Hodgenville, KY's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, multiflora rose and fence row clearing and lot preparation across Hodgenville, Elizabethtown and the Lincoln Trail.

Why Choose Us

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Land Clearing Before & After

Ground you could not walk through, turned into ground you can use.

A wooded lot thick with shrubs and small trees, with trunks marked in orange tape BEFORE
The same lot opened to a clear floor with the marked trees left standing AFTER
A wall of leafy brush and young trees pressing against the edge of a mown lot BEFORE
The thicket cleared back to bare ground beneath the tall trees AFTER

What Our Customers Say

Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.

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★★★★★
5-Star Rating on Google

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.

From Overgrown to Usable in 3 Steps

A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.

1

Request a Free Quote

2

We Clear Your Land

3

Enjoy Your Property

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

Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching Across Hodgenville, Elizabethtown and the Lincoln Trail

Hodgenville is the Larue County seat, about thirteen miles south of Elizabethtown, in limestone country where pasture, woodlot and fence row sit side by side. Much of the work is the seam between them: a hillside pasture whose corners have filled with thorny canes, a fence line nobody has walked in years, a wooded lot with a house site somewhere under the trees. Our crew clears that ground from Hodgenville and Buffalo to Elizabethtown, Radcliff, Bardstown, Lebanon and Campbellsville.

We handle it with forestry mulching, land clearing, multiflora rose and fence row clearing and lot and homesite prep. A pasture of ten or twenty acres is planned in stages, with the finish agreed before the machine moves.

Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.

Sound Familiar?

  • A fence row of thorny canes you cannot get a hand to the wire through
  • A hillside pasture corner that shrinks a little more every summer
  • A wooded lot you bought to build on and cannot walk across
  • A brush pile that has to wait out a daytime burning closure

Cut Brush Delivers

  • The rose ground down along the row, with a return cut for the canes that follow listed in your quote
  • The corner opened back to the fence line, with the trees you flag left standing
  • A house site, drive and utility run opened to the ground for your builder
  • Everything ground where it stands, so there is no pile to burn or haul

Why Larue County Landowners Choose Cut Brush

Multiflora rose takes hold along Kentucky fence rows and hillside pastures, and a single cutting does not finish it, because the crown beneath the cut keeps its buds.

  • Rows and acreage both count. Small jobs start at a minimum charge of about $1,500, not a fee added to an acre rate.
  • Nothing left to burn. A mulched stand leaves no pile to wait on a burn day or truck to a landfill.
  • Rates published first. The Hodgenville pricing page sets out a per-acre band for each kind of work, and each quote lists the clearing and any return visit as separate lines.
  • What the price covers. Forestry mulching grinds brush, small trees and stumps into mulch on site, leaves stumps flush and hauls nothing away. Full stump removal below grade and cutting and hauling very large trees are discussed and priced in the quote; grading and build pads are not part of our price.

Weighing your options? The Hodgenville forestry mulching cost guide turns a day rate into a per-acre figure, the Kentucky multiflora rose removal guide sets out the visits a thicket needs, and the Kentucky land clearing cost guide covers the state's rules and prices.

What to Know Before Clearing Land Around Hodgenville

Limestone ground with sinkholes. Larue County lies in a limestone region with some of the highest sinkhole potential in Kentucky, and the spring at Abraham Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville is named for water that drops into a pit and vanishes underground. Before a machine runs, we walk the parcel for depressions, open throats and soft spots, keep the tracks off their edges, and never push brush into one. The quote names any strip left alone.

Daytime burning closes twice a year. Kentucky's fire hazard seasons run 15 February to 30 April and 1 October to 15 December. In them it is illegal to burn within 150 feet of any woodland or brushland between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and a pile on a wooded fence row sits inside that distance. Our crew grinds brush where it stands, so no pile waits on the calendar. A county or local burn ban is separate, so check whether one is in force.

Permits follow what the ground is for. Kentucky's construction stormwater general permit applies to construction sites that disturb one acre or more, with a notice of intent filed at least seven days before work starts. A house on cleared ground goes through the Land of Lincoln Planning and Zoning Commission, on the second floor of the Larue County courthouse, for building and zoning permits and a sewage site evaluation. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.

Serving Hodgenville, Elizabethtown & Six Counties

Larue, Hardin, Nelson, Taylor, Marion and Hart counties in Kentucky, from Buffalo to Horse Cave.

Hodgenville Elizabethtown Radcliff Bardstown Campbellsville Fort Knox Vine Grove Lebanon Rineyville Horse Cave Munfordville New Haven Buffalo Loretto Upton Magnolia Sonora Cecilia Bonnieville Boston Raywick

Hodgenville Area Land Clearing FAQ

It depends on what the cleared ground is for. A house goes through the Land of Lincoln Planning and Zoning Commission in the Larue County courthouse, and a lot inside Hodgenville is worth a call to City Hall first. Bring the parcel number when you call. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Most work runs $1,500 to $4,500 an acre. A rose fence row sits low in that range, and a wooded hillside cleared to the ground sits near the top. Small jobs start at a minimum charge of about $1,500, which is a floor and never a fee added on top. The bands are on the Hodgenville pricing page, and the Hodgenville forestry mulching cost guide turns day and hourly rates into a per-acre figure.
Yes, if the job stops at grinding. The crown under the cut keeps its buds, so new canes come up the next season and the plan has to expect them. A return cut while the canes are young is priced as its own line, and any herbicide is a licensed applicator's work. The Kentucky multiflora rose removal guide lays out the visits.
That is the aim. Old wire disappears inside the canes, so we ask you to flag the posts and wire you know about, and the machine works along the row rather than through it. Wire that is buried or rusted through can still be caught by the cutting head, which is why the walk of the row comes first and the quote notes where wire is likely.
Six counties: Larue (Hodgenville, Buffalo, Magnolia), Hardin (Elizabethtown, Radcliff, Vine Grove and five more), Nelson (Bardstown, New Haven, Boston), Taylor (Campbellsville), Marion (Lebanon, Loretto, Raywick) and Hart (Munfordville, Horse Cave, Bonnieville). The full list is above.

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