Project Specifications
- Acreage Cleared: 6 acres
- Location: Lexington, Texas
- Equipment Used: Mulching Machines and a Skid Steer mulcher
Forestry Mulching That’s Right for You
This project, totaling about 6 acres, was for a private landowner in the Lexington, Texas area. The vegetation consisted mainly of Yaupon understory or underbrush and was located within a woodland forest. The forest consisted of Post Oaks and Live Oaks as well as some Eastern Red Cedar. The challenge was that you can mulch Yaupon, but it will come back. It is a lot like Mesquite as it comes back from the roots. Their root system is like a spider web, and they continue to sprout back up from other roots that remain under ground. Spraying it chemically has met with mixed results according to landowners we’ve spoken to, but many will do this.
Cedar Eaters will typically do the initial clearing with a large mulching machine and let the landowner keep it down or kill it off with chemicals. However, if they let it go and don’t do anything we will usually need to go back through an area with a skid steer mulcher every 2 to 3 years. It doesn’t take long to retreat and area of smaller Yaupon with a skid steer mulcher.
The other option is to doze and burn the area, but in many cases that damages the root systems of the hardwoods that the landowner is trying to save and ultimately kills them.
While it’s not an easy process, our experienced team will discuss the options, and depending on the intended use for the land, together we’ll determine the land clearing and forestry mulching method that will work the best.