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 Sunset Beach, NC, the southernmost beach in the state. One-third of the town's area is a barrier island between the ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. The island holds about 1,200 homes, mostly vacation rentals and cottages. Until 2010, the only way onto it was a wooden pontoon swing bridge, one lane wide. A 65-foot-high arc bridge replaced it and opened on November 11, 2010. The rest of the town reaches onto the mainland to the north. That side is where we work. Its larger neighborhoods include golf course developments at Oyster Bay, Sea Trail and Sandpiper Bay. We handle lot clearing for mainland homesites there, plus overgrown lots, lanes and trails.
Sunset Beach sits about 17.5 road miles from our base in Longs, South Carolina, or about 30 minutes. From Highway 17, N.C. 904 leads to N.C. 179, which becomes Sunset Beach Boulevard. Forestry mulching on a coastal homesite is how we clear that ground. Our Bobcat T300 compact track loader carries a forestry mulcher head. It grinds brush, saplings and small trees where they stand, up to roughly 6 to 8 inches across. The chips stay on your lot as ground cover. The town notes that a large portion of its area lies in a floodplain. Rubber tracks spread the machine's weight on soft ground, and standing water waits for a dry stretch. Every estimate is free and done on site.
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The Town of Sunset Beach answers the tree question in its own FAQ. Cutting down trees in your yard takes a Fill and Grade permit from the town. Once you apply, an inspector comes to your property and assesses the trees to be cut. You or your builder handle that application. After that, we mulch the brush, saplings and small trees the permit allows, and the trees you keep stay standing. If your project also carries a CAMA permit, the town's FAQ says its own permits are separate from CAMA permits.
North Carolina adds a step for bigger jobs. An erosion and sediment control plan is required when a land disturbing activity will disturb more than one acre. The plan goes in 30 or more days before the work starts. The town also sets construction hours. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, work may run from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. The rest of the year it runs from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and no work is allowed on Sundays. If most of your trees stay, our guide to mulching versus full clearing shows which approach fits.
The town describes its jurisdiction as a high wind zone. Its website even keeps a page for hurricane island re-entry passes. After high wind, storm cleanup with the mulcher grinds downed brush and small trees where they fell. The chips stay on the ground as cover. Trees on a house or a power line belong to a tree service and the utility. Where the ground is still soft or holding water after a storm, the work waits for a dry stretch.
The town's Public Works staff notify everyone who owns a vacant lot about a semi-annual vacant lot maintenance program. An empty lot between built houses fills in with brush, vines and saplings. If trees on the lot need to come down, the town's Fill and Grade permit comes first. Brush clearing on a grown-up vacant lot then grinds that growth into mulch right where it stands. Saplings up to roughly 6 to 8 inches across go down with the brush. The chips stay on the lot as ground cover.
Communities & areas we serve around Sunset Beach: Sea Trail, Sandpiper Bay, Oyster Bay, Wyndfall, Seaside Station, Shoreline Woods, Kings Trail.
Sunset Beach ZIP codes served: 28468.
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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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