Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, autumn olive and Lake Red Rock timber clearing and lot preparation across Pella and South-Central Iowa.
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.
From a fence row outside New Sharon to a pasture edge near Pleasantville or an acreage above the lake.
Brush, autumn olive and young trees ground to chips where they stand, from Pella and Knoxville out to Oskaloosa, Newton and Grinnell. No pile is left to burn or haul.
A pasture gone back to brush, a timbered draw or an acreage in lake country opened to the line you choose, with stumps ground even with the soil.
Autumn olive and saplings cut back off fence rows and pasture edges and out from under the trees you keep, with each return visit for sprouts on its own line.
Space for a house, a drive and a utility route on a rural acreage, cleared to the ground so your builder can grade.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Pella and Knoxville face each other across Lake Red Rock in Marion County, and Cut Brush clears land from both out across six counties, from Mitchellville and Colfax to Newton, Grinnell, Oskaloosa and Albia. Within 15 miles of Pella roughly two acres in three are farmland and about a quarter is forest, shrub or pasture. That mix sets the work: fence rows between fields, pasture edges going back to brush, and timber along the lake and its creeks.
The usual tool is forestry mulching: our crew grinds brush, autumn olive and small trees into chips where they grew, so there is no pile to burn and the soil stays covered. We also take on land clearing, autumn olive and fence row clearing and lot and homesite prep.
Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need. On farm ground the first question is usually how the trailer reaches the work without crossing a planted field.
Clearing here is rarely one big block: a fence row on one side of a farm, a pasture corner on another, a strip of timber above the lake. The price and the method have to suit that.
Comparing bids? The Pella forestry mulching cost guide sets per-tree quotes beside per-acre ones, the Iowa autumn olive removal guide covers the visits the shrub needs, and the Iowa land clearing cost guide covers Iowa as a whole, including stormwater coverage and timber held as forest reserve.
Lake Red Rock sets the edges. Lake Red Rock lies between Pella and Knoxville, and with the land around it covers more than 50,000 acres, the largest single expanse of public land in Iowa, from sandy shoreline to wooded rocky bluffs. Heavy rain can triple the lake's size. Near the shore, settle where your line meets public ground before any clearing, and expect low ground to set the timing.
Old pasture fills with autumn olive. At Rock Creek Wildlife Area in Jasper County, honeysuckle and autumn olive spread thickly across hills that were most likely once pasture, and keeping them back takes constant work. Our Iowa autumn olive removal guide explains when to cut and how many visits to plan.
Permits and who issues them. Inside Pella, the City's Planning and Zoning Department at City Hall, 825 Broadway Street, handles zoning and building permits. Marion County Zoning in Knoxville covers only the unincorporated land, and its flood plain permit applies to filling, grading and excavation in a mapped flood plain. Construction that disturbs an acre or more needs Iowa DNR General Permit No. 2 coverage before work starts. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Marion, Jasper, Mahaska, Poweshiek, Monroe and Polk counties, from Mitchellville and Colfax east to Grinnell and Montezuma, and from Newton south to Albia.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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