Hunting Land & Food Plots
Hunting land clearing and food plots around Shelby, from mulched deer plots and shooting lanes to trails, firebreaks and reopened logging roads.
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Bush hogging is how you keep a field around Shelby, NC from turning back into woods. Leave a pasture alone through one humid summer and broomsedge, blackberry and briar take the low ground. Give it two or three more seasons and pine, sweetgum, privet and kudzu are over your head. We run rotary cutters through fields, pastures and overgrown lots and cut all of that back down.
We own our rotary cutters, so your date does not wait on a rental yard. The lowboy hauls our machines in, and on most fields we are on and off the same day. We work out of Shelby and cover about twenty five miles in every direction from town. That covers Kings Mountain, Boiling Springs, Gastonia, Lincolnton, Cherryville, Dallas, Bessemer City, Forest City, Rutherfordton, Spindale, Lawndale and Grover.
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A rotary cutter is a heavy steel deck with thick blades that swing free on a pin. It chops standing growth into short pieces and lays them down flat across the field. That is what handles waist high grass, broomsedge, blackberry, briar and green saplings a few inches thick. Growth taller than a person is fine too, as long as the stems stay in that range.
We look the field over first and mark anything the blades should never find. Old fence posts, well heads, stumps, tires and loose field rock all get a wide pass. Then we cut in rounds or lanes, take the tall stuff down first, and double back on thick spots. A small field takes a few hours, and a bigger tract runs a full day or more.
When we pull off, the field is cut low and even and you can see the ground again. The cuttings lay where they fall and break back into the dirt over the next few weeks. Fence lines are open enough to walk, and pond banks are clear right down to the water. What you get back is a field you can mow, fence, graze or plant.
Acreage is the first thing we ask about, because it sets the hours on the machine. Open pasture with knee high grass moves fast, and we can cover a lot of it in a day. Chest high broomsedge and blackberry slow the cutter to a crawl through the thick spots. Heavy growth means a second pass, and a second pass takes about as long as the first.
Terrain counts as much as growth, and our red clay holds water long after a rain. Flat, dry ground cuts quicker than a side hill, a soft bottom or a rough gully. Obstacles cost time, because every stump, rock pile and old post means slowing down and steering wide. A tight lot with trees, sheds and a ditch takes more turns than a wide open field.
How long it has been since the last cut is the other thing that moves the number. A field mowed last year goes quick, and a field nobody has touched in four years does not. Once stems get past what a rotary cutter can chew, the field needs a different machine. We will say so when we come out to look at it, and quote the right work.
Most of our bush hogging is for people who own land they are not on every day. Pasture owners near Lawndale and Boiling Springs cut once or twice a year to hold the line. Small farms have us mow back fields, hay ground and fence lines a lawn mower cannot touch. An old pasture that has started going to brush can come back with a cut or two.
Hunting land is the other steady one, and most of it gets cut before the season opens. We mow shooting lanes and open up food plots on hunting tracts near Grover, Cherryville and Rutherfordton. Old logging roads and interior trails get cut wide enough to get a truck back in there. Field edges and pond banks get the same pass while the machine is already on the tract.
Vacant lots are the third kind of call, and those usually come with a deadline on them. A town or county sends a notice about tall grass, and the owner needs it cut now. We take those in Kings Mountain, Gastonia, Bessemer City, Dallas, Lincolnton, Forest City and Spindale. This is acreage work and not residential lawn mowing, so we do not cut yards.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Shelby, NC and 25 miles around.
(704) 600-8146From the first call to the last pass of the rake, here is how it goes.
Tell us where the land is and what you want it to do. We set a time to come see it, usually within a few days.
We look at the ground, the growth and the access in person. You get a real number and a plan before any machine moves.
Our own equipment rides in on our lowboy. Most residential jobs run one to three days, and you see progress the first morning.
Debris is mulched or hauled off and the ground is left ready to use. We look the job over with you before we leave.
Common questions about bush hogging across Shelby, NC and 25 miles around. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
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