Management Services
Ground Spraying
Some tracts should not be sprayed from the air. Shape, size, and what sits on the boundary all point the work back to the ground.
Aerial application earns its keep on big, open, hard-to-reach ground. Plenty of tracts are none of those things. A small block, an odd shape, a neighbor with a garden on the fence line — any one of them can make a ground rig the better answer.
From the ground you get placement. The operator can see what is being treated, work around what should not be, and stay off ground that will not carry a machine that day.
We will tell you plainly which one your tract calls for. If the honest answer is that the ground is cheaper and just as effective on your place, that is the recommendation you will get.
What we look at on the tract
- Tract size and shape, and whether an aerial pass could even be flown cleanly
- Terrain, wetness and rutting risk — what the ground will carry and when
- Row spacing, stem height and how much of the target the boom will reach
- Stumps, ditches, gullies and anything else that decides the route
- Boundaries, buffers, water and neighboring crops or pasture
- The window the ground and the target both allow
How the work runs
You get the recommendation, the tradeoff against an aerial application where there is one, and firm pricing in writing before the work is scheduled.
Herbicides are mixed on site. Treated areas and skipped areas are walked and agreed before the rig starts, and someone accountable stays with the work — checking coverage and adjusting to what the ground is doing that day rather than what it was doing at the assessment.
Four stages, one accountable party.
- 01
Assess
We walk the tract and record what is actually growing there — species, conditions, access and the timing the site allows.
- 02
Prescribe
You get treatment options with the tradeoffs explained, and firm pricing in writing before anything is committed.
- 03
Prepare
Products, equipment and crews are lined up for the window we agreed on, and herbicides are mixed on site.
- 04
Supervise
Someone accountable is on site while the work runs, confirming treatment areas and answering questions as conditions change.
Also in Management Services
All services- Tree PlantingPlanting coordinated and supervised on the same terms as the spray work — assessed first, priced in writing.
- Burning OperationsBurning planned around fuel, weather and the conditions the tract will actually allow.
- Skidder ApplicationSkidder-mounted application for heavy stems and rough ground a lighter rig cannot cover.
- 4-Wheeler Banded ApplicationBanded application down the rows — treat the planted band, leave the rest of the tract alone.
- Backpack SprayingStem-by-stem work for spots, edges, streamside buffers and anywhere a boom does not belong.
Let's talk about your property.
Tell us where the tract is and what you are trying to fix. We will come look at it.
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