Jonesville sits in the northern part of Union County, SC — right in the middle of some of the best hunting land in the Upstate. Between the deer, turkey, and the amount of timber acreage in the area, a lot of the calls we get from Jonesville are from hunters and land managers who need specific clearing work done on their properties.
A&S Brushworks is based in Rock Hill, about an hour east. We run a Kubota SVL 97-3 with an FAE forestry mulching head that handles trees up to 8 inches in diameter. For hunting property work — food plots, shooting lanes, trail systems, and timber stand improvement — this machine is purpose-built.
Food Plot Clearing
If you're planting food plots, the first step is clearing the ground. A lot of property owners in the Jonesville area have spots they know deer frequent — old logging decks, field edges, ridge tops, or natural openings in the timber. But those spots grow up fast if they're not maintained.
Forestry mulching clears a food plot site down to bare ground covered in a layer of fine mulch. That mulch breaks down over the next season, adding organic matter back to the soil. You can plant directly into the mulched area or disc it first if you want a cleaner seedbed.
The advantage over dozing is that mulching doesn't disturb the topsoil or create erosion problems. You keep the root structure and soil integrity, which matters when you're clearing on slopes or near creek bottoms — both common in Union County.
Most food plots we clear in this area are one to three acres. At our standard pricing of $1,500 to $5,000 per acre, a typical food plot clearing runs $1,500 to $4,000 depending on what's growing and how thick it is.
Shooting Lanes and Sight Lines
A shooting lane doesn't need to be wide — 15 to 30 feet is typical — but it needs to be clean. You want clear sight lines from your stand to the food plot, trail crossing, or travel corridor. Forestry mulching lets us cut precise lanes through timber without disturbing the surrounding trees you want standing.
We can clear shooting lanes to specific widths and angles based on where your stands are positioned. If you can mark the lanes beforehand or walk the property with us, we can knock them out efficiently. Most shooting lane jobs are fast — a few hours for multiple lanes on a single property.
One thing our machine does well that hand-cutting doesn't: we grind the stumps and brush to ground level. You're not tripping over cut stumps or dealing with brush piles. The lane is clean from the start.
Access Trails Through Hunting Property
Getting to your stand quietly matters. A well-maintained trail system lets you access stands without crashing through brush and alerting every deer in the county. We cut ATV-width and side-by-side-width trails through wooded property, grinding everything down so you've got a clean, quiet path.
For larger properties — and there are plenty of 40 to 100+ acre tracts around Jonesville — a connected trail system is the difference between hunting the whole property and only hunting the edges. We can open up a trail network in a day that would take a crew with chainsaws a week.
The mulch layer on cleared trails also keeps them passable longer. Regrowth is suppressed for most of a season, and touch-up clearing the next year is quick work. Some of our repeat clients in Union County have us come back annually to maintain their trail systems.
Timber Stand Improvement
Timber stand improvement — or TSI — is selective clearing that removes undesirable species and understory to let your best timber trees grow faster. If you've got a planted pine stand choked with sweetgum, privet, and scrub hardwoods, mulching the understory opens up sunlight and resources for the pines.
We can selectively mulch between rows in planted pine stands or target specific species in mixed stands. This isn't clear-cutting — it's targeted management that improves both timber value and habitat quality. Deer benefit from the increased browse that grows after the understory is opened up, so TSI is a win for both timber revenue and hunting.
For timber stand work in the Jonesville area, pricing typically falls in the $2,000 to $4,000 per acre range depending on how thick the understory is and how selectively we need to work around the trees you're keeping.
Scheduling Hunting Property Work
Most hunters want clearing done well before the season opener, which means summer and early fall are our busiest times for hunting land work. If you've got a project near Jonesville, getting your quote request in by early summer gives us the best chance to get it done before opening day.
Call (336) 467-4572 or use our online quote form. Let us know what you're looking to clear — food plots, lanes, trails, TSI, or all of the above — and we'll put together a plan and pricing that makes sense for your property.
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