IMAGINE PURCHASING a tract of land overgrown with years of neglect. Cedar trees, privet bushes, and brush overgrow acres of rolling hills, potential pasture, and backyard. If not for the clutter, you could almost see the home of your dreams on it. But how will you ever find the time, resources, and money to clear it and make the dream a reality?
David Robinson of Robinson Environmental Land Clearing knows the secret to your success. There are options for jobs too big for a bush hog but not requiring a bulldozer.
Since 2007, Robinson has provided an eco-friendly alternative to clearing overgrown properties, with minimal disturbance of the topsoil and grass, using equipment that may not be widely familiar. It was once used primarily to clear rights-of-way for roads and powerlines but has recently expanded to use on residential, commercial, and farm properties.
Robinson explains the benefits. “If you took a dozer to push all this stuff up, you’d have more dirt in your pile than brush; then you can’t burn it. A pile [that] you can burn leaves a burn pile to deal with, and this eliminates those problems. Also, the process leaves a clean mulch mat that enables grass to grow back through it.”
Properties of all types benefit from clearing this way. Commercial properties can be cleared, making way for a more attractive building site. Neglected residential and agricultural properties can be neatened up and made more valuable and enjoyable. One of Robinson’s favorite jobs is cleaning properties for new owners.
“A lot of people buy a piece of property, and they’re going to build a house on it, but it’s so grown up with underbrush under the mature trees, you can’t walk through it to visualize it. I go in and clear out all the underbrush and make it look like a park setting. Most don’t come back until after I’m finished. They can walk around and look at the lay of the ground to see where they want their house. Many times, when they come back, they say, ‘Wow!’
“I enjoy going and clearing up land and showing people how it used to look. People buy land, sometimes forget about it, and let it grow for 10 or 15 years in small trees, saplings, and brush. I go back and grind it all up and leave it on the ground, let it rot in the topsoil, and it makes reclaimed land,” he said.
But the best part of the job for Robinson is the people.
“I enjoy meeting with people. It ain’t no telling how many good people I have really met doing this kind of work,” Robinson said. Can you start to see a new vision for your property? GN
