Jacksonville, AR Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching
Overgrown lots, rent-house back yards, duck ground in the bottoms: we grind it clean where it stands, nothing burned, nothing hauled. Free estimates: (501) 208-6399.
Jacksonville is full of lots that got away from somebody. The deep back lot behind a rent house that nobody has mowed since the last tenant left. The grown-up parcel next door that finally came up for sale, brush and all. The five acres out toward Cabot you bought for the quiet, back when you could still walk it. Brice Contracting clears all of it: trees, brush, stumps, down to clean ground you can mow, build on, rent out, or hunt.
Forestry mulching does most of that work in one pass. The machine grinds standing trees and underbrush into a layer of mulch that stays put, so there is no burn pile smoking for a week and no dump truck running debris down 67/167. When the job calls for real dirt work, stumps grubbed out, a pad cut, a driveway roughed in, we bring excavators, dozers, and skid steers. Every machine on your job is ours, not rented, so the schedule holds.
Price first, because that's why you're reading: forestry mulching projects start at $2,500. Below that, the math does not work for either of us. The estimate is free, and it happens on your property, not over the phone. Austin Brice owns the company and answers for the work himself; he typically calls back within 10 minutes during business hours. Call (501) 208-6399. Licensed and insured.
Base Town in Front, Bottomland Out Back
Jacksonville works differently than the rest of Pulaski County. Little Rock Air Force Base keeps people moving in and out, so a lot of the houses in town are rentals, and the older streets carry deep lots laid out decades ago. When a house sits empty for a season, the lot goes first: privet and sweetgum sprouts push through the fence line, and by the second summer you cannot find the back property pin. That is recoverable. A mulcher takes it back to the line and leaves ground you can actually mow.
East and south of town, the county flattens out fast. Bayou Meto starts in northern Pulaski County just west of the base and winds 150 miles southeast into duck country, and Holland Bottoms WMA sits right against the city limits, more than 6,000 acres of it. Land out that way is low, it holds water, and it grows willow and buttonbush thickets that close in quicker than upland brush. Flat ground is easy on machines, but timing matters in the bottoms; if your place needs to dry out before it will carry a mulcher, we will say so, because a stuck machine costs us both. Our shop is in Hattieville, a little over an hour west on I-40, and our equipment already runs these corridors: right-of-way clearing along Arkansas interstates and highways is part of our regular contract work.
See what our finished jobs look like on our work gallery, or read the cost guide before you call.
What We Clear in Jacksonville
The Back Lot You Inherited With the House
Plenty of Jacksonville lots run deeper than the mowed part. If the back half went wild under a previous owner or a string of tenants, we grind it to the property line and hand you the whole lot back, clean enough to mow.
Rental Turnover Cleanups
A wild lot scares off the tenants you want and hides the problems you don't. We clear it to clean ground that shows well in photos and walks well in person. Own more than one property? Say so; we'd rather price several lots as one trip than three separate jobs.
Acreage Toward Cabot and Ward
Rural ground north and east of town grows back the minute you stop fighting it. We knock back fence lines, reopen old pasture, and carve a homesite out of a wooded parcel. You pick which trees stay.
Bottomland Off Bayou Meto
Private bottomland around Bayou Meto and Holland Bottoms disappears under willow if you let it. We cut access lanes, open up camp and blind sites, and push thickets back off your good ground, scheduled for when it is dry enough to work.
Stumps Out, Pad Cut
When the plan is a building, clearing is only the start. We grub the stumps, cut the pad, and rough in the drive for a shop, barndominium, or manufactured home: one outfit, our own iron, woods to build-ready dirt.
Every Service, One Crew
We bring our own equipment to every Jacksonville job: forestry mulching, land clearing, and site development. No subcontractors, no rental delays.
"Thank you so much for the work you did on our land! You helped us see what is possible by giving us space to create. We will definitely recommend you to our friends and family!"
- Ben S., Brice Contracting customer
Jacksonville Questions, Straight Answers
Also serving: Cabot, Sherwood, North Little Rock, Little Rock, and all of Central Arkansas. We work all of Arkansas.
Get Your Ground Back
Free walk-the-property estimates in Jacksonville and across Pulaski County. Call (501) 208-6399; Austin usually calls back inside 10 minutes during business hours.