Land Clearing in Aliceville, AL
Aliceville is the largest town in Pickens County, on low ground a few miles from the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. We open bottom land for hunting, bring back old pasture, and fix drainage with tracked machines.
Clearing, Mulching & Dirt Work in Aliceville
Alice Cochrane, the wife of the man who built the railroad, is who Aliceville is named for. The town dates from 1902 and is the largest in Pickens County. During World War II it held a camp for about 6,000 German prisoners of war, a story the Aliceville Museum still tells. Aliceville sits in the south of the county at about 180 feet, lower than Carrollton, Reform or Gordo, with the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway a few miles to the west.
Low ground near a big river is good land and wet land. Aliceville is inside our service area, and we take land clearing, forestry mulching and dirt work jobs here with tracked machines that go light on soft ground. The Tom Bevill Lock and Dam, near Pickensville, backs the waterway up into Aliceville Lake, and land along it is prized for hunting and fishing. Tell us what you have and what you want it to be. Call or text (205) 535-6376.
Bottom land and hunting ground
River bottom grows hardwood, cane and vines thick enough to stop a man walking. A mulcher opens it: shooting lanes, trails for a side-by-side, and food plot clearings, all without pulling a stump. Around Aliceville that ground has to be dry enough to hold a tracked machine, so plan the work for the dry end of the year. Our guide on when to cut hunting lanes and food plots covers timing. Close to the waterway, ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about wetlands first.
Water has to go somewhere
On ground this low, water is slow to leave. A yard, a drive or a field that holds water will keep holding it until somebody reshapes it. That is site work: ditches, swales, culverts and regrading so the fall runs away from the house and off the drive. See our site work page. Low Pickens County ground rewards doing the drainage first and everything else second.
Highways 14 and 17
State Highway 14 runs through Aliceville northwest to southeast, and Highway 17 runs northeast to southwest, up to Carrollton, the county seat. Old pasture gone to sweetgum, fence rows buried in privet and logging roads grown shut are all work for the mulcher. Timber and stumps are work for the dozer and excavator. Tell us which road you are off and what a trailer will meet at the gate. Our Pickens County land clearing page has more on this end of the county.
Work We Take On in Aliceville
Four services that fit the ground around Aliceville, plus everything else we do.
Forestry Mulching in Aliceville
Brush, briars and small timber ground to mulch where they stand. No piles, no hauling.
DetailsHunting Lanes & Food Plots in Aliceville
Shooting lanes, trails and food plots cut on hunting land and left ready to plant.
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Site Work in Aliceville
Access, drainage, culverts and finish grade, so the rest of the job can happen.
DetailsPasture Reclamation in Aliceville
Grown-up fields mulched back to pasture and hay ground, with the topsoil left in place.
DetailsEverything else we do in Aliceville
Do you clear hunting land near Aliceville and the Tenn-Tom Waterway?
Yes. We cut shooting lanes, open trails and clear food plot sites on private hunting land around Aliceville. The mulcher leaves stumps cut low and chips on the ground, so the soil stays put. Bottom land has to be dry enough to carry the machine. Land owned or managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along the waterway is theirs to manage, so know your line.
When is the right time to clear wet bottom land in Pickens County?
When it is dry enough to carry a machine without rutting, which in west Alabama is most often late summer through fall. If you want lanes and plots ready for deer season, that means calling well before September, while there is still time to do it right. Tracked machines help on soft ground, but saturated bottom land is better left until it firms up.
Does Down South Land Solutions take small jobs in Aliceville, AL?
Yes. A grown-up lot in town or half an acre behind a house is a normal job. Small jobs carry a minimum to cover loading and hauling the machine, and you hear that figure before you commit to anything. Aliceville is inside the eight counties we cover. Text a few photos of the lot to (205) 535-6376 and we can tell you a lot from those.
Real job photos. See recent work
How a Job Runs
Tell Us What You Have
Call, text or send the form. County, rough acreage, what is growing on it and how a truck and trailer gets in.
We Look at the Ground
Close by, we come and look. Farther off, we can go over it with you on satellite first, then see it on the ground before the work starts.
A Number to Plan Around
Estimates are free and priced off the property. Small jobs carry a minimum, and you hear the figure before you commit.
The Machines Go to Work
We settle what comes out and what stays. Mark the trees you want kept, or walk it with us and point them out.
Finished, Not Just Knocked Down
Holes filled, ground pulled back to grade, and the fall set so water leaves the site instead of standing on it.
Got Ground to Clear in Aliceville?
Call or text, or send a few details. Estimates are free.