Lot and Land Clearing in the Twin Cities

Clearing is quoted per site rather than off a rate card, because density varies enormously. A quarter acre of buckthorn under mature oaks and a quarter acre of standing timber going to bare dirt are completely different jobs. We walk the parcel, agree the scope in writing, and give you a fixed number.

Four options: chipped and spread on site, hauled off in roll-off dumpsters, sorted and stacked as merchantable timber, or burned where the municipality allows it. Most residential jobs end up chipping the small stuff and hauling the rest. We rent the dumpsters ourselves so it stays on one invoice.

Often, yes. Shoreland districts around Lake Minnetonka and the western lakes restrict removal within a set distance of the water. Wetland buffers, tree preservation ordinances and county erosion control rules also apply, and several metro cities require a permit above a size threshold. We will flag what we know for your address at the walkthrough, but confirm with your city before work starts.

Yes, that is a lot of what we do. Building pads, driveway corridors, septic and utility runs, and pool sites. Loop us in with your excavator early, because some prefer to handle stumps and spoil as part of their earthwork rather than have us do it separately.

Yes, and on most residential lots that is the right call. We take out buckthorn, box elder and scrub while protecting the mature oaks and maples that carry the property value. Mark anything you definitely want kept and we will work around it.

We stage off hard surfaces where possible, mat the routes machines take, and pick frozen or dry ground for the softest sites. Some rutting is realistic on a wet site with heavy equipment, and we will say so upfront rather than after. Anything we damage outside the work area, we repair.

Your call, and it depends on what the ground is for. Building pads, driveways and anything getting poured need the stumps out, since you cannot build on a root plate. Pasture, trails and buffer areas are usually fine with stumps ground flush. Leaving them entirely is cheapest but limits what you can do with the ground.

Yes, and it is one of the most common requests in the west metro. Worth knowing that buckthorn resprouts aggressively from a cut stump, so clearing alone will not finish it. We can grind the stumps, and you will want a follow-up plan for the seedlings that come up the next two seasons.

A small residential lot is often one to three days. Acreage runs longer and depends heavily on ground conditions, since saturated soil stops machine work entirely. Winter clearing on frozen ground is frequently faster and does less damage to the site.

From a suburban back lot up through multi-acre parcels. Small jobs get the compact equipment that fits through a gate, larger sites get the machines that make acreage practical. If a job is genuinely outside what we should be doing, we will tell you and point you somewhere better.