Skid steer brush hogging for the 5-to-40-acre places around Lone Jack where the timber has been walking out into the field.
Around Lone Jack, most acreage has open ground on one side and a tree line or creek on the other, and the brush comes from the trees: honeysuckle, hedge sprouts, and briars pushing out a little farther every year until the usable pasture is half what it was. Solid Ground Land and Excavation Services cuts that edge back hard with an 84-inch high-flow brush cutter on a Takeuchi track loader, reopens the trails and fence lines, and gets you back to ground you can maintain. We’re out of Grain Valley, fifteen minutes north.
Two jobs this season, both a few minutes from town. The field above had gone to five-foot grass and briars with the tree line creeping out into it — one pass with the 84-inch cutter and it’s back to ground a tractor can keep up with. The other was a place with two one-acre ponds where both dams had grown up in brush and saplings down to the water; we cut both dams clean in a single day. Photos of the pond job are on our brush hogging service page.
If the growth is grass, weeds, briars, and sprouts up to about 6 inches, brush hogging is the fast, affordable answer, and regrowth is something you manage with a yearly cut. If the edge has turned into real trees and cedar, the brush hog will only mow around it — that’s when we bring the mulcher. See forestry mulching, or for bigger clearing and dirt work around town, land clearing in Lone Jack. We do both, so you get one straight answer instead of a pitch for the more expensive one.
Shooting lanes, food-plot edges, and access trails through the timber are a common fall call out here. The cutter reopens a trail in one pass and leaves the cut material on the ground, so there’s nothing to haul. Book by early October — late September through November fills fast.
$1,600–$2,000 per day, roughly 4–5 acres a day in typical growth. A typical Lone Jack job — a pasture edge, a few trails, a fence line, a pond dam — is one day. Quotes are free; send a photo and we’ll usually give you a ballpark before we drive out.
Along with Lone Jack we cover Grain Valley, Oak Grove, Pleasant Hill, Strasburg, and Kingsville, and the rural ground across eastern Jackson County and western Johnson County. Full details, pricing, and more job photos are on the brush hogging service page.
Yes. Book by early October; late September through November fills fast. Most trail and lane jobs are a half day to a day.
Not by itself. Cutting it back each year keeps it in check; mulching the edge once removes the source. Which one makes sense depends on how far the timber has come and what you want the ground for — call and we’ll tell you straight.
Either. Most Lone Jack jobs are edges, trails, and dams; we’ll cut the whole field if it’s grown up.
