Union County, SC is quiet timber and pasture country — not to be confused with Union County, NC, which is a different place closer to Charlotte with Waxhaw and Monroe in it. The SC county we're talking about sits west of Chester, south of Cherokee, bounded by the Broad River and the Pacolet. It's rolling Piedmont, former cotton and timber ground, with old textile-mill towns at Union, Jonesville and Lockhart. A&S Brushworks runs our Kubota SVL 97-3 with an FAE mulcher out here for landowners who need real work done on real acreage.
We're based in Rock Hill, about an hour up the road. That drive is worth it when the job calls for it — a back pasture gone to pine saplings, a hunting lease that needs shooting lanes cut clean, a logging tract left full of slash and stumps. This is big-tract work, not suburban lot trimming. If you own land in Union County, SC and you need it cleared without burning, burying or trucking anything off, we're the crew to call.
Union County, SC — Not Union County, NC
First thing worth saying plain: there are two Union Counties in the Carolinas and they're nothing alike. Union County, NC is the Charlotte suburbs — Monroe, Waxhaw, Indian Trail, subdivisions and school zones. We don't run jobs over there. Union County, SC is the one with the Broad River on its east side and the Pacolet on its west, with the town of Union as the county seat and Jonesville and Lockhart as the other two spots most folks have heard of.
We mention it because search engines mix the two up constantly and we'd rather you know before you call. If your land is in SC — around Union, Jonesville, Lockhart, or anywhere out in the county between them — you're in our service area. If it's NC Union County near Monroe or Waxhaw, we're not the right crew and we'll tell you so.
The Rural Work We Do Out Here
Most of what we do in Union County is large-tract rural clearing. Pasture reclamation is a big one — fields that went unmaintained for a few years and came back thick with sweetgum, pine saplings, privet and briars. The forestry mulcher chews all of it down to chip in one pass, roots and crowns included up to about eight inches in diameter. When we're done you've got walkable ground and a mulch layer that holds soil and knocks back regrowth while you decide whether to replant, fence, or run cattle.
Hunting land is the other steady request. We cut shooting lanes through hardwood bottoms, open up bedding areas, run trails from a gate back to a stand, or knock down the understory on a tract that's gotten too thick to still-hunt. We also do timber-harvest cleanup — tracts that got logged and left behind slash piles, stumps, tops and brush that nobody wants to deal with. The mulcher handles it. No burn pile, no haul-off.
Alongside forestry mulching we also handle straight brush removal, site prep for a new cabin or barn, trail clearing for ATV and horse use, and easement clearing along rural utility runs and property lines. If it grows, we can mulch it.
Union, Jonesville and Lockhart
Union is the county seat and the biggest of the three — old mill town, courthouse square, the place most people mean when they say they're from Union County. We take jobs anywhere in the Union area, whether that's inside the city limits on a bigger residential lot or out in the surrounding countryside on working land.
Jonesville sits up toward the Cherokee County line on the north side of the county. Lots of farmland and timber out that way, and we've had good luck batching Jonesville jobs with Cherokee County trips when the schedule lines up. Lockhart is the smallest, tucked over on the Broad River side — a former mill village with acreage all around it. All three towns see the same kind of work from us: rural clearing on real tracts of land.
Drive-Out Economics and Minimum Job Size
We'll be straight with you: Union County is about 50 to 60 miles from our Rock Hill shop, and that's a real drive with a loaded trailer. What that means practically is we schedule Union County work in batches when we can, and we're a better fit for jobs that are substantial enough to justify the trip. A one-hour brush cleanup in a backyard probably isn't us. A two-acre pasture, a week of hunting-trail work, a ten-acre timber-cut cleanup — that's exactly what we're built for.
If you've got a smaller job, mention it when you call anyway. Sometimes we can tack it onto another Union County trip the same week and make the numbers work. And if you know neighbors or family with clearing needs on nearby tracts, let us know — grouping jobs in the same area is good for everybody's price.
Pricing for Rural Acreage Work
Forestry mulching runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre depending on what's actually on the ground. Light understory with small saplings, open pasture edges, thin undergrowth — that's the low end. Heavy mixed hardwood and pine up to the eight-inch limit of our head, logging slash, tangled briars and vine, thick thicket — that's the higher end. Union County ground varies a lot from tract to tract, so we price after we walk it.
We give free on-site estimates for Union County work whenever we can, and for jobs out past Jonesville or Lockhart we'll sometimes quote from photos and aerial imagery first to make sure it's worth everybody's time to meet in person. Either way, you get a real number before we start — not a range that changes later.
Call Us About Your Union County Land
If you've got acreage in Union County, SC that needs cleared — pasture, hunting land, timber cleanup, trails, easements, driveway cuts, whatever it is — call A&S Brushworks at (336) 467-4572. Corey or Sam will pick up, ask a few questions about the tract, and get you on the schedule. We work across Union, Jonesville, Lockhart and everywhere in between, plus the neighboring SC counties of Chester and Cherokee.
We're a small outfit on purpose. You'll talk to the owners, you'll get the owners on the job, and the mulcher you see in the photos is the one that shows up at your gate.
Cities we serve in Union County
Union, SC
Pasture reclamation, hunting land clearing, timber cleanup and rural site prep in and around Union, South Carolina.
Jonesville, SC
Hunting land clearing, pasture reclamation and timber cleanup for rural landowners around Jonesville, South Carolina.
Lockhart, SC
Farm clearing, timber cleanup and hunting land management on the rural acreage around Lockhart, South Carolina.
Guides for Union County
Land Clearing in Union, SC (Not Union County, NC)
Searching for land clearing in Union, SC? Make sure you've got the right Union. A&S Brushworks serves Union, South Carolina — timber and hunting country along the Broad River.
Hunting Land & Shooting Lane Clearing Near Jonesville, SC
A&S Brushworks clears food plots, shooting lanes, access trails, and timber stands for hunting properties near Jonesville and Union County, SC.
Rural Property Clearing in Lockhart, SC
Lockhart, SC is a small Broad River mill village with large rural tracts nearby. A&S Brushworks handles pasture reclamation, lot clearing, and overgrown property work in the Lockhart area.
Common questions about Union County jobs
Yes, Union County, SC only. That's the county with Union, Jonesville and Lockhart in it, bounded by the Broad and Pacolet Rivers, west of Chester County. We do not run jobs in Union County, NC (Monroe, Waxhaw, Indian Trail) — that's a different place and not in our service area.
That's one of our most common Union County jobs. We use the forestry mulcher to cut trails from your gate back to stands, open up shooting lanes through hardwood bottoms, and thin bedding areas without burning or hauling debris. Works well on tracts around Jonesville, Lockhart and out in the county generally.
Pasture reclamation usually falls in the $1,500 to $5,000 per acre range depending on how thick the regrowth is. A ten-acre pasture that's been let go for a few years and come back in saplings and briars is bread-and-butter work for us. We'll walk the tract, give you a firm number, and schedule it as a single trip out from Rock Hill.
There's not a hard minimum, but because we're driving roughly an hour each way from Rock Hill, Union County jobs work best when they're substantial — generally a couple of acres or more, or multi-day hunting land and timber cleanup work. Smaller jobs can sometimes get batched with other Union County trips. Call and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit.
Yes. After a logging operation leaves a tract full of tops, slash piles, stumps and leftover brush, the forestry mulcher grinds it flat and leaves a mulch layer behind. No burn piles, no haul-off, no scorched ground. It's a good way to turn a logged tract back into usable pasture, hunting land or replant-ready ground.
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