Land clearing in St. Elmo, Alabama

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Old farm ground is some of the most cost-effective clearing there is, light density, open access and good production rates. If it’s been sitting fallow ten years it’s usually a straightforward mulching job.

Forestry mulcher opening up a wooded lot, cleared ground in front

St. Elmo · site notes

Core service area · 36568
ZIP codes
36568
Drive from Coden, AL
15-20 minutes
Permitting
Unincorporated Mobile County. County permitting.
Main routes in
US-90, Half Mile Road, McDonald Road and Three Notch Road

What the ground is like in St. Elmo

Flat agricultural country with sandy soil, generally workable, with wet pockets in the low draws.

What’s typically growing on it: Planted pine, scattered live oak, heavy briar and blackberry on old field edges, and tallow along the ditches.

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 St. Elmo

Farm and pasture ground, larger residential parcels and long fence and boundary lines.

ASV RT-120 forestry mulcher working a cleared patch of woods, framed between two pine trunks

Permitting

Which office handles St. Elmo

Unincorporated Mobile County. County permitting. 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 St. Elmo

15-20 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
Hardwood stand with the underbrush cleared out and the mulcher in the distance

Clearing in St. Elmo

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