Forestry Mulching
One machine grinds standing brush, saplings, and small trees into a clean mulch layer. No burn piles, no hauling, no torn-up ground.
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Food plot clearing on hunting land around Mansfield and north central Ohio starts with the brush already standing there. Our crew runs a tracked mulcher with a drum head across the footprint you pick. Saplings, briars and small trees are ground into a chip layer right where they grew. Stumps come down an inch or two below grade, so the plot can be worked later. The keeper trees you flag stay standing.
This page covers the clearing work only. We open new plot ground, widen an old plot that closed in, and mow grown over plots back down. We do not plant: no soil test, tilling, seed, fertilizer or spray, and no stands or blinds. Cutting shooting lanes and access trails is its own job, and whole parcels fall under larger clearing jobs. The chip layer settles over a season, and the ground is then ready for whoever plants it.
Tell us about your ground and we will get right back to you.
The footprint comes first, and we mark it out with you on an on-site look. Trees worth keeping get flagged, and the mulching head runs over everything else. Brush, briars, saplings and trees up to about six inches in diameter go down into chips. Stems in the six to ten inch range are slower, and we take those selectively. Larger timber is tree service work, and we say so at the estimate.
What you get back is open ground with a chip layer on it. Nothing is burned, piled or hauled off the property. Topsoil and roots stay in place, so the ground is stable the day we leave. Stumps are ground low, so a mower or a disk clears them later. The chip layer holds the soil against erosion and slows regrowth for a season or two. Around the edges, opening the understory around a plot pushes honeysuckle and rose back between the keeper trees.
OSU Extension puts a hunting plot at a quarter to half an acre. Archers tend to want the smaller, narrower ones. Where deer pressure is heavy, two to five acres holds up better. A winter feed plot wants at least an acre. A long, narrow opening with wavy edges gives more edge than a square of the same size. Plots next to cover get used more, so a strip along a woodland edge works well.
Sun and slope decide a lot. A woods opening or an old logging road needs four to six hours of direct sun. South and southeast facing ground grows the longest into fall. Ground that floods, or ground on a steep slope, makes a poor plot site. Knox County took 6,704 deer in the 2025-26 season, fourth in Ohio, with Richland and Ashland each over 5,100. Plot openings and access tie together, and our guide to trails on hunting land covers that side.
A plot opened in early fall is ground for next year's plantings. Wheat goes in Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, and brassicas want the last week of August. By late September those fall windows are closing. Clover and alfalfa run April 1 to May 15, or Aug. 1 to Aug. 30. Corn and soybeans are spring work. Clearing now gives the chips a winter to settle before a spring or late summer planting.
Work on plots you already have runs on a different clock. Archery opens Sept. 26, so brush hogging an old plot back down before then is quick work. The Disease Surveillance Area starts earlier, with archery from Sept. 12 and an early gun season Oct. 10 to 12. That covers all of Marion County and named townships in Crawford, Morrow and Delaware counties. Frozen or dry winter ground carries the machine cleanly, and that is prime time for new openings. Wet spring clay is the one season we steer around.
From the first walk of the property to the final one, here is exactly how it goes.
We come out, walk the ground with you, and look at what is actually growing: brush density, tree sizes, wet spots, and anything you want protected or kept.
You get a free written estimate with a real timeline. We tell you exactly what the mulcher will leave behind, down to the stump height, so there are no surprises.
The machine shows up when we said it would. We clear to your flags, work selectively around keeper trees, and grind everything else into a clean mulch layer.
We walk the finished ground together. A finish pass evens out the mulch bed, and the job is done when you say it looks right, not when we drive away.
Common questions about food plot clearing across North Central Ohio. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
One machine grinds standing brush, saplings, and small trees into a clean mulch layer. No burn piles, no hauling, no torn-up ground.
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Overgrown lots, field edges, and acreage cleared down to clean, usable ground. Mulched in place, no burn piles and no haul-off.
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Overgrown fields, pastures, and lots knocked down with a heavy rotary cutter. One-time catch-up cuts or a seasonal schedule.
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The tangled understory cleared out of your woods, honeysuckle, briars, and junk growth, while the trees you love stay standing.
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Homesites, pole barn sites, and whole lots cleared of brush and small trees so you can see, plan, and build on what you own.
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Fields lost to multiflora rose, autumn olive, and cedar taken back to open ground ready for grass, grazing, or hay.
Learn MoreBased in Mansfield, working a 75-mile radius across north central Ohio. A four-man crew, one tracked mulcher and a brush hog, and free written estimates from an on-site look.
Brush and small trees grind into a mulch layer right where they stood. No burn piles waiting on weather, no dumpsters, no debris trucks down your drive.
We walk the property, tell you exactly what the mulcher will leave behind, and put the price and timeline in writing. The number holds unless the scope changes.
Mulching is what we do. When a job needs an excavator, a tree service, or a different season, we say so at the estimate instead of forcing the wrong tool.
Overgrown field, choked woods, fence row you cannot find anymore? Call or send the form and we will walk the property with you, talk through what the ground needs, and hand you a free written estimate.
Tell us about your ground and we will get right back to you.
