The town halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte — clearing, grading, and driveways for Central.
“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.
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. 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.
Not for most small residential jobs — Pickens County's permit threshold is one acre of disturbance, or less if the site is part of a larger common development plan. At that point the county Stormwater Office gets involved and state coverage requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan. Slope and creek proximity still matter below the threshold, especially with Twelve Mile Creek running through town, so we grade with erosion control either way.
Free written estimate. See the price before any work begins.
