Land Clearing in Loxahatchee, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and clearing across Loxahatchee and the western end of Palm Beach County. The slowest ground on our entire record is here, and it is the most useful thing this page can tell you.
- Five acres took ten machine days on this ground
- Half an acre a day, against a statewide median of one
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Loxahatchee
Eight things we are actually asked for on this 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.
The reason a job here takes twice as long as the same acreage elsewhere. What is under the canopy on this ground is thicker than almost anywhere we work.
The standard lot out here is measured in acres rather than fractions, and it closes in faster than an owner expects.
You mark what stays and we cut round it. On a parcel this size that list is usually long.
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 drive line in, or a run through a parcel to reach the back of it. On acreage out here that is frequently the first day's work.
A line you can run wire along or walk, cut without disturbing what is either side of it.
Who calls us in Loxahatchee and the western communities
Both of our jobs out here started that way. The frontage looks manageable and the back half has closed completely.
Paddock that has gone back, fence lines that have disappeared, and a back acre nobody has been on for a season or two.
Envelope, drive and pad taken down to workable ground before the builder mobilises.
Ground nobody can walk is ground nobody prices properly, and out here the difference between the frontage and the back can be dramatic.
This is the page to read before you accept one. Our own record shows five acres taking ten days on this ground. An acreage rate cannot see that coming.
Nothing is piled and nothing is burned. The material is ground and spread as the machine moves, which out here removes both a cost and a permission.
How the work runs
Four steps, and on this ground the second one is the one that matters.
From the road and from as far back as you can get. On this ground the frontage tells us almost nothing about the rest of the parcel, so the back is what we need to see.
Usually the same day. On this ground we will often quote more days per acre than you have been told elsewhere, and the record on this page is why.
The head cuts, grinds and spreads as it goes. No pile, no burn and nothing waiting at the gate for a truck.
Not bare sand and not a field of cut stems. On ground that grows back this quickly the layer is worth having.
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. Out here that distinction is not academic: five acres of this ground took ten days, and no acreage price would have covered it.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine recorded on both jobs 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 Loxahatchee
Two finished jobs, and between them they make the single most useful point on this whole site about how clearing should be priced.
| Jul 2024 | One and a half acres, 1 machine day, skid steer mulcher |
| May 2025 | Five acres, 10 machine days, skid steer mulcher |
| Rate on the second | Half an acre a day, against a median of one across everything we have finished |
| Across Palm Beach County | Four finished jobs and 13 machine days |
Read those two rows together. One and a half acres took a day. Five acres took ten. That is not three times the work for three times the ground, it is nearly seven times the work. Anyone quoting your parcel per acre is guessing at exactly that gap, and out here it is a wide one.
What this ground does to a day count
| Melaleuca and Brazilian pepper | Dense, fast growing and interlocked. The commonest reason a parcel out here takes twice the days you expect. |
| Slash pine over closed understorey | The canopy stays and everything beneath it comes out, which is careful work rather than fast work. |
| Cypress and wet margins | Low ground that holds water into the spring and carries growth that a machine works slowly. |
| Old paddock going back | The quickest ground out here, provided it has only stood a season or two. |
| Palmetto on the sand ridges | Standard understorey work and predictable to price. |
| Anything left three years or more | The single biggest multiplier on a day count anywhere we work, and out here it compounds faster than most places. |
Machine days on a five acre parcel at Loxahatchee in May 2025. Half an acre a day, against a median of one acre a day across everything we have ever finished. This is the slowest ground on our record and it is the clearest argument we have against pricing clearing by the acre.
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 out here are yours, and there may be more than one authority
The western communities include incorporated and unincorporated ground, and the tree rules are not the same across that line. Establishing which side your parcel sits on is the first thing worth doing.
What is protected depends on the species, the size of the trunk and how your parcel is classified. Removing listed invasive growth, which out here is a great deal of what comes out, is usually treated very differently from removing a native tree.
Land in genuine agricultural use is often treated differently again, and a lot of the ground out here is classified that way. If yours is, say so when you send photographs, because it changes both the answer and which office gives it.
We are a clearing contractor, not the permit office, and we do not file applications. Confirm your own parcel and your own trees with Palm Beach County or your municipality before you commit.
Loxahatchee questions
Why would five acres take ten machine days?
Because of what is standing on it. The parcel we cleared here in May 2025 was closed in with dense growth from the frontage back, and it came out at half an acre a day. Our statewide median is one acre a day. Ground out here is genuinely slower than most of Florida and we would rather tell you that than surprise you with it.
So how do I know what mine will cost?
Send photographs, including from the back of the parcel. We work out a day count against a published rate and that day count is the quote. On this ground more than anywhere else, a price given without seeing the parcel is a guess.
What does it cost?
From $3,000 a machine day on the skid steer with transport included. The two jobs we have finished here were one day and ten days.
Do you take the stumps out?
Not with mulching, which leaves the root plate in the ground. Grubbing takes roots out, it is the excavator, and it is a different rate. On ground with this much invasive growth it is worth asking whether you need it.
Is anything burned or hauled away?
No. Everything is ground and spread where it falls, which out here removes both a cost line and a permission you would otherwise have to obtain.
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 Loxahatchee
Get a price on your Loxahatchee lot
Send a few photographs, including from the back of the parcel, plus the acreage and a note on what you want left standing. You will get a day count against a published rate.
Call or text 813-733-6607