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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Land around Manila does not stay open on its own. A field on Buffalo Island goes one season without a cutter and the ditch banks fill in. Cedar and sweetgum get a start on the higher ground. Willow and cottonwood take the wet edges down toward Big Lake. A few years of that and the back of the place is a thicket you cannot walk through.
Craig Land Management handles land clearing in Manila and the rest of Mississippi County. We are based in Monette, about 10 miles west of town, and we come over on AR-18 through Leachville. Here the work runs to clearing overgrown land, forestry mulching, bush hogging, dirt work and gravel drives. Call (870) 351-5107 and we will set up a free estimate.
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Manila sits on Buffalo Island in Mississippi County. That is the local name for the ground between the Little River and the St. Francis River, south of Big Lake. Manila, Leachville, Black Oak, Caraway and Monette all sit on it. Herman Davis State Park, the smallest state park in Arkansas, is right in town off Baltimore Street.
This is flat row-crop country. Mississippi County ranked first in the state for cotton sales in the USDA farm census. Soybeans, rice, wheat and sorghum go in around it. Between the fields sit turn rows, ditch banks, field edges and small patches of bottomland timber.
Those edges are where brush wins. Delta clay holds water, so the low spots stay wet and grow up fast. A drum mulcher grinds brush and small trees into mulch right where they stand. The mulch stays on the ground and breaks down over the next few seasons.
Big Lake sits just east of Manila. The lake itself is about 2,600 acres of open water. It was set aside as a federal refuge in 1915. Part of it carries a wilderness designation and a National Natural Landmark listing. The refuge allows deer, turkey and squirrel hunting and keeps the water as a waterfowl sanctuary.
Around it, private ground in the bottoms holds the duck holes, the deer camps and the family acreage. Owners out there ask for the same short list. A way in, shooting lanes and trails cut through the thick stuff, and a road that holds up wet.
We clear that kind of ground with the mulcher, the brush cutter and the grapple. Brush and saplings get ground down where they stand. What has to leave the property goes out on the dump trailer. Farm roads and hunting land roads get graded and regraveled the same trip.
Buffalo Island has taken real storms. On December 10, 2021 a tornado tracked across Monette and Leachville, a few miles from Manila. The National Weather Service rated it EF4, with peak winds near 170 mph and a path over 80 miles long.
A storm like that leaves the same mess on every place. Limbs down across the drive, trees leaning on the fence, brush stacked where the wind put it. Storm cleanup is cutting that up, grappling it into the dump trailer and hauling it off the property.
Ice storms work slower. Wet ice loads the tops of sweetgum and cottonwood until they split. We open the driveway first so you can get in and out. Then we work through the rest of the lot and the field edges.
Mississippi County puts out a burn ban when the county dries out. The state keeps a map of which counties are under one. That matters here, because a brush pile is the usual way people clear a field. We mulch in place, and what cannot be mulched goes out on the dump trailer.
Low ground is the other thing to look at. The Corps of Engineers built the levees around Big Lake in 1938, and the ground behind them runs flat. If your acreage sits low or backs up to a drainage ditch, ask the county before dirt gets moved.
Manila is a short run for us. We are in Monette, about 10 miles west on AR-18 through Leachville. That covers the island towns and on out to Etowah, Dell and the farm ground between them.
Communities and areas we serve around Manila: Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Herman Davis State Park, Buffalo Island, Big Lake, Little River, Baltimore Avenue, Airport Road, Leachville, Black Oak, Caraway, Etowah, Dell.
Manila ZIP codes served: 72442.
Free estimates throughout Mississippi 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 Manila. 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.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.