Land Clearing in Largo, Florida
Forestry mulching and clearing in Largo and across Pinellas County. Thirty four acres came down here over eleven machine days, which is the largest single tract we have worked in the densest county in the state.
- Thirty four acres cleared here over 11 machine days
- Priced from photographs, usually same day
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Largo
Eight things we are actually asked for here. 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.
Thirty four acres inside Pinellas is rare ground. Where it exists the constraint is usually access and neighbours rather than what is standing on it.
A platted lot that has grown in, cleared in place, because on a lot that size there is nowhere to put what comes off it.
Brazilian pepper, palmetto and vine taken out from under trees you are keeping.
You mark what stays and we cut round it. In a county this built up the list of what stays is almost always the longer one.
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 line you can run wire along or walk, cut without disturbing what is either side of it.
Who calls us in Largo and the mid county
Ground that was passed over while everything round it was developed. It is usually the most closed in land in the neighbourhood by the time somebody calls us.
Where the footprint has to come down before survey and civil work start. The day count is the whole quote and you get it before we schedule.
An overgrown parcel in a made street generates letters here faster than almost anywhere in Florida. A machine day or two is usually the whole answer.
Mulching runs in one pass and leaves the material on the ground, which means no burn, no chip trucks in and out, and a considerably quieter week for the street.
Ground nobody can walk is ground nobody prices properly. Opening it changes what a buyer is looking at.
On thirty four acres inside a city an acreage rate has to assume the whole parcel is the same and that access is free. Neither is usually true.
How the work runs
Four steps, and the first two happen before anything leaves our yard.
From the road and from inside, with something in frame for scale. On a large parcel in a built up area tell us where a low bed can actually get in.
Usually the same day. It is a day count against a published rate rather than a guess dressed up as a quote.
The head cuts, grinds and spreads as it goes. Nothing is stacked at your frontage waiting for a truck, which on a residential street matters more than it does in the country.
Not bare sand and not a field of cut stems. That layer holds the surface together until something is built or planted on it.
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. The Largo tract was eleven of them. What we work out from your photographs is how many yours needs.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. Narrow enough for a residential drive
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 Largo
One job, and it is the largest tract we have cleared anywhere in Pinellas County.
| Mar 2024 | Thirty four acres, 11 machine days |
| Rate that works out to | About three acres a day, which is at the fast end of our record |
| Machine on the scope | Recorded only as a mulcher, without saying which of the three |
| Across Pinellas County | Five finished jobs and 20 machine days |
Three acres a day is quick for us, and it tells you something about the ground: this was not twenty year old scrub. If your parcel is heavier than that the day count will be longer, and we would rather say so from the photographs than discover it in week two.
What Pinellas ground does to a day count
| Coastal sand ridge | Free draining and quick going, which is most of what makes a three acre day possible here. |
| Brazilian pepper | The single commonest thing we take out in this county. It grows into itself and it is slower than its height suggests. |
| Oak canopy over closed understorey | Where the trees are staying and only what is under them comes out, which is careful work rather than fast work. |
| Old fill and made ground | Common on parcels that sat vacant through a build out. Worth telling us about, because it changes what a machine can do. |
| Low ground and drainage easements | Holds water later into the year than the ridge does and slows a machine right down. |
| Ground with a fence both sides | Access is the constraint here far more often than the vegetation is. |
Acres cleared on one parcel at Largo in March 2024, over eleven machine days. It is the largest single tract we have taken on anywhere in Pinellas, in the most densely built county in Florida.
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 WilsonPermits in Pinellas County are yours
Pinellas is almost entirely incorporated, which means your authority is usually a city rather than the county, and municipal tree rules in Florida tend to be the stricter of the two.
What is protected depends on the species, the size of the trunk and how your parcel is classified. Removing listed invasive growth is usually treated very differently from removing a native tree, and in a county this developed that distinction comes up on most jobs.
If you are not certain which city you are in, or whether you are in one at all, say so when you send photographs. It is a common question here and it changes who you need to ask.
We are a clearing contractor, not the permit office, and we do not file applications. Confirm your own parcel and your own trees with your city or Pinellas County before you commit.
Largo questions
What does it cost to clear land in Largo?
From $3,000 a machine day. What you pay is that rate multiplied by a day count we work out from your photographs. The thirty four acre parcel here took eleven days.
Can you get a machine onto a parcel with houses either side?
Usually. The skid steer mulcher fits down a residential drive and through a standard gate, which is why most of our work in this county runs on it. Send a photograph of the access and we will tell you before we commit.
Will there be trucks and burning?
Neither. The material is ground and spread as the machine moves, so there is no pile, no burn and no chip trucks in and out of the street.
Which machine did the thirty four acre job?
The scope recorded it only as a mulcher without saying which of the three, so we will not guess. The acreage and the day count were recorded and those are the numbers that price a job.
Do you take the stumps out?
Not with mulching. It leaves the root plate in the ground. Grubbing takes roots out, it is the excavator, and it is a different rate.
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.
Around Largo
Get a price on your Largo lot
Send a few photographs, the acreage and a note on what you want left standing. You will get a day count against a published rate, usually the same day.
Call or text 813-733-6607