What is the nature of your property where you build your log home?
Is the property heavily wooded?
You can find someone local to do the clearing. Depending on what you want, all cleared or just make a clearing for the driveway, home and septic drain field.
Tell the guy with the big toys what you want. Where the home goes. Where the septic fields goes!
** It is Best for you to be there while the dozer work is being done. Otherwise, they might tend to knock down everything so you can plant grass everywhere. This would be common in the suburbs but not out in forested land.
Less grass = less mowing. Grass only over the septic field is a good work saving goal. Mulch everything else.
Clearing Trees. If there are trees that you want to save, put a yellow ribbon around them.
At our place, my wife and I went in first and sawed the tops off of trees where we wanted the driveway to be cut. We left 3 to 4 feet standing for the dozer to push over. A curved driveway is nice.
When done, we brought in a wood/tree chipper guy. They made three large piles of mulch from our trees. We used up in about 12 months or so. It cost the same to have all the trees hauled off. So we took that cost in free mulch.
** Note that you can take down trees while clearing the land. However, if you come back later and want to remove some trees, you may have to jump through the usual county environmental process hoops.
Your driveway can be curved or straight. Curved offers more character.
You are welcome . . . Jack
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