Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, buckthorn and honeysuckle timber clearing and lot preparation across Coralville and the Iowa City Corridor.
Why Choose Us
Ground you could not walk through, turned into ground you can use.
Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.
Amanda Elliott
Forestry Mulching
We hired Cut Brush for approximately three acres of forestry mulching and couldn't be happier. Communication was outstanding from the very beginning, the crew was professional and efficient, and we loved the regular updates and photos throughout the project. It's refreshing to work with a company that values communication and quality workmanship. Highly recommend!
Jessica Richardson
Brush Clearing
They did an amazing job getting rid of them pesky vines!
Stan Creech
Land Clearing
Greg did a fantastic job with our land that was overgrown with vines, brush and trees. It took about 1 1/2 days of constant work with the machine to get this 0.6 acres under control. Greg was here at 8am sharp, just as promised. Very professional and reliable. 100% satisfied customer! I highly recommend Cut Brush for land clearing.
A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.
Whether it is a buckthorn thicket in a Solon timber lot, a brushy fence line near Kalona or an overgrown acreage outside Marion.
Offered across Johnson and Linn counties and the farm country around them. Brush, saplings and timber edges are ground into a chip mat where they stood, with nothing to burn or haul.
Timber, brushy draws and overgrown pasture taken back to the line you choose, with trees, brush and stumps ground to mulch flush with the ground.
The shrub layer cut out from under the oak, hickory and walnut you keep, with the follow-up visits for sprouts written into the quote.
A house spot, drive and utility path opened on a wooded acreage, with the city or DNR stormwater question settled before the lines are drawn.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Cut Brush clears overgrown land for owners around Coralville, from Iowa City, North Liberty and Tiffin to Solon and Mount Vernon, and down through Kalona, Riverside and Washington. The job might be a timber lot where buckthorn and honeysuckle have filled in under the oaks, a brushy draw in a pasture, a fence line lost to multiflora rose, or a building spot on a wooded acreage.
Most of it is forestry mulching, which here means a tracked mulcher grinding brush and trees, not bags of landscape mulch. Our crew grinds brush and small trees into mulch where they grew, in one pass, so nothing is left to burn or haul. We also offer land clearing, buckthorn and honeysuckle clearing, and lot and homesite prep.
Coralville knows this work well. The city mapped about 157 acres of its own wooded open space and cleared the invasive understory with a mulching head on a skid steer, then came back twice the same year for the regrowth. Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Clearing around Coralville is mostly timber work: the shrub layer under an oak and hickory stand, the brushy edge of a pasture, a strip along a fence or a creek. The method has to leave the trees you value and plan for the regrowth.
Wondering what one acre costs before you call? The Coralville forestry mulching cost guide compares hourly and per-acre quotes, and the Iowa land clearing cost guide covers slopes, forest reserve timber and the burn rules across the state.
Common buckthorn is a state noxious weed. Iowa Code 317.1A lists it as a primary noxious weed; glossy buckthorn is excluded. Under chapter 317 the county board can order listed weeds destroyed, and if the owner does not, the weed commissioner can do it and tax the cost, plus 25 percent, against the land. Johnson County's 2025 notice set June 1 as the deadline. One cut does not end the problem, so our Iowa buckthorn removal guide sets out the visits that follow.
Disturbing soil brings the stormwater rules. Mulching leaves roots and soil in place. Grubbing, a new drive or a building pad that disturbs an acre or more needs Iowa DNR coverage under General Permit No. 2, approved before work starts, and Coralville asks construction sites for its own Construction Site Runoff permit and a pollution prevention plan. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination; the Coralville Engineering Department is the first call inside the city.
River timber sits on loess slopes. The woods along the Iowa River and Clear Creek grow on deep, well drained loess, which NRCS maps across eastern Iowa on slopes up to 60 percent. A mulcher works a steep side hill slowly and across the slope, so a sloped acre costs more than a level one with the same brush; the Coralville cost guide explains how that shows in a quote.
Johnson, Linn, Cedar, Washington, Iowa and Muscatine counties, from Cedar Rapids and Marion down to Washington and Kalona, and from Marengo and Williamsburg east to Tipton and West Liberty.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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