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 handles land clearing in Whiteville, North Carolina. Whiteville is the county seat of Columbus County, and the ground around town is farm and timber country. County farms cover 125,177 acres, and 25,592 of those acres are woodland. Tobacco is still a Columbus County crop. The state's Border Belt Tobacco Research Station sits seven miles northwest of Whiteville on 102 acres of fine sandy loam. Ground like that does not stay open once the planting stops. Young pine takes the field first, then vines and brush close in behind it. The low spots go to shrubs.
Forestry mulching is how we open that ground. We run a Bobcat T300 compact track loader with a mulcher head. It grinds brush, saplings and small trees up to roughly 6 to 8 inches across. The chips stay on your land as cover. What the mulcher head grinds in a single pass covers the stem sizes. We cover Whiteville and the rest of Columbus County, including Chadbourn, Cerro Gordo, Fair Bluff, Bolton, Lake Waccamaw and Riegelwood. Pasture reclamation, bush hogging, lot clearing, fence line clearing and hunting land work run off the same machine. Longs, South Carolina is about 37 road miles south, and on-site estimates are free.
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Columbus County farms report 85,669 acres of cropland against 6,724 acres of pasture. Take a field out of rotation and it does not wait. Young pine and heavy brush fill the middle, and the hedgerow creeps in from the edge. Pasture reclamation is the fix when you want to graze or cut hay again. It usually runs two passes, since the first one takes the saplings down. Mowing an open field back down on a set schedule holds it there while grass fills in.
Fence lines go first when a place sits a season or two. Wire vanishes into a hedge and the posts rot out of sight. Fence line clearing mulches a clean strip down both sides of the wire. Whiteville sits on flat coastal plain ground that holds water after a hard rain. The T300 rides on rubber tracks, so its weight spreads instead of digging in. Standing water is a different call, and that ground waits for a dry stretch. Timing matters on bringing an idle field back into use, so we set the first pass around a dry week.
Columbus County holds Lake Waccamaw, the largest bay lake in North Carolina at nearly 9,000 acres. State water plans put over 31 percent of the Waccamaw subbasin in wetlands. A wooded lot near the lake or at the edge of Whiteville is a lot clearing job. The savanna at Old Dock runs to pond pine over titi, black gum and bayberry. Wooded swamps along White Marsh are mostly tupelo and cypress. We work from the dry side and leave the wet ground alone. The county carries public hunting land, including the Columbus County Game Land and Juniper Creek Game Land. On private tracts, opening plot sites and lanes on a hunting tract is the usual ask.
North Carolina rules turn on soil, not plants. NC DEQ requires an erosion and sediment control plan once a land disturbing activity disturbs more than one acre. Open burning in or within 500 feet of protected woodland needs a permit between midnight and 4 p.m. The NC Forest Service issues that permit free. Columbus County puts its own land use rules on top, so check with the county planning office first. Hurricane Florence closed US 74/76 east of Whiteville in September 2018. Floodwater ran over four feet deep in some businesses in town.
Communities & areas we serve around Whiteville: Chadbourn, Lake Waccamaw, Bolton, Cerro Gordo, Fair Bluff, Brunswick, Riegelwood, Delco.
Whiteville ZIP codes served: 28472.
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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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