Forestry Mulching and Land Clearing in Melbourne, FL: Lot, Brush and Palmetto Clearing
Melbourne proper is built out. The clearing work is west of I-95: flatwoods and old pasture, five-acre tracts off Lake Washington Road, and Brazilian pepper on every ditch bank between them. Brazilian pepper is the only thing in Florida that grows faster than a subdivision. Our crews mulch it, treat the stumps and leave a clean pad. Melbourne, FL and the surrounding area is about 140 miles from the Ocala yard, so transport is a line on the ticket. Call (352) 619-3597 or send the form. Brandi texts you a scheduling window within the hour.
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Forestry Mulching and Brush Clearing Near Melbourne
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch, and on wet flatwoods it is the only machine that stays on top. The skid steer floats on the palmetto root mat where a dozer sinks to the hardpan. Slash pine, wax myrtle and palmetto to 8 inches go down in one pass and stay mulched in place. Areas with dense palmetto take two; lots overgrow by September if the root mat is shaved instead of shredded. Pepper is cut and the stumps are treated within minutes, or every one sends up a thicket; that is why the surcharge exists. Selective clearing keeps the pines and the live oaks on a pasture edge. It is the fastest way to clear overgrown land near Melbourne and still have shade on the pad.
Land Clearing Services in Melbourne, FL
Pellegrino Land Works provides land clearing on residential and commercial properties from the city line to Rockledge, one sheet for all of it. Residential land clearing and lot clearing on platted lots and five-acre tracts. Commercial land clearing services on commercial sites along Wickham Road and US 192, where commercial development follows the rooftops. Brush clearing and brush removal on old pasture: we remove brush, mulch the wax myrtle and treat the pepper. Tree removal and stump grinding where the slab goes; we grind six inches below grade. Site clearing, rough grading, site prep and site preparation ahead of the builder, plus storm cleanup by the load after Milton. Property clearing, landscape clearing and land improvement on acreage. A land clearing company serving Brevard County since 2012 has also learned what to hand off: concrete, wells, septic, excavation for footers and house demolition. I know people who do those. Professional clearing of commercial properties in Melbourne runs on the homesite price sheet; commercial clearing gets the 300-hp mulcher when the stems call for it.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Melbourne and Viera
Melbourne the city issued 48 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey. Unincorporated Brevard issued 874, and the Viera acreage is where most of them sit. A half-acre lot is one skid steer day, $2,600. A quarter-acre infill lot is $1,800 flat. Everything west of I-95 is flatwoods soil with a hardpan a foot or two down, and it holds June water for weeks. We mulch first, the builder brings fill, and the fill has to drain to the swale. Fill is the drainage trigger with the district; clearing is not. On our jobs the full site is clean for the surveyor the next morning. Property owners hold the written scope before the trailer leaves Ocala, and Sunshine 811 paints the gas pipeline before any site work starts.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Melbourne, FL?
Land clearing costs in the Melbourne area run $1,500 to 2,500 an acre for palmetto and pine flatwoods, by density, and $3,000 to 5,500 an acre for full clearing to dirt with every stump out. Pepper or melaleuca adds $500 an acre. It depends on the size of the stems and on how wet the floor is in the month we come:
- Skid steer forestry mulcher: $2,600 a day plus transport from Ocala, stems to 8 inches.
- Dedicated 300-hp mulcher: $4,000 a day plus transport.
- Stump grinding: $4.50 per inch of diameter, $150 minimum per stump.
- Bush hogging on pasture: $65 to 95 an acre, $450 minimum.
- Root rake with a dozer: $170 an hour with operator. Haul-off: $700 to 1,300 per 10-yard load.
Large acreage clearing gets a per-acre figure after I see it. Wet season adds a day on wet flatwoods, and a gopher tortoise survey, $400 to 900, comes before any price on a dry lot. Every project gets the same written breakdown; land clearing projects price the same for a builder and a retiree. Call (352) 619-3597 or send the form. Brandi texts you a window within the hour.
Permits, Gopher Tortoises and Drainage Before We Clear Land
Brevard County requires its Land Clearing permit before any clearing on 1 acre or more, and each city runs a tree ordinance inside its limits. Florida scrub-jay zones sit south in Palm Bay and north in Mims; the Melbourne flatwoods are mostly outside them, but we check the parcel against the FWS map before quoting. Gopher tortoise applies on every dry lot: survey within 90 days, no work within 25 feet of a burrow without an FWC relocation permit. Bald eagle nests along the St. Johns marsh carry a 660-foot buffer. The district is SJRWMD. Clearing is not an ERP trigger. Filling a wet pocket or rerouting drainage is, and a wax myrtle pocket usually marks the wet pocket. The site visit comes first: I walk the property on-site, flag the burrows and the wet line, and we leave the site the way the permit reads.
Land Clearing Service in Melbourne and the Towns Around It
Our land clearing services across the Space Coast cover Melbourne, West Melbourne, Viera and Rockledge, and south into Palm Bay on the same trip. Palm Bay is platted GDC pine and palmetto; the rest is pasture turning into rooftops. We run land clearing services throughout the Melbourne area on stacked trips to split the transport, and the Orlando metro is 70 miles up I-95 and the Beachline, which puts this coast on the edge of Central Florida. Need a land clearing service in Melbourne this month? Land clearing Melbourne lots usually starts inside three weeks in the dry season. Send the form.
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A free on-site estimate, a written per-acre or per-day price and a date. I explain the land clearing process on your flatwoods, and our crews make your property ready for the builder or the fence. Call (352) 619-3597 or send the form. Brandi texts you a scheduling window within the hour. The land clearing FAQs below answer the rest.
Melbourne Land Clearing FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions
What does land clearing cost per acre in Melbourne?
$1,500 to 2,500 an acre for palmetto and pine flatwoods depending on site conditions, $3,000 to 5,500 for full clearing to dirt with stumps, and $500 an acre on top where Brazilian pepper or melaleuca is thick. Transport from Ocala is a separate line.
Why is Brazilian pepper a surcharge?
Because cutting it is half the job. Every stump has to be treated within minutes of the cut or it sends up a thicket by spring. On a lot in Port Charlotte we cleared 2.5 acres of solid pepper in 2 days for $6,700 with the surcharge, and it stayed dead.
Can you clear a wet pasture in summer?
Yes, the mulcher floats where a dozer sinks, but wet flatwoods add one day to the price from June to September. Filling the wet spot afterward is what needs SJRWMD paper, not the clearing. Dry season, November to May, is when a Melbourne pasture clears cheapest.
Can I burn the piles?
Not on a platted lot, and nowhere without a Florida Forest Service burn authorization issued that day. On five acres west of I-95 the authorization is often granted in the dry season. Mulching leaves nothing to burn, which is why most lots go that way.
How do I get a quote?
Call (352) 619-3597 or send the form, and Brandi texts you a scheduling window within an hour. I walk the lot, and you get a written price on the spot. Dry-season starts here usually run three weeks out because of the drive from Ocala.
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