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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Our family offers land clearing on Hilton Head Island for overgrown lots and brushy lot lines. The island sits about 20 miles northeast of Savannah, and the town had 37,661 residents at the 2020 Census. Our Kubota SVL compact track loader with a forestry mulching head grinds brush and saplings into mulch on the lot. Every year, our family mulches the understory on its own 327-acre tract in the ACE Basin, near Yemassee.
The Town of Hilton Head Island incorporated in 1983 and passed its Land Management Ordinance in 1987. Its Natural Resources Division enforces the ordinance, and the island has unusual tree cover for how built up it is. So before the mulcher starts, we sort out with you what the rules allow on your lot. On the mainland next door, our coverage includes Bluffton as well.
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The Town's Tree Ordinance protects native understory, such as shrubs and grasses, right alongside the trees. Underbrushing, or bush hogging, on an undeveloped lot can be done only with written permission from the Town. The Town also says care must be taken to stay out of all protected buffers and wetland areas. Those rules matter for a vacant lot you want walkable again, or an overgrown lot headed for a sale.
On an undeveloped lot, our work starts once you have the Town's written permission in hand. At the free estimate, we look over the lot with you and flag each tree you want to keep. Then our lot and homesite clearing mulches brush and saplings on the ground you are cleared to work. Vines along a lot line get ground up too, and the mulch stays on the lot as ground cover.
About 70 percent of the island sits inside gated communities. Charles E. Fraser began Sea Pines in 1956, and Hilton Head Plantation, Palmetto Dunes, Shipyard and Port Royal Plantation followed. Typically, a single-family lot inside a Planned Unit Development District has no Town buffer. Even so, the Town says to always check with your property owners association, or POA, before cutting any trees. The Town adds that lots inside some communities may also need POA or private Architectural Review Board approval.
In overlay neighborhoods such as Folly Field, Forest Beach and Holiday Homes, single-family lots have protected buffers. There, the Town requires a Natural Resource Permit before trees are cut down. Our forestry mulching grinds brush and saplings outside those buffers, and the buffer plants stay put. A wooded homesite headed for a house plan follows the same order: approvals first, then the mulcher. This is general information, not legal advice, so confirm your lot with the Town.
Broad Creek, a tidal marsh, separates the two halves of the island. Even on single-family lots, native plants and trees in the tidal wetland buffer must not be disturbed or removed. On marshfront and beachfront lots, limited pruning for views may be permitted, but removing plants or trees is not allowed. We leave the tidal buffer alone and mulch only the upland ground you are cleared to work. Our guide to clearing wet ground covers the state and federal wetland rules.
The trees you keep stay standing, and the mulcher works the brush and saplings around them. The Town calls specimen trees large, healthy trees that stand out as excellent examples of their kind. One that is not dead, dying or diseased cannot be removed without a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals. Work near a specimen tree must be reviewed and approved by the Town first, and our mulching waits for that. Fraser even reshaped the Harbour Town marina to save an ancient live oak that became known as the Liberty Oak.
Communities & areas we serve around Hilton Head Island: Sea Pines, Hilton Head Plantation, Palmetto Dunes, Shipyard, Port Royal Plantation, Folly Field, Forest Beach, Holiday Homes.
Hilton Head Island ZIP codes served: 29925, 29926, 29928.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Beaufort County and the SC Lowcountry.
(843) 696-7162 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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Whole parcels and problem acres taken from choked to open. Vegetation is ground in place: no burn piles, no debris trucks, no scraped-bare dirt.
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The brush layer under your oaks and pines (yaupon, privet, smilax, palmetto scrub) ground away so the woods open up park-like and walkable.
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Tractor-and-rotary-cutter mowing for overgrown fields, pastures, and open acreage: the fast, economical fix when growth is heavy but still mowable.
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Overgrown lots and future homesites opened up so you can walk them, plan them, and show them. Cleared selectively, finished clean.
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Walking trails, side-by-side lanes, camera lines, and shooting lanes cut through woods and brush, mulched clean so they stay open.
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Awesome work on our property in Dorchester County, SC. Great price, professional, and timely. Highly recommend!!!
Court does a great job in shooting lanes. Very efficient! Very courteous!
Good equipment and job well done
A few of the questions we hear most around Hilton Head Island. Don't see yours? Call us, we're happy to help.
Overgrown field, choked woods, fence row you cannot find anymore? Call or send the form and we will look over the ground with you, talk through what it needs, and hand you a free written estimate.
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