A&S Brushworks is a forestry mulching and land clearing crew based in Rock Hill, SC. We're owner-operated by Corey and Sam, and we run a Kubota SVL 97-3 with an FAE mulcher head that chews through brush, saplings, and trees up to about 8 inches. Cherokee County is the western edge of our service area — roughly 55 miles from our shop — and we make the drive out to Gaffney and Blacksburg on a regular basis for landowners who need serious work done.
We're not pretending to be a hometown Gaffney outfit. What we are is a real forestry mulching crew that will come to your part of the state when the job justifies it. Rural acreage, orchard edges, old pasture grown up in cedar and sweetgum, easements, logging roads, hunting tracts — that's the work we show up for in Cherokee County. If you've got land that needs cleared off I-85 or out toward the Blacksburg line, keep reading and then call us for a quote.
Who we are and why we travel to Cherokee County
A&S Brushworks runs out of Rock Hill and covers eight counties across the York / Charlotte metro and the rural Piedmont around it. Cherokee County sits on the far western edge of that footprint. Gaffney is about an hour from our shop straight down I-85, and Blacksburg is a few minutes further up toward the North Carolina line. We know the drive, we've done it plenty, and we price it honestly.
The reason we work out here is simple — Cherokee County has a lot of rural land and not a lot of forestry mulching crews. When someone has a real piece of property to clear, they shouldn't have to settle for a bush hog and a brush pile. We bring a tracked skid steer and a mulcher head, and we leave the ground behind us usable instead of torn up. That's worth the drive for the right job, and it's worth your while to call us even if you think we're too far away.
The work we do in Cherokee County
Most of what we clear in Cherokee County falls into a few buckets. Rural residential tracts where someone bought ten or twenty acres and wants a house site, a driveway, and a usable yard carved out of overgrown woods. Old farmland — former cotton ground, old pasture, orchard edges — that's grown up in cedar, privet, sweetgum, and hardwood saplings over the years. Hunting land where the owner wants shooting lanes, food plots, and trails cut without logging the timber.
Forestry mulching is usually the right tool for this work because it clears the understory and small trees in one pass and leaves a mulch layer behind. No burn piles, no hauling, no ruts from a dozer. We also handle brush removal on cleaner jobs, site prep for building pads and driveways, trail clearing for ATV and equipment access, and easement clearing along property lines, power runs, and fence rows. On Cherokee County trips we'll often combine a couple of these on the same property — for example, mulching the understory on five acres and then cutting a trail system through what's left standing.
Our machine handles trees up to about 8 inches in diameter. Anything bigger than that needs to come down with a chainsaw first, and we'll tell you straight up when that's the case. The Piedmont terrain out here is rolling and rocky in places, especially as you get closer to the Blue Ridge foothills on the Blacksburg side, and we plan the work accordingly.
Gaffney and Blacksburg — two different characters
Gaffney is the county seat and the biggest market in Cherokee County. It's the I-85 town everyone knows for the Peachoid water tower, and it sits in the middle of the old peach country and former textile belt. The work we get called out to around Gaffney tends to be rural tracts south and north of the interstate, residential lots on the edges of town, and occasional commercial site prep where someone is putting up a shop or outbuilding on a larger parcel. The land around Gaffney is classic rolling Piedmont — good ground, workable for a tracked machine, usually a mix of pine and hardwood with heavy understory where it hasn't been maintained.
Blacksburg is smaller, further north, and closer to the Cleveland County NC line and the foothills. The terrain starts getting a little more character up there — more slope, more rock, and the tree mix shifts. Jobs around Blacksburg are usually rural — hunting land, family acreage, estate tracts, easements along gravel roads. We treat Gaffney and Blacksburg as the same trip when we schedule out there, which means if we're coming for one, we'll try to work the other into the same week.
How we schedule jobs out here — the drive-time honest version
Here's the straight talk. Cherokee County is the far edge of where we run, and the drive out there is real — about an hour each way from Rock Hill, plus trailer time loading and unloading the machine. That drive is friction on the estimate, not the work itself. The work we love. The miles are what they are.
