Land Clearing Cost in Hodgenville, KY

Around Hodgenville an acre of clearing costs between $1,500 and $4,500, depending on which of four kinds of work it is, and a job too small to reach those figures is billed a minimum charge of about $1,500 in place of an acre rate. A rose fence row and a pasture corner gone to brush sit at the low end; mixed hardwood cleared to the ground sits at the top. The ranges below set a budget, and the written quote fits them to your land.

What the price buys is plain. Our crew mulches brush, small trees and stumps on site, so stumps are left flush with the soil and no wood leaves the property. Taking a stump out below grade, or cutting and hauling a very large tree, is discussed and priced in the quote, and grading and build pads are outside our price because we clear to the ground and your builder grades. If rose will need a return visit, it appears on its own line, and any herbicide in the plan is a licensed applicator's work.

Request a free quote when you are ready. To read more: the Hodgenville services page, the Hodgenville land clearing page, the Hodgenville forestry mulching cost guide, the Kentucky multiflora rose removal guide and the Kentucky land clearing cost guide.

Hodgenville Rates by Type of Work

Forestry Mulching

$1,500 – $4,000 / acre

Brush, thorny canes and young trees ground into chips where they stand. A pasture corner with a few seasons of growth sits near $1,500 an acre; a closed stand of stems on a hillside climbs toward $4,000.

Multiflora Rose & Fence Row Clearing

$1,500 – $2,500 / acre

A rose-filled fence row, a pasture-edge thicket or brush along a wood margin, worked around the trees you are keeping. A row is long and narrow, so it is measured by the share of an acre it covers.

Land Clearing

$1,500 – $4,500 / acre

A wooded acreage or a pasture gone back to woods, taken to the finish set in your quote. Thin brush and saplings sit low; mixed hardwood cleared to the ground sits at the top. Stumps are ground flush, and taking them out below grade is a separate line.

Lot & Homesite Prep

$1,500 – $4,500 / acre equivalent

The house footprint, the drive, a septic field and a cleared route for power and water on a wooded lot. We stop at ground level; grading and the pad belong to your builder.

The minimum charge is about $1,500, and it is the floor for a small job, not an extra. The mulcher rides in on a trailer whatever the size of the work, so one rose row near Buffalo or a single house spot outside Radcliff is billed at the minimum. Past that the acre bands take over, and a second row cleared on the same trip makes better use of the visit.

What Moves a Hodgenville Quote

Cane density and wire in the row

How thick the rose stands moves a quote more than the length of the row does. A hedge of scattered canes cuts quickly, while a solid wall that has grown over a fence slows the cutting head and prices near the top of its band. Old wire hides inside the canes, so we walk the row with you first and the quote notes where wire is likely.

Sinkholes, slope and the way in

Limestone ground around Hodgenville holds sinkholes, and the machine stays off their edges. A strip beside one may be left alone and named in the quote. Hillside pasture slows the work for a different reason, since the tracks move more carefully on a grade. A narrow gate or a long lane in from the road can add time before the first cut.

Soft ground after rain

The machine needs ground that will carry it. After a wet spell a low pasture or the floor of a hollow may need to wait until it firms up, which moves the start date and leaves the rate alone. Springs and sinking creeks make some corners wetter than they look from the road.

Regrowth and what comes back

Rose canes return from the crown after grinding, so a return cut is listed on separate lines in the quote and stump treatment is a licensed applicator's own price. Seeing those lines before work starts tells you what the first visit buys and what the next season will need.

Burning, hauling and the wood

A mulched job leaves no pile, so Kentucky's daytime burning closures and any burn ban never change its price. Wood that has to leave the property does: cutting and hauling a very large tree is discussed and priced in the quote, since loading and trucking it is separate labor.

Hodgenville Pricing Questions

What does one acre of clearing cost around Hodgenville?

Across the four bands the range is $1,500 to $4,500 an acre. Brush and sprouts along a pasture edge usually price near the bottom of their band, and a wooded hillside cleared to the ground near the top, though any single acre can land anywhere in its band depending on the growth, the slope and the access. The $1,500 minimum is where small jobs start, not the price of a typical acre.

How is a multiflora rose fence row priced?

By the share of an acre it covers. A row 500 feet long and 12 feet wide is about 0.14 of an acre, which at the fence row band works out to a few hundred dollars, so the job is billed the minimum charge of about $1,500 and nothing rides on top of it. The Kentucky multiflora rose removal guide sets out the return visits.

Why is the price per acre and not per day?

A day of mulching covers anywhere from half an acre in dense stems to two acres in light brush, so a day rate leaves the acreage open. An acre price states the result. The Hodgenville forestry mulching cost guide shows how an hourly or daily rate turns into dollars per acre.

Does a job near Elizabethtown or Campbellsville cost more?

No. Elizabethtown, Bardstown, Lebanon and Campbellsville are quoted from the same four bands as Hodgenville, and the growth, the slope and the access set where a job lands. The towns we serve are listed on the Hodgenville land clearing page.

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