You cannot walk into your own back yard
Thorn, vines and brush have closed the way in, so the part of the property you paid for is somewhere you look at rather than go. One morning opens it back up, and the trees stay exactly where they are.
Small jobs · Geauga County
Most of it is an hour’s work.
A strip along the drive. The corner behind the garage. The tangle at the end of the lawn that nobody has walked into for ten years. You do not need a big job to call us, and you get the price before anything starts.
We are usually on a road in Geauga within the week. Send the address and we will tell you when we are next nearby — if it is your road, the machine is already coming out.
Land recovery and property protection · Northeast Ohio
We give you your land back, and we make it safe to use.
The brush, thorn and poison ivy that grew up under your good trees comes out, and what you get back is ground you can walk without watching your step.
From $295 for an afternoon's work to full estate restoration.
What people actually call about
There is poison ivy in it
Along the ground and up the trunks, right where you would put a hand out. It is the single fastest reason a family stops using the back of a property — and it comes out with everything else.
It is thick cover, and ticks live in thick cover
Deep shade over damp leaves that never dry, at the edge where the kids and the dog actually go. Clearing takes the cover away. Geauga cases doubled last year, so this is not a small thing here.
It looks like nobody lives here
The drive narrowing, the tree line creeping over the lawn, the corner gone wild. It happens a few feet a year, which is exactly why you stopped noticing — and why it is so obvious to anyone pulling in.
None of these are about tidiness. They are all the same thing — you own the land and cannot use it. Getting the run of your own place back is the whole job.
What it costs
Flat prices for defined areas. No project minimum, never by the hour.
Driveway or fence line
One sweep along an edge — a drive, a fence line, a corner that got away from you. Up to 500 sq ft
$295About an hour
Strip
A longer run along a line or an edge, about 10 × 100 ft
$495Half a day
Corner or back edge
Up to a quarter acre — the bit behind the garage, the end of the lawn
$750Half a day
Two or more on the same road the same day and you each get a $50 credit toward your next visit. The machine only comes out once, so the saving is real.
Bigger than this? Woodland restoration covers acreage, trails, ponds and open views, and the pricing page shows the whole ladder.
What actually comes out
Five things go. Everything worth keeping stays.
People say “land clearing” and picture a bulldozer and an empty lot. This is the opposite of that. Here is the actual list of what we take out of a Northeast Ohio property.
- 01
Prickly bushes thorn, briar, multiflora rose
The reason nobody has walked back there in ten years. You cannot mow it, you cannot pull it, and every year it takes a few more feet. This is the single thing most people call us about, whatever they end up calling it.
- 02
Poison ivy and the rest of the vines
Running along the ground and climbing the trunks, right through the tangle where you cannot see it until you are already in it. Vines are what turn an overgrown edge from untidy into genuinely unusable — and left alone, they strangle the good trees they are climbing.
- 03
Ticks and what holds them
The damp tangle at knee height is where they live — deep shade, wet leaves that never dry, and thick cover the deer bed down in. It sits between the house and everywhere the family walks. Take the layer out and you take away what they depend on.
- 04
Invasive brush mostly bush honeysuckle
The wall of green that leafs out before anything native and holds on after everything else has dropped. It shades out the forest floor, so nothing else grows, and it is the main structure the whole tangle is built on.
- 05
Crowding saplings one inch to eight inches thick
Not the trees you want — the volunteers that came up thick in the gaps and are now competing with the trunks worth keeping. Thinning them is what gives the good trees room and lets light back down to the ground.
And what is left standing?
The woods you already own. Northeast Ohio is maple and beech country — sugar maple, American beech, red oak, shagbark hickory, black cherry, birch in the wetter ground. Those trees are already there, full grown, and have been the whole time. They are just behind the tangle.
Nothing here needs planting. It needs uncovering.
The reason most people miss
There is a part of the yard nobody walks any more.
The prickly, thorny stuff at the back of the yard does not just block your view. It builds exactly what ticks need to survive: deep shade, a layer of wet leaves underneath that never dries out, and thick cover deer bed down in. The deer bring the ticks, and the tangle keeps them there. Much of it is bush honeysuckle, though most people just call it brush.
This is the part most people have not connected. That wall of green is not just untidy — it is where they live, and it sits right between the house and everywhere the kids and the dogs actually go.
