A&S Brushworks is a forestry mulching and land clearing crew out of Rock Hill, SC. Corey and Sam own and operate the business, and we run a Kubota SVL 97-3 with an FAE mulcher head — a tracked machine built for grinding through brush, saplings, and trees up to about 8 inches in diameter. Blacksburg is on the far edge of our service area, a good hour-plus drive northeast from our shop, and we're straightforward about what that means for scheduling and pricing.
Blacksburg is a quiet town in the northeast corner of Cherokee County, just south of Kings Mountain and the North Carolina state line. It's more rural than Gaffney, more timber and agricultural land than anything else, and the kind of place where overgrown acreage is the norm rather than the exception. If you've got land around Blacksburg that's grown up and you want it cleared without a dozer tearing up the ground, that's exactly the work we do.
The land around Blacksburg
Blacksburg sits where the Piedmont starts getting more character. The terrain has more roll to it than what you find around Rock Hill or even Gaffney, and rock outcrops are more common as you get closer to the Kings Mountain range along the NC border. The tree mix shifts too — more hardwood, more oak and hickory alongside the usual pine, cedar, and sweetgum. Understory is thick where land hasn't been maintained: privet, greenbrier, volunteer saplings, and the usual tangle that takes over when a property sits for a decade or two.
A lot of the land around Blacksburg is agricultural or timber land that's been in families for generations. Some of it is actively managed, but plenty of it has gone fallow. Former pasture and cropland reverts to brush and young forest fast in this climate, and by the time someone decides to do something with it — build on it, hunt on it, sell it — there's real clearing work to do. That's where forestry mulching makes sense over a bush hog or a dozer.
Our tracked machine handles the slopes and the rocky spots better than a wheeled skid steer would, and the mulcher head grinds everything into the ground instead of pushing it into piles. You end up with clean, walkable ground and a mulch layer that holds the soil in place on those hillsides.
Services in Blacksburg
We offer the same services in Blacksburg that we run anywhere else: forestry mulching for overgrown tracts and understory clearing, brush removal, site prep for building pads and driveways, trail clearing for hunting and ATV access, and easement clearing along property lines, power runs, and fence rows.
The jobs we get called out to around Blacksburg tend to be rural. Hunting land where the owner wants food plots, shooting lanes, and trail systems cut through the woods. Family acreage where someone's building a house on land that's been sitting. Estate tracts getting cleaned up for sale. Easements along gravel roads and utility corridors. These are usually multi-acre jobs, which works well with our scheduling since we're driving out from Rock Hill.
If you've got a smaller lot in town — a half acre or an acre — we can still do the work, but we'll typically schedule it alongside a larger job in the area. We'd rather be honest about that than quote you a number that's inflated just to cover the drive on a standalone small job.
Scheduling and pricing for Blacksburg
Blacksburg is further from Rock Hill than Gaffney — we're talking an hour and change each way with the trailer. That's the furthest regular run we make, and we price and schedule accordingly. Our forestry mulching work runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre. Where your job falls in that range depends on the density of growth, the size of the trees, terrain and slope, access to the property, and how finished you want the result.
For Blacksburg we almost always plan trips in combination with other Cherokee County work. If we're running a job in Gaffney the same week, we'll stack your Blacksburg job onto the same trip. For larger standalone properties — say five acres or more — we'll make a dedicated run. On smaller jobs expect a day minimum that reflects the drive time. On bigger multi-day work the travel cost spreads out and the per-acre rate is comparable to what we'd charge closer to home.
Call (336) 467-4572 or request a quote through the site. We'll come out, look at the property, and give you an honest number. If it's not a job we can do or the timing doesn't work, we'll tell you that too.
Questions about Blacksburg jobs
Yes, but we're honest about how we schedule it. Blacksburg is the far edge of our service area — over an hour from Rock Hill. We come out regularly, but we plan trips around jobs that fill a day or bundle multiple Cherokee County properties into one visit. Call us, get on the list, and we'll tell you when we can be there.
Our Kubota SVL 97-3 is a tracked machine, which gives us much better traction and stability on slopes than a wheeled skid steer. The rolling terrain and occasional rock near Kings Mountain and the foothills is well within what we run on. We'll walk the property first and tell you if there are spots we need to work around.
Same range as the rest of our service area: $1,500 to $5,000 per acre depending on growth density, tree size, slope, and access. Blacksburg jobs may carry a day minimum on smaller properties to account for the drive from Rock Hill. On larger multi-acre work the travel cost gets spread across the job. We'll give you a firm quote after walking the land.
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