Land Clearing in Merritt Island, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and lot clearing on Merritt Island and the north Brevard mainland. One machine cuts, grinds and spreads in a single pass, so nothing is piled, burned or barged off the island.
- Priced from photographs, usually same day
- Nothing has to leave the island
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Merritt Island
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.
A platted lot that has grown in, cleared in place because on an island there is nowhere sensible to put what comes off it.
Pepper is what fills a lot here. Taken off in a single pass rather than cut, stacked and hauled.
You mark the cabbage palms and the live oaks that stay and we cut round them.
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.
A drive line in from the street on a lot that has closed in enough that you cannot walk onto your own ground.
A line you can run wire along or walk, cut without disturbing what is either side of it.
Who calls us in on the island
The commonest job here. A lot in a made street that has been left long enough that pepper has closed it, needing a machine rather than a mower.
An overgrown lot in a built up street generates letters. A machine day is normally the whole answer.
Clearing the envelope, the drive and the pad before the builder mobilises, so the site is ready rather than a delay.
Ground here runs to the water on both sides and the edge is a real boundary rather than a formality. Tell us where yours is before anything is booked.
Cabbage palm is most of what people want left standing. Cutting round it is ordinary work if you tell us first.
A lot nobody can walk is a lot 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 lot number, and one shot from the street. Say how close the parcel gets to the water.
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. On an island that is worth more than it sounds, because it means nothing has to be carried back over a bridge.
Not bare sand and not a field of cut stems. On a lot waiting on a build that layer keeps the surface stable and the dust down.
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. On island ground the thing that quietly saves money is that a mulching machine leaves the material where it fell, so you are not paying to move it anywhere.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine that fits down 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 on Merritt Island
One finished job, an acre, a single machine day, Dec 2025, on the skid steer mulcher.
| Dec 2025 | One acre, 1 machine day, with the skid steer mulcher |
| Elsewhere in the county | One more job on the mainland north of here, two acres, two machine days, in Apr 2026 |
| The county total | Two jobs, three machine days, both on the skid steer mulcher |
Two jobs is the whole Brevard record. The pair is worth reading side by side: an acre here went in a day and two acres on the mainland took two, both on the same machine. That is roughly an acre a day on this ground, which is a useful thing to hold in your head when you are guessing at a parcel of your own. It is a guide and not a promise, and we will give you a real day count from photographs.
The ground on a Merritt Island lot
| What grows here | Cabbage palm and live oak with saw palmetto underneath, and Brazilian pepper filling any lot that has been left alone for a few seasons |
| What that means for a machine | Palmetto is standard work. Mature pepper is the slow part because it forks low and grows into itself, and a lot that has stood twenty years is a different job from one that has stood five |
| Water | Flat, sandy and low, with the river on both sides and mosquito control ditching through a lot of the older ground. Water is never far from the question here |
| Access | Made streets through the built area. The constraint is more often the width of a drive between two houses than the road itself |
In a single machine day on the island, against two acres in two days on the mainland. Roughly an acre a day is what this county has looked like so far.
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 Brevard County parcel
Merritt Island is unincorporated, so Brevard County rules apply here rather than a city code, and land near the shoreline carries questions that inland ground does not.
What is protected depends on the species and the size of the trunk, and whether the lot is an established homesite or land being developed. Removing invasive growth such as Brazilian pepper is usually treated very differently from removing a native tree or a specimen palm, but confirm that for your own lot.
Tell us what you want gone and what you want kept when you send photographs. If your parcel runs down to the water, or you have ever been told part of it is wetland, say so early, because that is a different office and a different answer.
We are a clearing contractor, not the permit office, and we do not file applications. Confirm your own parcel and your own trees with Brevard County before you commit.
Merritt Island questions
How much does it cost to clear a lot on Merritt Island?
From $3,000 a machine day. Our job here was an acre and a single day. Send photographs and the lot size and we will give you a day count rather than a range.
Two acres took two days on the mainland. Will mine be the same?
It is a fair guide and not a promise. What decides it is what is standing rather than the acreage, and mature pepper can take a day on its own. Send photographs and we will give you a real number.
Do you have to take anything off the island?
No, and that is the point of a mulching machine. Everything that comes down is ground and spread where it fell, so there are no trucks going back over a bridge.
Can you clear a lot between two houses?
Usually. The question is the width of the access rather than the lot itself. Send a photograph looking down the drive and we will tell you whether the machine fits before anyone commits.
What happens to everything you cut?
It stays on the ground as mulch, spread as the machine goes. Nothing piled, nothing burned, nothing hauled out past the neighbours.
Do I need a permit?
It depends on the species and size of what is standing. Merritt Island is unincorporated, so the county is who to ask. Confirm with them 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.
Around Merritt Island
Get a price on your Merritt Island lot
Send a few photographs, the lot number and one shot down the drive. If the parcel runs toward the water, say so in the first message rather than the last.
Call or text 813-733-6607