Ocala's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Forestry mulching, lot clearing, and brush removal across Marion County – palmetto flats, overgrown pasture, and wooded homesites cleared in a single pass, with a free written quote up front.

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Land Clearing Before & After

From choked and unwalkable to open and usable, usually in days.

Thick scrub and understory before Cut Brush clearing BEFORE
Open parcel under a clean mulch layer after clearing AFTER
Overgrown acreage before land clearing BEFORE
Walkable, usable ground after Cut Brush clearing AFTER

What Our Customers Say

Don't just take our word for it – hear from real Cut Brush customers.

★★★★★
"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.

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

– Tony & Lisa R.

From Overgrown to Usable in Three Steps

Simple process, written numbers, no surprises.

1

Walk It With Us

A free walk-through of your parcel: vegetation, access, wet spots, and anything that needs a closer look, from possible burrows to burn-rule questions. A written quote follows fast.

2

One-Pass Clearing

Tracked mulching equipment turns standing growth into ground cover on the spot. Most Marion County parcels finish in one to three days.

3

Use Your Land

Walk the open ground the day we finish: no piles, no bare sand, nothing left to haul or burn.

Four Ways We Open Marion County Ground

From a half-acre homesite in the Shores to raw acreage out toward Fort McCoy, one of these four covers it.

Land Clearing

Land Clearing

Acreage, pasture, and scrub parcels opened across Marion County with wildlife constraints considered during planning.
Forestry Mulching

Forestry Mulching

Palmetto and pine ground into a protective mat in one pass, with nothing left over to burn.
Lot Clearing

Lot Clearing

Buildable homesites from Silver Springs Shores to the SR-200 corridor, cleared to your site plan.
Brush Clearing

Brush Clearing

Palmetto flats, choked fence lines, and overgrown pasture cut back to working land.

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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America's Fastest-Growing Metro Runs on Cleared Land

For two straight years the Census Bureau has ranked the Ocala metro, which is Marion County exactly, the fastest-growing metro area in the United States. None of those newcomers move onto land that is ready for them. They move onto scrub parcels, flatwoods, retired pasture, and wooded lots that all need the same first step: somebody has to open the ground.

Cut Brush serves Ocala and Marion County with the four services that step requires: land clearing for acreage and homesites, forestry mulching as the single-pass method behind most of our work, lot clearing for new construction, and brush clearing for palmetto flats and fence lines that got away from their owners.

What Makes Marion County Clearing Different

Marion County is growing fast. Communities like Calesa Township and On Top of the World are adding thousands of homes along the SR-200 corridor, The Villages keeps expanding into southern Marion through Summerfield and Belleview, and national builders have been active here for years. All of that construction, plus affordable acreage on the rural east side around Ocklawaha and Citra, keeps clearing work steady across the county.

Ocala is also the Horse Capital of the World, and much of the land here is fenced, grazed, and managed. Pasture edges and fence lines are in a constant fight with palmetto and wax myrtle, and reclaiming that ground is exactly what our equipment is built for.

A few local rules shape how clearing gets done. Gopher tortoise burrows carry a 25-foot protection zone and an FWC permit process, burn piles need Florida Forest Service authorization, and the June-to-September wet season decides when equipment belongs on soft ground. We grind vegetation in place instead of burning, and every quote accounts for these conditions up front.

Serving Ocala & Marion County

From the SR-200 corridor and the US-441 towns to the rural east side, plus Williston over the Levy County line.

Ocala Silver Springs Shores Silver Springs Belleview Summerfield Dunnellon Citra Anthony Reddick McIntosh Fort McCoy Ocklawaha Weirsdale Williston

Ocala Land Clearing FAQ

It can pause part of one, yes, and Florida takes it seriously. The gopher tortoise is state-listed as Threatened, and an FWC permit is required before any clearing or development activity disturbs ground within 25 feet of a potentially occupied burrow; tortoises must be relocated under permit before that area is cleared. The only way to skip permitting entirely is to keep all work at least 25 feet from every burrow. We look for burrows during the initial walk-through so the question gets answered before a machine is ever scheduled, and small sites often qualify for the streamlined 10 or Fewer Burrows permit.
Cut Brush quotes most clearing work between $1,500 and $4,500 per acre, with palmetto and light scrub near the bottom of that band and heavy timber or construction-grade finishes near the top. The Ocala pricing guide lays out every range, and a free walk-through turns the range into a firm written number.
Sometimes. Marion County requires a tree removal permit for trees 10 inches DBH or larger when the clearing is tied to grading, construction, or another project that needs a building permit; trees under 10 inches are exempt, and there is an exemption for single-family use on a parcel of record. Stand-alone tree removal permits expire after one year, and mitigation can involve planting Florida-native replacements or paying into the county Tree Mitigation Fund. We confirm which rules touch your specific parcel before quoting.
It shapes the calendar more than it stops the work. Ocala averages around 52 inches of rain a year, and the June-through-September wet season delivers 6 to 8 or more inches a month, versus 2 to 3 inches monthly from October through May. Tracked mulching equipment tolerates soft ground far better than wheeled machines, and owners who give us flexible scheduling windows get the best results in summer.
All of Marion County and its western edge: Ocala, Silver Springs Shores, Silver Springs, Belleview, Summerfield, Dunnellon, Citra, Anthony, Reddick, McIntosh, Fort McCoy, Ocklawaha, Weirsdale, and Williston across the Levy County line. If your parcel is in the county and your community is not on that list, ask anyway; the answer is almost always yes.

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