Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching in Rochester Hills, Michigan

Rochester Hills wraps around the smaller city of Rochester at the point where Paint Creek comes down out of Orion and Oakland townships and empties into the Main Branch of the Clinton River. The Paint Creek Trail follows the old rail grade down that same corridor, crossing Tienken Road on its way into town, and the lots along Adams and Tienken east of the river are subdivision and estate-size parcels with a creek or a low ravine cutting through the back of them. North of the city line, Oakland Township is a different kind of ground entirely: horse fence, big wooded lots and few subdivisions, bordered by Addison Township to the north and Orion Township to the west, with Stony Creek Metropark along its eastern line toward Washington Township.

A creek bank along Paint Creek or the Clinton River grows the same wall of box elder, grapevine and honeysuckle any Southeast Michigan waterway does, and it is steep enough in places that it needs to be walked before the machine goes near it. In Oakland Township the story is pasture and woods instead of banks: fence lines disappearing under autumn olive, and the oak stands behind the barn filling in with buckthorn until the horses can no longer see through them. We work both kinds of ground with the same machine, holding the bank with a chip layer on the creek lots and opening the pasture and the woods back up on the bigger parcels.