It is rarely just brush, either. That same edge is where poison ivy runs — along the ground, up the trunks, through the tangle where you cannot see it until you are already in it. Vines are what make an overgrown edge genuinely unusable rather than merely ugly, and they come out with everything else.
Doubled
Geauga Lyme cases, 2025
Geauga Public Health issued an advisory in spring 2026 after confirmed Lyme cases in the county doubled over the previous year.
= Connecticut
Ohio's risk level, 2026
Ohio State researchers found the risk of encountering an infected blacklegged tick in Ohio is now comparable to Connecticut, where Lyme has been endemic for decades.
Lower
Tick risk after clearing
Work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that clearing out invasive honeysuckle cut the density of infected tick nymphs, by changing where the deer spend their time.
Clearing takes that layer out. The big trees stay, the canopy stays, and the wet tangle at knee height — the part that holds ticks and hides deer — is what goes. Research measuring invasive brush removal has found fewer of the young ticks responsible for most Lyme cases afterward.
To be clear about what that means: this is habitat work, not medicine. Clearing the brush takes away the conditions ticks depend on. It does not make a property tick-free and it is not protection from disease — keep using repellent and keep checking after a walk. We are telling you this because it is a real reason to do the work, not because it is a guarantee.
Sources: Allan et al., PNAS (2010); Bron et al., Journal of Medical Entomology (2021); Geauga Public Health advisory (2026); Ohio State University (2026).
Kept — the yearly plan
The lawn does not get mown once.
One pass is a strong first move, not a cure. Mulching knocks everything back and the result commonly holds for three to five years, but it does not kill the roots or empty the seed bank — so what happens in the first couple of seasons decides whether the ground stays open or slowly closes again.
Establish
Years one to three
From $195 / year
The window that decides whether the clearing holds. Cut stumps resprout and the seed bank is still live, so this is one visit a year while that settles — the cheapest possible version of the work, because it is catching growth at ankle height instead of head height.
Every property, for the first three years after clearing
Hold
Every two to three years
Quoted by area
Once it has settled, the main ground does not need annual attention. A pass every couple of years keeps it where it is, and most of what we take is thin regrowth rather than anything established.
Restored woodland and acreage that has been through Establish
Edges and trails
Yearly, or twice yearly
From $195 / year
The parts that genuinely do come back fast — the lawn edge, a drive line, a trail you walk, anywhere vines and thorn have light. High-traffic ground held open every season.
Trails, drive lines, lawn edges, pond surrounds
Clearing ground the first time is the expensive part. Holding it costs a fraction of that, because a season of regrowth on open ground is nothing like the tangle that was there before — and because a scheduled visit means the machine is already on your road. You can put one area on a plan and leave the rest — most people start with the edge they actually walk. A lawn mower for the woods. The lawn does not get mown once.
Ask about a plan →Questions
Is $295 a real price or a starting point?
A real price. A driveway, fence line or corner up to 500 sq ft is $295, a longer strip is $495, and up to a quarter acre is $750. We agree the number before anything starts and it does not change. There is no project minimum.
Do you really come out for a job that small?
Yes, and we would rather you asked. Most of what people call about is an hour or two of work. The way it works economically is that we clear a whole road in a day rather than making one trip for one small job — which is why if a neighbour wants theirs done the same day, you each get a $50 credit toward your next visit.
What actually happens to the brush?
Prickly briars, scrub and unwanted stems up to eight inches thick go in one end and clean mulched wood chips come out the other. The chips are spread where they fall and left as cover. Nothing is burned, nothing is hauled away, and no roots are pulled, so the soil stays put and the ground is walkable the same day.
Will you take my trees?
No. Every tree worth keeping stays. We walk it with you and show you which ones before anything starts. What comes out is the brush, the vines, the thorn and the crowding saplings — not the trees you have been looking at for twenty years.
How is this different from a brush hog or a landscaper?
A brush hog knocks material down and leaves a rough stubble, and it cannot handle stems more than a few inches thick. This grinds everything to a fine mulch and spreads it, so what you walk out onto is groomed rather than merely cut — and it takes stems up to eight inches. A landscaper with hand tools will quote you weeks for what this does in a morning.
Text us the address.
Send the address and we will tell you what it costs. If we are already working your road that week, we will say so.
The tree line took a few feet a year until the lawn got small.
It goes back where it was, and every tree stays standing.
A drive or lawn edge up to 500 sq ft is $295 and about an hour.
Ground you can walk without watching your step — because we take the cover out.
Without losing a tree worth keeping.