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 Trumann does not stay open for long. This is old river bottom, and it grows brush faster than most people plan for. A field edge or a back lot can go from mowable to a thicket in two or three seasons. Town lots do the same once nobody cuts them past spring.
Craig Land Management is based in Monette, north of Trumann in Craighead County, and we work all of Poinsett County. Land clearing is the main job down here: grown up lots, wooded acreage, fence rows, ditch banks and river lots. We also do forestry mulching, brush cutting, dirt work and gravel drives. Call (870) 351-5107 and we will come look at the property.
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Trumann is the biggest town in Poinsett County, and it sits in the Sunken Lands. The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 dropped the ground along the St. Francis River. What was left was swamp, and draining it took levee districts and a century of ditching. The St. Francis Sunken Lands Wildlife Management Area still holds over 30,000 acres of that bottom east of town.
USDA soil maps for the Trumann area read heavy. Sharkey clay and Jackport silty clay loam sit around town, and both are mapped poorly drained. Commerce and Mhoon soils along the river are mapped frequently flooded. Sandy Beulah and Dubbs ridges follow the old river channels, and those dry out much faster.
That mix runs the clearing job. Clay holds water for days after a rain, so timing decides when we get on it. Grinding brush into mulch leaves cover on the bare dirt. That helps on flat ground that drains slowly.
Trumann grew out of timber. Lumber camps went up along the railroad in the 1890s. The Singer plant here built sewing machine cabinets from local hardwood until it closed in 1982. The big timber went, but the ground never quit growing trees.
Poinsett County is farm country now. The 2022 Census of Agriculture counted about 324,000 acres of cropland here. Against that it counted roughly 16,000 acres of woodland and under 3,000 acres of pasture. Soybeans, rice, corn and cotton cover most of the county.
The brush gets squeezed into the leftovers. Ditch banks, turnrows, fence rows, field corners and old home places carry most of it. Cottonwood, willow, elm and locust come up through the bottom, with blackberry and greenbrier underneath. A pass with the brush cutter handles the grass and light growth, and the drum mulcher takes the saplings.
Trumann has taken a direct hit. The National Weather Service rated the December 10, 2021 tornado an EF-2, with peak winds near 130 miles per hour. It touched down about 1.3 miles southwest of town and ran 3.6 miles to the northeast. That same night an EF-4 tracked across Craighead County to the north.
Wind like that leaves yards and field edges full of downed timber. We cut it up, grapple it into piles and haul it off on the dump trailer. Driveways and lots get opened back up first so people can get in and out. That is the shape of most storm cleanup work around here.
Ice storms leave a different mess. Limbs break and hang over drives and fence lines instead of coming down in one path. What the county hauls off a right of way changes storm to storm. Ask the county judge's office in Harrisburg or Poinsett County emergency management first.
We come over from Monette on AR-18, cut south on AR-158 and follow AR-69 into Trumann. It runs about 25 miles, and the equipment comes over on the trailer.
I-555 runs right through Trumann, and Exit 29 puts you on AR-69. Off the highway the work sits on county roads and turnrows. That takes in the ground south of town toward Tulot and the Oak Donnick access. It takes in Stephens Landing east on AR-69 and the field roads around Dobell, Maple Grove and Judd Hill.
A lot of this ground sits a long way off the blacktop. A field road or a camp drive in the bottom needs rock that stays put on clay. We crown it and grade the gravel driveway so water runs off instead of standing. Arkansas 811 marks buried lines first, and a new county road entrance goes through the county judge in Harrisburg.
Communities and areas we serve around Trumann: Dobell, Hatchie Coon, Maple Grove, Tulot, Donnick, Promised Land, Judd Hill, Shady Grove, Lunsford, Payneway, Rivervale, St. Francis Sunken Lands.
Trumann ZIP codes served: 72472.
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(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 Trumann. 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.