From overgrown half-acre lots to wooded acreage — cleared, hauled, and left build-ready by a family crew that treats your land like our own.
“Land clearing” covers two different jobs, and knowing which one your property needs is where a good quote starts. Clearing removes what’s above the ground — brush, saplings, trees. Grubbing goes further and pulls the stumps, roots, and buried debris out below grade, and only grubbed ground is ready to build on. So we scope by zone: mulch the back acreage you want open, grub the pad where the house is going.
The cheap shortcut in this trade is burying debris in a pit on site — it decays and settles for years, and turns into sunken driveways and cracked slabs long after the contractor is gone. We never bury debris. It’s mulched into the land, hauled off, or burned legally with the SC Forestry Commission notified. The compliance is ours to carry too: SC811 utility locates before any ground opens, county land-disturbance rules, erosion controls. You never hold the fines.
We walk the property with you and flag what stays and what goes — keep-trees get marked and protected before any machine arrives.
Brush and trees come out; where you’re building, stumps and roots get grubbed out below grade so nothing settles under your slab.
Mulched into the land, hauled off, or burned with the SC Forestry Commission notified — never buried on site.
Rough-graded, erosion controls in place, ready for the pad, driveway, or pasture you cleared it for.
Clearing for construction is two jobs: taking down what’s growing, then grubbing the stumps and roots out below grade. Organic material left under a future slab rots and settles — so on build sites we clear it, grub it, and leave a pad-ready footprint.
We clear the footprint plus working room, grub the roots out, and rough-grade the pad so your builder starts on firm, clean ground. Debris is hauled, mulched, or burned legally — never buried where your slab is going.
A spot cleared, cut level, and compacted so it doesn’t rut, with a gravel surface that sheds Carolina rain. We can trench power and water out to the pad in the same visit.
We cut the corridor and grub the stumps out from under the drive line — roots left under a driveway settle into dips — then shape the ground so whatever surface goes on top lasts.
Old fence lines disappear into briars and saplings fast. We cut the line back to workable ground ahead of your fence crew, and flag wire, posts, and keep-trees before any machine touches the growth.
Tree company gone but the stumps are still there? We grind or dig them out based on what’s next for the ground — grinding below grade where lawn is going, full root-ball removal where anything will be built or paved.
It depends on acreage, how dense the growth is, and how machines get onto the property. That’s why every land clearing job starts with a free site walk — you get a real written number for your land, not a guess over the phone.
Yes — clearing for house sites is a big part of what we do. We clear the build envelope, cut in access for equipment, and can grade the pad and driveway as part of the same job.
Yes. Selective clearing is often the right call — we remove the undergrowth, saplings, and problem trees while protecting the hardwoods that give a property its character.
Your choice: hauled off, mulched back into the ground, or staged for firewood. We price the options during the site walk so nothing surprises you.
It depends on the trees and stumps in the footprint and how much pad work the site needs — most shop and barn sites get cleared, grubbed, and rough-graded as one written price after a free site walk.
Free written estimate. See the price before any work begins.
