Site Development
We cut house pads and driveways into sloped lots and dig for the foundation. Your build starts on level ground.
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Land clearing opens up an overgrown lot or a stretch of acreage so you can use the ground. Sanders Contracting clears brush and small trees with excavators, then pulls the stumps. Our dump truck hauls the debris off the property. Land clearing is one of our main lines of work as a demolition contractor in Murphy, North Carolina.
Tell us what the land is for, and we clear it to fit. It might be a new house, a driveway, a pasture or a view. For a house, our site development work cuts the pad and the driveway once the lot is clear. Call or text (828) 342-1467, and we look at the land and put the quote in writing.
Tell us what you need done and where the property is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
A wooded mountain lot has to be opened up before a house can go on it. Clearing usually starts at the road and follows the driveway route up to the house site. Have the house corners and the driveway line staked, and we clear inside the stakes.
Around the house site, we clear working room for the trucks that come later. The brush and stumps all leave in the dump truck. The lot is then ready for the house pad and the driveway cut.
If an old shed or cabin sits on the lot, we can tear it down first. Its debris rides off in the same dump truck.
Stump removal starts with the bucket. The excavator digs around the stump to loosen it, then lifts it out with the root ball. The large excavator handles the big stumps, and the small one works in tight spots.
On a house site, every stump under the pad and the driveway comes out. The state's erosion control manual says ground that will take fill gets cleared of trees and roots first. Its list of what stays out of fill includes logs and stumps.
Old stumps in a yard or a pasture come out the same way. We fill the holes back in, and the stumps leave in the dump truck.
On mountain land, brush removal can mean rhododendron and mountain laurel. The extension service lists mountain slopes among mountain laurel's homes and calls it a dense shrub. The same service says great rhododendron is concentrated in the southern Appalachians and has shallow roots. Our excavators dig these shrubs out by the roots, along with briars and saplings.
For pasture, we clear the ground and pull the stumps so a mower can run over it. For a view, we clear the brush and small trees on the slope below the house. Large trees, or trees close to a house, are tree removal work.
The same erosion control manual says stripping the ground cover leaves a site open to faster erosion. On building sites, state law keeps an undisturbed buffer of 25 feet or more along streams classed as trout waters. Our hydroseeding work puts seed and mulch on cleared ground so grass can hold it.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 100 miles around Murphy across western North Carolina, north Georgia and east Tennessee.
(828) 342-1467From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (828) 342-1467 or (828) 361-8764 with the address and what has to come down or get cleared.
We look at what has to come down and how the excavator gets in. Steep lots and soft ground change how a job runs.
You get the quote in writing, with the work spelled out. When you say yes, we set a date.
You have the utility shut off power and gas. The public lines get marked through NC 811 before any digging or demolition.
The excavator takes the structure down and the dump truck hauls the debris off. We leave the lot cleaned up and ready for what comes next.
Common questions about land clearing around Murphy and the rest of the tri-state area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We cut house pads and driveways into sloped lots and dig for the foundation. Your build starts on level ground.
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We take down dead and leaning trees with the excavator and haul the wood off in the dump truck. We also trim and prune limbs and handle storm cleanup.
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Retaining walls that hold a driveway or a house pad on a sloped mountain lot. You choose the material, and every wall gets drainage behind it.
Learn MoreWe are based in Murphy, in Cherokee County. We take jobs across the tri-state area where North Carolina meets Georgia and Tennessee.
A large excavator and a small one do the tear-down. Our dump truck hauls the debris off, so one company handles the whole job.
We look at the job before we price it. You get the quote in writing, with the work spelled out.
Land clearing cost per acre in North Carolina: what national cost guides list by how thick the growth is, and the state's one-acre erosion rule.
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What tree removal costs in North Carolina: national cost guide ranges by tree height, what raises the price on a mountain lot, and what insurance covers.
Read more →Tell us what has to come down or get cleared, and where the job is. Call or text (828) 342-1467 or (828) 361-8764, or send the form, and we set a time to look at it.
Tell us what you need done and where the property is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.