Forestry Mulching and Land Clearing in Crawfordville, FL: Lot, Brush and Palmetto Clearing
Crawfordville is cutover slash pine with titi thickets in the low spots, flatwoods right up to the Apalachicola National Forest line. Most parcels are two to ten acres off US 319 and US 98, logged years ago and grown back thick. We cleared 10 acres of that cutover here for a homesite and pasture in two days. Our crews travel up from Ocala, so transport is a quoted line. Send the form or call (352) 619-3597. Brandi texts you a scheduling window within an hour.
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Forestry Mulching and Brush Clearing Near Crawfordville
Cutover pine is where the mulcher earns its keep: the 300-hp machine takes the volunteer pine, gallberry and titi in one pass and leaves a 3-inch mat. Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand. Titi is the only shrub I know that fights back after it is cut, so the titi heads get mulched low and checked again in the fall. The skid steer handles stems to 8 inches on drier ground. Areas with dense titi sit on wet flatwoods soil, spodosol under black water in June, where the mulcher floats and a dozer sinks. Overgrown land that was planted pine twenty years ago usually gets selective clearing: the straight pine stays, the rest goes. Professional clearing here is reading the wet line before the machine does. Send the parcel number and I will name the machine and the days.
Land Clearing Services in Crawfordville, FL
Pellegrino Land Works provides land clearing on parcels here as a professional land clearing service for residential and commercial properties. The services in Crawfordville, with the card price:
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Lot clearing and site prep, mulched in place or to dirt | $2,600 a day skid steer, plus transport |
| Residential land clearing on acreage, 300-hp mulcher | $4,000 a day plus transport |
| Stump grinding | $4.50 an inch, $150 minimum per stump |
| Tree removal of dead or leaning pine | By the tree, chipped or hauled |
| Brush removal and bush hogging | $65 to 95 an acre, $450 minimum |
| Grubbing, root rake with dozer | $170 an hour with operator |
| Commercial land clearing services, full site clearing on commercial sites | $3,000 to 5,500 an acre |
Landscape clearing and property clearing around an existing house get the same card. Cleanup and haul-off run by the 10-yard load. We do not pour concrete, drill wells, set septic or demolish houses. I know people who do. Every project carries one written price.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Crawfordville and Panacea
Crawfordville is a CDP, so the county's count is the proxy: Wakulla County issued 518 single-family permits in 2025 per the Census Building Permits Survey, up 11 percent. The land clearing Crawfordville builders ask for most is a pad on cutover acreage: house site to dirt, the rest mulched. A half-acre lot is one day of skid steer, $2,600 plus transport, and a quarter-acre infill lot is $1,800 flat plus transport. Flatwoods here hold water. Toward Panacea and St. Marks a lot can sit in two inches of it all summer. Clearing first, then fill under the pad, then grading so the water runs to the ditch. On our jobs in the Crawfordville area the pad gets flagged on the site visit and the fill priced before we start. Send the lot size and the builder's date.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Crawfordville?
Land clearing costs on cutover pine start with the job we did here: 10 acres, understory mulched for a homesite and pasture, 2 days on the 300-hp mulcher, $9,500 plus transport. That is about $950 an acre on open cutover. The rest of the card:
- Pine and palmetto flatwoods, thick: $1,500 to 2,500 an acre by density.
- Oak scrub and sandhill: $1,200 to 1,800 an acre.
- Full clearing to dirt with stumps: $3,000 to 5,500 an acre.
- Haul-off: $700 to 1,300 per 10-yard load. Out here a pile can usually be burned instead under a Florida Forest Service burn authorization.
- Transport from Ocala: one quoted line, in writing.
The total depends on the size of the stems and how wet the ground is. A gopher tortoise survey, $400 to 900, comes before any price on the sandy ridges. June to September adds one day on wet flatwoods, stated up front. Large acreage clearing gets a per-acre number after I walk the property. Call (352) 619-3597 with the acreage and I will quote it depending on site conditions.
Permits, Gopher Tortoises and Drainage Before You Clear Land in Crawfordville
Wakulla County runs on a development order with minimal tree rules, which makes the land clearing process here simpler than Leon's, with one exception: the Wakulla Springs protection zone, where fill and septic are watched closely. The FWC gopher tortoise rule applies on every sandy ridge: survey within 90 days, flag the burrows, no work within 25 feet without a relocation permit. Red-cockaded woodpecker clusters in the national forest add a federal step on parcels that touch the line. Water is NWFWMD. The district does not care about clearing; filling a wetland or changing drainage is what triggers the ERP, and half of Wakulla is wetland by the Ch. 62-340 delineation. Send me the parcel ID and I will tell you which of these your acreage carries.
Land Clearing Services Across the Big Bend From Crawfordville
We are a land clearing company serving Crawfordville, FL and the surrounding area, with transport from Ocala quoted as one line. That covers Panacea, Sopchoppy, St. Marks and Woodville across the Leon line, plus the Tallahassee area north on US 319. Our services throughout North Florida run west to the Pensacola metro the same way. Pipeline and power-line easements come to us too; ten years on the ROW was mostly that. The Wakulla County page carries the county notes and the North Florida page the region. Put your town on the form and send it.
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Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Crawfordville
The land clearing service in Crawfordville runs the same way the 10-acre job did. Send the form or call (352) 619-3597 with the acreage and a parcel number. Brandi texts you a scheduling window within the hour. I walk the lines, mark the wet edge and the burrows, count stumps, and write one price with transport on it. Our insured crews arrive on the set day and make your property ready for the builder's survey stakes. Cutover left to overgrow, a pad, a pasture: one form.
Land Clearing FAQs From Crawfordville Property Owners
Can I burn the piles instead of mulching?
Often, yes, on acreage out here. A Florida Forest Service burn authorization is a daily call, and parcels with setbacks get it most dry-season days. Platted lots near town usually do not. Mulching is still the cheapest way to clear most land clearing projects, because a pile has to be pushed first, then watched for a week.
Can you work wet flatwoods near Panacea in summer?
Yes, with one extra day in the quote from June to September. The mulcher floats on its tracks and the mat; standing water is a stop. We leave the site with the natural drainage open so the water goes where it went before. Fill and grading come after, on a dry week.
Do you clear commercial properties in Crawfordville?
Yes. Commercial development along US 319 wants full site clearing to dirt, $3,000 to 5,500 an acre, with excavation and pads by another contractor. Commercial clearing gets the same written price as a homesite. We remove brush, grind the stumps, haul what will not mulch and hand off to the site work crew.
How fast can a crew get to a lot near Crawfordville?
About two weeks in the dry season, November to May, because the machines travel from Ocala, and longer in summer. Brandi texts a window within an hour of your form. Call (352) 619-3597 if a builder is waiting. The frequently asked questions about site preparation and land improvement are answered above.
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