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Pine Removal and Lot Clearing on Acres Homes Land
Big lots, tall pines and brush along the fence line: Acres Homes land often asks for more than a single tree job. We remove, clear and grind here and answer 24/7.
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Acres Homes has 9 square miles of land, much of it in a pine forest, and its homesites were often divided by the acre, hence the name. Big wooded lots shape the work. Pines can come down with room to fall, brush gets cleared along fence lines, and stumps are ground so the ground can be mowed.
Local conditions
Acre lots and pine forest in Acres Homes
Acres Homes was established during World War I, when Houston landowners began selling homesites divided by the acre rather than by the plot. The farm room drew rural settlers, and in the 1920s most residents kept gardens and raised chickens and hogs. At one time it was the largest unincorporated African-American community in the Southern United States. The City of Houston annexed about 725 acres of it in 1967.
That history still shows on the land. Much of the community's 9 square miles is pine forest, and many residents own horses. On a lot that size, a job can mean clearing ground for a pasture, garden or new house as easily as a single removal. Brush and vine work by hand suits fence lines and pens where machines do not fit.
After Beryl, CenterPoint said three years of freezes, drought and heavy spring rain had weakened trees across its system. A weakened tall pine near a house or barn is a sectioned removal, not a felling job.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tdworld.com
Most called-for work
Work that fits Acres Homes acreage
- Land clearing in north HoustonAcres Homes land was divided by the acre, and clearing brush and small trees opens ground for a garden, pasture or house.
- Taking down a tall pinePines on wooded Acres Homes lots often have room to fall, though a house or barn nearby means sectioning instead.
- Forestry mulching in north HoustonOn larger acreage, a mulching head grinds brush in place under the pines and leaves a mulch layer instead of burn piles.
- Stump grinding in north HoustonGrinding old pine stumps lets a wooded lot be mowed and fenced without blades and post holes hitting buried wood.
- Underbrush and vine removalVines and thick brush along fence lines and around trunks are cut by hand where a mulcher would be too much.
Close by, see crews working in Inwood Forest, tree care around Oak Forest, crews working in Shepherd Park Plaza and tree care around Harris County, or the whole coverage map.
By hand near the fence and the animals, with saws and trimmers, then with a chipper or mulcher farther out where there is room. We ask that horses be moved to another pen while saws are running.
Yes. Trunks can be cut into rounds and stacked along the tree line, and limbs chipped and spread as mulch. Leaving wood cuts haul-off, though pine piles left near living pines can draw beetles.
Mulching suits brush and small trees when you want to keep the topsoil and the bigger pines. A dozer suits a full building pad where everything goes. Mulching leaves a chip layer, while dozing leaves piles to burn or haul.
It can if machines run over their roots. We flag the keepers and stay off their root zones, cutting by hand inside them. Pines that suddenly stand alone after clearing also catch more wind, so we check them afterward.
Clearing or pines on Acres Homes land?
Call a crew lead to walk the lot with you: which pines stay, which come down, and how far the clearing goes.