LaFollette's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts
Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, autumn olive and kudzu clearing and lot preparation across LaFollette and the Cumberland Mountains.
Why Choose Us
Land Clearing Before & After
Ground you cannot walk through, turned into ground you can use.
What Our North Carolina Customers Say
Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.
"My 2-acre property was so thick you couldn't walk through it. One day later, it looked like a park."
– Jason M
"Fast, honest, no drama. They quoted Tuesday, cleared Thursday. Done by Friday."
– Carrie D.
"We didn't realize how much land we had until Cut Brush cleared it."
– Tony & Lisa R.
From Overgrown to Usable in 3 Steps
A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.
Request a Free Quote
Send the location, a rough acreage and what the ground should become: a cabin site above the lake, an old mine bench turned into pasture, a hollow you can hunt. The quote comes back in writing.
We Clear Your Land
The machine works the scope you approved, steering around the trees, springs and fences you marked, and grinding what it cuts so no pile is left waiting for burn season.
Enjoy Your Property
Walk it, build on it, graze it or open the view to the water. The ground that was a shrub thicket or a vine-covered slope is back in use.
Work We Offer Around LaFollette
From a grown-over lot off Tennessee Avenue to a mountainside tract above Caryville or a lake parcel near Sharps Chapel.
Forestry Mulching
Offered across Campbell County and its neighbors: brush, vine and saplings chewed to chips in place, with no burn pile and no permit season to wait for.
Land Clearing
Mountain tracts, valley fields and Norris Lake parcels opened to a finish you pick in advance, from stumps left at grade to bare dirt ready for an excavator.
Autumn Olive & Kudzu Clearing
Shrub thickets on old mine benches and kudzu over the woods edge, knocked down so a follow-up treatment can reach what grows back.
Lot & Homesite Prep
House pads, drives and utility lines on sloped and lakeside lots, with the grading permit the city form asks for and any TVA question raised before a machine unloads.
See Cut Brush in Action
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
- Before & after project walkthroughs
- Professional equipment on real jobs
- See the land clearing process start to finish
Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching Across LaFollette and the Cumberland Mountains
Cut Brush clears overgrown land for owners around LaFollette, from Jacksboro and Caryville to Maynardville and Tazewell. That might be a cabin site above Norris Lake, a valley hayfield to bring back to grass, or a mountain tract that needs lanes and food plots for hunting.
Most jobs start with forestry mulching. A machine on tracks grinds brush, vines and saplings into mulch where they stand, with one pass over the ground. There is no burn pile and nothing to truck away. We also offer land clearing, autumn olive and kudzu clearing, and lot and homesite prep on sloped and lakeside lots.
We serve Campbell, Anderson, Union and Claiborne counties. The ground runs from steep wooded slopes to flat valley fields and old benches left by coal mining, and Norris Lake adds 809 miles of shoreline. The brush that takes over is mostly autumn olive and lespedeza on the mine benches, black locust coming in behind them, and kudzu along the woods edge.
Sound Familiar?
- Autumn olive taking over old mine benches you can no longer cross
- Kudzu climbing over the trees along the edge of the woods
- A lake lot where you are not sure what you may cut
- A mountain tract with no lanes, plots or usable road through it
Cut Brush Delivers
- Shrub thickets flattened to mulch, with a follow-up plan for what sprouts back
- Kudzu knocked down so a treatment can reach the root crowns
- Lake lot work planned around the shoreline rules before the quote is final
- Hunting lanes, food plots and a road opened across steep ground
Why Cumberland Mountains Property Owners Choose Cut Brush
Mountain land around LaFollette is steep, rocky and often marked by old mining. Mulching works that ground without a bulldozer pushing brush into piles.
- No burn permit to chase. Tennessee asks for a burn permit from October 15 to May 15, and LaFollette, Clinton, Rocky Top and Norris set their own burn rules. Mulched brush never needs a fire.
- Sure footing on rough ground. A machine on tracks holds the slope better and presses less on any one spot, which helps on packed, rocky mine benches.
- Rates posted up front. The LaFollette pricing page shows per-acre bands for every kind of job.
- Agreed before a cut. Once availability is confirmed, the scope and price are set down in writing before anything is cleared.
- Ready for mine-land brush. The service is set up for autumn olive, lespedeza and kudzu, the growth that holds old Campbell County ground.
The Tennessee land clearing cost guide compares prices across the state. Tell us what the land is for, and the quote is written around that finish.
What to Know Before Clearing Land Around LaFollette
Old mine benches grow a stubborn kind of thicket. Virginia Tech's Powell River Project guidelines say unused mined land is mostly fescue and sericea lespedeza. Autumn olive and black locust move in about five years after reclamation, and natural growth stalls there. The footing can be packed hard and rocky. A mulcher flattens the shrubs, but the guidelines warn that cutting without spraying lets them sprout again, so the plan should name a follow-up. Our guide to clearing old strip-mined ground has the details.
Inside the city, the posted form puts a grading permit first. The building permit application form LaFollette has posted says a grading permit must be issued before any land disturbing activity. The form asks for a site plan from a tenth of an acre and lists an undisturbed 25-foot buffer from the top of bank beside free-flowing streams. Confirm the current requirements with the City of LaFollette codes office before work starts. At an acre or more, a state construction stormwater permit may be needed before the city application. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination. The LaFollette and Campbell County permit guide lays out the order.
On Norris Lake, TVA decides what comes down near the water. Where TVA owns the shoreland in front of a lot, federal rules keep a 50-foot shoreline management zone where no trees may be cut. They allow a path to the water up to 20 feet wide, and they require TVA's written permission and an approved vegetation plan before any work. Your own ground behind that line is a separate question. Raise the shoreline early, because TVA's answer can change the whole job. A lake lot quote is final only once the area we may work is known.
Serving LaFollette & the Cumberland Mountains
Campbell, Anderson, Union and Claiborne counties, from Jellico on the Kentucky line down to Clinton, and east through Maynardville to Tazewell and Harrogate.
the Cumberland Mountains Land Clearing Guides
LaFollette Land Clearing FAQ
Ready to Take Back Your Land?
Tell us about land in Campbell, Anderson, Union or Claiborne County and we will confirm whether we can take it on.
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