Land Clearing in Fort Myers, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and lot clearing across Fort Myers and Lee County. One machine cuts, grinds and spreads in a single pass, so nothing is piled, burned or trucked off your street.
- Priced from photographs, usually same day
- Nine Lee County jobs, nine machine days
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Fort Myers
Eight things we are actually asked for on Lee 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.
A parcel that has closed in while the city grew round it, back to usable ground in a day.
Brazilian pepper and palmetto taken out from under the palms and pines you are keeping.
Ground that closed in fast after a storm season and needs opening before anything else can happen on it.
You mark what stays and we cut round it. On a city parcel the mature shade is usually what is worth protecting.
Building envelope, drive and pad taken down to workable ground before your builder arrives.
Where the roots have to come out rather than the top growth being ground off. Our 30 inch excavator mulcher.
Easements, the strip along the road and the line between you and next door, cleared without touching what the neighbour wants kept.
Who calls us in Lee County
A parcel bought years ago that has quietly closed in. The commonest call across this county.
Regrowth and tangled timber after a storm season, cleared without a convoy of trucks down a residential street.
Clearing the envelope, the drive and the pad before the builder mobilises, so the site is ready rather than a delay.
Larger parcels out towards Lehigh and beyond where the growth has closed in and the fence line has disappeared.
Brazilian pepper takes ground here faster than almost anything. Mulching removes the standing growth in one pass.
A parcel nobody can see across is a parcel nobody buys. A day with a mulcher shows the buyer what they are actually 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 lot size, and a note on what you want left standing. On a city parcel a shot of the access matters as much as one of the growth.
Usually the same day. It is a day count against a published rate, not a guess dressed up as a quote. Every Lee County job we have run so far has been a single day.
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. It holds the surface through the wet season and slows down what comes back.
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. Lee County is the most consistent county on our books: nine jobs, nine machine days, not one of them running over.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine for a Fort Myers lot or a small parcel
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 Fort Myers
Two finished jobs in the city and nine across Lee County, all of them single machine days. This is the whole record.
| Nov 2023 | Half an acre in Fort Myers, 1 machine day |
| Mar 2024 | One acre in Fort Myers, 1 machine day, with the skid steer mulcher |
| Bokeelia | Three jobs on Pine Island, half an acre each, 1 machine day each |
| Elsewhere in the county | Four more jobs at St James, Bonita Springs and Lehigh Acres |
Nine jobs across Lee County and nine machine days. Every single one finished inside a day, which is the most consistent record we have anywhere in Florida and says as much about the ground as about us. It also means we have not yet been asked for a large or badly tangled parcel here, and we would rather tell you that than pretend the record proves more than it does.
The ground on a Lee County parcel
| What grows here | Cabbage palm and slash pine over saw palmetto, live oak on the better ground, and Brazilian pepper heavy through anything disturbed or storm damaged. Melaleuca appears on wetter parcels out east |
| What that means for a machine | Pepper mulches quickly once the machine is into it, which is a large part of why every job here has been a day. Palmetto root mat and storm tangled timber are the slow parts |
| Water | Flat low lying ground with a high water table and a canal network through the developed areas. Tracked machines cope but slow after heavy rain |
| Access | City frontages with kerbs in town, and wider rural approaches out east. On a tight parcel a photograph of the entrance and the street is worth more than one of the growth |
Lee County jobs finished inside a single machine day. It is the most consistent county on our books, and it means we have not yet met a hard one here.
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 Lee County parcel
Lee County regulates vegetation removal, and the City of Fort Myers and the other municipalities each run their own code. Which applies depends on your address.
What is protected depends on the species and the size of the trunk, and native species are treated differently from invasive exotics such as Brazilian pepper and melaleuca. Work near mangrove or the river carries separate state rules, and a parcel inside a municipality is not automatically governed by the county.
Tell us what you want gone and what you want kept when you send photographs. We will tell you which trees look like the ones worth asking about before you spend anything.
We are a clearing contractor, not the permit office, and we do not file applications. Confirm your own parcel and your own trees with Lee County or the City of Fort Myers before you commit.
Fort Myers questions
How much does it cost to clear a lot in Fort Myers?
From $3,000 a machine day. Both our Fort Myers jobs were a single day, at half an acre and a full acre. Send photographs and we will give you a day count rather than a range.
How long does it take?
Every one of our nine Lee County jobs was a single machine day. That is genuinely unusual and it reflects the ground as much as anything. If yours is heavily storm tangled, expect us to say so rather than assume a day.
Has storm regrowth made lots worse?
On a lot of parcels yes. Pepper comes back thick and tangled timber slows a machine down more than standing growth does. It is still one pass, it just takes longer, and we would rather flag it in the quote.
Can you get a machine onto a tight city lot?
Usually, and it is worth settling first. Send a photograph of the entrance and the street as well as the growth. Frontage width, parked cars and turning room decide the approach more than the size of the parcel.
What happens to everything you cut?
It stays on the ground as mulch, spread as the machine goes. Nothing piled, nothing burned. On a residential street that is the whole point.
Do I need a permit?
It depends on the species and size of what is standing, and on whether your parcel sits inside a municipality or in unincorporated Lee County. 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 Fort Myers lot
Send a few photographs, the lot size and a note on what you want left standing. Include a shot of the entrance and the street, because on a city parcel access decides the approach as much as the growth does.
Call or text 813-733-6607