Forestry Mulching and Land Clearing in Wellington, FL: Lot, Brush and Palmetto Clearing
Wellington ground is old pasture on hardpan, with melaleuca left in the corners and Brazilian pepper walling off every canal bank. I have spent more June afternoons standing in a canal ditch than most people spend at the beach. Parcels run from a half acre in the village to 20-acre tracts on the west side. Our crews come up SR 80 from Punta Gorda, so transport is one quoted line. Call (352) 619-3597 or send the form. Brandi texts you a scheduling window within an hour.
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Forestry Mulching and Brush Clearing for Paddocks Near Wellington
A five-acre paddock gone to wax myrtle and pepper is two skid steer days, about $5,200 plus transport, and it comes back as a mulched field you can disk and seed. Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in one pass. On hardpan that mulch mat holds the sand in place through the first wet season. Pepper along the canal gets cut-stump herbicide within minutes; melaleuca gets the same. Areas with dense exotics carry the $500-an-acre surcharge. Overgrown land with good live oak or slash pine gets selective clearing: shade kept, understory mulched in place. A paddock that was only mowed will overgrow with myrtle in two summers because the crowns survive a bush hog. Professional clearing on pasture is grinding the crowns, not the tops. Send the parcel number.
Land Clearing Services in Wellington, FL
Pellegrino Land Works provides land clearing as a professional land clearing service for residential and commercial properties, and the services in Wellington lean toward horse ground:
- Paddock and pasture reclaiming: brush removal and bush hogging at $65 to 95 an acre, $450 minimum.
- Lot clearing and site prep for a barn or house pad, mulched or to dirt. Residential land clearing on the whole parcel.
- Fence line and canal bank clearing: pepper out, stumps treated, bank left intact.
- Commercial land clearing services and property clearing for commercial properties in Wellington along Southern Boulevard and SR 7, full site clearing to dirt.
- Stump grinding, $4.50 an inch, $150 minimum per stump. Tree removal of dead pine and tornado leaners with cleanup.
- Grubbing with the dozer and root rake at $170 an hour. Landscape clearing around a standing house.
Not us: concrete, wells, septic, house demolition. I know people who do. Every project gets one written price.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach
The village issued 54 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey; most lot work here is a barn pad or a teardown lot. The land clearing Wellington owners order most is a half-acre pad: one skid steer day, $2,600 plus transport. A quarter-acre teardown lot is $1,800 flat plus transport. Every pad here sits on the Acme Improvement District grid, so it comes up after clearing and the grading has to leave the swale open to the district canal. Fill is what interests SFWMD; the clearing never does. Last winter on a parcel on the west side the June water line was 20 inches above the pasture grade, so the barn pad went up three feet. Fill is its own line at the site visit. Lot size and start date, and I take it from there.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Wellington?
Land clearing costs on pasture gone to brush run $1,500 to 2,500 an acre mulched, by density, with $500 an acre added where pepper or melaleuca is thick. Open pasture that only needs a bush hog is $65 to 95 an acre. The skid steer mulcher is $2,600 a day plus transport from Punta Gorda and handles stems to 8 inches; the 300-hp mulcher for large acreage clearing is $4,000 a day plus transport. Full clearing to dirt with stumps runs $3,000 to 5,500 an acre, and haul-off is $700 to 1,300 per 10-yard load. The total depends on the size of the stems and the pepper along the canal. Before any price: a gopher tortoise survey where there is dry sand, $400 to 900, and one extra day in the quote from June to September on wet hardpan. Mulching is the cheapest way to clear a paddock: one machine, no loads. Call (352) 619-3597 with the acreage and I will quote it depending on site conditions after I walk the property.
Permits, Gopher Tortoises and Drainage Before You Clear Land in Wellington
Inside the village, clearing and tree removal run through Wellington's own land development permit; outside the limits, the Palm Beach County Vegetation Removal / Land Clearing permit applies and allows no clearing before a building permit unless the parcel is in bona fide agriculture under greenbelt classification. That is step one of the land clearing process. Step two is the FWC gopher tortoise rule where there is dry sand: survey within 90 days, flag the burrows, no work within 25 feet without a relocation permit. Step three is water. SFWMD ignores clearing, but fill in a wet spot or a drainage change triggers the ERP under Ch. 62-330, and the Acme Improvement District holds its own canal right-of-way rules. Milton's October 2024 tornado left broken pine across the north side, and that debris is the owner's, not FEMA's. On the ROW we cleared canal banks like these for the utility for years. Send the parcel control number.
Land Clearing Services Across Western Palm Beach County From Wellington
We are a land clearing company serving Wellington, FL and the surrounding area, with transport up SR 80 from Punta Gorda on the estimate as one line. That covers Royal Palm Beach and Loxahatchee Groves to the north, the Acreage area beyond them, Greenacres and Lake Worth to the east, and the Wellington area to the west. Our services throughout Southeast Florida run the same way, north to the Port St. Lucie metro. Pipeline and FPL easements too; I led right-of-way crews for ten years. Send the form with your road on it.
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Request a Free On-Site Estimate for Your Wellington Parcel
Send the form or call (352) 619-3597 with the acreage and the parcel number. Brandi texts you a scheduling window within the hour. I walk the lines, mark the swale and the wet edge, count the pepper along the canal, and write one price with transport on it. Our insured crews show up on the day we set and make your property ready for the barn pad. Most land clearing projects here run one to three days.
Land Clearing FAQs From Wellington Property Owners
Can you clear a paddock without tearing up the grade?
Yes. The mulcher runs on tracks and leaves the pasture grade where it was, under about 3 inches of mulch. The dozer only comes out if you want stumps dug or a pad cut. Disk the mulch in after one wet season and seed.
Will the pepper along my canal come back?
Not if every cut is treated with herbicide within minutes, which is how our crews run it. Mulched pepper with untreated stumps is a wall again in two seasons. The $500-an-acre surcharge covers the treatment.
Can you clear in August?
Yes, with one extra day in the quote from June to September. The mulcher rides the mat on wet hardpan, but standing water stops the work. Grading waits for a dry week, so we leave the site with the swale cut and flowing.
Do you clear commercial sites along SR 7?
Yes. Commercial clearing there is full site work to dirt at $3,000 to 5,500 an acre, with excavation and the pad by your site contractor. Commercial development gets the same written price as a homesite. We remove brush, grind the stumps, haul the loads and leave a staked-ready site.
How soon can the land clearing service in Wellington reach my parcel?
About two weeks in the dry season, since the machines come up SR 80 from Punta Gorda. Brandi texts a window within an hour of your form. Call (352) 619-3597 if a builder is waiting. The frequently asked questions on site preparation and land improvement are answered above.
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