and find out what East Texas timber looks like up close. The ground around Lindale is sandy and rolling, which is why blackberries and peaches do so well here, and it grows pine, post oak and sweetgum with a yaupon thicket underneath just as well. I clear a lot of new acreage up here: homesites in the country between Lindale and Swan, lots around Hideaway and Garden Valley, ranchettes toward Mt. Sylvan and the Wood County line, and old pasture that has grown back up in briars and sweetgum while a place sat on the market. The job is usually the same: mulch the understory so the owner can walk the land, open a pad and a drive, take out the dead pines, and clear the fence lines so the place can be fenced for a horse or two. One machine, one operator, priced by the acre after I walk it with you.

• Yaupon, greenbriar, privet and young sweetgum ground out under the canopy
• Every mature pine, post oak and shade tree left standing
• Clean mulch floor instead of debris piles
• Open, walkable woods with sight lines across the tract
• Better wildlife browse and lower fire fuel around structures
• Homesites, lake lots, hunting ground and recreational acreage

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