Forestry Mulching
Forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees into a mulch layer right where they stand. One machine, one pass, and no burn piles left behind.
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Hunting land clearing gets a tract ready before the season opens. We work out of Longs, SC and run a Bobcat T300 track loader with a forestry mulcher head across Horry, Georgetown, Brunswick and Columbus counties. The head grinds brush and small trees into mulch where they stand. That opens a food plot site, cuts a shooting lane, or pushes an access trail through thick pines with no burn pile. Deer season in Game Zone 4 opens August 15 for archery and September 1 for guns. Most of this work lands in late summer and early fall.
Timber tracts around Loris, Aynor and Tabor City grow shut fast. Wax myrtle, gallberry and pine saplings close a plot or a lane in two or three seasons. Mulching opens them back up and leaves a chip layer that slows the next round of growth. Larger plot jobs start with a mulching pass over the plot footprint, then a disc and seed from you or your planter. Our part is the ground work. Planting and spraying stay with you, and stumps get ground low and left in place.
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A good plot site starts as a thicket most years. The mulcher grinds the brush, briars and saplings across the footprint and leaves chips on top. Cool-season plots in the Carolinas go in from early September to mid October, so the clearing pass belongs in August or early September. That gives the chips a few weeks to settle before a disc turns them under. Oats, wheat, clover and brassicas all want a clean seedbed, and a mulched site discs far easier than a bulldozed one.
Size and shape matter more than acreage. Long, narrow plots along a timber edge give deer cover and give you a lane to watch. We can shape the opening to the stand you already hunt, or open a new site where the ground drains. Low spots in Horry County hold water into planting season, so the estimate visit checks drainage before the machine ever starts. Chips stay on site as ground cover on the plot edges.
A shooting lane only works if you can see down it. The head takes out the understory in a straight run from a stand or blind and leaves the ground walkable. Lanes stay narrow, so the cover around them keeps holding deer. Access trails get the same treatment. A quiet trail to a stand cuts scent and noise on the walk in, and a mulched lane stays dry underfoot after coastal rain.
Rubber tracks on the T300 spread its weight, so it works the soft ground around Carolina bays and pocosin edges without rutting. That is the ground type across much of Horry and Brunswick counties. Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve near Carolina Forest covers more than 10,000 acres of that same bay-and-pine country, and private tracts around it grow the same way. Trails through it close up every two or three years without a pass.
Pine tracts on this coast burn. The Covington Drive fire started from a backyard debris burn in Carolina Forest on March 1, 2025 and covered 2,059 acres before it was contained. In April 2009 a wildfire along Highway 31 burned more than 19,000 acres in Horry County and destroyed over 70 homes. A firebreak that has grown shut is no break at all. We grind the brush and saplings off existing fire lanes so they stay open and drivable.
A mulched lane is a fuel break, not a plowed mineral-soil line. The South Carolina Forestry Commission plows firebreaks for landowners for a fee. State law also requires a call to the Commission before any debris burn outside city limits, and in Horry County that number is 1-800-986-5404. Landowners who run prescribed fire on their tracts use our pass to keep the lanes clear between burns. Owners who never burn use it to keep a drivable loop around the property line.
South Carolina Game Zone 4 covers Horry and Georgetown counties. Private-land deer season there opens August 15 for archery and September 1 for guns, and runs through January 1. Across the line in Brunswick and Columbus counties, North Carolina's southeastern zone opens archery September 12, blackpowder October 3 and gun October 17 for the 2026 season. Plot and lane work booked in July and August is done before either opener.
Work does not stop when the season starts. Lanes get cut around new stands in October, and plots get mowed and reopened for turkey season in spring. Between seasons, a standing mowing schedule keeps openings from going back to brush, and reopening a fence line often rides along on the same trip. Send the address and a rough map of the stands. The estimate is free, and the number is (843) 385-1090.
Free, no-obligation estimates across 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 hunting land and food plots across the Grand Strand, both sides of the SC/NC line. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
Forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees into a mulch layer right where they stand. One machine, one pass, and no burn piles left behind.
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View DetailsA 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.
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.