So we schedule Cherokee County jobs a little differently than jobs in York or Lancaster. We usually plan on running out there when one of three things is true: someone has more than two acres to clear so we can justify a full day or multi-day job on a single property, we can bundle two or three smaller jobs in the same part of the county into one trip, or we're already headed west for something else and can add your job to the route. If you've got a half-acre residential lot in Blacksburg and you call us in isolation, we'll still talk to you — we just might ask you to hang on until we're lined up to be in the area.
That's not a brush-off. It's how a small crew keeps prices reasonable for people who are already paying extra for the drive. If you want to get on our Cherokee County schedule faster, tell your neighbors. The more jobs we can stack on one trip, the sooner we roll.
Pricing for Cherokee County jobs
Our forestry mulching work generally runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre. Where a specific job falls in that range depends on density of growth, size of the trees, terrain, access, and how clean the owner wants the finished ground. Light understory on open former pasture is on the low end. Thick privet, greenbrier, cedar, and 6 to 8 inch hardwood stems on sloped rocky ground is on the high end. Most Cherokee County jobs land somewhere in the middle.
For properties out in Cherokee County we also factor in drive time and the minimum day it takes to make the trip worthwhile. On smaller jobs that usually shows up as a minimum charge rather than a higher per-acre number — we'd rather be upfront about it than bury it in the math. On larger multi-acre jobs the drive gets spread across more work and the per-acre rate looks a lot like any other county we serve. The honest answer on pricing is that we'll come look, measure, walk the ground with you, and give you a real number. Quotes are free.
Get a quote — Gaffney, Blacksburg, and the rest of Cherokee County
If you've got land in Cherokee County that needs forestry mulching, brush removal, site prep, trail clearing, or easement work, call A&S Brushworks at (336) 467-4572 or request a quote through the site. Tell us where the property is — Gaffney, Blacksburg, or anywhere in between — how many acres you're looking at, and what you want the finished ground to look like. We'll give you a straight answer on whether it's a job we can do, what it'll roughly cost, and when we can get out there.
We're Corey and Sam. We answer our own phone. We show up when we say we will, and if we can't make a job work we'll tell you that too instead of wasting your time. Cherokee County might be the far edge of our map, but it's still on the map — and we'd rather drive out there for good work than sit in the shop.
Cities we serve in Cherokee County
Guides for Cherokee County
Forestry Mulching in Gaffney, SC — What to Know Before You Book
Planning a land clearing project in Gaffney or Cherokee County, SC? Here's what A&S Brushworks needs you to know about scheduling, access, acreage minimums, and typical job types.
Land Clearing & Trail Work in Blacksburg, SC
Blacksburg sits in the South Carolina foothills near Kings Mountain. A&S Brushworks covers land clearing, hunting trail work, and rural estate clearing in the Blacksburg area.
Common questions about Cherokee County jobs
Yes. Cherokee County is the western edge of our service area, about an hour from our shop in Rock Hill, and we run jobs out there regularly. We'll come out for forestry mulching, brush removal, site prep, trail clearing, and easement work in Gaffney, Blacksburg, and everywhere in between.
Not a hard minimum, but realistically we plan Cherokee County trips around jobs of about two acres or more, or bundled smaller jobs we can run on the same trip. If you've got a smaller lot, call us anyway — we'll often work it into a week when we're already headed out to that side of the state.
Our forestry mulching work runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre depending on density, tree size, terrain, and access. For Cherokee County jobs we factor the drive into a day minimum on smaller properties, and spread it across the per-acre rate on larger multi-day work. We'll walk your land and give you a real number before any work starts.
That's a big part of what we do in Cherokee County. A forestry mulcher is the right tool for clearing cedar, privet, sweetgum, and hardwood saplings up to about 8 inches without tearing up the ground. We leave a mulch layer behind that breaks down into the soil instead of brush piles that need burned or hauled.
Depends on the time of year and what we've got scheduled. Because we bundle Cherokee County trips, the sooner we know you're out there the sooner we can line your job up with others in the area. Call us, get on the list, and we'll tell you honestly when we can be out to look at it.
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