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Bush hogging in Myrtle Beach is the maintenance cut that keeps open land open. Weeds, briars, and light brush grow all year on this coast, and a field skipped for two seasons starts turning into woods. We knock it down with a rotary cutter on a Bobcat T300 track loader before it gets to that stage. Once growth hardens past mowing, the job costs more, because it becomes mulching work instead.
Category 5 Land Management runs out of Longs, a short drive from anywhere in the Myrtle Beach area. Field mowing, vacant lot knockdown, and overgrown acreage are the everyday calls. What the cut includes, and how scheduling works, sits on our bush hogging service page.
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A lot of Myrtle Beach land sits waiting on plans. Horry County passed 351,000 people in the 2020 count, up 44 percent in twenty years, and parcels get bought years before anyone builds. That held land still grows. A spring cut and a late-summer cut keep a vacant lot in Forestbrook or off SC 707 looking owned instead of abandoned.
The same cut solves practical problems. Mowed ground shows the stakes when a survey crew comes through. It keeps sight lines open at a driveway cut. It knocks down the cover that snakes and rats use next to occupied property. Owners with a lot beside their home often put both on one visit.
The rotary cutter is built for growth you could almost walk through: tall grass, weeds, briars, and woody stems up to about thumb size. It covers ground fast at that stage, which keeps the cost of a cut down. Fields west of the Intracoastal Waterway, edges around Burgess, and acreage out toward the county line all mow this way.
Once saplings pass a couple of years old, a mower stops being the answer. That growth needs the mulcher head, which is the difference explained on our forestry mulching in Myrtle Beach page. The estimate sorts it honestly. If your field still mows, we mow it. If half of it has gone to brush, we tell you which half.
Growth here does not take a season off. Warm wet summers and mild winters mean a field cut in March is tall again by June. Most owners land on two or three cuts a year, timed to the growth instead of the calendar. A standing schedule costs less per cut than calling when it is already waist high.
We mow across the 29577, 29572, and 29575 ZIP codes and the surrounding county. Fence lines that have gone under briars pair well with a field cut, and that work is covered under clearing buried fence lines. For the rest of what we do in town, see everything we handle in Myrtle Beach. The estimate is free either way.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand, both sides of the SC/NC line.
(843) 385-1090From the first call to the last pass of the mulcher, here is exactly how it goes.
Tell us where the property is and what you want the ground to do. We set a time to come look at it.
We come out, look at the growth and the ground, and talk through what the job takes. The estimate is free and it is a real number.
The Bobcat T300 grinds brush and small trees into chips where they stand. No burn piles, nothing hauled off your land.
Clean, walkable ground with a mulch layer over it. Ready to mow, plan on, fence, or just look at without the overgrowth.
Common questions about bush hogging around Myrtle Beach. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
A local land clearing company based in Longs, working both sides of the state line. Free on-site estimates, and the same machine and process on every job.
The forestry mulcher grinds growth into chips where it stands. No burn piles to permit and watch, no dump trucks, and the ground cover stays on your land.
We look at the property before we price it. You get a real number for the job as it stands, before any work starts, and the estimate costs you nothing.
A tracked machine on flat, sandy coastal plain with a high water table. It rides where wheels sink, and we work both sides of the SC/NC line.
Published guides put bush hogging near $50 to $250 per acre in South Carolina. Here is what 2 acres runs, why minimums exist, and when a field needs more.
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Bush hogging explained: what it is, published cost ranges per acre and per hour, and when a coastal SC field is too overgrown to mow.
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Published guides put forestry mulching at $125 to $300 an hour or $400 to $800 an acre. Here is how that math prices an overgrown fence line in coastal SC.
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Once briars and saplings take a pasture, mowing cannot bring it back. The fix is mulch first, then mow on a schedule. Here is the sequence and why it holds.
Read more →An overgrown lot, a field that got away from you, a fence line you can't see anymore? Call or send the form. We come look at the property, talk through what you want the ground to do, and price the job before any work starts. Estimates are free.
Tell us about your land — we’ll get right back to you.