Montgomery's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, Black Belt pasture clearing and lot preparation across Montgomery and the River Region.

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Land Clearing Before & After

Ground you cannot walk through, turned into ground you can use.

Thick understory grown in beneath a stand of mature trees BEFORE
The same ground opened to a walkable floor with a mulch mat left down AFTER
A field edge closed in by dense scrub and low limbs BEFORE
The same edge cut back to open ground with the keeper trees still standing AFTER

What Our Customers Say

Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.

★★★★★
"My 2-acre property was so thick you couldn't walk through it. One day later, it looked like a park."

– Jason M

★★★★★
"Fast, honest, no drama. They quoted Tuesday, cleared Thursday. Done by Friday."

– Carrie D.

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"We didn't realize how much land we had until Cut Brush cleared it."

– Tony & Lisa R.

From Overgrown to Usable in 3 Steps

A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.

1

Request a Free Quote

Tell us where the land is, roughly how many acres you want opened, and what it is for next: a house site, a pasture brought back, a hunting tract or simply ground you can walk. You get a clear written quote.

2

We Clear Your Land

The agreed scope gets worked on a day the ground will carry the machine, around the trees, fences and pasture lines you asked us to keep, with the material ground in place rather than piled.

3

Enjoy Your Property

Put the opened ground to work as a homesite, grazing, a food plot or a fence line you can finally ride without ducking limbs.

What We Take On Around Montgomery

From a grown-in lot inside the city to a cedar-choked pasture out past Hayneville or Union Springs.

Forestry Mulching

Forestry Mulching

Yes, across the River Region: one tracked machine grinding brush, cedar and young pine where it stands, with no pile left to burn under a city permit.
Land Clearing

Land Clearing

Whole tracts and building sites opened across Montgomery, Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon and Bullock counties, with the finish written into the quote.
Pasture & Understory Work

Pasture & Understory Work

Grown-in pasture, fence rows and the brush under timber you are keeping, cut back to open ground and timed for when the clay will carry a machine.
Lot & Homesite Prep

Lot & Homesite Prep

Building envelopes, drives and utility runs around Pike Road, Prattville and beyond, cleared to the ending your builder actually needs.

See Cut Brush in Action

Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.

  • Before & after project walkthroughs
  • Professional equipment on real jobs
  • See the land clearing process start to finish
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Prairie Clay, Pasture and Pine

Montgomery is the only city inside Alabama's traditional Black Belt, a band of seventeen counties named, the Encyclopedia of Alabama says, for the dark soils early settlers found there. Montgomery, Lowndes, Macon and Bullock are all on that list. Alabama Extension traces those soils to Selma chalk and marine clays and notes that most of them are now in timber and pasture. The USDA describes the Sumter soils of the prairie as mostly cleared for pasture and hay, with some ground gone to red cedar, and the Vaiden soils as carrying loblolly and shortleaf pine, post oak, sweetgum, southern red oak and hickory. Pasture left alone here fills with cedar and brush, and a fence row forgotten for a decade becomes a hedge.

That makes most River Region clearing a question of growth, access and the season rather than slope or rock. Ranges for every kind of work are on the Montgomery pricing guide, the statewide picture is in our Alabama land clearing cost guide, and the Montgomery figure specifically is broken down in the Montgomery forestry mulching cost guide. Everything we do here is laid out on the Montgomery services page.

Three Things That Decide a Montgomery Job

Black Belt clay decides the calendar. Alabama Extension describes the Wilcox, Mayhew and Vaiden clays of the Black Belt as shrinking and cracking when dry and swelling when wet, and as somewhat poorly or poorly drained. The USDA adds that Vaiden soils are saturated within one to two feet of the surface for long periods in winter and spring of most years. For a clearing job that means soft ground slows the machine, can leave ruts in a pasture you mean to keep, and can move a start date. Dry months usually suit this ground best, and whether a low spot is a wetland is a formal determination, not a judgment made from the cab. The full picture is in our Black Belt clay clearing guide.

