A&S Brushworks is a forestry mulching and land clearing crew based up the road in Rock Hill. We work Chester County regularly — pasture reclamation, hunting lease prep, fence line clearing, and easement maintenance across Chester, Great Falls, Fort Lawn, and Richburg. Corey and Sam run the company, and most days one of us is on the machine and the other is walking the tract with the landowner.
The work down here looks different from what we do closer to I-77 in York County. Chester County is working land — timber tracts, cattle pasture, hunting acreage, and long rural frontages. That means bigger jobs, fewer fences to tiptoe around, and landowners who already know what a mulcher is and just want to know when we can show up.
Why Chester County Landowners Call Us
Most of our Chester County calls come from folks who have tried to keep up with a bush hog and finally gave up. Privet, sweetgum saplings, greenbrier, and thirty years of hardwood encroachment will beat a rotary cutter every time. We run a Kubota SVL 97-3 compact track loader with an FAE forestry mulcher head, which grinds standing trees up to 8 inches in diameter down to chip in a single pass. No burn piles, no stump grinding afterwards, no hauling anything off.
We drive down from Rock Hill, usually with the machine on a trailer, and we can reach anywhere in Chester County well inside our 75-mile service radius. If you are out toward Richburg or down past Great Falls on the river, we have been there. If you are on a dirt cutoff off of Highway 9 or Highway 97, odds are we have mulched something nearby.
What We Do in Chester County
Forestry mulching is the bulk of the work. A landowner points at a patch of overgrown pasture or a stretch of timber underbrush and we turn it into a clean, walkable piece of ground with a mulch layer that holds moisture and slows regrowth. Brush removal is the same idea on a smaller footprint — a fence line that has closed in, a farm pond that has gotten eaten by willows, a driveway that used to be wide enough for a truck.
Site prep is common out here too. Folks building a barn, a shop, a cabin on the back of the property, or a new home site on inherited family land. We open up the pad, pull back the edge brush, and leave the ground ready for a dozer or a foundation crew. Trail clearing is mostly hunting work — shooting lanes, ATV paths, access trails into a box stand or a food plot. Easement clearing rounds it out: pipeline right-of-ways, power line corridors, and shared access easements that the county or a utility wants maintained.
What Makes Chester County Jobs Different
Chester County jobs look different from what we do up near Fort Mill. More acreage, longer fence lines, gate codes instead of HOA letters. A typical week down here might have us running the mulcher across a 6-acre pasture that has gone to pine saplings and privet, then down the road to clear a pipeline easement the utility needs maintained. The tracts are bigger, the neighbors are farther away, and the work tends to run in straight long pulls rather than tight suburban corners.
Access is the other thing worth talking about. A lot of Chester County tracts are behind a gate, down a dirt two-track, or across a field that turns soft after a week of rain. We will walk the property with you before we schedule, figure out where to drop the trailer, and plan the pull so we are not chewing up a wet bottom or tearing up a gravel drive. The rural land east of the Catawba often has soft spots in winter, so timing matters and we will tell you if we think a job should wait two weeks for the ground to firm up.
The upside of all that space is there is usually nowhere to haul material to anyway, and nowhere you would want to. Mulching in place is the right answer for almost every Chester County job we see — no burn permits, no dump fees, no piles of slash sitting in the pasture for a year.
Pricing on Larger Rural Tracts
Our typical range is $1,500 to $5,000 per acre. Light underbrush with scattered saplings sits at the low end. Heavy mixed hardwood and pine with vines and thick stem counts sits at the high end. Most Chester County pasture reclamation and hunting tract work lands somewhere in the middle, but the only honest way to quote it is to look at it.
Larger tracts usually move the per-acre number down. A two-acre cleanup outside of Fort Lawn is priced differently than a twelve-acre pasture restoration south of Chester or a twenty-acre timber thinning job near Richburg. Longer jobs mean we are not paying for mobilization on every pass, so the economics work in the landowner's favor. If you have a multi-acre tract, tell us the rough boundary and we can give you a ballpark before we ever drive down.
