Home of the tap dancer who made more appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show than any other.
Fountain Inn took its name from a post office set at the spot in 1832, and after the Civil War, Noah Cannon bought land near the old inn, opened a store, and laid out the lots that became the town. It gave up its 1886 charter and was reincorporated under South Carolina law in 1912. Downtown still carries that history. The 1939 Art Deco building on North Main Street, built by the Public Works Administration, became the Civic Center for the Performing Arts, and the old Ellison Flour Mill on Ellison Street, built in 1940 and 1941, now runs as a brewery, food hall and event venue called The Mill at Fountain Inn. The town also produced Robert Quillen, whose 'Aunt Het' cartoon panel was syndicated to nearly 400 newspapers across the US and Canada.
Custom Cut Land Works is a family company, proud to call the Upstate home. We learned the land early, working family farms where you tend the ground and it tends you back, and we bring decades of heavy civil construction experience to home sites, farm pastures and driveways for neighbors here. Across Fountain Inn we take on clearing and grading, excavation and gravel driveways, bush hogging, and the cleanup after storms and fallen trees, for the town's older homes and its new builds alike. We run on honesty, steady work and respect for the land, and when we're working your property, we leave it the way we'd want our own left. We carry a license and insurance for the work we do.
Fountain Inn's new growth has gathered along the SC Highway 418 corridor off I-385 Exit 23, where 402 single-family building permits came through in 2024. Clearing a raw lot for one of those home sites means reading the land first, marking what stays, taking down what's in the way, and hauling off the brush and stumps so a builder can set a foundation on open, workable ground. We handle that first cut across Fountain Inn, from a wooded acre to a corner that needs opening up.
Good grading decides where water goes long after the trucks leave. We shape home sites, pads and yards across Fountain Inn so the finished grade is ready for whatever comes next.
Fountainbrook, the newer single-family and townhome community about a mile from Fountain Inn's historic downtown, is the kind of tighter site where excavation calls for a light touch. Digging footings, utility trenches and drainage on lots like these means working clean around neighbors and finished surfaces. We bring the machines and the care to move earth precisely across Fountain Inn, from a foundation dig to a drainage trench to a low spot that needs opening up.
Out on Fountain Inn's western side, Fairway Oaks sits as an established single-family neighborhood next to Fox Run Country Club, the sort of area where a long approach to the house earns its keep. A gravel driveway wants a firm, graded base and a crown that sheds water so stone doesn't wash or rut. We build and refresh gravel drives across Fountain Inn, shaping the ground underneath so the surface holds up to daily traffic and weather.
Farm and fishing ponds with a compacted-clay dam that holds water.
Overgrown fields and pastures around Fountain Inn turn into thick brush faster than most folks expect. Bush hogging knocks down tall grass, saplings and briars so land reads as open again. We mow the pasture, the back acre or the lot you want to see across, and keep it manageable.
Fountain Inn keeps plenty of older houses, from Craftsman bungalows like the 1914 F. W. Welborn House on North Weston Street to the 1922 McDowell House on Main Street. When a storm drops a limb or a tree near a home of that age, cleanup takes a careful hand, since older framing and finishes don't forgive a dropped log. We clear downed trees, broken limbs and storm debris across Fountain Inn and haul it away so the property is safe and open again.
We meet you on the property, hear the plan, and flag the problems that cost money before they cost you any.
A written scope and a real number. No surprises, no upsells.
The right machine for the job, and the owner in the seat.
Graded and tidy, ready for whatever comes next.
Custom Cut Land Works
Based on 6 Google reviews
Chris Graham
October 2026
Excellent experience from start to finish! They were quick to respond, got the job done in a timely manner, and were professional throughout the entire process.… Read more
Greg Brescia
October 2026
Outcome was great! Brian has done multiple jobs for us with the best results! Highly recommend
Adele Secoy
October 2026
Brian is brilliant. He is punctual and carries out his work with such professionalism. We had trees cut and a little grading. His prices were very competitive… Read more
Brad Dumpling
September 2026
We hired Brian to redo our 950-foot gravel driveway and clear about an acre behind the house. He did a great job. Brian was the only one who looked at the real… Read more
Katie Coleman
September 2026
I had a great experience with Custom Cut Landworks! Brian was professional, reliable, and did an excellent job from start to finish. He brought in the necessary… Read more
Kelsey Kissner
September 2026
I hired Brian to remove about 6000 sq ft of fully mature two-story tall bamboo from my backyard. From start to finish he was great: friendly, professional, expl… Read more
Family-owned, and the owner runs the machine on your property. You deal with Brian from the first stake to the final grade.
Cleared material is mulched, hauled off, or burned legally. Buried debris settles into sunken driveways and cracked slabs years later.
More than twenty years in heavy civil construction, from the Ravenel Bridge to the I-385 Gateway, brought home to driveways, home sites, and pastures.
We walk the land and quote what your property actually needs. A real number, not a guess over the phone.
Fully licensed and insured. The SC811 locates, county rules, and erosion controls are ours to handle, never your fines.
We cover all of Fountain Inn, from the historic downtown and its established neighborhoods to the newer home sites rising along the Highway 418 corridor.
Yes. Fountain Inn's downtown holds some of its oldest structures: the Cannon Building at 100 North Main Street, built in 1880, is the oldest surviving commercial building in town and joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, while the Robert Quillen Office and Library on North Main was listed in 2012. Working anywhere near a building with that kind of age calls for room and patience. You keep equipment back from old foundations, protect root zones on mature trees, and take material down in controlled pieces rather than dropping it. On an older property, clearing is as much about what you protect as what you remove, and that's how it should be approached anywhere in town.
Land clearing can happen year-round in Fountain Inn, but the calendar matters. The growing season here runs about 7.7 months, from around March 24 to around November 13, so brush and undergrowth come back fast through the warm months. Clearing later in the season or over winter often means cutting into less regrowth, and the ground tends to be firmer and easier on equipment once summer's wet spells pass. That said, a job that needs doing gets done when you need it. The season simply shapes how quickly a cleared lot stays clear and how the soil behaves while the work is underway.
Yes. Established subdivisions like Eaglewatch and Heritage Creek sit within Fountain Inn's city limits, and we work throughout neighborhoods like these. On a lot inside a built-out subdivision, the work is usually about finishing rather than raw clearing: grading a yard, opening a drainage line, clearing a back section that has grown up, or shaping a spot for a shed or drive. The key on a settled lot is working clean around fences, utilities and neighbors, and leaving the ground graded so water moves the right way. We bring equipment sized to the job so a tight lot doesn't take a beating.
Every Fountain Inn lot is a little different, so the honest answer is that the ground gets read before the work is quoted. Clearing and grading depend on how much slope a site has, how the soil drains, and how many trees, stumps and roots are in the way. Low-lying ground and dense soil can trap water, which affects how a pad is built and where drainage needs to run. The surest way to know what your land needs is to walk it, and we're glad to do that with you and lay out a plan before anything moves.
On a Fountain Inn clearing job, everything that comes down, trees, stumps, brush and limbs, has to go somewhere, and we clear it away so you're left with open, usable ground instead of a pile to deal with. Depending on the site, cleared timber can be chipped, hauled or stacked, and stumps ground or pulled so the land grades flat.
Free written estimate. See the price before any work begins.
