Land Clearing in Port St. Lucie, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and vacant lot clearing across Port St. Lucie and St. Lucie County. One machine cuts, grinds and spreads in a single pass, so nothing is piled, burned or trucked out past your neighbours.
- Priced from photographs, usually same day
- Both jobs here were single machine days
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Port St. Lucie
Eight things we are actually asked for on St. Lucie 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.
The standing job in this city. A platted lot that has grown in, cleared without a pile, a burn or a week of trucks on a residential street.
The invasive that takes any lot nobody is watching here. It regrows from what is left in the ground, so how much comes out matters as much as how much comes off.
You mark the pines and the oaks 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 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 St. Lucie County
There are a great many lots here that were drawn on a map decades ago and never built on. Most of what we do in this city is one of them.
An overgrown vacant lot generates letters quickly in a city this size. A machine day is normally the whole answer.
People who own a lot here and have never stood on it. A day with a mulcher is often the first time anyone sees what is actually there.
Clearing the envelope, the drive and the pad before the builder mobilises, so the site is ready rather than a delay.
Brazilian pepper does not stop at your line, which is usually how the conversation with the neighbours starts.
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 lot number and size, and one shot from the street. If you have never seen the lot, say so and we will tell you what we find.
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 a residential street that matters twice over: nothing to store and no trucks in and out.
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. Both of our jobs in this city were small lots and both were single days, which is what a typical platted lot here looks like.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine for a platted lot
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 Port St. Lucie
Two finished jobs, a machine day each, Mar 2024 and Dec 2025.
| Mar 2024 | Half an acre, 1 machine day, machine not recorded on the scope |
| Dec 2025 | A quarter acre, 1 machine day, with the skid steer mulcher |
| Elsewhere in the county | Six more jobs, 12 machine days, from one acre up to three |
Both lots here were single days, which is what a platted residential lot usually comes to. The county figures behind them are a different shape entirely, because the larger parcels elsewhere in St. Lucie run to two and three days each. If you own several adjoining lots, say so when you send photographs, because the transport is already paid once the machine is on the street.
The ground on a St. Lucie County lot
| What grows here | Slash pine and cabbage palm with saw palmetto underneath, live oak on the slightly higher ground, and Brazilian pepper filling any lot left alone for a few seasons |
| What that means for a machine | Palmetto and young pepper go quickly. Mature pepper is slow because it forks low and grows dense, and on a lot that has stood empty for twenty years that is usually what you have |
| Water | Flat, low lying and drained by a built system of canals and swales. The swale along the front of a lot is worth photographing, because it decides where a machine can cross |
| Access | Made residential streets on a very large grid. Where the machine gets in and where the low loader can sit are the two questions, and one photograph from the street answers both |
For each of our two lots in this city. On a platted residential lot the day count is predictable. Adjoining lots in the same visit are where the real saving is, because the transport is already paid.
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 St. Lucie County lot
The City of Port St. Lucie and St. Lucie County each have a say depending on where your lot sits, and the city rules are the more detailed of the two.
What is protected depends on the species and the size of the trunk, and whether the lot is a single family homesite or land being developed. Removing invasive growth is usually treated very differently from removing a native canopy tree, but confirm that for your own lot rather than assuming it.
Tell us what you want gone and what you want kept when you send photographs. If the lot backs onto a canal or a preserve, 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 the City of Port St. Lucie or St. Lucie County before you commit.
Port St. Lucie questions
How much does it cost to clear a lot in Port St. Lucie?
From $3,000 a machine day. Both of our jobs here were single days on small lots. Send photographs, including one from the street, and we will confirm a day count.
I own the lot but have never seen it. Can you still quote?
Yes. Send us the lot number and whatever imagery you can get, and we will tell you what we can see. We would rather say the quote is provisional and confirm on the day than pretend otherwise.
Can you do two or three lots in one visit?
Yes, and that is the cheapest way to buy a day here. The machine is already on the street and the transport is already paid, so an adjoining lot is materially cheaper than the first one.
Can you get rid of Brazilian pepper?
We can take it off the ground in a single pass, which is what most people want. If you want it gone rather than knocked back, the roots have to come out, and that is excavator work at a different machine and rate.
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?
Quite possibly, and the city rules are more detailed than the county ones. It depends on the species and size of what is standing. 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.
Around Port St. Lucie
Get a price on your Port St. Lucie lot
Send a few photographs, the lot number and one shot from the street. If you own more than one lot on the same block, tell us, because the second one is much cheaper than the first.
Call or text 813-733-6607