Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, bush honeysuckle and glade cedar clearing and lot preparation across Herculaneum and Jefferson County.
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.
Whether it is a honeysuckle thicket behind a house in Festus, a brushy creek bank in Pevely or a cedar-choked opening near Hillsboro.
Offered across Jefferson County and the towns around it. Brush, honeysuckle and young trees are ground into a chip layer where they stood, so there is no pile to burn or haul.
A grown-over wooded lot, a hillside pasture or a glade gone to cedar opened to the line you choose, with trees, brush and stumps ground flush with the ground.
Bush honeysuckle and saplings cut out from under the oaks and hickories you keep, with the return visits the resprouts need written into the quote.
A house spot, drive and utility path opened on a wooded lot, laid out around the slope and the erosion control your permit asks for.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Cut Brush clears overgrown land for owners around Herculaneum, Missouri, from Pevely, Festus and Crystal City out to Hillsboro, De Soto and High Ridge, north to Arnold, Fenton and Eureka, south to Bonne Terre and Ste. Genevieve, and across the Mississippi in Waterloo and Columbia, IL. This is river hill country: wooded slopes, creek hollows and rocky openings, where the usual job is a lot or a few acres whose understory has filled in with bush honeysuckle, or a hillside pasture that cedar is taking back.
Most of it is forestry mulching. Our crew grinds brush and small trees into mulch where they grew, so nothing is left to burn or haul and the roots stay in the slope. We also offer land clearing, honeysuckle and understory clearing, and lot and homesite prep.
Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need, and how the machine will work the grade before it arrives.
Clearing around Herculaneum usually means working under and around trees on sloping ground. The method has to keep the trees and the soil you want, and answer what happens to everything that comes down.
Wondering what one acre costs before you call? The Herculaneum forestry mulching cost guide compares hourly and per-acre quotes on hillside ground, and the Missouri land clearing cost guide covers the statewide picture, from Ozark chert to the DNR permit.
Slope decides the machine. Herculaneum sits on the Mississippi in the Ozark Border: rugged river hills along the lower Missouri and Mississippi with deep soils, now mostly rolling pasture, shrubby broken woods and wooded bottoms. A tracked mulcher works across a moderate grade, but a steep bank or a soft creek bottom slows each pass and can need a different approach, so the grade and the way in are the first things we talk through.
Three permit offices, one question. Missouri DNR requires land disturbance coverage at one acre or more and counts clearing and grubbing as disturbance. Inside Herculaneum, City Hall issues a land disturbance permit with an erosion control plan drawn on the plat, installed at the start of the job. In the county, Jefferson County Public Works in Hillsboro issues a minor permit from 5,000 square feet to an acre, or for 5 feet or more of cut or fill, and a major permit above an acre. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Honeysuckle in the woods, cedar on the glades. Bush honeysuckle is particularly a problem in the St. Louis region; it greens up before native plants in spring, holds its leaves into fall and comes back from the stump, so plan more than one visit. Most of the dolomite glades that run from Morse Mill past Hillsboro and De Soto to Festus are heavily encroached by eastern red cedar. Our Jefferson County bush honeysuckle guide sets out the honeysuckle plan.
Jefferson, St. Louis, St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties in Missouri, from Eureka and Arnold down to Desloge and Ste. Genevieve, and Monroe County in Illinois.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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