Land Clearing in Sebring, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and lot clearing across Sebring and Highlands 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
- Six county jobs, six single machine days
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Sebring
Eight things we are actually asked for on ridge 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 quarter acre or a couple of acres back to ground you can walk. Everything we have done in this county is inside that range.
Sand pine, rosemary, scrub oak and palmetto, which is what deep ridge sand grows and what most of this work is.
Citrus ground out of production long enough for scrub to take it back, brought back to workable ground.
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.
You mark the live oaks and the sand pines that stay and we cut round them.
A line you can run wire along or walk, cut without disturbing what is either side of it.
Who calls us in Highlands County
Deep dry sand with scrub on it. It reads far worse from the road than it works out, and a quarter acre is a day.
Citrus out of production long enough for scrub and pepper to take it. Common on this ridge and straightforward work.
Clearing the envelope, the drive and the pad before the builder mobilises, so the site is ready rather than a delay.
An overgrown lot generates letters. A machine day is usually the whole answer.
Every job we have finished in this county has been between a quarter acre and two acres. If yours is larger we would still like to see it, but we will say plainly that it is outside what we have done here.
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 size, and a note on what you want left standing. Get the scrub height into one shot.
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 deep dry sand that layer holds what little moisture there is and stops the surface drifting.
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. Ridge sand is quick ground and this county shows it: six jobs, six single days, from a quarter acre up to two.
Stems to 8 inches. Transport included. The machine for a ridge 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 Sebring
One finished job, a quarter acre, a single machine day, Apr 2025, on the skid steer mulcher.
| Apr 2025 | A quarter acre, 1 machine day, with the skid steer mulcher |
| Elsewhere in the county | Five more jobs, 5 machine days, from a quarter acre up to two |
| The county total | Six jobs, 6 machine days. Every one a single day |
Six for six on single days, including a two acre parcel that came in at a day like everything else. That is what deep ridge sand does for a machine: it carries well, it drains, and the scrub on it cuts fast. What it does not tell you is what heavy hammock timber here would cost, because nobody has asked us for that yet and we are not going to guess at it.
The ground on a Highlands County lot
| What grows here | Sand pine, scrub oak, rosemary and palmetto on the deep sand of the ridge, live oak on the better soil, and old citrus ground going back to scrub across a good deal of the county |
| What that means for a machine | Ridge scrub is among the quickest work there is. The sand is deep and dry, it carries a tracked machine easily, and there is very little standing that slows a head down |
| Water | The driest ground we work. Deep sand drains almost immediately and the lakes sit in the hollows between the ridges. A wet week rarely moves a booking here |
| Access | Made streets in town, sand tracks and old grove roads outside it. Sand is fine for a low loader dry, which here it usually is |
Highlands County jobs have taken a single machine day, including a two acre parcel. Ridge sand carries a machine and the scrub on it cuts fast.
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 Highlands County lot
Highlands County and the City of Sebring each have a say depending on where your lot sits, and scrub habitat on this ridge is protected in ways that are specific to it.
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. This ridge carries scrub habitat found almost nowhere else, and rules about clearing it can be stricter than the ordinary tree rules would suggest.
Tell us what you want gone and what you want kept when you send photographs. If the lot is undeveloped scrub rather than an old grove or a mown yard, that is worth confirming with the county 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 Highlands County or the City of Sebring before you commit.
Sebring questions
How much does it cost to clear a lot in Sebring?
From $3,000 a machine day. Our job here was a quarter acre and a single day. Send photographs and the lot size and we will confirm a day count.
How long does it take?
One day, on all six jobs we have finished in this county, including a two acre parcel. Ridge sand is quick ground. Heavier timber would be different and we will say so before you book.
Can you clear an old grove?
Yes, and it is common work on this ridge. Old citrus ground that has gone back to scrub is straightforward, though old irrigation in the ground is worth telling us about.
Is scrub protected here?
It can be, and more so on this ridge than almost anywhere in the state. Undeveloped scrub is not the same question as an overgrown yard. Confirm with the county before booking rather than after.
What happens to everything you cut?
It stays on the ground as mulch, spread as the machine goes. Nothing piled, nothing burned. On deep dry sand that layer holds what moisture there is.
Do I need a permit?
Quite possibly, and the scrub question above makes this a county to ask rather than assume. 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 Sebring lot
Send a few photographs, the lot size and a note on what you want left standing. If the lot is undeveloped scrub rather than an old yard or grove, say so, because that is a question worth settling with the county first.
Call or text 813-733-6607