Overgrown fence lines cleared of trees, brush and hedge — ready for new wire, posts, or a clean property line.
Serving Wichita, KS & Sedgwick County
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Fence Line Clearing
A fence line that has not been cleared in a decade is not a mowing job. Around Wichita it is usually Osage orange, honey locust, hackberry and volunteer elm growing straight up through the wire — and once the trunks reach three or four inches, the fence is no longer holding them, they are holding the fence. We clear the line back to workable ground so you can pull old wire, set new posts, or simply get a mower down it again.
We work both sides of the line where access allows, cut the growth off at or below grade, and chip or haul the debris. Where you are replacing fence, we clear a wide enough corridor for a post driver and a skid steer to actually operate — not just a footpath.
Two things stack up here. First, the hedgerows: Osage orange was planted across Sedgwick County as living fence and windbreak long before woven wire was common, and it is close to indestructible — it resprouts hard from a cut stump and its thorns will flatten a tractor tire. Second, birds. Fence lines are perches, perches drop seed, and a line that is not mowed for a few seasons becomes a nursery for hackberry and elm.
The practical result is that the growth in a neglected fence line is usually older and denser than it looks from the road, and the wood is harder than the surrounding trees. Homeowners who start the job themselves usually stop about forty feet in.
These are different jobs and worth telling us apart when you call. If you are running new fence, the priority is a clean, wide, stump-free corridor on a straight line — grinding matters, because a hedge stump will stop a post driver dead. If you are reclaiming an existing line and keeping the fence, the work is more selective and slower: we take out what is damaging the wire while leaving the fence standing.
Acreage owners should also know that clearing a fence line is the cheapest storm-damage prevention available. The leaning deadwood that comes down across a fence in a spring line of storms is almost always growth nobody cleared five years earlier.
It depends far more on what is growing than on the length. A line of light volunteer brush and small elm can run several hundred feet in a day. A mature Osage orange hedgerow with trunks six inches and up is slow, heavy work and may be a hundred feet or less per day, because the wood is dense, the thorns are hard on equipment and tires, and the debris volume per foot is much higher. Access matters too — if we can get a chipper and skid steer down both sides, everything speeds up. Give us the rough length and a description of what is growing when you call and we will give you a realistic day count rather than a guess.
No, and often you should not. We routinely clear lines with the old fence still standing, because the wire actually helps us see where the property line runs once the brush is down. If you are replacing the fence entirely, we can clear straight through and let you pull wire afterward, or work around it if you want it salvaged. What does help is flagging anything you want protected — a corner post, a gate, a buried line, a water hydrant. Hidden wire and old T-posts inside a thicket are the main thing that slows a crew down, so tell us what is in there if you know.
We can, and if you are setting new posts you should plan on it. A ground-off hedge stump is the difference between driving a post where the line needs it and moving the post two feet because there is a root ball in the way. Grinding is also far more practical than digging on Osage orange — the root systems are large and stubborn, and excavating them tears up more ground than the fence job needs. It is most efficient to grind while the equipment is already on site for the clearing rather than mobilizing a second time, so decide before we start if you can.
Ready to get started? Call (316) 330-9524 for a free, no-obligation estimate anywhere in Sedgwick County.
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