Forestry Mulching
We grind standing brush, saplings and small trees into mulch with a mulcher head on our tracked loader. The chips stay on the ground and hold the soil in place.
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Petersburg sits on a bend of the South Branch of the Potomac. Patterson Creek Mountain ends just north of town, and North Fork Mountain rises west above Cabins. That puts flat river bottom and steep rocky slope on the same property. Fields grow up in multiflora rose and saplings, and lanes cut into those slopes wash out.
Marloy Hill Enterprise is a land clearing and excavation company based in Augusta, in Hampshire County. Petersburg and the rest of Grant County sit inside the area we cover. We haul in a mini excavator and a tracked loader with a mulcher head for stump removal and clearing. Estimates are free, so call or text (540) 327-1400.
Tell us about the job and the ground. We will get right back to you.
Grant County is farm and forest country. Cattle, hay and poultry houses fill the valley floor along the South Branch. The South Branch valley counties, Grant included, raise most of West Virginia's broilers and turkeys. Around those farms sit large wooded tracts, and a lot of that ground is held for hunting.
Open ground closes in fast once it stops being grazed or mowed. Multiflora rose, autumn olive, briars and saplings take a field back in a few seasons. Brush hogging cuts that growth off at the ground so the field can be mowed again. Where stems are thicker than a wrist, forestry mulching grinds them into a chip layer instead.
Fence rows go the same way, and a grown-in line hides corners and makes new wire hard to run. We clear those lines back so a fence crew has room to work. On bigger tracts, the same machines open trails and shooting lanes through the timber.
Petersburg sits near 950 feet. North Fork Mountain starts just west of town and runs over 4,500 feet at its high point. Between the two are hollows and benches where camps, cabins and houses go in. Getting there means a lane that holds up on grade.
Soil on those slopes is shallow, with rock close to the surface. That sets how deep a cut can go and where a pad will sit. We shape the ground that is there, then crown a gravel driveway so water sheds off the side.
A new drive tying into a state road needs an entrance permit from the West Virginia Division of Highways. That covers Route 220, Route 28 and Route 55 around Petersburg. We can set where the drive meets the road before the permit goes in.
The valley here sits in the rain shadow east of the Allegheny Front. The South Branch drainage gets about 30 to 35 inches of rain a year. That is less than most of West Virginia. Those averages hide what a single storm does on thin soil over rock.
The South Branch has a long flood record at Petersburg, with high water in 1924, 1936, 1949 and 1985. The 1985 flood was the largest ever recorded in this basin. Grant County has a floodplain ordinance that covers work in the mapped flood areas. On bottom ground we sort out what the county needs before dirt moves.
Away from the river, the trouble is usually a hillside spring or water running off a bank at the house. French drains and drainage trenches pick that water up and carry it past the building. We dig the trench, set pipe and stone, then grade the surface so runoff follows it.
Petersburg is the county seat, and the roads out of town reach most of Grant County. Our area runs north up Lunice Creek through Arthur, and out Route 42 to Maysville at Mays Gap. Patterson Creek ground around Lahmansville and Greenland is the same run for us.
South of town, Route 220 passes Landes on the way toward the Smoke Hole. Route 28 and Route 55 head west along the North Fork through Cabins and past Hopeville. Camps, cabins and hunting tracts fill those hollows, and their lanes need keeping open.
We are based in Augusta, in Hampshire County, and Grant County is part of the area we cover. Estimates are free and we look at the ground before we price it. Call or text (540) 327-1400 with an address and what you want done.
Communities and areas we serve around Petersburg: Cabins, Dorcas, Arthur, Maysville, Lahmansville, Hopeville, Jordan Run, Landes, Kline Gap, Greenland, Petersburg Gap, Smoke Hole Road.
Petersburg ZIP codes served: 26847, 26855, 26833, 26731.
Free estimates throughout Grant County and the surrounding area.
(540) 327-1400 We grind standing brush, saplings and small trees into mulch with a mulcher head on our tracked loader. The chips stay on the ground and hold the soil in place.
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We cut overgrown fields, pastures and fence rows back down to open ground. A brush cutter on the mini excavator reaches banks, ditch lines and fence rows from level footing.
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We dig stumps out with a mini excavator, root ball and all. The hole gets backfilled and bladed level so the spot can be mowed or built on.
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Mini excavator digging for trenches, ditches, driveway cuts and dirt work. We clear and dig on the same trip across Hampshire County and the Eastern Panhandle.
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We level pads, smooth rutted ground and shape lots after clearing. The finished grade sends water away from your buildings instead of toward them.
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We cut in new gravel driveways and lanes on rural lots, and regrade drives that have rutted or washed out. The surface gets crowned so water runs off the drive instead of down it.
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We install French drains and drainage trenches that move water away from houses, cabins, barns and driveways. The mini excavator digs the line, then pipe and washed stone go in so the ground drains.
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We clear grown up fence rows and property lines on farms and acreage across Hampshire County. The row comes back to a clean line your fence crew can work from.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Petersburg. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us where the property is and what you want the ground to do. Call or text (540) 327-1400, or fill in the form and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the job and the ground. We will get right back to you.