Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, Hoosic Valley buckthorn clearing and lot preparation across North Adams and the Northern Berkshires.
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 buckthorn-choked hay field in Williamstown to a hillside house lot in Dalton or a brushy pasture outside Bennington, VT.
Available around North Adams and over the Vermont and New York lines. Buckthorn, brush and young trees are ground up on the spot, the chips stay put and no truck leaves loaded.
A valley hay field gone to brush or a wooded lot up the hillside, opened back to the edge you choose, with every stump cut down flush with the soil.
Glossy and common buckthorn and the brush around them taken out from under the sugar maples and oaks you keep, with return visits for the sprouts set out in the quote.
Room for a house, a drive and a utility run on a sloping lot, fitted to the grade and the wet ground before the first stake goes in.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
North Adams is a river city. The Hoosic River runs west through it toward Williamstown and the Vermont line, and Mount Greylock State Reservation, on the highest mountain in Massachusetts, reaches into the city itself. Around the valley lie old hay fields, wooded hillsides and house lots made from both, and our crew clears that ground from North Adams and Pittsfield to Greenfield, Bennington, VT and Troy, NY.
Most jobs here begin with forestry mulching: our crew grinds buckthorn, brush and saplings where they stand, leaves the chips as ground cover and leaves the roots in the soil. We also offer land clearing, buckthorn and understory clearing and lot and homesite prep.
Whether a parcel sits on the valley floor or up the slope decides how the work goes more than its size does. Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Buckthorn fills the gaps here. Glossy and common buckthorn both grow across Berkshire County, and both are prohibited plants in Massachusetts. Clearing it once is easy; keeping it cleared is the job.
Comparing prices? The North Adams forestry mulching cost guide covers day rates and tree-by-tree prices, the Massachusetts buckthorn removal guide covers the follow-up visits, and the Massachusetts land clearing cost guide covers burning, Chapter 61 and the statewide wetland rules.
Valley fields and hill lots are different jobs. Two soils split the ground here. Stockbridge soils formed in till derived mainly from limestone, schist and quartzite, and most of that land is cleared for hay, silage corn and pasture. Berkshire soils formed in stony till on hills and mountains, with slopes up to 80 percent, and are mostly wooded. An old field going back to brush is quick work; a stony wooded lot up the slope sits higher in its band.
The river and its brooks bring the conservation commission in. Massachusetts law bars removing, filling or altering a bank, riverfront area or freshwater wetland without first filing a notice of intent with the conservation commission. Below its meeting with the North Branch, the Hoosic runs through the city past Army Corps flood control works on both banks, and brooks such as Notch Brook and Hemlock Brook feed it on the way to Williamstown. Work near any of them starts with that filing question.
High ground can have its own rule. Chapter 131, section 39A lets any Berkshire County city or town that accepts it regulate clearing, filling and excavation in its mountain regions, generally land above 1,800 feet in the Hoosic River watershed, where the work could harm water supply, cause erosion or substantially destroy vegetation. Ask the conservation commission whether your town has adopted it before you plan a hilltop lot. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Berkshire and Franklin counties in Massachusetts, Bennington and Windham counties in Vermont and Rensselaer County in New York, from Brattleboro and Bennington down to Lee and across to Troy, NY.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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