Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, Japanese barberry and stone-wall field edge clearing and lot preparation across Sabattus and the Lewiston-Auburn area.
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 barberry-choked field edge in Lisbon, ME to a wooded house lot in Gray or a brushy back acre outside Topsham.
Offered around Sabattus, Lewiston and Auburn and out to Brunswick, ME and Augusta, ME. Our crew turns barberry, brush and saplings into a chip layer on the spot, and nothing gets trucked off.
A hay field that went back to brush, or a wooded lot outside Turner or Poland, opened back to the line you pick, the stumps cut off level with the ground.
Japanese barberry and brush cleared from beneath the trees you are saving and off the stone walls of old fields, with the sprout visits written into the quote.
Room on a wooded lot for the house, the driveway and the power and septic route, laid out around the shoreland setbacks and the wet ground before the first tree comes down.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Sabattus is a pond town. Sabattus Pond covers close to 2,000 acres at the edge of town. Lewiston is about five miles off. Around them lie old farm fields, woodlots and house lots carved out of both, and our crew works that country from Sabattus, Lewiston and Auburn out to Brunswick, ME, Windham and Augusta, ME.
The usual first step is forestry mulching: barberry, brush and saplings are shredded in place, the chips stay as ground cover and the roots stay in the soil. We also offer land clearing, barberry and field edge clearing and lot and homesite prep.
Distance from the pond, the river or a brook shapes a job here as much as acreage. Request a free quote and we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Japanese barberry is the shrub that takes over here. It is widespread and severely invasive in Maine, and Maine has barred its sale since 1 January 2018. The first cut is the easy part; the seasons after it decide whether the ground stays open.
Comparing bids? The Sabattus forestry mulching cost guide covers pond lots and renting a machine yourself, the Maine barberry removal guide covers the return visits, and the Maine land clearing cost guide covers Tree Growth land, stormwater and the statewide water rules.
The pond has a buffer a mulcher cannot work. Under the Sabattus Shoreland Zoning Ordinance, a strip 100 feet deep along a great pond, and 75 feet along other waters and wetland edges, stays wooded: no opening over 250 square feet, trees thinned only by a point system, and growth under 3 feet, leaf litter and the forest duff left uncut and uncovered outside a footpath or permitted use. A chip mat covers that duff, so the buffer is selective tree work, not mulching, and the quote prices only the ground behind it.
The river, the brooks and the old fields count too. The ordinance reaches 250 feet from the Sabattus River or its 100-year floodplain, whichever is greater, and from Curtis, Maxwell, Fisher and Barker brooks. Inside that zone no more than 40 percent of tree volume may come out in ten years, outside the General Development district, cleared openings are capped at 25 percent of the lot area inside the zone or 10,000 square feet, whichever is greater, and a field that has grown back to shrubs and trees is regulated as woody growth. In some districts the clearing needs a permit from the Code Enforcement Office at 190 Middle Road.
Burning needs a permit in every month. The Maine Forest Service requires a permit to burn brush piles or wood debris at any time of year, and for any fire larger than 3 feet high and 3 feet wide. Permits come from the town forest fire warden or the state's online system. Mulching leaves no pile, so most jobs never need one. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Cumberland and Kennebec counties, from Turner and Poland down to Falmouth and Bath and north to Augusta, ME.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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