Forestry Mulching
We mulch brush, briars and small trees in place with a skid steer mulching head. The wood ends up as a mulch layer on the ground.
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Land clearing turns a wooded or brushy piece of ground into land you can use. We push the trees over with the dozer and pull the stumps and roots out with them. The brush and wood get loaded into the dump trucks and hauled off. What is left is rough graded dirt you can build on, fence or plant.
Precision Excavation is based in Trinity and clears land within about 60 miles, all across North Alabama. We clear lots for new houses, overgrown acreage, fence lines, old pasture and hunting land. The dozer and the trackhoe do the heavy work, and our dump trucks carry the debris off. If you would rather leave a mulch layer on the ground, forestry mulching grinds the brush in place.
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“Just out here making short work of these big boys. Plucked out 34 stumps and dropped 6 of these big boys..in 3 hours.”Our own footage, June 2026
Our trackhoe pushing over hardwoods and pulling the stumps on a wooded lot, thirty-six seconds from a three hour clearing job.
Most of our land clearing is a full clear. Everything on the footprint comes out: standing trees, undergrowth, stumps and the root balls under them. The trackhoe pulls the roots up so the ground can be graded flat and hold that grade.
Other jobs are selective. You mark the hardwoods and shade trees you want kept and we clear around them. On a house lot that often means the building area, the drive and a work space for the builder.
Cleared ground here usually has stone in it. Our trackhoes carry rippers, so shallow limestone and chert come up along with the stumps. That part of the work is rock removal. A cleared lot is often the first step toward a house pad, so the two jobs run together.
We come out and look at the ground before we quote anything, and the estimate is free. Sort out two things before we start: where your property lines run, and which trees you want left standing. Corner pins or flagging keep the machines inside your line.
We call Alabama 811 before any digging starts. The service is free and the utility companies come mark their buried lines on the ground. Alabama 811 asks for at least two working days of notice, so we plan around that.
Then the machines go to work. The dozer pushes the timber over and piles it. The trackhoe pulls the stumps and works the piles down, and the dump trucks haul the debris off. We rough grade the dirt back out at the end so water sheds off the cleared ground.
Pasture and hay ground fills in fast once it sits idle. Chinese privet is the usual problem around here. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System reports privet on more than a million acres in the state. It runs along fence lines, field edges and creek bottoms.
Privet comes back from the root, so cutting the tops off buys you one season. Extension research notes that partial control brings back multiple stems. Clearing with the machine takes the root out with the stem, so less is left to resprout.
Eastern red cedar and sweetgum tell the same story. Forest Service research lists red cedar among the first trees into abandoned fields and unmowed pasture. Sweetgum takes over old fields the same way. We push both out and open the fence lines back up wide enough to drive.
From the first call or text to the last load hauled off, here is how it goes.
Tell us what you have and where the property is. Photos of the ground help. Call or text (256) 303-7210 and we set a time to come look.
We come out and see the job in person. Trees, slope, wet spots and rock all change the work. The estimate comes after that, and it is free.
We decide which machines the job needs and in what order they work. Access, where the dirt goes and where the debris goes get settled first. Alabama 811 gets called before any digging starts.
Our lowboy brings the machines to the property and the work starts. The dump trucks bring material in and carry spoil, rock and debris out. We work in an order that keeps water running off the ground.
The debris leaves the property and the dirt gets rough graded back out. Water is shaped to run away from the pad, the drive or the house. Then we look the job over with you.
Common questions about land clearing across North Alabama. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We mulch brush, briars and small trees in place with a skid steer mulching head. The wood ends up as a mulch layer on the ground.
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We run a crawler dozer for pushing brush, rough grading and leveling ground across North Alabama. That covers spreading fill, cutting pads, reclaiming grown-up pasture and shaping pond banks and road beds.
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Rock removal for house pads, driveways, ponds, pastures and fence lines across North Alabama. Trackhoes with rippers break the rock loose, and the dump trucks haul it off.
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Two dump trucks move material by the load across North Alabama. Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, crusher run and chert come in, spoil and debris go out.
Learn MoreThe excavators, the crawler dozer, the skid steer mulcher and two dump trucks belong to the company. A lowboy trailer hauls them to your property. One call puts all of it on the job.
The same company clears the lot, cuts the pad, shapes the drive and hauls the debris away. You line up one contractor for the dirt side of the work.
North Alabama sits on limestone and chert, often close to the surface. Our trackhoes carry rippers, so rock that stops a tractor or a post hole digger comes out. It gets moved, buried or hauled off.
We are based in Trinity and work about 60 miles out, all inside Alabama. That takes in the Decatur and Huntsville area, the Shoals, Cullman and the farm country between. Estimates are free, so call or text.
Land clearing runs $1,200 to $6,000 an acre in published cost guides. Here is what drives the price in North Alabama, plus how to get a free estimate.
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Forestry mulching or land clearing? What each one leaves behind, when to pick which in North Alabama, and what drives the price. Free estimates.
Read more →Tell us what you need done and where the property is. Call or text (256) 303-7210, or send the form and we will get back to you.
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