Richard Bardy
2026-09-01
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beyond 5 Stars! If you have a complex land, grading, or drainage issue, look no further than Brian at Custom Cut Land Works. We hired Brian to rework ou… Read more
Grading and land work at the five-way crossroads: Woodruff, Batesville, and Bennetts Bridge roads.
Five Forks is named for the crossroads of Woodruff, Batesville, Scuffletown, Bennetts Bridge, and Five Forks roads: farmland into the early 1990s, now one of Greenville County's most sought-after suburbs. We work established neighborhoods like Kilgore Farms, Gilder Creek Farm, and Five Forks Plantation, plus the wooded parcels at the edges where old pasture is still converting. The Cecil red clay packs hard and sheds water when graded wrong, so grading is a drainage job as much as a dirt job, and that's how Brian scopes it when he walks your lot.
Heavy brush to whole wooded lots. Cleared, hauled, and left build-ready.
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Laser-checked levels and slopes that drain the way they should.
Pads, trenches, and site prep dug right the first time.
A proper base and a real crown, so the driveway survives Carolina rain.
Farm and fishing ponds with a compacted-clay dam that holds water.
Custom Cut Land Works
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Richard Bardy
2026-09-01
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beyond 5 Stars! If you have a complex land, grading, or drainage issue, look no further than Brian at Custom Cut Land Works. We hired Brian to rework ou… Read more
Greenville County, not Simpsonville. Five Forks is unincorporated, so the county's Land Development office handles it: disturbing an acre or more, or increasing peak runoff by more than one cubic foot per second, triggers a county Land Disturbance permit, and stormwater-quality rules start at 10,000 square feet of disturbance. Erosion and sediment controls are required on any land-disturbing work, and many neighborhoods here also have HOA covenants worth checking before clearing tree lines or changing grades near property lines.
It can. Much of Five Forks drains to Gilder Creek, and Greenville County requires stormwater design in that watershed to handle the 50-year critical storm instead of the standard 25-year storm, a real difference for detention and drainage work near the creek. On top of that, the Cecil red clay here compacts easily, barely recovers from compaction, and turns nearly impermeable if worked wet. So we grade at the right moisture and loosen compacted subgrade before topsoil or gravel goes down.
Call or request a free site walk. We meet you on the property, look at the actual ground, and give you a written scope and price on the spot.
Your written quote covers everything — we price the whole job up front after the site walk, so there are no travel surprises or add-ons later.
Free written estimate. See the price before any work begins.