Describe your project

The same five gates, in a form. A properly described project gets comparable quotes; a vague one gets four prices for four different jobs.

Published by the Land Clearing Authority editorial team · Last revised 2026-07-29 · Editorial policy · Corrections

The questions below are the five gates. Answering them properly is what makes the quotes you receive comparable — and it is what stops a contractor filling the blanks with their own defaults.

Where, and whose land

ZIP code *

Used to match the project to a market. Only the first three digits are ever reported in analytics.

Ownership or authorisation *

Kind of property

Changes who is the right contractor more often than the acreage does. A commercial or municipal parcel is quoted, insured, and scheduled differently from a back lot.

Add an approximate location

Approximate location

A road name or a nearby landmark is enough. Do not enter a full street address — nobody needs it to quote, and this form does not ask for one.

Gate 1 — what is on the land

Area to clear *

What is growing *

Largest trunk diameter

Measure the biggest one, not the average. An estimate is fine — it is the single most useful thing you can tell a contractor. Leave it if you do not know.

Add how thick the growth is — it drives the hours more than the acreage

How thick it is

Gates 2 and 3 — material and depth

Where the cut material should go

The largest cost fork in the job. Leave it if you do not know.

What should happen below the ground line

Grinding, full removal, or leave them. Leave it if you do not know.

Add what the surface has to be like afterwards

Grading expectation

Gate 4 — access and site conditions

Equipment access

How a machine would reach the work area. Leave it if you are not sure.

Add terrain, drainage, and what is near the work area

Terrain

How wet the ground gets

What is near the work area

Gate 5 — what the land is for

Intended use *

Timeline *

I want this quoted as combined work across more than one trade. Leave unticked and the project goes to a single category — which usually produces clearer, more comparable quotes.

Anything else worth knowing

Trees you are keeping, a crossing on the drive, old fence wire, a date that matters.

This cannot be sent

Consent to share the project description with contractors was not given.
Contact details are incomplete, so no contractor could reach you.

How a contractor reaches you

Your name *

Email *

Phone *

Preferred contact method *

I agree that this project description and my contact details may be shared with independent contractors in the matching category so they can contact me about it. *

When you choose to submit a project, the details you provide may be shared with independent contractors in the matching category, who may pay for the introduction. That payment is for the introduction only. It does not buy an endorsement, a ranking, or a place in any guidance on this site, and no contractor sees your project before you decide to send it. Contractors are not vetted, screened, background-checked, or verified by this platform. Confirm licensing, insurance, and references yourself before work begins. What happens to your details

Not ready — work out the scope first

What happens to this

No contractor is engaged in any territory yet, so it is recorded and reviewed by Land Clearing Authority rather than passed to anyone. Where a territory has an independent contractor engaged, a matching project is passed to them and they may pay for the introduction. Until then nobody is standing by to call you, and this page will not pretend otherwise. It is not published, not sold on, and not shared with anyone outside the matching category. Nothing is sent until you submit it.

Your project information is recorded and read.
If a participating contractor covers your territory and category, it goes to one of them — never to several at once — and they contact you directly.
If none does, nobody is sent your details and you should not expect a call. The result page says so plainly rather than leaving you waiting.
Nobody guarantees that a contractor makes contact, or how quickly. The planning tools on this site work either way.

The five gates, in order

What is there — What is actually growing on the land?
Material fate — Where does everything you cut end up?
Removal depth — How far below the surface does removal have to go?
Access — Can the equipment get in, work, and get back out?
End use — What is the land for once the work is finished?

Not sure yet?