Land & lot clearing · Paragould, AR
Land clearing in Paragould, Arkansas
Overgrown lots, fence lines the honeysuckle swallowed, corners you have not seen the back of in years - cleared, hauled, and left ready to use.
What clearing looks like here
Five years of neglect, gone in a day or two
Ground in this county does not stay clear on its own. Leave a lot alone for five years and privet, honeysuckle, and sweetgum saplings own it. Ten, and there are real trees in it. Most clearing calls are one of a handful of jobs: a buildable lot that needs to be dirt again, a fence line that has disappeared, a creek-side corner grown shut, or the brushy edge a mower cannot reach creeping into the yard a foot a year.
The work runs machine-first - a tracked skid steer with a grapple does in an hour what a crew of three does in a day - with handwork where the machine should not go: against fences, around the trees you are keeping, along ditch banks where the red clay cuts loose. Trees worth money as trees get treated as removals, not casualties.
Clearing ranges
- Light brush & saplings, per acre $500-2,000
- Wooded ground, per acre $2,000-6,000
- Fence line reclaim, per 100 ft $150-450
- Residential corners & edges quoted as the job
- Haul-off vs. burn pile on site your call, priced both ways
Small-acreage jobs are the norm here - the walk produces a job price, not an acre math exercise.
Asked around Greene County
Clearing questions, answered straight
What does land clearing cost per acre in Greene County?
Light brush and saplings run roughly $500 to $2,000 per acre; wooded ground with real trees runs $2,000 to $6,000 per acre depending on how thick and how big. Most residential jobs here are fractions of an acre - a fence line, a back corner, a building site - and get quoted as the job, not by the acre.
Do I need a permit to clear my own land?
For ordinary clearing of your own residential lot in Greene County, generally no. The exceptions worth checking before machines roll: anything altering drainage into a ditch or creek, and lots inside city limits headed for new construction, where the building process has its own reviews. Two phone calls settle it either way.
What happens to the brush and trees that come out?
Everything either leaves on a trailer or gets processed on site - chipped for mulch, or piled for burning where burning is allowed and conditions permit. Which finish you want is decided in the estimate, because hauling is a real share of the cost and skipping it changes the number honestly.
Can you clear a fence line without wrecking the fence?
A fence line grown into brush is careful handwork close to the wire and machine work everywhere else. Vines and saplings come out by hand where they have threaded the fence; the grapple stays a respectful distance back. It is slower than open clearing and the estimate says so plainly.
Get the back of the lot back
Clearing is the rare tree job with a before and after you can stand in. One walk sets the price.