Buford is a small unincorporated community in the southern part of Lancaster County, tucked along US-521 between Lancaster and the more remote stretches of the county. There's no downtown, no subdivision — just farm and timber land, scattered homes, and the kind of rural Piedmont terrain that grows up fast when nobody's managing it. A&S Brushworks drives down from Rock Hill to work Buford-area properties, and the jobs here tend to be big-acreage rural clearing.
Corey and Sam own and run A&S Brushworks. We bring the Kubota SVL 97-3 track loader with an FAE forestry mulcher head that grinds standing brush and trees up to eight inches in diameter. For the overgrown farm tracts and timber land around Buford, that's the right machine. No burn piles, no hauling, no chain-saw crews working by the hour. We grind it, leave the mulch on the ground, and move on.
What Buford Properties Look Like
Buford is deep rural. The properties we work out here are typically farm tracts, timber land, and old homesteads with acreage that's been sitting idle. Former pasture grows up in cedar, sweetgum, and greenbrier within a few years. Old timber tracts develop a thick understory that makes walking — let alone managing — the property nearly impossible. Fence rows disappear. Field roads close in. The land doesn't go anywhere, but it stops being usable.
The most common call we get from Buford-area landowners is some version of 'I've got ten acres that used to be open and now I can't see across it.' Forestry mulching is the fastest way to take that kind of ground back. We can work through overgrown pasture, thick understory in timber stands, and choked-out field edges in a fraction of the time it would take with hand crews and chainsaws.
Services That Fit Buford
Pasture reclamation is the big one. If the ground used to be open and now it's a wall of regrowth, we can take it back to grade. The mulch layer left behind suppresses some of the regrowth and holds the soil while the property transitions back to managed ground. It's not a permanent fix — the owner will need to bush hog or hay to keep it open — but it gets the land to a point where maintenance equipment can handle it again.
Easement clearing is steady work around Buford. Power-line easements, pipeline corridors, long gravel drives, and property boundaries all need periodic clearing in a community where everything is spread out and connected by narrow roads and shared access. We can open up a corridor cleanly without tearing up the ground on either side.
Fence-line clearing and trail cutting for hunting land round out most of our Buford work. If you've got a deer lease or a personal hunting tract out here, we can cut shooting lanes, open food plot areas, and clear ATV access through the woods. Same machine, same approach — grind the brush, leave the mulch, keep the soil in place.
Pricing for Buford-Area Properties
Our range across Lancaster County is $1,500 to $5,000 per acre. Buford jobs tend to be larger tracts, and per-acre rates on bigger properties sometimes work out lower because mobilization and setup costs are spread across more ground. Dense regrowth with mature brush and larger trees pushes toward the upper end. Lighter saplings and briars on former pasture come in lower.
We walk the property with you, talk about access, and give you a flat written quote. No hourly billing. For big rural tracts around Buford, that walkthrough matters — acreage, density, and access conditions all factor into the number, and we'd rather look at it in person than guess from a satellite image.
Questions about Buford jobs
Yes. Buford is in southern Lancaster County, which is well within our 75-mile service radius from Rock Hill. We don't add a travel surcharge for Buford-area jobs. The drive is longer than our York County work, but we schedule Lancaster County trips regularly and Buford is a normal part of that rotation.
Buford jobs tend to run bigger than what we see in Indian Land or even Lancaster town. Five to twenty-plus acres of overgrown pasture or timber understory is common. We can handle smaller parcels too — there's no minimum acreage. But the machine really earns its keep on the bigger rural tracts that define this part of the county.
Yes, that's the most common job we do around Buford. The forestry mulcher grinds standing trees up to about eight inches in diameter and takes the understory down to grade. Former pasture and hay ground that's been idle for years can usually be brought back to a state where a bush hog can maintain it. Pricing runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre depending on how thick the regrowth is.
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