Land Clearing in Jonesboro & Craighead County
From overgrown fencerows on the delta to a wooded ridge-top homesite on Crowley's Ridge, we clear land the way you actually want it — clean, graded-ready, and with the trees worth keeping still standing.
Craighead County Clearing, Done Right
Craighead County is two landscapes in one county: the loess-capped uplands of Crowley's Ridge — wooded with oak, hickory, and sweetgum — and the flat, farmed Mississippi Alluvial Plain to the east, where tree cover clusters along fence rows, ditches, and old home sites. Clearing work here means different things in different places: brush-choked fence lines that haven't been walked in twenty years, pasture being reclaimed from volunteer saplings, wooded acres being opened for a new build, and right-of-way clearing for driveways, utilities, or field access.
We work both sides of the county weekly, and we bring the right equipment for each: forestry mulching for light-to-medium growth, grapple saws and feller-buncher style cutting for dense hardwood, and hand crews where selectivity matters — around a homesite you want to keep shaded, or a heritage pecan grove you'd never forgive us for touching.
What We Clear
- Fence rows. The classic Craighead County job. We cut, pile, or mulch tree and brush lines along property boundaries — restoring sight lines, getting fence rebuilds started, and opening hunting-lane visibility.
- Pasture reclamation. Volunteer hardwoods invade idle acreage fast in this climate. We clear to ground level, handle the stumps by grinding or mulching, and leave mowable ground.
- Residential lot prep. New homes going up on the ridge west of Jonesboro and in the growth corridors toward Brookland. We clear to the plan, flag keepers, and grind stumps below construction grade.
- Storm-damaged acreage. After events like the March 2020 tornado, we clear twisted timber from fields and yards — including the partial removals where salvageable trees stay.
- Right-of-way & access. Driveway cuts, utility corridors, food-plot lanes for deer clubs, and drainage ditch clearance for farms.
- Overgrown homesteads. The place grandpa left that's twenty years into succession growth. We can take it back to lawn, to garden, or just to "walkable again."
Selective vs. Full Clearing — and What Happens to the Debris
Full clearing removes everything down to size limits we set with you (e.g., "everything over 2 inches"). Selective clearing keeps marked trees — we flag the big oaks, the dogwoods, the homestead pecans — and takes the rest. On ridge ground, selectivity matters for erosion control: the ridge's loess soils are fertile but can shed water fast, and a strategic tree cover keeps your topsoil where you put it.
Debris handling is your call: mulch-in-place (material is ground where it lies and becomes erosion-friendly cover — usually cheapest), windrow or pile (material stacked at a burn-pile location or property edge for your burn permit), or full haul-off (cleanest finish, highest cost). We'll walk you through the trade-offs for your specific acreage and what you plan to do with it next.
How Land Clearing Is Priced
Acreage work is quoted after a site walk — no responsible contractor prices unseen land. The drivers are density and size of growth, terrain, access for equipment, stump expectations, and debris handling. As honest orientation: light fence-row work can run a few hundred dollars; heavy mixed hardwood per acre typically lands $1,500–$4,000+ per acre depending on specs. Every quote is written, itemized, and free. We also do phased clearing — do the front acre this year, the back next — if budget matters.
Rural & Farm Work Is Our Bread and Butter
Around here, tree work isn't just suburbs. We clear for row-crop farms rotating ground out of CRP, for cattle operations reopening overgrown pasture, for hunting clubs laying out lanes and food plots, and for families building on land that's been in the family for generations. We know Craighead County's section roads, we're comfortable with gates, cattle, dogs, and unmarked septic lids — and we close every gate behind us.