Land Clearing
Brush, undergrowth and small trees cleared off lots and acreage with forestry mulchers and brush rakes, leaving ground you can use.
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Woodburn grew up on the eastern part of French Prairie, at the north end of the Willamette Valley. This is farm country, and a field left alone does not stay open for long. Blackberry takes the fence lines first, then brush and young trees close in on field edges and farm lanes. Land clearing in Woodburn often means taking that ground back.
Willamette Valley Land Clearing is based in Lebanon, and we come up the valley for work around Woodburn. Land clearing is our main work: brush and small trees off lots and acreage, with stumps dug out. We also run forestry mulching and blackberry removal with the same machines. Call or text (541) 936-4687 for a free estimate.
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The city's own history says the name Woodburn was supposedly inspired by a large fire in a nearby woodlot. The town carried that name by the time it was incorporated in 1889. With its cane berry fields, Woodburn crowned itself the Berry Center of the World in 1923.
The fields around town grew marionberries, strawberries, pole beans and hops. Nearby Donald started out as a hop-growing community. French Prairie is still an important farming area of the Willamette Valley. When a berry field or an orchard stops being worked, blackberry and brush move in along the edges.
Young trees follow, and after a few seasons the old rows are hard to find. Our Bobcat skid steer and our excavator both run a forestry mulcher head. Brush and young trees get ground up where they stand. Brush clearing opens the field edges back up, and the excavator digs out the old stumps.
The Woodburn soil series shares the town's name, and Woodburn soils occur throughout the Willamette Valley. The typical profile is Woodburn silt loam, very deep and moderately well drained. The USDA lists its uses as berries, orchards, cannery crops, grain, hay and pasture. Its native vegetation is Douglas-fir, oak and grass.
That soil has a catch for machine work. Its water table sits at its highest from December to March. Soft ground takes ruts from tracks and tires, and ruts in a field are slow to fix.
So we plan machine work around the wet months. Late spring through early fall is the easiest window, since the ground is firm. We look at your ground first and set a date when the soil can carry the machines.
On farm ground around Woodburn, blackberry shows up where the tractor stopped going. Fence lines and field corners fill in first. Left uncut, invasive Himalayan blackberry keeps pushing out into the open field.
Our machines take a blackberry mass down to the ground, and the brush rake pulls out root balls. Blackberry comes back from root crowns left in the soil, so one pass is rarely the end of it. Repeat brush hogging or mulching keeps it down after that.
Mill Creek runs through Woodburn on its way to the Pudding River at Aurora. Our machine work stays on the upland side, along field edges and fence lines above the bank. Ground near the creek or the river gets planned with you before any work starts.
French Prairie runs between the Willamette River and the Pudding River, north of Salem. Gervais, St. Louis and St. Paul began as French Canadian settlements there. From Woodburn, Route 214 heads southeast toward Mount Angel, and Route 219 runs northwest to St. Paul. Monitor shares the 97071 ZIP code with Woodburn and is surrounded by farmland.
A rural homesite out here may sit at the end of a long farm lane. Blackberry and brush close in from both sides until a truck scrapes its mirrors on the way in. Driveway and access road clearing cuts that growth back from the edges and opens the lane again.
Building on a rural parcel starts with an open site. Lot clearing takes brush and small trees off the house site and the access. Our excavator digs out the stumps. The material gets mulched in place or raked into piles, whichever suits your plans.
Communities and areas we serve around Woodburn: French Prairie, Hubbard, Gervais, Mount Angel, Monitor, St. Paul, St. Louis, Donald, Aurora, Butteville.
Woodburn ZIP codes served: 97071.
Free estimates throughout Marion County and the surrounding area.
(541) 936-4687 Brush, undergrowth and small trees cleared off lots and acreage with forestry mulchers and brush rakes, leaving ground you can use.
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A mulcher head grinds brush and small trees into chips in one pass. You get the ground back under a layer of chips.
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We clear thick brush, undergrowth and small trees off lots, field edges, fence lines and back acreage. The material gets mulched in place or raked into a pile.
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We clear Himalayan blackberry off fields, fence lines, yards and back acreage with mulcher heads. Blackberry regrows from its root crowns, so we plan the follow-up mowing with you.
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We clear poison oak off acreage, fence lines and wooded lots with mulcher heads and an excavator. It sprouts back from the roots, so we plan follow-up passes with you.
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We clear brush and small trees off steep slopes and banks with an excavator that works from stable ground. The brush is mulched in place, and estimates are free.
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We brush hog overgrown fields, pasture and heavy weeds with a skid steer brush mower. Free estimates across the mid-Willamette Valley from our base in Lebanon.
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We clear homesites and building lots before construction starts. Brush, small trees and stumps come off the footprint and the access.
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We rough grade cleared ground, building pads and gravel driveways. The same machines that clear a property handle the dirt work.
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We regrade gravel driveways and farm lanes and put the crown back so water runs off. You order any new rock from a quarry, and we spread and grade it.
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Hire our skid steer with an operator from our crew for mowing, mulching, brush raking and rough grading. Several tasks can go into one visit, and estimates are free.
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Driveways, farm lanes and access roads that brush has closed in, opened back up. We cut the edges and the overhead, then mulch what comes off.
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We clear brush, blackberry and small trees back from homes, shops and barns. Machine work across the mid-Willamette Valley, with free estimates.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Woodburn. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us where the property is and what you want cleared, and we will set up a look at it. You can also call or text (541) 936-4687.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.