If you own acreage around Lone Jack, odds are the back fields that were farm ground for generations have been growing up in cedar, honeysuckle, and Bradford pear since the day you closed. We clear it. Solid Ground runs a Takeuchi TL12-R2 track loader with an FAE forestry mulcher head that grinds established woody growth into mulch on the spot, and an 84-inch high-flow brush cutter for pasture edges, timber lines, and trails that just need knocked back — about 4–5 acres a day. We do both, so you get one straight answer about which your ground needs instead of a pitch for the more expensive one.
We also build and repair the long gravel driveways these properties run on, with the grading and drainage underneath done right so they hold up to the trailer, the RV, and a wet spring, and we grade pads for barns, shops, and equipment sheds. Most Lone Jack jobs are a day or two, and we’re fifteen minutes up the road in Grain Valley.
Lone Jack is small-town rural on purpose — the people who’ve moved out here in the last ten years came for acreage and quiet, and most of the newer places are a good house, a barn, and former crop ground behind it that nobody’s worked in years. That ground is the job.
Call Hap at 816-316-0261 and let’s talk about your property.
It’s one of the most common calls we get from Lone Jack area landowners. You bought a beautiful rural property — maybe 10, 20, or 50 acres — and the house and the yard look great. But the back fields that were farm ground for generations? They haven’t been worked in five or ten years, and nature has been busy.
Eastern red cedar comes in fast on former crop ground. Invasive honeysuckle fills the gaps and creates thickets so dense you can’t walk through them. Bradford pear spreads along the old fence rows. Hedge trees that have been there since the farm days keep getting bigger. What used to be open pasture is now a wall of overgrowth, and the ticks are thick enough that your kids and dogs can’t go back there.
Forestry mulching is the right tool for this job. One pass with our Takeuchi TL12-R2 and FAE mulcher head and that wall of overgrowth becomes a clean layer of wood chip mulch. No burn piles, no debris trucks rolling across your nice property, no topsoil disturbance. You get your land back — all of it.
The primary service we provide on Lone Jack rural properties. Our Takeuchi TL12-R2 with FAE mulcher head grinds Eastern red cedar, invasive honeysuckle, Bradford pear, and hedge trees into mulch where they stand. No burning, no hauling, no topsoil disturbance. Ideal for reclaiming former farm fields on high-end rural properties.
~1 acre/day · $1,800–$2,400/day
Fast, cost-effective clearing for fields with lighter growth — grass, weeds, briars, and early-stage brush before the cedar and honeysuckle really take hold. Covers 4–5 acres per day. Good fit for seasonal maintenance to keep fields from progressing to the point where forestry mulching is needed.
4–5 acres/day · $1,600–$2,000/day
Long rural driveways on Lone Jack properties need proper grading and drainage to last. We build and repair gravel drives built to handle the traffic of a working rural property — including the boat, the RV, and the equipment trailer. Done right from the base up.
Priced by project · Free consultation
Land leveling and shaping for barns, shops, equipment pads, and building sites on rural Lone Jack properties. Get the ground right before any structure goes up — proper grading from the start prevents drainage problems for the life of the building.
Priced by project · Free consultation
Trenching for water lines, electric, and utility runs across rural acreage. Pond excavation and drainage work. Rural properties often have infrastructure needs that suburban lots don’t — we handle the full scope.
Priced by project · Free consultation
Dense honeysuckle and cedar brush are prime tick habitat. Lone Jack landowners with kids, dogs, and livestock consistently report a dramatic drop in tick numbers after a forestry mulching or brush clearing job. The mulch layer left behind doesn’t provide the same habitat. It’s a practical, lasting improvement to how livable your property actually is.
Part of every clearing job · Free consultation
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rural — our kind of work
4–5 ac
brush hogging per day
~1 ac
forestry mulching per day
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consultations
Our rate is $1,800 to $2,400 per day at approximately 1 acre per day depending on vegetation density. Former farm fields that have been growing up for several years — dense cedar, heavy honeysuckle — run toward the slower end. Open fields with lighter brush go faster. We give you a realistic estimate based on what’s actually there, not a best-case number.
Brush hogging is fast and cost-effective for grass, weeds, briars, and light brush — it mows at the surface at 4–5 acres per day. Forestry mulching is slower but far more thorough — it grinds trees, stumps, and woody brush to ground level at about 1 acre per day. If your back fields have been neglected for several years and you’ve got real cedar and honeysuckle established, forestry mulching is the right call. If it’s mostly grass and light growth, brush hogging gets it done faster and cheaper. Not sure? Call and describe it and we’ll point you in the right direction.
Significantly — yes. Dense honeysuckle thickets and cedar brush are where ticks live and breed. Removing that cover and leaving a mulch layer dramatically reduces tick habitat. It’s one of the most consistent things Lone Jack property owners tell us after a clearing job — the property becomes usable again for the whole family.
Yes — long gravel driveways on rural properties are regular work for us. We build them with proper grading and drainage so they hold up to the traffic a working rural property puts on them — including heavy equipment, boat trailers, and RVs. If your existing drive washes out every spring, the fix is drainage, not more gravel.
Call or text Hap at 816-316-0261. For most Lone Jack acreage jobs we’ll schedule a free site visit — walking the property gives us a much better read on what it actually needs than a phone description. No obligation, no pressure.
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Solid Ground Land and Excavation Services | Grain Valley, MO 64029 | Serving Lone Jack and eastern Jackson County
