Savannah's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, flatwoods understory clearing and lot preparation across Savannah and Coastal Georgia.

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Land Clearing Before & After

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

Dense understory grown in tight beneath pine BEFORE
The same ground opened to a walkable floor with a mulch mat down AFTER
A property edge closed in by thick shrubs and low limbs BEFORE
The same edge cut back to open ground with the keeper trees left 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

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"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, and what it is for next. If it sits inside Savannah city limits or near the marsh, say so, and we will plan the order of work around it.

2

We Clear Your Land

The agreed scope is worked with equipment sized for soft coastal ground, and every tree, buffer and wet corner you asked us to leave stays exactly as it was.

3

Enjoy Your Property

See the whole parcel again. Stake a house, run a fence, open a trail to the creek, or just walk the back of land you have owned for years without fighting palmetto.

What We Take On Around Savannah

From a palmetto-choked tract out past Guyton to a quarter acre waiting on a house in Pooler.

Land Clearing

Land Clearing

Whole tracts opened from Effingham to Liberty County, with the trees you keep, the finish you want and the paperwork order agreed before a machine is booked.
Forestry Mulching

Forestry Mulching

One tracked machine grinding palmetto, gallberry and small stems where they stand, leaving a mat that helps soft flatwoods ground carry traffic afterwards.
Regrowth & Understory Work

Regrowth & Understory Work

Wax myrtle walls, fence lines and the thicket under slash pine cut back to ground you can walk, with the keeper trees marked first.
Lot & Homesite Prep

Lot & Homesite Prep

Building envelope, drive and utility run opened on a lot in Pooler, Rincon or Richmond Hill, working to the tree plan the permit asks for.

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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Flat, Wet and Full of Palmetto

Away from the river bluffs and the historic squares, a lot of land around Savannah is pine flatwoods: level ground, slash and longleaf pine overhead, and a low, stubborn layer of saw palmetto, gallberry, fetterbush and wax myrtle underneath. Soils like the Leon series, mapped across the Georgia coastal plain, are poorly or very poorly drained, carry a seasonal high water table within 18 inches of the surface for one to four months of the year, and hold standing water in their low spots far longer than that.

None of that makes flatwoods hard to clear. It makes them easy to clear badly. A tract opened in a wet month, with the keeper trees unmarked and the ditch crossings unplanned, ends up rutted and bare. The same tract opened after a dry spell, with the pines flagged and the low corners left alone, ends up as a stand you can walk under and use. That difference is settled on the walk-through, which is free, and written into the scope before anything moves.

The ground itself changes a quote in two ways. Palmetto and gallberry are dense, woody and low, which suits a mulching head far better than a bush hog. And the same parcel can carry a tracked machine easily in a dry autumn and not at all after a wet spell, so timing is part of the price. Ranges for every kind of work are on the Savannah pricing guide, the statewide picture is in our Georgia land clearing cost per acre guide, and clearing this kind of ground is covered in our guide to clearing palmetto and gallberry flatwoods.

Three Things That Decide a Savannah Job

Tree protection on vacant city lots. The City of Savannah's published Landscape and Tree Protection Ordinance defines clearing as removing trees or other vegetation two inches in diameter at breast height or larger, and says no owner may clear without first obtaining a clearing permit. On undeveloped property it protects any tree over two inches; on developed property the line is 12 inches, except single-family residential lots; and any tree in a wetland is protected whatever its size. The ordinance does let the administrator approve underbrushing of vegetation up to four inches. On a vacant city lot, that means the permit and the tree plan come first and the machine comes second, and we quote it in that order.

The county has its own system, and it is built around canopy. Outside city limits, unincorporated Chatham County applies a Land-Disturbing Activities Ordinance through its Department of Engineering, with three permits (clearing and grubbing, grading, and development) and a stated aim of keeping fifty percent canopy cover, which the ordinance puts at roughly 18 large trees or 1,600 Tree Quality Points per acre. Effingham, Bryan, Liberty and Bulloch counties each set their own rules. 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. Our Savannah land clearing permit guide lays out both.

The marsh edge is a fixed line. Georgia keeps a 25 foot buffer along coastal marshlands, measured from the marsh and upland boundary set under the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act, and no land disturbance belongs inside it without a state variance. For work below the two meter elevation the state advises asking the DNR Coastal Resources Division to mark that line, and those determinations typically hold for one year. On Wilmington Island, around Thunderbolt or on a Bryan County creek lot, the line is found before the scope is written.

Serving Savannah & Coastal Georgia

Five Georgia counties: Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty and Bulloch.

Savannah Pooler Garden City Port Wentworth Bloomingdale Thunderbolt Tybee Island Wilmington Island Rincon Springfield Guyton Richmond Hill Pembroke Ellabell Hinesville Midway Walthourville Statesboro Brooklet

Coastal Georgia Land Clearing Guides

Savannah Land Clearing FAQ

Inside Savannah city limits, very often yes, and earlier than people expect. The city's published tree ordinance defines clearing as removing trees or other vegetation two inches in diameter or larger, and on undeveloped property it protects any tree over two inches, so a clearing permit usually comes before the machine. Lots with an existing single-family home are exempt from that permit requirement. Where disturbance reaches one acre or sits within 200 feet of state waters, a land disturbing application also goes to the Georgia Coastal Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Unincorporated Chatham County runs its own three-permit system through the Department of Engineering. 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. Our Savannah land clearing permit guide sets each rule beside its source.
Most work quotes between $1,500 and $4,500 per acre. A fence line or light understory pass sits near the floor; a wooded tract with a named finish sits near the ceiling. Around Savannah two things move a number that a national calculator cannot see: how wet the ground is when the machine arrives, and how many trees a permit or tree plan says must stay. The Savannah pricing guide lists every range, and our Savannah forestry mulching cost breakdown goes further on the mulching figure.
Sometimes, with conditions. Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty and Bulloch counties are not on the Georgia EPD summer open burning ban list, so the May to September ban that covers Atlanta and Augusta does not apply here. Land-clearing and machine-piled debris still needs a Georgia Forestry Commission notification or burn permit, good only for the day it is issued, and city or county ordinances must be followed where they exist. Near houses, marsh and busy roads, grinding the material in place is usually the simpler answer, because nothing is piled and nothing is burned.
Then the marsh edge sets part of the scope. Georgia keeps a 25 foot buffer along coastal marshlands, measured from the line where marsh meets upland, and no land disturbance is allowed inside it without state approval. For work below the two meter elevation, the state advises owners to ask the DNR Coastal Resources Division to mark that line first. We plan clearing to stop short of it, and we will tell you when a line needs to be flagged before any quote is final.
Five Georgia counties. Chatham County including Savannah, Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Bloomingdale, Thunderbolt, Tybee Island and Wilmington Island. Effingham County including Rincon, Springfield and Guyton. Bryan County including Richmond Hill, Pembroke and Ellabell. Liberty County including Hinesville, Midway and Walthourville. Bulloch County including Statesboro and Brooklet. If your land is nearby and your town is not listed, ask anyway.

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