Land Clearing
Overgrown lots, wooded acreage, thickets, fence rows and lake lots opened up with a skid steer mulcher, a brush cutter and a grapple, with the brush ground into mulch in place and the rest hauled off.
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Ground on Crowley's Ridge does not stay open by itself. A Harrisburg lot left alone a few years fills with saplings, briars and brush under the oaks and hickories. West of town the ditch banks, turn rows and fence lines grow in just as fast. Then you cannot walk the place, and you cannot see what you bought.
Craig Land Management is based in Monette and works about 50 miles around Jonesboro. Harrisburg and the rest of Poinsett County sit inside that circle. We clear overgrown lots and wooded acreage, and we handle forestry mulching, bush hogging, dirt work and gravel driveways on the same trip. Call (870) 351-5107 and we will come look at the property.
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Harrisburg sits up on Crowley's Ridge at about 280 feet. Waldenburg and Fisher, out on the flat ground west of town, sit near 235 feet. That rise of roughly 45 feet is the whole difference in how a lot clears. Ridge lots come with slope, standing timber and a silt soil that moves once it is bare.
The ridge is windblown silt called loess. The soil series mapped on it, like Loring and Grenada, formed in loess more than four feet deep, per the NRCS soil series descriptions. Slopes on those soils run from level to about 20 percent. Bare loess on a slope washes, so we grind brush and small trees into a mulch layer that stays on the ground.
On a wooded Harrisburg lot the drum mulcher takes the brush, the saplings and the small trees. The grapple picks up what has to leave, and it goes out on the dump trailer. Larger timber we look at with you on the estimate. If a house or a shop is going up, we can get the lot ready for the builder.
Poinsett County is split down the middle by Crowley's Ridge and the L'Anguille River. Both run north to south through the county. East of the ridge is Delta alluvial ground that grows cotton and soybeans. West of it is rice prairie, and the county plants more rice acres than any county in Arkansas.
The University of Arkansas opened its Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center at Harrisburg in August 2024, on 600 acres. That is the kind of ground around here: big fields, drainage ditches and long fence rows. Those edges are where cedar, sweetgum and briars take hold first. Bush hogging keeps grass and light brush knocked down, and the mulcher handles what got past cutting height.
On a pasture gone to cedar we mulch it back out and open the fence line so a new fence can go up. That is fence line clearing and pasture work, and it runs the same on hunting ground. Shooting lanes and trails through the timber get cut the same way. Ridge lots and field edges grow back at their own pace, so one pass in the fall often holds a place for a season.
Harrisburg has taken its share of wind. In April 2020 a tornado moved into the north side of town and damaged or destroyed about thirty homes. In May 2003 straight line winds held above 100 mph over the town for more than half an hour and tore up houses. Ridge timber comes down in both kinds of storms.
After a storm we cut up downed trees and limbs, grapple the debris into piles and haul it off on the dump trailer. Driveways and lots get opened back up first. Standing hazard trees and anything resting on a roof belong to a tree service. That is storm cleanup the way we run it.
The state Forestry Division posts a fire danger and burn ban map for Arkansas counties, so check it before you plan a pile. Brush on our jobs is mulched in place or hauled out on the dump trailer. For a new drive off AR-1 or AR-14, the entrance permit comes from ARDOT. On a county road it is the county's call. The county judge's office sits at the annex on North East Street in Harrisburg.
We come over from Monette on AR-18 to Jonesboro, then take AR-1 south through Greenfield into Harrisburg.
AR-14 crosses town as Jackson Street and runs west toward Weiner, Waldenburg and Fisher. Going east it heads toward Payneway and the I-555 interchange. AR-163 drops south off AR-14 to Lake Poinsett State Park, where Distress Creek was dammed in 1960 to make the lake. Lake lots and camp roads out that way clear like any other ridge ground.
We work the rural roads around all of it. That means farm ground west of the ridge, timbered lots on top of it, and the bottoms along the L'Anguille River. Call (870) 351-5107 and tell us what the place looks like now. We come look at it, and then you get the price in writing. The estimate is free.
Communities and areas we serve around Harrisburg: Court Square, Harrisburg Commercial Historic District, North Main Street, Jackson Street, Greenfield, Lake Poinsett, Lake Poinsett State Park, Weiner, Waldenburg, Fisher, Payneway, L'Anguille River.
Harrisburg ZIP codes served: 72432.
Free estimates throughout Poinsett County and the surrounding area.
(870) 351-5107 Overgrown lots, wooded acreage, thickets, fence rows and lake lots opened up with a skid steer mulcher, a brush cutter and a grapple, with the brush ground into mulch in place and the rest hauled off.
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The drum mulcher on our skid steer grinds brush, saplings and small trees into mulch right where they stand. You are left with open ground under a layer of mulch.
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Bush hogging for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots, ditch banks and road frontage. The brush cutter runs on our skid steer, and we mow once or come back through on a schedule.
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We clear brush, vines, thickets and saplings from around houses, fence lines and ditch banks. What can be ground up is mulched in place, and the rest goes out on the dump trailer.
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We clear residential lots, new home sites, shop and barn sites and lake lots for the builder. Brush and small trees come out, the ground gets rough graded and the debris leaves on the dump trailer.
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Skid steer dirt work for yards, lots, driveways and field roads around Jonesboro. We level rough ground, spread fill dirt and gravel, and shape the land so water runs off.
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We put in new gravel driveways and farm roads, and we regravel drives that have gone to potholes. The rock gets spread and graded with the skid steer, and the drive gets a crown so water sheds off.
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After a tornado, high wind or an ice storm, we cut up downed trees and haul the debris off. The grapple and the dump trailer open a driveway or a lot back up.
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We clear overgrown pasture, fence rows and field edges on farms and hunting land. Cedar, saplings and brush get mulched down so the ground opens back up.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Harrisburg. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Call (870) 351-5107 or send the form with the address and what you want cleared. We will get back to you and set a time to come look at the property.
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