Lapeer is the county seat and the point where M-24 meets I-69 and M-21, about an hour from Royal Oak. The city is ringed by farm country with woodlots, the Flint River and Farmers Creek bottoms, Nepessing Lake to the west in Elba, and the state game area land that starts just north of town and pulls hunters from all over the county. Lapeer Township south of the city, around Hunters Creek, is five- to forty-acre parcels on dirt roads.

The work splits three ways. Hunting parcels next to the game area need trails, lanes and plots. Farm ground needs hedgerows and woodlot edges pushed back. And the river bottoms along the Flint and Farmers Creek grow willow, dogwood and box elder that a mower cannot touch. We grind all of it into a chip layer in place; the bottoms get a frozen-ground date.

Where we work in City of Lapeer and Lapeer Township: the City of Lapeer, Hunters Creek, Elba, Mayfield and the M-24, M-21, I-69, Farnsworth, Hunters Creek and Davison road corridors.

Common Jobs in City of Lapeer and Lapeer Township

  • Hunting parcels bordering the state game area: trails, stand approaches, shooting lanes and food plots.
  • Field edges and hedgerows ground back to the line on the farm ground around the city.
  • River-bottom and creek-bank brush along the Flint River and Farmers Creek, cleared on frozen ground.
  • Wooded lots and building sites in Lapeer Township and Hunters Creek, cleared to the footprint and drive.
  • Commercial and industrial parcels along M-24, M-21 and the I-69 interchanges.
Morning fog on a Southeast Michigan river bottom. Bottomland brush is cleared on frozen ground.
Morning fog on a Southeast Michigan river bottom. Bottomland brush is cleared on frozen ground.
A mulching head taking down a dense thicket. What is left is a chip layer, not a burn pile.
A mulching head taking down a dense thicket. What is left is a chip layer, not a burn pile.

Questions We Hear in Lapeer

Do you clear hunting land near the state game area?

Yes. Private parcels along the game area border get trails, stand approaches, shooting lanes and plot ground cleared from August into October so the ground is settled before the season.

How do you handle the river bottoms?

On frozen ground. The Flint River and Farmers Creek bottoms are soft nine months of the year, so the willow and box elder along them are ground to a chip layer in January and February when the tracks ride on top of the frost.

Overgrown Ground in Lapeer?

Send the address and a few photos through the quote form, or call. You will get one project price for the whole job, travel included.

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