Municipal & Institutional terms

Removing trees and woody brush from a stormwater basin floor and its embankments, where roots can weaken the embankment and growth can block the outlet.

See Basin and embankment de-woodying

A short document a contractor gives public buyers that sets out what it does, its equipment, coverage and how to contract with it.

See Capability statement

A small tracked machine with loader arms at the front that carries interchangeable attachments: mulchers, brush cutters, grapples and buckets. Rubber tracks spread its weight, so it can work slopes, soft fields and lawns that wheeled equipment would rut. Huntly runs a Cat 285XE.

See Equipment and attachments

Pennsylvania’s cooperative purchasing program, run by the Department of General Services, which lets registered local public bodies buy from suppliers on state COSTARS contracts.

See Procurement questions

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the state agency responsible for wetlands, waterways and the state Phragmites cost-share program.

See Permits on coastal ground

Late fall through winter, when deciduous trees and shrubs are leafless. Stems are easy to see, the ground is firm or frozen, and nesting and roosting seasons are past. As general guidance in Pennsylvania, cutting of larger trees is commonly timed to the October 1 to March 31 window, when bats are not roosting in trees.

See What shapes the cost

A mulching attachment built around a horizontal rotating drum fitted with fixed teeth. The drum is lowered onto standing vegetation and reduces it to chips in a single pass, which suits brush, saplings and small trees.

See Forestry mulching

The measures that keep soil on a site while ground is disturbed: silt fence, stabilized entrances, mulch cover and staged work. In Pennsylvania, earth disturbance of 5,000 square feet or more needs a written E&S plan (25 Pa. Code § 102.4). Whether a mulching scope counts as earth disturbance is a question for the approving body.

See Water, slopes and permits

Clearing brush, saplings and small trees by grinding them where they stand with a mulching head on a tracked carrier. The chips stay on the ground as a layer that holds soil and slows regrowth, the roots stay in place, and nothing is burned or hauled away.

See Forestry mulching

A clamping attachment that picks up and moves logs, limbs and storm debris, and stacks merchantable timber into a deck for the owner.

See Storm cleanup

How much weight a machine puts on each square inch of the ground it stands on, usually given in pounds per square inch (psi). Wide tracks lower it. Lower ground pressure means less rutting and compaction on paddocks, lawns, marsh edges and wet rights-of-way.

See Pasture reclamation

Loading debris or material onto trucks and taking it off the property. Mulching leaves wood on site, so haul-off is needed only for non-organic debris or material the owner wants gone, and it is quoted as its own line.

See What shapes the cost

An auxiliary hydraulic circuit that sends a larger volume of oil to the attachment than a standard circuit. Drum mulchers and heavy brush cutters need that flow to run at full speed, so a high-flow machine finishes more ground per day than a standard-flow one.

See Equipment and attachments

A neat stack of cut logs at a landing or the road end of a corridor, placed so a truck can load it later.

See Drives and lanes

Logs of a size and quality that have sale value as lumber or pulp. On Huntly work they are decked on the property for the owner rather than ground or hauled away.

See Drives and lanes

A permit under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for stormwater from construction. In Pennsylvania, earth disturbance of one acre or more generally needs NPDES permit coverage (25 Pa. Code § 102.5), arranged by the owner or their engineer.

See Water, slopes and permits

A strip of land along a road, utility line, drainage ditch or trail that the owner of the right has the legal right to use and maintain. Keeping it clear of woody growth keeps access, drainage and sightlines working.

See Drainage and right-of-way clearing

The strip of trees, shrubs and grasses along a stream, river or pond that filters runoff and holds the bank. Buffer ground is flagged on the site walk and left alone or worked by hand unless the scope and any permits say otherwise.

See Water, slopes and permits

The clear line of view a driver or rider needs at an intersection, driveway or trail crossing. Sightline work removes the brush and low limbs that block it.

See Sightline remediation

A private walk of the property with the owner before anything is priced or scheduled. It records access, what stays, water and wet ground, and the finish wanted, and a written scope follows it.

See Plan a site walk