Services

From The First Cut To Final Grade

Every property starts in a different place, and every project has a different finish line. What matters is getting the ground from where it is today to where it needs to be for whatever comes next. We offer the equipment, capabilities and local resources to handle the job from start to finish.

Primary service

Land Clearing & Site Preparation

Taking a wooded or overgrown parcel and turning it into ground somebody can build on.

  • Clearing to the marked limits
  • Stumps and roots pulled
  • Usable timber separated out
  • Debris hauled off
  • Building pad shaped, leveled, and tracked in

Selective clearing is common on coastal lots. We can clear out the scrub and undergrowth, leaving the live oaks and the good pine. Just let us know which trees should stay and which ones have got to go.

Access road cut and grubbed through standing timber on a Brunswick County lot

Demolition

Houses, mobile homes, garages, sheds, decks, slabs and pilings.

  • The structure comes down and the material gets separated as it goes
  • Everything leaves on the truck, so you are left with a lot, not a debris field
  • Overgrown properties set back in the woods
  • Tight sites on small lots next to a neighbor’s house

Demolition permits and utility disconnects go through the county and the utility before anything starts. Ask and we will walk you through the order it happens in.

Excavator taking a two-story coastal home down to the pilings

Grading

Getting the dirt to sit where it should.

  • Building pads, yards, drives and lots cut, filled and pitched
  • Water running off instead of standing against a foundation or across a driveway
  • Final grade around a new home
  • Backfill along a foundation
  • Yards put back after a build or a demolition

This is flat, sandy country with a high water table. On most lots around here the difference between a yard that dries out and a yard that stays soft is a few inches of fall in the right direction, decided at grading and very expensive to change afterwards.

Waterfront yard graded and shaped around a home near Holden Beach

Gravel Driveways

New drives cut in from the road, and existing drives rebuilt.

  • Base shaped and compacted, stone laid and rolled
  • Ruts and potholes cut out and rebuilt, not topped with a fresh layer that disappears into the same hole by spring
  • Culverts and pipe at the road
  • Turnarounds, parking aprons and equipment pads

Drainage is what decides whether a drive lasts or not. A drive that holds water is a drive you rebuild every other year.

Finished gravel driveway curving to a home under a mature oak

Excavation

General dirt work with the trackhoe.

  • Footings and foundation digs
  • Utility and drainage ditches
  • French drains and culverts
  • Small ponds, stump holes and burn pits
  • Backfill and compaction on the way back out

Also the awkward jobs that are too big for a skid steer and too small to interest a heavy-civil outfit. The ones that get quoted high by everybody else because they would rather be doing a subdivision.

Tracked excavator working in tall pine on a Brunswick County job

Bush-Hogging

Knocking overgrowth back down to something you can walk across and see the shape of.

  • Vacant lots and fence lines
  • Ditch banks and fields
  • Trails and the back half of properties that have gone a few seasons without attention
  • Regular knock-downs on land being held or listed

Often the right first step before anything else. A lot you cannot walk is a lot nobody can quote properly. Cut it down, then decide what actually needs clearing.

Excavator clearing heavy undergrowth on an overgrown lot

Hauling & Trucking

Hauled in or hauled off.

  • Topsoil and fill dirt
  • Sand, rock and stone
  • Debris and demolition material
  • Delivery on its own: stone for a drive, fill for a low spot, topsoil to finish a yard

Owning the dump truck is why a clearing price here includes getting the material gone. It does not come back later as somebody else’s line item on somebody else’s schedule.

Red dump truck being loaded with debris for haul-off

How to get a number

Easy as one, two, three

One

You send it over

Address, rough size, and what is standing on it now. Enough to know whether it is a morning or a week.

Two

We size it up

Access, slope, what is standing, where the water goes, and where the material can go. If it needs eyes on it, we set a time to come look.

Three

You get a number

For what the job actually involves. It costs nothing to find out, and there is no obligation either way.

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Where we work

Southern Brunswick County

We typically work south of Hwy 211, because that is where we have the most resources, but we do make exceptions. It never hurts to ask. Click below to get in touch and we can discuss your project.

  • Holden Beach
  • Supply
  • Varnamtown
  • Shallotte
  • Ocean Isle Beach
  • Sunset Beach
  • Calabash
  • Carolina Shores
  • Ash
  • Longwood
  • Southport
  • Oak Island
  • St. James
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