Land Clearing
We clear brush, undergrowth and small trees off lots and acreage around Bay City. Pick forestry mulching or conventional clearing, and we leave the ground ready to use.
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Forestry mulching opens up overgrown ground in a single pass. One machine cuts standing brush, undergrowth and small trees and grinds them into mulch. The mulch stays on the ground as a cover layer. Nothing gets piled, burned or hauled off.
At Contracting Pros, forestry mulching is part of our land clearing work. It fits ground you want opened up but not dug up, like old fields, fence rows, trails and hunting land. We are based in Bay City and run our own equipment. Estimates are free, and we are licensed and insured.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.
The machine is a track loader with a mulching head, a spinning drum lined with steel teeth. It cuts brush and small trees where they stand and chews them into mulch. The stumps of what it cuts get mulched down near ground level in the same pass.
The mulch drops where the growth stood and covers the soil. No brush piles get pushed up, so the topsoil stays where it is. You are left with open ground you can use again.
Mulching is the wrong tool for a house, garage or pole barn site. Those sites need the stumps and root balls out through land clearing, then grading from our excavation work. A dead or leaning tree over a house needs hazardous tree removal. A barn or shed in the way comes down through our demolition work.
The Michigan DNR's control guides say autumn olive spreads rapidly in old fields. Glossy buckthorn grows in pastures and fence rows and creates dense thickets. It does best on sunny, moist sites. Both shrubs were once planted for wildlife food and cover.
Forestry mulching knocks these shrubs down and opens the ground back up. The guides call glossy buckthorn one of the most difficult invasive shrubs to control. Taking out a dense thicket of it brings a dense crop of seedlings. Treat mulching as the first pass, and plan a follow-up for the regrowth.
On hunting land, we mulch shooting lanes, trails and openings for food plots. Selective mulching leaves the trees you want to keep standing. Michigan's invasive species program calls red oaks an important acorn producer for wildlife. We also open access lanes into back acreage and clean up storm-damaged brush.
Bay City sits on the old Saginaw Bay lake plain, where the soil is mostly poorly drained clay and silt-clay. Heavy equipment can rut and pack soft, wet soil. Ruts can also injure the feeder roots of trees growing nearby.
Frozen ground carries the machine best. Michigan State University Extension says logging on frozen, snow-covered ground may reduce rutting and compaction damage. Spring thaw works the other way and can leave woodland soil open to rutting. When the timing is yours to pick, we plan mulching around the thaw.
Cold weather also helps the trees you keep. MSU Extension notes that bark tightens near or below freezing, so nearby machines are less likely to knock it off. We work from Bay City across Bay, Saginaw, Midland, Arenac, Tuscola, Isabella and Genesee counties. Call or text (501) 520-1783 for a free estimate.
Free, no-obligation estimates across the Great Lakes Bay Region.
(501) 520-1783From the first call or text to the final walkthrough of the finished work, here is how it goes.
Tell us what needs to come down and where the property sits. Call or text (501) 520-1783 and we will set a time to look.
We look at the structure, the access and what sits around it. Then you get a free estimate for the demolition.
Utilities get shut off and capped, and a MISS DIG 811 dig notice typically goes in. We pull the demolition permit and the historic district approval where Bay City calls for one. An asbestos survey and state notification get ordered when the rules cover the building.
The structure comes down with our equipment, in pieces where the site is tight. Debris gets loaded out as the work goes.
The hole gets filled, compacted and topped with soil and seed. Then we go over the finished site with you before we leave.
Common questions about forestry mulching across the Great Lakes Bay Region. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We clear brush, undergrowth and small trees off lots and acreage around Bay City. Pick forestry mulching or conventional clearing, and we leave the ground ready to use.
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We take down dead, dying, leaning and storm damaged trees that threaten a house, driveway or fence. The debris goes with the job, so the yard is clear when we leave.
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We dig foundations, basements and building pads around Bay City, then grade the ground so water runs away. After a teardown, we backfill the hole and grade the lot.
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We build pole barns and post-frame buildings across the Great Lakes Bay Region. Garages, shops and farm buildings go up on treated posts set below Michigan's 42-inch frost depth.
Learn MoreContracting Pros is licensed and insured for the work we take on. The paperwork is available before a job starts.
We tear down houses, garages, barns and sheds for homeowners. We also handle small commercial buildings and interior demo for businesses.
One demolition contractor takes the structure down and puts the new one up. That keeps the schedule and the site under a single plan.
Estimates are free anywhere in our working radius around Bay City. That covers the Great Lakes Bay Region and the counties around it.
Tell us what needs to come down and where the property is. Call or text (501) 520-1783, or send the details through the form and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.