Land Clearing in Skiatook, OK

Clearing cedar and cross timbers ground around Skiatook

Eastern redcedar is the plant most Skiatook landowners are fighting. It spreads into pasture that is not burned or kept back, and left alone it can grow thick enough to crowd out the grass. Post oak and blackjack oak are the other trees most often in the way on the same ground.

Clearing with a machine means the cedar, the scrub and the small timber are pulled out rather than cut off at the ground. Rocky Osage ground can slow that down, which is one reason every job is looked at before it is quoted. The Tulsa land clearing page covers the service across the area.

Burn bans, burning rules and what happens to the brush

There are three ways to deal with what comes off the ground: leave it piled, burn it where the rules allow, or load it and haul it off. Each one is priced differently, so it gets agreed during the estimate.

Burning is not always allowed. Oklahoma has two kinds of burn ban, one declared by the Governor and one by a county's commissioners, and local rules can be stricter. Because Skiatook straddles two counties, the ban that applies depends on whether your land is on the Osage County or the Tulsa County side. Check Oklahoma Forestry Services and your county before anything is lit. The guide to burning land clearing debris goes through the rest.

Land near Skiatook Lake and Corps of Engineers ground

Skiatook Lake is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District. If your property backs onto land around the lake, know exactly where your line is before anything is cleared, and ask the Corps about anything on their side of it. A survey or marked corners settle the question before the machine shows up.

The same goes for any property line. Clearing the wrong side of a fence is a hard thing to put back.

From cleared ground to a building site in Skiatook

Clearing is usually the first step in something else. Once a house site is open, the next jobs are an access drive, a pad and trenches for service lines, and they can follow straight on with the same operator. The Skiatook service area page covers the dirt work that comes after the clearing, and the land clearing cost guide explains what moves the price.