Bush Hogging & Field Mowing
Pasture, hay fields, food plots, fence lines and lots that have gotten away from you. One-time cutting or on a schedule through the season — and we're based right here, not driving down from Valdosta.
- Insured
- Free Estimates
- Priced By The Acre
- Local to Cook County
What we cut
- Cattle pasture — knocking down what the cows won't eat so the grass they will eat has room
- Hay fields — clipping after cutting, and cleaning up field edges
- Food plots and hunting land — plot maintenance, shooting lanes, camp roads and firebreaks
- Vacant lots and acreage that need keeping down
- Fence lines, ditch banks and pond dams
- Orchard and grove floors — mowing between the rows
- Commercial and county property on a maintenance schedule
Recurring maintenance beats an annual rescue
Most people call about a field once it's already waist high. We'll cut it — but there's a cheaper way to own a field.
Cutting on a schedule costs less per acre than cutting once a year. An overgrown field is slow going: the cutter has to work harder, the tractor moves at a crawl, and what should be a morning turns into a day. Field kept on a rotation is fast work, and fast work is cheap work.
There's an agronomic argument too. Cutting before weeds and volunteer scrub set seed keeps them from spreading across the whole place — which is how a pasture problem becomes a pasture project. Timing matters more than most people expect.
If you run cattle or cut hay, ask about a seasonal schedule. We'll set a rotation that fits your grazing and haying, quote it by the acre, and you never have to think about it again. Cook, Berrien, Lanier, Tift and Colquitt counties.
The equipment
A Kubota L4802 tractor with a Land Pride rotary cutter — a proper bush hog, not a finish mower. It handles standing grass, weeds, briars, small saplings and the kind of volunteer growth that takes over a field in a season or two.
For anything past what a cutter will take — heavy scrub, brush thick enough to stop a tractor, saplings turning into trees — that's a forestry mulching job, and we run that too. One call either way, and we'll tell you honestly which one your field needs.
What it costs
Priced by the acre. What moves the number is how tall it's gotten, what's growing in it, and how open the field is — a clean square pasture cuts faster than one full of gullies, stumps and tight corners.
Fastest way to get a number: text photos and the address to 229-437-4800. Acreage can be measured off satellite — no need for anybody to drive out just to look at a field.
Common questions
How tall is too tall?
Rarely too tall to cut — it just changes the price and how long it takes. Chest high with saplings coming through may be better mulched than mowed, and we'll tell you that instead of grinding through it and billing you for the time.
How often should a pasture be cut?
Depends on the grass, the rain and whether you're grazing it. Most South Georgia pasture wants cutting a few times through the growing season, roughly April into October. We'll look at your field and give you a straight recommendation.
Do you do small lots or just acreage?
Both, though there's a minimum job — hooking up the tractor and hauling it costs the same whether the field is one acre or ten. If you've got a small lot, ask and we'll be upfront about whether it's worth it for you.
Can you cut around ponds, ditches and terraces?
Yes. Pond dams, ditch banks and field edges are normal work. Point out anything hidden — old fence wire, pipe, stumps, irrigation — before we start, because those are what damages a cutter.
Do you work outside Cook County?
Regularly. Nashville, Lakeland, Sparks, Ray City, Alapaha, Hahira, Tifton and Valdosta are all normal. Larger acreage jobs, we'll go further — call and ask.
Related services
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Forestry MulchingFor what a cutter won't take
Land ClearingReclaiming grown-up ground
- Orchard & Land ManagementGrove floor mowing
- Property CleanupsResidential & commercial