Land Clearing in Spring Hill, Florida
Forestry mulching, underbrushing and vacant lot clearing across Spring Hill and Hernando 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
- Four finished jobs across Hernando County
- From $3,000 a machine day
What we clear in Spring Hill
Eight things we are actually asked for on Hernando 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 here. A lot on an existing street that has grown in, cleared in place because there is nowhere to put what comes off it.
Palmetto, briar and Brazilian pepper taken out from under the sand live oaks you are keeping.
You mark the oaks that stay and we cut round them. On thin soil the shade is worth more than it looks.
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 Hernando County
There are a great many lots here that were platted decades ago and never built on. Most of what we do in this town is one of them.
An overgrown lot generates letters quickly in a community this size. 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.
Rock close to the surface changes what a machine can do and where. It is worth knowing before anyone quotes rather than after.
The same county turns into open acreage a short drive east, and those jobs have run to three and five acres rather than one.
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 one shot from the street. If there is exposed rock or a low spot anywhere, get it in 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. 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 thin soil over rock that layer matters more than usual, because there is not much soil underneath it to lose.
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. Our job here was an acre and a day, which is what a typical lot in this town looks like, and the county behind it runs from three quarters of an acre up to five.
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 in Spring Hill
One finished job, an acre, a single machine day, Mar 2024. One job is one job and we would rather show it than pad it.
| Mar 2024 | One acre, 1 machine day, machine not recorded on the scope |
| Elsewhere in the county | Three more jobs, 6 machine days, from three quarters of an acre up to five |
| The county range | One to three machine days per job, on parcels from under an acre to five |
The scope on our Spring Hill job does not record which machine went, so we are not going to tell you it was one rather than another. What the county record shows is a wide range on a small number of jobs: three acres took three days inland, five acres took two on the biggest machine we run, and this acre took one. Nothing in that pattern is predicted by acreage, which is why we ask for photographs.
The ground on a Hernando County lot
| What grows here | Sand live oak, laurel oak and slash pine over most of it, saw palmetto and briar underneath, and Brazilian pepper filling any lot that has been left alone for a few seasons |
| What that means for a machine | The growth is rarely the hard part. Thin sand over limestone is, because rock close to the surface means the head runs higher in places and the machine works round what it cannot cut through |
| Water | Limestone country, so water goes down rather than across. Low spots and depressions turn up in the middle of otherwise flat lots and are worth marking before a machine works near them |
| Access | Made residential streets on a very large grid, with narrow drives and close neighbours. One photograph looking in from the street answers most of what we need to know |
A machine day here, on a lot that reads as impassable from the street. Five acres inland took two days on a bigger machine. The parcel decides, not the acreage.
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 Hernando County lot
Hernando County rules apply in the unincorporated county, which covers Spring Hill, and land being developed is treated differently from an established homesite.
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 there is a mature oak on the lot or overhanging it from next door, settle its status 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 Hernando County before you commit.
Spring Hill questions
How much does it cost to clear a lot in Spring Hill?
From $3,000 a machine day. Our job here was an acre and a single day. Send photographs, including one from the street, and we will confirm a day count.
Which machine did you use here?
We are not going to guess. The scope on our Spring Hill job does not record it, and we would rather say so than tell you something we cannot show. The acreage and the day count are above.
Is the limestone a problem?
It changes how we work rather than stopping us. Rock close to the surface means the head runs higher in places and low spots get marked and worked round. Get any exposed rock into your photographs.
Can you do two or three lots in one visit?
Yes, and on a grid like this one it is the cheapest way to buy a day. The machine is already on the street and the transport is already paid, so the second lot is materially cheaper than the first.
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. On thin soil that layer is doing real work.
Do I need a permit?
It depends on the species and size of what is standing. Spring Hill sits in the unincorporated county, 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.
Get a price on your Spring Hill lot
Send a few photographs, the lot size 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