Union is the county seat of Union County, South Carolina — not to be confused with Union County, NC near Charlotte, which is a completely different place. The town of Union sits between the Broad River to the east and the Pacolet to the west, surrounded by rolling Piedmont ground that was cotton country a century ago and is mostly timber, pasture and hunting land today. The old textile mills are quiet now, but the land around Union is still working land, and that's where A&S Brushworks comes in.
We run a Kubota SVL 97-3 with an FAE forestry mulching head out of Rock Hill, about 50 to 60 miles up the road. Union is a real drive for us, and we're upfront about that. But when the job is right — a couple acres of pasture gone to saplings, a hunting tract that needs lanes and trails, a logged piece of ground full of slash — the trip is worth it for both sides. We schedule Union area work in batches when we can, and we give honest quotes before we roll.
What the Land Looks Like Around Union
Union has a mix of in-town residential lots and wide-open rural acreage once you get a few minutes outside the city limits. The residential work we do here is mostly on bigger lots — a half-acre or acre-plus property where the back third has gone wild with sweetgum, privet, pine volunteers and thick underbrush. Inside town, people want their property usable again without the mess of burning or the expense of hauling off debris. The forestry mulcher grinds everything in place and leaves a mulch layer that holds the soil.
But the real volume of our Union work is outside town. The land around Union is classic Piedmont — red clay, mixed pine-hardwood stands, creek bottoms thick with brush, and old pastures that revert fast when they're not maintained. Landowners out here are dealing with fields that came back in ten-foot sweetgum in three years, fence lines buried under vine and briars, and timber tracts left rough after a harvest. That's all forestry mulcher work, and we handle it up to about eight inches in diameter at the stump.
Hunting Land and Timber Tract Work
A good share of the land around Union is leased or owner-hunted. Deer, turkey, hog — the county has all of it, and the timber tracts and river bottoms hold game well when the habitat is managed right. We cut shooting lanes through hardwood bottoms, open up bedding areas by thinning understory, run ATV trails from gates back to stands, and clear food-plot sites down to bare dirt-ready ground. All with the mulcher, all in one pass, no burning or hauling.
Timber-harvest cleanup is the other big category. When a logging crew pulls out of a tract around Union, they leave tops, slash, stumps and a general mess behind. The forestry mulcher turns that into flat, walkable ground with a chip layer on top. Landowners use it to convert logged ground back to pasture, prep it for replanting, or just make it huntable again. We've done this on tracts from five acres to forty out in the Union area.
Pricing and Scheduling for Union Jobs
Forestry mulching runs $1,500 to $5,000 per acre depending on density. Light pasture regrowth with saplings under four inches — that's the low end. Heavy mixed hardwood and pine pushing our eight-inch limit, logging slash, tangled vine and briar thickets — that's the upper range. Union County ground varies tract to tract, so we price after seeing it, either in person or from good photos and aerial views.
Because we're driving roughly an hour from Rock Hill, Union jobs work best when they're big enough to justify the trip. A couple of acres minimum is a good rule of thumb, though we can sometimes batch a smaller job with another Union-area trip the same week. We give free estimates and we'll tell you honestly if a job is too small or too far to make sense for our setup. Call Corey or Sam at (336) 467-4572 and we'll figure it out.
Other Services in the Union Area
Beyond forestry mulching, we handle brush removal on fence lines and property boundaries, site prep for new structures like barns, shops and cabins, trail clearing for horse and ATV use, and easement clearing along power lines and rural utility corridors. The Broad River corridor east of Union and the creek bottoms running through the county all generate easement and right-of-way work that our mulcher is built for.
We also do driveway cuts through wooded tracts — clearing a path from a road back to a build site or camp. If it grows and it's under eight inches, we can mulch it flat in a single pass. No chainsaw crews, no chipper trucks, no burn permits. One machine, one operator, clean results.
Questions about Union jobs
Yes. We serve Union, SC, the county seat of Union County, South Carolina. This is the town between the Broad and Pacolet Rivers, about 50–60 miles from Rock Hill. We do not work in Union County, NC (Monroe, Waxhaw, Indian Trail area near Charlotte). Different county, different state.
Pasture reclamation typically falls in the $1,500 to $5,000 per acre range depending on what's grown back. Light sapling regrowth on old pasture is toward the low end. Thick mixed regrowth with larger trees pushing our eight-inch diameter limit costs more. We walk or review the tract before quoting a firm number.
Yes, that's one of our most common jobs in the Union area. We cut shooting lanes, thin understory for bedding areas, run trails from gates to stands, and clear food-plot sites. The mulcher handles it in one pass — no burning, no debris piles. Works well on the timber tracts and river-bottom land around Union.
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