Put the whole site
into the estimate.

No. It is a planning range built from the assumptions you enter. It has not seen your access route, boundary, wet ground, rock or largest stem, and it does not verify permits, wetlands, utilities or feasibility. A site review does that and produces the actual price.

Because a crew day of mulching covers anywhere from a third of an acre to an acre and a half depending on what is on the ground. Until the site is seen, the honest output is a range, not a point — a narrow number this early would be a false precision.

The largest stem in the work area. It decides which machine comes and how many passes the work takes, and it moves the number more than the acreage does. If you measure one thing before using the calculator, measure that.

Less than people expect. Density, stem size, slope, access and finish drive production; acreage only sets how many production-hours of that you need. Two one-acre jobs can differ by a factor of three or more.

It is an estimate of how many machine-days the work represents, which is the real unit clearing is priced in. It is a screen, not a schedule commitment — the site review confirms it.

Which approach your inputs point toward — forestry mulching, a brush-hogging or light-mulching screen, a mixed-method or tree-work review, a specialist steep-terrain review, or a species-specific plan for knotweed. It is a starting point for the conversation, not a final method.

Because they limit the job in different ways. Slope limits what the machine can safely do; access limits whether the right machine can get there at all. A perfect machine for the work is no use if it cannot reach or turn on the site.

No. It runs entirely in your browser. The numbers stay in the page and appear in a shareable link only if you choose to copy one. Nothing is sent to us unless you submit a site assessment request.

Yes — copy the calculator link and the inputs travel in the URL, so anyone opening it sees the same result. You can also download a plain-text summary to attach to a request.

Extreme slope, difficult access or oversize stems move a project from "recommended before quote" to "required before feasibility", because those are the conditions where a photo-based range is most likely to be wrong and where safety has to be assessed in person.

The base range is the clearing pass. Hauling, stump removal, excavation, erosion control and permits are separate scopes with their own costs, some of which the calculator lets you add and some of which only a site review can price.

Use it to decide whether the project is the size you thought, then send a site assessment request with the summary and marked photos. The range answers "roughly how big is this"; the site review answers "what will it actually cost".