How pricing works
How we price acreage work
We don't post a price per acre, because an acre isn't one thing. Here is what decides the number, and what is in it.
What decides the price
Slope and rock, how tall and thick the growth is, how many gates and obstacles there are, and how far the cuttings have to go.
Acres matter, but terrain and brush matter more
A kept field costs less per acre than a neglected one
Time of year can change the machine we use
What the estimate includes
A written scope: which ground, which job, which machines, where the cuttings go, what stays and what is not included.
Start and finish windows
Clean-up and haul-off, if any
Who will be on site
What happens at the visit
One of us walks the ground with you, marks gates, wells, fences and wet spots, and takes photos and measurements.
It takes as long as the ground takes
You decide on the spot what stays
The written estimate follows the walk
Brush, haul-off and burning
Chipping on site, hauling and stacking are priced differently, and we say which one the estimate assumes. We don't burn piles.
Chipped on site
Hauled away
Stacked where you choose
Snow, by the push or by the season
A seasonal agreement is set once for the winter. One-time plows are priced by the visit. Either way the agreement says what sends the truck.
Trigger depth in writing
Route order named
Close date for sign-up
The number in the written estimate is the number you pay unless the job changes, and a change gets a new written scope first.
The visit
What the walk-through looks like
No forms to fill out in the field and no pressure to decide that day.
We start at the gate and walk the boundaries, the fence lines and the spots you worry about. We check what the machine can reach, mark wells, septic and buried lines, and ask what you'd like left wild. You get the written estimate after the walk, with photos, and a chance to change what's in it.
Photos of the ground, kept with the estimate
What stays is marked before work starts
You choose the pile: chipped, hauled or stacked
Questions
Questions about cost
How do you price an acre?
From what the ground and the growth ask of the machine: slope, rocks, how tall and thick the cover is, how many gates and obstacles, and how far the pile has to go. Two acres of kept pasture and two acres of blackberry are different days. The written estimate lists what drove the number.
What happens at the estimate?
One of us walks the ground with you, marks gates, wells, fences, wet spots and what stays, measures what is being cut, and takes photos. The written estimate comes after, with the scope, the machines, where the cuttings go and what is not included.
How do I pay?
Mowing is billed after each visit. Brush and clearing jobs are billed when the work is done, with a deposit on larger jobs. The estimate says which applies, and which payment methods we take.
What if it rains, or the ground is frozen?
Soft ground is hard on the pasture and on the machines, so we wait for it to firm up. Frozen ground is fine for some brush work and no good for others. Snow is plowed on the trigger in your agreement, rain or not.
Get the number
Get a written estimate for your ground
Send a few photos and the road. We set up a walk of the property.