Brush Hogging and Field Mowing in Nelsonville

Brush hogging and field mowing are rough cut work on ground a lawn mower has no business on. It is for pasture, back acreage, ditch banks, fence rows, vacant lots, hunting lanes and the part of a property that has not been touched in a season or three and is now in tall grass, saplings and brush. The cut is not a manicured one and it is not meant to be. The goal is to put overgrown ground back into a state you can walk, see across and keep up with normally from then on, which is a different job from mowing a lawn and takes different equipment.

The big one is knowing what is hiding in it, because at this height we cannot see the ground. Stumps, rock, old fence posts and wire, culvert ends, field tile risers, well heads, survey pins, foundation remnants and dumped debris all do real damage to equipment and are worth walking and flagging beforehand if you know where they are. We need to know the boundaries, since property lines in tall growth are rarely obvious, and whether anything in the area should be left standing, such as young trees you planted. Ground conditions matter as well, so wet or soft ground usually means waiting rather than tearing it up.