Land Clearing in Freeport, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and lot clearing across Freeport and Walton 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
- Three quarters of an acre here in a single day
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Freeport
Eight things we are actually asked for on Walton 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 lot or a small parcel back to ground you can walk and build on, which is most of what is asked for on the bay side.
The two that fill the wet ground here and the reason a parcel stops being walkable.
You mark the pines and the magnolias that stay and we cut round them.
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 lane in from the road, or a cut line so a truck can reach 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 Walton County
The bay side of this county is building steadily and an envelope, a drive and a pad taken down before the builder mobilises is the standing job.
Parcels running down towards the water where the growth changes and the soil softens as you go.
Timber and farm country a long way from the coast, which behaves nothing like the ground near the bay and where we have not yet been asked to work.
An overgrown lot generates letters. A machine day is usually the whole answer.
Piling and burning is a poor fit on ground this wet and often not an option. Mulching leaves the material where it falls as chip.
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. If any of the ground holds water, photograph that too.
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 soft ground that chip layer is what gives you a surface to walk and work on afterwards.
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. We have finished one job in this county and we are not going to dress it up as a pattern. Three quarters of an acre took one machine day.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine for a 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 Freeport
One finished job, three quarters of an acre, a single machine day, Dec 2023. That is the whole Walton County record and we would rather show it than pad it.
| Dec 2023 | Three quarters of an acre, 1 machine day, machine not recorded on the scope |
| The county total | One job, 1 machine day. This is the only Walton County job on our books |
| What that tells you | That a small bay side parcel is a day. It tells you nothing about the north of the county |
One job is one job. The scope does not record which machine went, so we are not going to tell you. This county runs the best part of fifty miles from the beach to the state line and the ground at one end is nothing like the ground at the other, so we would rather look at photographs of your parcel than extrapolate from a single job on the bay.
The ground on a Walton County parcel
| What grows here | Slash and longleaf pine on the flatwoods, titi, gallberry and fetterbush filling the wet ground, magnolia and live oak on the better soil, and cypress along the creeks running into the bay |
| What that means for a machine | Titi is the slow part. It forks low and grows dense, so a machine works in short bites, and a parcel that is mostly titi will read heavier in the day count than the acreage suggests |
| Water | The bay and the creeks running into it keep the water table close to the surface on this side of the county. A wet fortnight moves a booking |
| Access | Highways near the bay and sand and clay tracks inland. Ground that carries a pickup does not always carry a low loader, and that is worth a photograph |
Is what we have finished in this county, three quarters of an acre in a machine day. We would rather tell you that plainly than build an average out of one row.
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 Walton County parcel
Walton County and the City of Freeport each have a say depending on where your parcel sits, and ground near the bay or a creek may involve the water management district as well.
What is protected depends on the species and the size of the trunk, and whether the parcel is a single family homesite or land being developed. In a county with this much coastal development pressure the rules near the water are more detailed than the ones inland.
Tell us what you want gone and what you want kept when you send photographs. If any of the parcel runs towards the bay or a creek, mention it, because that is the case most worth settling before anyone books a machine.
We are a clearing contractor, not the permit office, and we do not file applications. Confirm your own parcel and your own trees with Walton County, the City of Freeport or the water management district before you commit.
Freeport questions
How much does it cost to clear a lot in Freeport?
From $3,000 a machine day. Our job here was three quarters of an acre and a single day. Send photographs and the acreage and we will give you a day count.
You have only done one job here. Why should I use you?
Fair question. One job in Walton County, three quarters of an acre, one day. The rest of our record is on this site, county by county, with the day counts as they actually happened. Judge us on that rather than on one row.
Which machine did you use here?
We are not going to guess. The scope on our Freeport job does not record it. The acreage and the day count are above and they are what we can show you.
Can you work on wet ground?
Usually, and tracked machines cope with a lot. But there is a point where the right answer is to wait rather than tear the ground up, and we will tell you when we think you are at it.
What happens to everything you cut?
It stays on the ground as mulch, spread as the machine goes. Nothing piled, nothing burned, which on ground this wet is an advantage rather than just a preference.
Do I need a permit?
It depends on the species and size of what is standing, whether you are inside the City of Freeport, and how close the work is to water. 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 Freeport lot
Send a few photographs, the acreage and a note on what you want left standing. Photograph any standing water as well, because on this side of the county that is what moves a date.
Call or text 813-733-6607