Duncan is building fast — 400-plus new homes coming, one exit from BMW.
“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.
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.
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, plan on paperwork even for a small job — Spartanburg County requires a land-disturbance permit application for sites under one acre, and state stormwater coverage starts at one acre disturbed. Many Duncan-area subdivisions also have HOAs, so driveway extensions, drainage changes, or clearing may need sign-off under your covenants before the county side starts. We sort both out up front.
Free written estimate. See the price before any work begins.
