Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, kudzu and Ohio River bottomland clearing and lot preparation across Metropolis, IL and the Lower Ohio Valley.
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 kudzu fence row in Massac County to deer ground near Ledbetter or a house site outside Mayfield.
Brush, vines and young timber ground to chips where they stand, on hunting ground, pasture edges and wooded lots from Metropolis, IL to Paducah and Mayfield.
A grown-up field, a woodlot or a tract on either bank of the river opened to the line you choose, with every stump ground level with the soil.
Kudzu mats on fence rows and field edges, and brush along low river ground, cut back around the trees you keep, with return visits on their own lines.
Space for a house, a shop, a drive and a utility route on a rural tract, cleared to the ground and handed over ready for your builder to grade.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Metropolis, IL sits in Massac County on the Ohio River, across the water from Paducah, KY and about six miles from it. The service area follows the land rather than the state line: most of the towns we cover are on the Kentucky side, in McCracken, Livingston, Marshall and Graves counties, from Paducah, Hendron and Reidland out to Calvert City, Benton, KY and Mayfield. On the Illinois side it runs from Metropolis to Vienna in Johnson County and Cairo in Alexander County.
The work here is mostly rural: pasture and crop field edges, fence rows, hunting ground and woodlots, with bottomland along the river. Most of it starts with forestry mulching, which grinds the growth in place and leaves the chips on the ground; whole tracts, vine-covered edges and house sites call for land clearing, kudzu and bottomland clearing or lot and homesite prep.
On low ground, the calendar decides more than the acreage does. Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Within 15 miles of Metropolis, about a fifth of the land is deciduous forest and nearly a tenth is wooded wetland, mixed with pasture and crop ground. Kudzu has been recorded in Massac County, and its vines need repeated control after the first clearing.
Planning bottomland work? The Metropolis forestry mulching cost guide covers timing and how river ground is priced, the Illinois kudzu removal guide sets out the seasons of follow-up the vine needs, and the Illinois land clearing cost guide covers the whole state, and the Kentucky land clearing cost guide covers the Kentucky side.
Floodplain lots in the city. Parts of the city are in a flood plain, where special flood regulations and building codes apply, so contact the city's Planning & Zoning Office before beginning any work. On a low lot, ask that office before stumps are pulled or the grade is changed.
Kudzu is a listed weed in Illinois. It is on the state's exotic weed list, which makes it unlawful to sell or plant without an IDNR permit, and on the noxious weed list, and the Noxious Weed Law tells every person to control the spread of noxious weeds on land they own or control.
Two states, two sets of rules. In Illinois, local burning ordinances can be stricter than state law, which does not override them. In Kentucky, burning within 150 feet of woodland or brushland is barred from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. from 15 February to 30 April and from 1 October to 15 December, and counties and fire departments may add limits. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Massac, Johnson and Alexander counties in Illinois, and McCracken, Livingston, Marshall and Graves counties in Kentucky.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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