Helping Tame Your Wild Acres
Based in Barkhamsted, CT
Serving Northern CT and Southern MA
Forestry mulching turns overgrown brush, invasive plants, and saplings into mulch right where they stand — no burn piles, no hauling, no scarred ground.
A look at recent jobs, start to finish.
One machine, one pass. Our mulcher grinds brush, saplings, and invasive growth into fine mulch that stays on your land and feeds the soil as it breaks down — instead of scarring the ground or leaving a pile to burn or haul away.
Before we started putting out every wildfire, nature handled this job itself — fire would sweep through every few decades, clearing brush and saplings so bigger trees had room to grow. We don't let that happen anymore, and for good reason. Forestry mulching is the next best thing: it does what fire used to do, minus the smoke and the risk.
This kind of equipment can handle huge commercial tracts, but this machine is a different size class — built for the half-acre of brush or closing tree line most homeowners actually deal with. At about 6 feet wide, it fits through a standard gate, works carefully around what you want to keep, and finishes most properties in a single day — no crew, no trucks, no torn-up lawn.
Forestry mulching handles a lot more than the obvious overgrown lot. Some of the jobs we get called for most:
Reclaim land that's grown in over the years.
Clear brush that's taking over and creating tick habitat.
Open sightlines and access back up along property boundaries.
Cut new trails through wooded land, ready to walk or ride.
Push back a tree line that's creeping onto the lawn.
Open up frontage for swimming, fishing, or just the view.
Open up a sightline without clear-cutting the woods around it.
Create defensible space around structures and property lines.
Reclaim grown-in entrances and edges along the road.
Third Hand Earthworks started in 2017 doing standard excavation work — grading, driveways, general dirt work. In 2022 we shifted focus to forestry mulching, and it's been our specialty ever since. Still small, still local, still just us — no corporate overhead, no big crew.
Started out doing standard excavation work — grading, driveways, general dirt work.
Shifted focus to forestry mulching — it's what we do best, and all we do now.
Small crew, local jobs, no corporate overhead — just us and the equipment.
Day-to-day job photos on Instagram, weekly time-lapse clips on YouTube.
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“My goal is five star service every day!”
— William, Owner
The fastest way to reach us — tell us about your land in the form below.
We usually respond within a few hours.
Prefer to talk it through? Call or text any time.
We walk the property together, talk through what you want cleared, and give you a free, no-pressure estimate — a straight price based on the actual work, with no surprises once we start.
One machine, one pass — brush and saplings become mulch right where they stand. Most residential jobs wrap up in a single day, with no burn piles, no hauling, and no scarred ground left behind.
The fastest way to reach us — fill out the form below. Prefer to talk it through? Call or text any time.
Mon–Fri: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sat–Sun: Closed
No hauling. No burning. No dumpsters. No worries — naturally.