Land Clearing and Forestry Mulching in Fayetteville, AR
Steep and rocky is normal clearing work here. We clear Ozark hillsides without tearing them up, and you'll hear about the $2,500 forestry mulching minimum up front, not after. Free estimates: (501) 208-6399.
Most lots around Fayetteville aren't flat, and most clearing outfits bid them like they are. They send a dozer up a grade, scrape off the topsoil, shove everything into a burn pile, and leave you a scarred hillside that washes out every time it rains. There's a better way to clear ground in the Ozarks.
Forestry mulching grinds trees, cedar, and brush right where they stand. No burn piles, no hauling, no bare dirt sliding down your slope. The mulch stays on the ground and holds the hill until you're ready to build, fence, or plant. On sloped and rocky lots, it beats dozer work almost every time. And when a job does call for dirt work, we own the dozers and excavators to handle that too.
Brice Contracting is based in Hattieville and works across all of Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas included. Owner Austin Brice runs the company and owns every machine in the fleet. Licensed and insured. Forestry mulching projects start at $2,500, and the estimate is free. You'll see the real number before any machine shows up.
Clearing Ozark Ground in Washington County
Fayetteville sits on the edge of the Boston Mountains, and the ground shows it. Thin, rocky soil over chert and limestone. Oak and hickory on the slopes. Eastern redcedar swallowing old pasture a field at a time. The hillsides that make a lot worth buying here, the views off Mount Sequoyah or the ridges south of town, are the same hillsides that punish heavy equipment on a grade. A mulcher handles slopes and rock that would have a dozer operator white-knuckling the whole job, and it leaves cover on the ground instead of stripping it bare.
Northwest Arkansas keeps growing, and flat land inside Fayetteville is mostly spoken for. That pushes buyers into hill lots and acreage out toward Elkins, Goshen, West Fork, Farmington, and Prairie Grove: bigger parcels, better views, and a lot more cedar and brush to deal with. If you bought a view lot that's grown shut, or acreage that's more thicket than pasture, that's exactly the work a forestry mulcher was built for. One machine, one operator, and the overgrowth turns into ground cover instead of a burn pile you babysit for a week.
See what our finished jobs look like on our work gallery, or read the cost guide before you call.
What We Clear in Fayetteville
Hillside Building Lots
We clear your build site on a grade without scraping it bare. The mulch layer holds your soil in place until construction starts, so the lot doesn't wash out while you wait on the builder.
View Clearing
Paid for the view and can't see it anymore? We clear selectively: take out the cedar and scrub blocking the sightline, keep the hardwoods worth keeping. You point, we grind.
Cedar and Brush Takeover
Eastern redcedar doesn't quit. It eats pasture, chokes fence lines, and turns good acreage into a wall of green. We mulch it down at ground level and leave the field ready to mow or graze.
Driveways, Trails, and Access
Access cut through rocky, timbered ground: a driveway up to your build site, trails across the back of the property, fence lines clean enough to actually string wire.
Site Development
When the job needs more than mulching, we bring the excavators, bulldozers, and skid steers. Pads, dirt work, full site prep. One contractor, one call, our own machines.
Every Service, One Crew
We bring our own equipment to every Fayetteville job: forestry mulching, land clearing, and site development. No subcontractors, no rental delays.
"We appreciate everything you've done. It looks like a different place! We will be recommending you, and we will call you back the next time we need anything done!"
- Benny L., Brice Contracting customer
Fayetteville Questions, Straight Answers
Also serving: Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, Bella Vista, and all of Northwest Arkansas. We work all of Arkansas.
Got a lot in the hills that needs clearing?
Call (501) 208-6399 for a free estimate. Austin typically calls back within 10 minutes during business hours, and he'll walk the property with you before quoting a number.