Six miles east of old Keowee, where the Cherokee Path once ran, we clear and shape Upstate land.
Six Mile takes its name from an old measure: it sat six miles east of the Cherokee town of Keowee along the Cherokee Path trade route. A folk legend gives the name to the Creek maiden Issaqueena, who is said to have marked her sixth mile here while riding to warn settlers of a Cherokee attack. That old path ran roughly along what is now Main Street, and the town still gathers there — the Issaqueena Festival fills North Main Street each year with live music, Cherokee performances, arts and crafts, food vendors, and a car show, while the new Stoddard Pavilion downtown gives people a place to meet. Water shapes the rest of town life. Mile Creek County Park sits on a peninsula of Lake Keowee with campsites, cabins, a beach, and boat ramps, and Warpath Landing adds public boat ramps and courtesy docks. Ponderosa Park keeps a playground, walking trail, and ball fields, and a stop on the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail marks the local heritage.
Custom Cut Land Works is a family business, and we're glad to call the Upstate home. Our roots are in Midwest farming, where we learned that land gives back the care you put into it, and that lesson carries into more than two decades of heavy civil construction behind us. Across Six Mile we take on clearing and grading, excavation and gravel driveways, bush hogging, and cleanup after storms and fallen trees. Our kids are growing up around this work, and we run on plain values of honest dealing, hard work, and real respect for the ground. On your land, we look after it like it's ours. We're licensed and insured, so call and we'll walk your property together.
Much of the land around Six Mile was cotton ground until the Second World War, when soil erosion and the boll weevil pushed farmers off it. We clear it so you can build, farm, or just see your property again. The dominant Cecil soils here carry a clay-rich subsoil and slopes that can reach twenty-five percent, and that heavy, sloping ground calls for clearing done with the grade in mind.
Mobile homes make up better than a third of the occupied housing in Six Mile, and a level, well-drained pad is what keeps any home, old or new, sitting right for the long haul.
Lake Keowee was created in 1971 when Duke Power dammed the Keowee River, and today it runs twenty-six miles long with about three hundred miles of shoreline. The Cliffs at Keowee Springs is a gated community in the Six Mile area with lakefront homes right on Lake Keowee.
Six Mile's main routes are easy to picture: SC-133 runs through downtown as South Main Street, and SC-183 meets Six Mile Road, the northern end of SC-137, as it crosses the area. A good gravel driveway needs a shaped base, a crown to shed water, and the right stone to stay put. We build and rebuild gravel driveways across Six Mile so you can get in and out clean in any weather.
Farm and fishing ponds with a compacted-clay dam that holds water.
The Six Mile area still has working farm ground, like The Happy Berry off Gap Hill Road, a pick-your-own farm growing blueberries, blackberries, figs, grapes, and muscadines since 1979. Fields, pastures, and roadsides go to seed fast here, and overgrowth along a drive like Keowee Baptist Church Road, which runs out toward Mile Creek County Park, can swallow a fence line. We bush hog pastures, lots, and road edges around Six Mile to keep them open and usable.
Around Six Mile, the gated community at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls overlooks Lake Keowee, and anywhere a mature canopy stands close to homes, a storm can bring limbs and whole trees down. We clear downed trees, hanging limbs, and storm debris across Six Mile so your 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
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October 2026
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October 2026
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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
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September 2026
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September 2026
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September 2026
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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 Six Mile, from downtown along South Main Street to the lanes off Six Mile Road and the lake side of town, with the farms and home sites in between.
Yes, we clear around homes of every age in Six Mile. The town set up its first post office in 1878, more than thirty years before it was formally incorporated in December 1910, so some properties here have been lived on for well over a century. Clearing near an established home means reading the lot first: protecting the trees worth keeping, watching for old foundations, wells, and buried lines, and keeping heavy equipment off anything that could settle or crack. We clear brush, scrub, and overgrown corners close to a home without treating the whole lot like a fresh field, so the place still looks like itself when we're done.
There's no bad season to clear land in Six Mile, but each one has its trade-offs. Late fall and winter are often easiest: the leaves are down, you can see the lay of the land, and the ground is firmer under heavy equipment. Spring and summer growth makes brush denser and wetter, which can slow a bush hog but is fine for most clearing. The main thing we watch is how saturated the ground is, since soft, soaked soil ruts easily and leaves a rougher finish. Dry stretches are best for grading and driveway work. Tell us your goal and we'll pick the window that fits.
Requirements for clearing land in Six Mile depend on what you're planning and where, so it's worth a quick check before any big project. Six Mile has no historic district and uses a contract Zoning Administrator rather than a full in-house planning department, which keeps the process straightforward for most residential clearing. For simple brush removal or maintenance on your own property, there's usually little in the way, while new building sites, driveways, and drainage changes can involve more steps. We're happy to talk through the scope with you and point you toward the right questions before we start.
Yes, we take on clearing and cleanup jobs right in the heart of Six Mile. The Town Hall grounds hold a Veterans Monument, raised by local citizens on July 7, 1991 to honor military personnel of all wars, and a 2018 marker commemorating the old Cherokee Path trade route. Working near a downtown with landmarks like those means being tidy and careful about access, hauling, and where equipment sits. Whether it's a tight town lot that needs brush pulled back or storm debris cleared from a yard, we keep the job clean and leave the public spaces around it respected.
What we like about working in Six Mile is that it's a town that still shows up for itself. The Issaqueena Festival's Go the Mile 5K sets off at 8 a.m. from Ponderosa Park on Ponderosa Drive, and in 2024 the town held its first State of Six Mile address, handing out awards to local businesses and nonprofits. That kind of town pride makes it an easy place to show up for in return.
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