Planning tools
Every tool here publishes the rules it evaluates. Nothing is scored behind the scenes, results are never held back for a form, and none of them has seen your land.
Three things are true of every tool here. The rules it evaluates are printed on the same page, in the same words. Results appear immediately and are never held behind a form. Nothing you enter is transmitted anywhere — the logic runs in your browser.
None of them has seen your land. They organise the questions; a person standing on the ground answers them.
Contractor-Type Selector: Which Trade Should Quote?
Identify which contractor category should be quoting your project, before you start calling people.
20 published rules
Mulch or Haul: The Material Decision Tool
Work out where the cut material should end up, and what that decision costs you.
12 published rules
Land Clearing Cost Estimator: Complexity, Not Fake Prices
Show how much more complicated your project is than the simplest one, and which factors are doing it — so you can read three quotes and understand why they differ.
22 published rules
Site Access Checker: The Measurements That Change the Price
Turn a handful of measurements into the access information a contractor needs before they quote.
17 published rules
Quote Comparison Tool: Find the Missing Line Items
Normalise several quotes against the same scope checklist, so a price comparison is a comparison of the same work.
19 published rules
Working out the project itself
The five above each answer one question. These three are broader: they help you organise a project, read the paperwork it produces, and prepare for the visit in between. All three are private to your browser and none of them recommends a method or a price.
Land Clearing Project Planner
Work through what you can observe, what it does not establish, and what to gather. Produces a printable preparation summary.
Site visit preparation checklist
What to measure, mark, photograph, and ask — ordered so the items with a lead time come first.
Scope and estimate decoder
Fifty terms that appear on clearing paperwork, what each does not establish, and the question worth asking about it.
Estimate comparison
Put two or three estimates on one baseline across structured scope fields, privately in your browser.
Why the rules are printed on the page
A planning tool that scores privately is indistinguishable from one that makes its answers up. So the engines on this site are not functions with a switch statement inside them — each one is a declared, ordered list of rules, and every rule carries the sentence shown to you when it fires.
That has consequences the code enforces. A rule with no explanation cannot be registered. Every published rule has to be reachable, and the test suite proves it with fixtures. And because the methodology section reads from the same array the engine evaluates, there is no second copy to drift out of date.
Work out the scope before you ask for prices
Say what is growing, how much land, and what it is for. The trade questions — stump depth, where the material goes, machine access — are there if you know them and skippable if you do not.
Nothing on this site is a recommendation of a specific company. The guidance describes categories of work and the questions worth asking. If you decide to request quotes, the introduction is free to you, contractors may pay to receive it, and you are under no obligation to hire anyone.