Steep-angle, remote-access, and high-hazard forestry mulching.
Terrain
Steep slopes, remote access, high-hazard work
This is the work. Forestry mulching on ground a skid steer should not be on, with the equipment to do it.
Steep-angle hillside woods and hollows
Remote access where a truck or larger machine will not go
Creek banks, lake edges, and dam walls
Brush mulched in place, not dragged out
BeforeAfter
Forestry
Invasive species removal
Mulch the understory that has taken the stand. Follow-up so it does not come right back.
Bush honeysuckle, autumn olive, multiflora rose
Callery pear, Bradford pear, and tree of heaven
Privet, burning bush, Japanese honeysuckle
Cut-stump and follow-up treatments where they are needed
Forestry
Responsible land clearing
Forestry mulching to open ground that has grown shut, including the steep and remote parts of the property, without stripping soil or hauling brush off-site.
Overgrown woods, fence rows, and field edges
Steep ground and remote corners of the tract
Around homes, barns, and outbuildings
Selective clearing that leaves desirable trees
Forestry
Timber stand improvement
Once the brush is down, tend the stand so oak, hickory, and crop trees can actually grow.
Property and stand walkthroughs
Crop-tree release and understory reduction
Remove competing and poorly formed stems
A plan for the next few seasons
Wildland fire
Mechanical fuel conversion
Wildland fire fuel work on the same steep and remote ground. We strategically turn wildfire fuels into surface mulch. This is not prescribed fire.
Convert ladder and brush fuels to a surface mulch layer
Leave mulch on the ground instead of a burn pile
Break up fuels that would carry fire into the canopy
Work around timber you want to keep
Wildland fire
Fire and fuel breaks
Surface mulch laid out as lines a fire has less to cross, and as lanes you can use.
Mulched corridors along ridges, roads, and property lines
Breaks sized to the stand and the slope
Access to homes and to water supplies
Tied into existing lanes, fields, and ponds
STRAKER
Fire & Forestry
Southern Indiana WUI
Defensible space for homes
Homes on oak-hickory ridges sit in the wildland-urban interface. We build the zones with the mulcher: gravel at the structure, thirty feet of fuel conversion, then thinned woods beyond.
0–5 ftImmediate zoneNoncombustible gravel or rock against the structure. No mulch, brush, or firewood against the walls.
5–30 ftFuel reductionForestry mulching converts ladder fuels to surface fuels and mulch. Open the understory so fire has less to climb.
30–100 ftExtended woodlandThin brush and keep spacing in the oak-hickory stand. Crop trees stay. This is the southern Indiana WUI edge.
Wildland fire
Defensible space
Turn the fuels around a structure into surface mulch so fire has less to climb and crews have room to work.
Around homes, cabins, barns, and outbuildings
Reduce brush, ladder fuels, and dense understory near walls
Keep mature trees where they belong
Mulch in place so the ground stays covered
Not sure which service you need?
Most first jobs start as a site visit, whether the customer is residential, commercial, or a utility. Tell us the slope, the access, and the hazard, plus the acreage and whether you need land clearing, invasives, timber stand improvement, or wildland fire fuel work. We do not offer prescribed fire.