Inside the city, clearing needs a grading permit at any size. Montgomery's erosion and sedimentation ordinance, section 12-189, says no one may conduct land-disturbing activity without a grading permit from the city official, and clearing is named in the definition. There is no acreage floor. The application carries a construction best management practices plan, a $400 fee (waived for an individual single-family home plan), and the city decides a complete filing within 30 days. The city must hear five business days before work starts, and downslope controls go in before clearing begins. Agriculture, silviculture and minor residential work are excluded. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination. The sequence is in the Montgomery land clearing permit guide.

A burn pile in town needs the fire department. Under section 13-9 of the city code, any open fire inside the Montgomery city limits needs a burn permit from the city fire department, and the recreational exception does not cover vegetation or yard waste. The fire chief sets the conditions and can refuse. That is current as of September 2026. It changes the arithmetic of a quote directly: waiting on a burn permit, or loading and hauling, both cost more than grinding the material where it stands. Outside the city the state burn permit still applies above a quarter acre.

Serving Montgomery & the River Region

Six Alabama counties, from Prattville and Wetumpka in the north to Fort Deposit in the south, and east through Tuskegee to Union Springs.

Montgomery Pike Road Ramer Prattville Autaugaville Billingsley Millbrook Wetumpka Tallassee Eclectic Deatsville Coosada Elmore Hayneville Fort Deposit Lowndesboro Tuskegee Shorter Union Springs Midway

South Central Alabama Land Clearing Guides

Montgomery Land Clearing FAQ

Inside the City of Montgomery, often yes, and size is not the test. Section 12-189 of the city code says no one may conduct land-disturbing activity without a grading permit from the city official, and section 12-190 names clearing as land-disturbing activity. There is no acreage floor. Agriculture, silviculture and minor work around an existing home are excluded. The application fee is $400, waived for an individual single-family home plan. Outside the city, Montgomery County lists building and driveway turnout permits through County Engineering, and the state's ADEM stormwater coverage starts at one acre. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction. Cut Brush can flag what commonly applies and help identify the right office, and the governing authority makes the determination. The Montgomery permit guide sets each rule beside its official source.
Most work quotes between $1,500 and $4,500 per acre. A light pasture edge or fence row pass sits near the floor, and whole-tract clearing with stumps out and a shaped finish sits near the ceiling. Around Montgomery the ground is mostly gentle, so what moves a number is how thick the growth is, how far the machine travels inside the property, and whether wet clay limits the days it can work. The Montgomery pricing guide lists every range, the Montgomery forestry mulching cost breakdown goes further on the mulching figure, and the walk-through that turns a range into a written number is free.
Only with a permit. Section 13-9 of the city code makes any open fire inside the city limits unlawful without a burn permit from the city fire department, and the exception for cooking and recreational fires does not cover yard waste or vegetation. The fire chief sets the conditions and can refuse a permit that creates a hazard. Outside the city, the Alabama Forestry Commission permit applies to burning more than a quarter acre or within 25 feet of woods or grass. Those rules are current as of September 2026. Grinding in place avoids all of it: there is no pile to build, permit or wait on.
Because the clay changes with it. Alabama Extension describes Black Belt clays that shrink and crack when dry and swell when wet, and the USDA describes one common series, Vaiden, as saturated within one to two feet of the surface for long stretches of most winters and springs. Soft ground slows a machine, can leave ruts, and can push a start date back. Dry months usually suit this ground best, and the walk-through is where your own parcel gets judged. Our Black Belt clay clearing guide covers it in full.
Six counties. Montgomery including Montgomery, Pike Road and Ramer. Autauga at Prattville, Autaugaville and Billingsley. Elmore at Millbrook, Wetumpka, Tallassee, Eclectic, Deatsville, Coosada and Elmore. Lowndes at Hayneville, Fort Deposit and Lowndesboro. Macon at Tuskegee and Shorter. Bullock at Union Springs and Midway. Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Dothan and Huntsville are separate Cut Brush service areas with their own pages. If your land is inside these six counties and your town is not listed, ask anyway.

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