Land clearing in Bayou La Batre, Alabama

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Our shop is in Coden, a few minutes away, so this is the closest work we do. We’re also honest about the constraints: coastal wetland jurisdiction is a real issue on a lot of these parcels and we’d rather raise it at quote than find it mid-job.

Hardwood stand with the underbrush cleared out and the mulcher in the distance

Bayou La Batre · site notes

Core service area · 36509
ZIP codes
36509
Drive from Coden, AL
Under 10 minutes
Permitting
Bayou La Batre is an incorporated city, so city permitting applies inside the limits and county permitting outside them. Elevation and flood zone matter here in a way they don't further north.
Main routes in
Highway 188, Coden Belt Road and the roads running out toward Coden and Alabama Port

What the ground is like in Bayou La Batre

Very low, very flat, tidal-influenced and wet. This is the most weather-dependent ground we work and we will tell you honestly when it can’t be worked.

What’s typically growing on it: Salt-tolerant scrub, wax myrtle, palmetto, marsh margin vegetation and pine on the slightly higher ground.

That matters because density, not acreage, is what sets a mulching price, and because ground conditions decide whether a heavy machine should be on your property at all in a given week. See the published bands →

The work we do most in Bayou La Batre

Lot cleanup, structure removal after storms, and clearing around properties on the higher ground back from the water.

Bobcat E88 excavator digging in an open field with pines behind

Permitting

Which office handles Bayou La Batre

Bayou La Batre is an incorporated city, so city permitting applies inside the limits and county permitting outside them. Elevation and flood zone matter here in a way they don’t further north. We work to a permit you hold, and we’ll tell you when we think you need one, but confirm with the jurisdiction, because we’re contractors, not the permit office. Permit guide →

Getting to you in Bayou La Batre

Under 10 minutes from the shop in Coden. That drive is real cost on a small job, it’s why we publish a $1,000 minimum and why bundling several bits of work into one visit is almost always cheaper than calling us out three times.

Close view of the mulch layer left on the ground after forestry mulching
Side of the ASV RT-120 cab in the woods

Clearing in Bayou La Batre

Hours
Mon-Sat 6:00am-5:00pm
Closed Sunday
Minimum job
$1,000
What happens
Text back in 5 minutes · callback in 15 · we walk your property inside 48 hours · fixed written price inside 24 hours of that.
Six fields, 40 seconds

Tell us what's on the ground. We'll come look at it.

Call and you get John Williams, not an answering service and not a dispatcher. If it’s after hours or a Sunday, send the form and you’ll have a text back and a callback first thing.

Before you call

Have ready
The property address or parcel number, roughly how many acres you want opened, and what's growing on it: pines, hardwood, scrub, privet.
Don't have that?
Call anyway. We can pull it up on the county parcel viewer while we're on the phone.
Smallest job we take
$1,000
Out of state
$1,500 minimum in Mississippi.
Hours
Mon-Sat 6:00am-5:00pm · Closed Sunday