Slope Mulching
Clear Up To 55° Slopes!
How we can help you
Professional Slope Mulching Services
Before & After
Our remote-controlled Forest Mulcher is engineered for efficient, all-terrain land clearing, capable of handling steep slopes up to 55° safely and effectively. Shredding dense vegetation like gorse, blackberry, and bamboo, it leaves a composting mulch layer that prevents regrowth and promotes soil health. Unlike traditional methods like scrub cutting or spraying, GRazer’s mulching machines fully clear the land, making it immediately accessible. Serving the North Island, GRazer NZ offers flexible hourly rates and capped budget options tailored to your needs for both slope mulching and comprehensive vegetation control services.
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Civil and Conservation Sites
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Golf Courses & Cemeteries
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Parks, Reserves, & Walkways
Orchards, Vineyards, Wetlands, & more
Mulching Benefits
Revitalise your land with our mulching services
Mulching isn’t just about clearing away overgrown vegetation—it’s an effective and eco-friendly way to rejuvenate your property, creating a healthier environment for plants and preventing future issues. This natural ground cover not only inhibits weed growth but also enriches the soil, retains moisture, and reduces soil erosion. With added benefits like fire risk mitigation and improved soil health, our mulching solutions make ongoing land management both efficient and sustainable.
Boosted Soil Health
Mulch enriches soil with nutrients, insulates roots from temperature extremes, and protects against erosion, retaining moisture and reducing water needs.
Fire Breaks
Mulching a strip of dried-out vegetation and creating a mulched fire break, reduces risk and adding protection for your property during warmer months.
Effortless Weed Control
Mulch effectively suppresses weeds by blocking sunlight, preventing seeds from germinating. This reduces the need for weeding or herbicides and simplifies property maintenance.
FAQ
Revitalise your land with our mulching services
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We can and do. Our commitment to health & safety and environmental impact mitigation is ongoing, and we are part the SHE Local Government Contractor Health & Safety Pre-qualification Scheme. The physical advantages of Grazer’s machines mitigate many environmental concerns like rutting, erosion and access damage. The need for traffic management alongside carriageways is reduced due to the small size of the machines. Because they are remote-controlled, most of the personnel health and safety concerns associated with vegetation management are also mitigated.
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Generally no, however there is usually some disturbance where the machine turns in a restricted area.
When our Grazer machines operate with spikes attached to their tracks they do tear the ground more, but we like to think of it as ‘lightly aerating the soil’. When traveling over driveways, the spikes can be covered with protective ‘boots’ to prevent damage.
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Considering the work it does, it is not too noisy. As an operator I wear ear protection but that is mainly a health & safety long-term sound exposure precaution.
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The ground needs to be free of rocks and definitely free of wire. As an operator I am always vigilant for major obstructions.
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Grazer’s operating height is a great advantage. Being remote controlled, the operator can stand back from overhangs. Grazer is just over 1 metre high, but can push the mulching attachment in under lower branches.
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Because tracks have quite a large ‘footprint’-to-weight ratio, our Grazer machines are very capable on soft ground.
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This depends on the flail, material and machine speed, but in any case the mulch is definitely of a quality to suppress regrowth before breaking down.
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Every job is different, the time varies based on the terrain, slope, density and height of the vegetation are all factors that are considered.
It’s well worth getting an estimate from us – after all our experience they’re fairly accurate.
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Every job varies.
Grazer is far faster, safer and yields better results than brush cutting or weed trimming. It can go places where bigger machines can’t, and do a whole lot more work than anything smaller.
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Get in touch with the GRazer team and we will talk through access constraints. The machine is 1.25 meters wide, and it can traverse obstacles via ramps or be lifted in by crane or helicopter.
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Yes, along with blackberry, jasmine, gorse and a whole range of other kinds of vegetation.
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No, sorry. Like almost all other mechanical cutters, the tough fibres in flax (harakeke), cabbage tree (ti kouka), raupo (bullrush, cats tail), and wild green ginger wrap around the cutters and seize the machine. Flax isn’t acceptable at green waste refuse centres for the same reason.
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We adhere to strict health and safety standards, so only trained operators are permitted to use these machines.
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Item dHeight is not usually an issue as in most cases, as you will see from our videos and before/after images.
The forest mulching attachment is capable of tackling thick, tall material such as mature gorse and bamboo 200-300 mm thick. For material taller than that, the forest mulcher will cut down, flatten and then mulch in a few passes.
The flail mowing attachment is capable of mowing mature tall grass, thick vegetation and scrub, and if necessary we’ll do a couple of passes to get a nice finish.
Our machines are ready to handle tough, hard-to-reach terrain and make land accessible again, safe from regrowth and primed for future use. Contact us today to discuss your project or request a free estimate.