Cities and Communities We Serve
Chester is the county seat and where most of our calls start — everything from in-town lots that have gone back to woods, to working farms on the outskirts. Great Falls sits on the Catawba River and has its own mix of riverfront parcels, hunting land, and older pasture that is ready to be put back to use. Fort Lawn is closer to Lancaster County and we see a lot of fence line work, driveway clearing, and small-acreage homestead prep out that way. Richburg, right near I-77, is a mix of truck-accessible commercial tracts and rural residential land where folks are opening up building sites or clearing out for a shop.
We are happy to drive anywhere in Chester County. If you are not sure whether your spot counts as Chester, Great Falls, Fort Lawn, or Richburg, it does not matter to us — give us the address and we will confirm.
Get a Quote
Call or text Corey at (336) 467-4572, or send a quote request through the site with rough acreage, the address, and a couple of photos if you have them. Drone shots or satellite screenshots are great for larger tracts. We will come walk it, give you a firm number, and book the job. No high-pressure sales, no upsells, no mystery charges at the end.
A&S Brushworks is based in Rock Hill, SC 29730, and we serve Chester County right alongside York, Lancaster, Union, and Cherokee counties. If you are a Chester County landowner with pasture, timber, or easement work that needs doing, we would like to hear from you.
Cities we serve in Chester County
Chester, SC
Land clearing, pasture reclamation, and brush removal for the county seat and surrounding agricultural land.
Great Falls, SC
Hunting tract prep, timber underbrush clearing, and trail work along the Catawba River in Great Falls.
Fort Lawn, SC
Pasture reclamation, fence line work, and rural lot clearing in the Fort Lawn community.
Richburg, SC
Lot clearing, site prep, and brush removal in Richburg — the gateway between York and Chester counties.
Guides for Chester County
Land Clearing for Rural Properties in Chester, SC
What to expect when clearing overgrown rural property in Chester, SC — old homesteads, family land, wooded lots, and how forestry mulching handles it all.
Hunting Land Preparation & Trail Clearing in Great Falls, SC
How to prepare hunting land near Great Falls, SC — food plot clearing, shooting lanes, access trails, and what forestry mulching costs for hunting lease prep.
Pasture Restoration & Brush Removal in Fort Lawn, SC
How to reclaim overgrown hay fields and pastures in Fort Lawn, SC — what happens when brush takes over, the restoration timeline, and what it costs.
Clearing Overgrown Property Between Rock Hill and Chester — Richburg, SC
Residential land clearing in Richburg, SC — a growing area between Rock Hill and Chester where old family land and overgrown lots need clearing.
Common questions about Chester County jobs
Yes. Pasture reclamation is one of the most common jobs we run in Chester County. We mulch standing saplings, privet, sweetgum, and brush in place with the FAE head on our Kubota SVL 97-3, and leave the ground clean enough to bush hog and reseed. Tracts from a couple of acres up to twenty-plus are all in our wheelhouse.
Yes. Trail clearing for hunting tracts is steady work for us in the Great Falls area and along the Catawba River corridor. We cut shooting lanes, ATV trails, and access paths to stands and food plots. Because the mulcher grinds in place, there is nothing to haul out and the trail is usable the same day.
Our typical range is $1,500 to $5,000 per acre depending on density. On larger tracts, the per-acre price usually comes down because mobilization is spread across more work. For a 10-plus acre job near Chester, Richburg, or Fort Lawn, the best move is to send us the address and rough acreage so we can walk it and give you a firm quote.
Yes. Fort Lawn and Richburg are well inside our 75-mile service radius from Rock Hill. Smaller jobs are fine, though very small jobs sometimes make more sense bundled with a neighbor. If you have a fence line, a driveway, or a half-acre cleanup out that way, call us and we will figure it out.
Yes. Easement clearing is a regular part of what we do — pipeline right-of-ways, power line corridors, and shared access easements. We can work directly with the landowner or coordinate with a utility contact. Mulching in place is usually the cleanest option for easement work since there is no debris left behind.
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