Jonesville is a small town on the north side of Union County, South Carolina, up near the Cherokee County line. It's about as rural as the Carolina Piedmont gets — farmland, timber, hunting leases and not much else between the town limits and the next crossroads. The Pacolet River runs nearby and the land around Jonesville is rolling, wooded ground mixed with old agricultural fields that come and go out of production. This is Union County, SC — not Union County, NC, which is a different place entirely near Charlotte.
A&S Brushworks is based in Rock Hill, roughly an hour's drive south. We run a Kubota SVL 97-3 with an FAE forestry mulching head, and we take jobs around Jonesville when the work justifies the trip. That usually means hunting land, timber-tract cleanup, pasture reclamation on a few acres or more, or easement clearing along rural utility runs. Owners Corey and Sam handle everything from the estimate to the machine work — no subcontractors, no middlemen.
The Land Around Jonesville
Jonesville sits in country that's been farmed and timbered for generations. The soil is Piedmont red clay, the terrain rolls gently, and the tree cover is mostly mixed pine-hardwood — loblolly pine, sweetgum, oak, hickory, with privet and honeysuckle tangling up the understory anywhere that's been left alone for a few years. Old fields go back to brush fast out here. A pasture that hasn't been mowed or grazed in three or four years can come back in head-high saplings and briar thickets that you can't walk through.
That's the kind of ground our forestry mulcher is made for. The FAE head on our Kubota chews through saplings, brush, briars and small trees up to about eight inches in diameter, grinds it all to chip right at ground level, and leaves a mulch layer behind. One machine, one pass, and you've got walkable ground again. No burn piles, no chipper trucks, no hauling debris to a landfill.
Hunting Land Work Near Jonesville
A lot of the privately held ground around Jonesville is hunted — deer leases, turkey ground, family tracts that have been in the same hands for decades. The forestry mulcher is a game-management tool as much as a clearing tool. We cut shooting lanes through timber, thin understory to open up bedding areas and sight lines, clear ATV and walking trails from gates back to stands, and knock down overgrown edges around food-plot sites.
The advantage of mulching over chainsaw-and-burn methods is speed and cleanliness. We can cut a quarter-mile shooting lane in a day that would take a crew with chainsaws a week, and there's nothing to burn or pile afterward. The chip layer actually helps the soil. For hunting-lease operators managing hundreds of acres around Jonesville, the mulcher pays for itself in access and usability.
Pasture and Agricultural Clearing
The other common Jonesville job is pasture reclamation. Fields that were hay ground or cattle pasture go out of production, and within a few years they're pine saplings, sweetgum thickets and waist-high briars. Fencing disappears under vine. The landowner wants the field back but doesn't want to spend a month with a bush hog and a chainsaw getting there.
The forestry mulcher handles the whole job in a fraction of the time. We grind everything down to ground level — saplings, stumps, brush, all of it — and leave the field ready for reseeding, fencing or whatever comes next. On a typical five-acre pasture reclamation outside Jonesville, we can finish in one to two days depending on density. Pricing runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre based on what's actually growing on it.
Questions about Jonesville jobs
About 55 to 65 miles depending on the route, roughly an hour's drive with a loaded trailer. We schedule Jonesville and northern Union County work in batches when we can, and we sometimes combine trips with Cherokee County jobs nearby. The drive is worth it on jobs of a couple acres or more.
Yes, that's exactly the kind of multi-day job that works well for us out in the Jonesville area. We cut trails, open shooting lanes, thin bedding areas and clear food-plot sites with the forestry mulcher. A large lease with several hundred acres of trail and plot work is something we can plan and schedule over multiple trips.
They're completely separate counties in different states. Union County, SC — where Jonesville is — sits between the Broad and Pacolet Rivers, about 60 miles from Charlotte. Union County, NC is the Charlotte suburbs: Monroe, Waxhaw, Indian Trail. We serve the SC county only. If your land is in NC Union County, we're not the right crew.
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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.
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