Land Clearing in Bonifay, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and land clearing across Bonifay and Holmes County. One machine cuts, grinds and spreads in a single pass, so nothing is piled, burned or hauled off your place.
- Priced from photographs, usually same day
- Two jobs a month apart in autumn 2025
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Bonifay
Eight things we are actually asked for on Holmes County ground. If your job is not on this list, say so and we will tell you straight whether it is ours.
One machine cuts standing growth and grinds it back into the ground as chip in the same pass. No pile, no burn, no trucks.
Gallberry, titi and yaupon taken out from under planted pine or standing hardwood you are keeping.
Ground that has grown in since it was last mown or last cut, back to something you can drive across.
You mark what stays and we cut round it. On a place that has been in the family a while, the trees people want kept are rarely the ones a stranger would pick.
Where the roots have to come out rather than the top growth being ground off. Our 30 inch excavator mulcher.
Building envelope, drive and pad taken down to workable ground before your builder arrives.
A break round a block, a lane in from the county road, or a line cut so a truck can get to the back of the place.
A line you can run wire along or walk, cut without disturbing the timber either side of it.
Who calls us in Holmes County
Ground that has been in one name for generations and has quietly grown in since anyone last ran cattle or a mower over it.
Blocks between rotations, or ground where the understory has closed in enough to matter to the next thinning.
Clearing the envelope, the drive and the pad before the builder mobilises, so the site is ready rather than a delay.
Old pasture that has gone to scrub. A mulcher gives you a chip layer and a surface, rather than a field of stobs.
Lanes, shooting lines and access cut through a block without opening the whole thing up.
A parcel nobody can walk is a parcel nobody buys. A day with a mulcher changes what a buyer is looking at.
How the work runs
Four steps, and the first two happen before anything leaves our yard.
Pictures with something in frame for scale, the acreage, and a note on what you want left standing. Show us the thickest part, not the tidiest.
Usually the same day. It is a day count against a published rate, not a guess dressed up as a quote.
The mulching head cuts, grinds and spreads as it goes. No separate clear, pile and haul stage, which is where most of the cost and all of the mess normally sits.
Not bare sand and not a field of cut stems. On sandy upland that layer keeps the surface together and holds moisture through a dry spring.
Photographs from our jobs
Photographs from jobs we have run. Nothing here is stock photography and nothing here is generated.
What it costs
We sell machine days, not acres, and we publish the rates. Both of our Holmes County jobs came in around an acre and a half a day, which is a useful benchmark for this ground but not a promise about yours.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine recorded on our four acre job here
Stems to 30 inches, and grubbing. Plus transport
Stems to 24 inches. Plus transport. The dearest machine we run
What moves the day count
The rate follows the machine rather than the size of the stem, which catches people out: the dedicated mulcher costs more than the excavator even though the excavator takes bigger timber and pulls roots. Transport is the cost of getting the bigger two machines to you and is separate from hauling material away, which is quoted per job.
What we have actually done in Bonifay
Two finished jobs a month apart, five machine days between them, autumn 2025. Every Holmes County job we have on the books is in Bonifay.
| Sep 2025 | Four acres, 3 machine days, with the skid steer mulcher |
| Oct 2025 | Two acres, 2 machine days, machine not recorded on the scope |
| The county total | Two jobs, 6 acres, 5 machine days |
Worth saying plainly: the October scope does not record which machine went, so we are not going to tell you it was one rather than another. What both jobs do show is a rate of roughly an acre and a half a day on this ground, and that the four acre job ran on the smallest machine we own rather than the biggest.
The ground on a Holmes County place
| What grows here | Longleaf and slash pine on the sandy uplands, planted rows on a lot of it, live oak and hickory in the hammocks, and gallberry, titi and yaupon filling in underneath wherever fire has been out of the system a while |
| What that means for a machine | Upland pine is good going and a machine covers ground fast. The branch bottoms and the titi thickets are the slow part, and they are usually a small fraction of the acreage but a large fraction of the day count |
| Water | Creek and branch bottoms cut through the uplands and hold water well after the rain has stopped. A tracked machine copes but works slower, and a wet week is worth a phone call before the day |
| Access | County roads and dirt lanes. Most places here have room for a low loader to turn, but check the gate width and whether the approach firms up or softens after rain |
A machine day, near enough, across both of our Holmes County jobs. Useful as a benchmark for this ground, and not a promise about yours until we have seen photographs.
What customers say
FloridaLandClearing.com was beyond helpful in getting our property cleared. They were spot on with their quote, their crews arrived on time, and the machines they used were impressive to watch.
Jenny AndersonWe had a difficult project a few other companies attempted and left. Florida Land Clearing was able to get the job done and a day earlier than quoted.
Joseph KellyThese guys are pros. Watching these machines just devour acres of underbrush in a day was one of the coolest things I have seen. I cannot believe how this transformed my property.
Adam WilsonBefore you book: trees on a Holmes County place
Holmes County and the City of Bonifay each have a say depending on where your parcel sits, and land in genuine silvicultural use is treated differently from a homesite.
What is protected depends on the species and the size of the trunk, and whether the parcel is a single family homesite, working timber or land being developed. In a county with this much planted pine on it, the silvicultural questions come up more often than the tree by tree ones do.
Tell us what you want gone and what you want kept when you send photographs. If the ground is in a timber programme of any kind, say so early, because that changes which office you should be asking.
We are a clearing contractor, not the permit office, and we do not file applications. Confirm your own parcel and your own trees with Holmes County or the City of Bonifay before you commit.
Bonifay questions
How much does it cost to clear land in Bonifay?
From $3,000 a machine day. Our two jobs here were three days and two days. Send photographs and the acreage and we will give you a day count rather than a range.
How many acres can you do in a day?
On this ground we have averaged about an acre and a half. That is a real average off two real jobs rather than a marketing figure, and thick titi in a branch bottom will pull it down fast.
Do you work on planted pine?
Yes, and underbrushing between rows is a normal ask here. If the ground is in a timber programme, tell us, because the rules that apply to it are not the same as the ones for a homesite.
How long does it take?
Two to three days for the sizes we have done here. Send photographs of the worst part of the parcel and we will tell you before you commit.
What happens to everything you cut?
It stays on the ground as mulch, spread as the machine goes. Nothing piled, nothing burned. On sandy upland that chip layer holds moisture and stops the surface drifting.
Do I need a permit?
It depends on the species and size of what is standing, whether you are inside the City of Bonifay, and whether the ground counts as working timber. Confirm with the right office rather than taking a contractor word for it, ours included.
Are you licensed and insured?
Insured, and we send the certificate before the machine moves. Florida does not issue a contractor licence for forestry mulching, so nobody holds one. Insurance is the document worth asking every contractor to produce.
Get a price on your Bonifay lot
Send a few photographs, the acreage and a note on what you want left standing. Show us the branch bottoms and the thickest titi, because that is where the day count actually gets decided.
Call or text 813-733-6607