Clearing Wooded Property Around DeQuincy

Three different jobs people call "clearing"

These get used interchangeably and they are not the same work, the same timeline or the same price. Picking the wrong one is the most common way a clearing budget goes sideways.

General walkthrough — not a specific customer project

What clearing a homesite out of woods usually looks like

Somebody buys a wooded tract and wants a house on it. Here is the shape of that work, and the decisions that matter most:

• —Decide how large the cleared area needs to be — house, drive, septic field if applicable, and working room around the structure. Clearing too tight is the regret we hear about most
• —Mark the trees you want kept, before anything starts. This is worth an afternoon of your time
• —Get an access path in first so equipment and, later, delivery trucks can reach the site
• —Clear and grub the building footprint down to clean soil
• —Deal with the material — between trench burners, mulching and haul-off there are options, and current conditions and restrictions decide which ones are on the table
• —Build and compact the pad, set the elevation, and carry drainage away from the structure

What DeQuincy property owners ask

Is my timber worth anything?

Sometimes. Merchantable timber of the right species and size can have value, and that is worth finding out before it gets mulched. We are a construction and land development company, not a timber buyer, so on a tract with real standing volume the honest advice is to get a forester or timber buyer to look at it first. It costs you nothing to ask and it occasionally changes the whole economics of the job.

How long does clearing a few acres take?

It depends far more on what is growing there and where the material goes than on the acreage. Light underbrush mulches quickly. Mature trees with large root systems that have to be grubbed and hauled is a different job on the same number of acres. We will give you a realistic window once we have seen it.

Can you clear right up to a property line?

We can work to a line you can show us. What we will not do is guess at where it runs. If there is any doubt, a survey is cheap compared with clearing a neighbor's trees, and that is a conversation nobody enjoys.

Do you leave the mulch, or can you haul it off?

Either. Left in place it protects the soil and breaks down over time, which is usually what people want. If you need bare ground, haul-off is priced separately because it is genuinely additional work.

What about burning?

We have trench burners and use them where it makes sense. Whether burning is appropriate on a given day and a given site depends on conditions and current restrictions, which is a matter for the parish and the state rather than something we will assert on a web page. We plan for alternatives so a burn ban does not stop your project.