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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Category 5 Land Management does land clearing in Ocean Isle Beach, NC, and across the rest of Brunswick County. The town covers the barrier island from Tubbs Inlet on the west to Shallotte Inlet on the east. It also takes in a section of the mainland to the north along NC 904. The town's own plan calls the island mostly built out, so our work here sits on the mainland side. That plan expects the mainland to take 75 percent of new housing. All 976 homes already approved to be built in the town's jurisdiction sit on the mainland. We clear wooded homesites and overgrown lots there, along with access lanes and storm blowdown. Opening up a wooded mainland homesite starts with a free on-site estimate.
Ocean Isle Beach sits just under 25 road miles from our base in Longs, South Carolina. The drive takes about 42 minutes. We work the mainland from Causeway Drive and Beach Drive out along Ocean Isle Beach Road and Old Georgetown Road. Our Bobcat T300 compact track loader rides on rubber tracks that spread its weight on soft coastal ground. Where water is standing, the work waits for a dry stretch. The forestry mulcher head grinds brush and small trees where they stand, up to roughly 6 to 8 inches across. Forestry mulching on a coastal homesite leaves those chips on your lot as ground cover.
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The Town of Ocean Isle Beach charter was ratified on December 4, 1959. The town adopted its zoning ordinance in 1972 and has enforced subdivision rules since 1975. Its plan says those rules also apply in the ETJ, the planning area just outside town limits. Before any clearing starts, you or your builder confirm what the town allows on the lot. Burning cleared brush brings a state rule of its own. In protected woodland, the NC Forest Service requires a burning permit between midnight and 4 p.m. That rule reaches 500 feet past the woodland edge. A mulching job leaves the chips on the ground as cover.
The town and its ETJ hold almost 800 acres of non-coastal wetlands, the kind marked by trees and tall brush. The biggest share, 490.1 acres, is managed pineland that stays wet for part of the year. The plan says the mainland's biggest potential environmental conflicts come where wetlands sit on vacant land. North Carolina also treats coastal shorelines and wetlands as areas of environmental concern. Development there goes through the CAMA permit process. We clear dry upland ground only. Where your lot meets wetland or marsh, we stop at the edge.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall at Ocean Isle Beach on the evening of August 3, 2020. The Weather Service reported damaging storm surge flooding along the south-facing Brunswick County coast. Ocean Isle Beach saw major beach erosion, and sand dunes were destroyed. The town's storm table lists snapped tree branches and downed power lines even at the lowest hurricane level. Clearing storm blowdown off a wooded lot means mulching downed brush and small trees where they fell. Trees on a house or a power line belong to a tree service and the utility.
Ocean Isle Beach and the unincorporated county land around it have over 8,000 approved homes on the books. That is about 2.5 times the number of homes in the town's jurisdiction today. A lot that waits for its build can grow back in. Its access lane can close with brush and vines. Cutting an access lane back to full width gets a builder's trucks onto the ground. We mulch the brush and saplings out of the lane to the width you mark. Where a lane heads toward marsh or wetland, we stop at the dry edge.
Communities & areas we serve around Ocean Isle Beach: Saltwater Palms, Causeway Drive, Beach Drive, Culpepper Road, Ocean Isle Beach Road, Old Georgetown Road, Gause Landing.
Ocean Isle Beach ZIP codes served: 28469.
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(843) 385-1090 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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Heavy bush hogging for fields and pastures that got away from you. A tracked machine with a mulcher head cuts what a tractor bush hog cannot.
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Thick undergrowth, briar and vines cleared off yard edges, wood lines and the understory under standing trees. Ground into mulch on site with a forestry mulcher.
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Lot clearing for single residential and small commercial lots. We mulch brush and small trees in place, so your lot stays clean and usable.
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Fields that went to briar and saplings, mulched back to open ground. We bring lost pasture back to where a mower can handle it again.
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We mulch the growth off overgrown fence lines and private lanes. One tracked machine out of Longs, SC and the farm country around it.
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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.
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