Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, Amur honeysuckle clearing and lot preparation across Louisville and Southern Indiana.
Why Choose Us
Ground you cannot 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 grown-in back acre in Jeffersontown to a wooded hillside above Floyds Knobs.
A tracked carrier and a rotary head taking standing brush apart on the spot, with the chip left across the soil instead of stacked for a fire.
Whole tracts opened across Jefferson, Oldham, Bullitt and Shelby counties and over the river in Clark and Floyd, with the finish written into the scope.
Honeysuckle thickets, pasture edges and the floor under standing oak and hickory taken back to ground you can walk and see across.
Building envelopes, drives and utility corridors on river bottom, tableland or knob slope, each of which hands the next machine a different problem.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Most metro areas give a land clearing company one working surface. Louisville gives three, and the difference between them is more than 500 vertical feet. Jefferson County runs from 383 feet at the normal pool of the Ohio to 902 feet at South Park Hills. The flood plain sits at 430 to 440 feet and is described as relatively narrow upstream of downtown, widening appreciably to the south and southwest. Behind it a tableland falls gently from 790 feet on the east to 500 feet at the foot of the knobs. Then the knobs themselves begin, and everything about how a machine works changes.
Add the river, which is a regulatory boundary as much as a geographic one, and a quote for the same brush can be two different conversations depending on the address. Ranges for every kind of work are on the Louisville pricing guide, the statewide picture is in our Kentucky land clearing cost per acre guide, and what we actually run the machines at is set out on the Louisville services page.
In Jefferson County the disturbance line is 2,000 square feet. Across the river it is an acre. This is the single most useful thing to know before you price clearing here, because the two numbers are a factor of twenty apart. In Louisville and Jefferson County, land disturbance in excess of 2,000 square feet requires a Site Disturbance Permit, with a Small Site permit covering 2,000 square feet to 0.99 acres and a Large Site permit taking over at one acre, at which point plans must be prepared by a Professional Engineer and a Notice of Intent goes to the Kentucky Division of Water. In Clark and Floyd counties, Indiana's Construction Stormwater General Permit engages at one acre or more, or below that where the work forms part of a larger common plan of development or sale. Oldham, Bullitt and Shelby counties are separate programmes again. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination. The full sequence, with sources, is in our Louisville land clearing permit guide.
The knobs are shale under a hard cap, and they behave accordingly. South and east of the city the Knobs region begins: hundreds of steep sloping, often cone-shaped hills whose slopes are mostly composed of shales of the Mississippian-age Borden Formation, which are less resistant to erosion, sitting under resistant limestone or sandstone crests. Bernheim Forest south of Louisville sits in it. In Bullitt County the slopes are steep but cliffs are rare, and individual knobs may rise 400 feet or more above the valleys of Rolling Fork and Salt River. The same landform continues north of the river, where the Knobstone Escarpment through Clark County is land of extreme relief with narrow, flat-topped ridges. The practical point is identical on both sides: strip a knob slope to bare shale and the first heavy rain takes the working layer with it, which is why grinding material in place and leaving it as cover is usually the better trade here.
What you are looking at is probably bush honeysuckle. Amur honeysuckle is the most common invasive bush honeysuckle in Kentucky, brought into the country in the late 1800s and actively promoted for conservation and wildlife planting in the 1960s and 1970s, with its greatest occurrence in the northern and central parts of the state, which is exactly where this market sits. It is among the worst plants in Kentucky: bush honeysuckles rapidly invade and overtake a site, decreasing light availability, depleting soil moisture and nutrients, and possibly releasing chemicals that stop other plants growing nearby. Two consequences for a quote. First, the wall you are trying to get through is shrub rather than timber, which is efficient work for a mulching head. Second, it comes back from the crown after a plain cut, so a follow-up plan belongs in the conversation. Our guide to bush honeysuckle removal around Louisville covers what that looks like in practice.
Six counties: Jefferson, Oldham, Bullitt and Shelby in Kentucky, plus Clark and Floyd across the Ohio River in Southern Indiana.
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