Questions about site prep & ponds

Clearing the footprint, cut and fill, grading the lot, building the house pad, cutting in the drive and handling water on the lot. We do the parts your land needs, which is why every estimate is different.

Yes. That's who we're getting the ground ready for. Tell us who's building and what they need from the pad, and we'll work to it.

Yes. A shop, garage, shed or pole barn pad is the same work at a smaller size: clear it, level it and build a base that holds.

It's the level, compacted base your slab is poured on: cut and filled to the right height, rolled in lifts, with the top finished flat and the sides sloped so water runs off.

It depends on the size of the pad, how much fill it needs and the weather. We'll give you a straight answer when we've seen the lot.

A soaked pad can't be rolled tight, so we build pads when the ground is dry enough to compact. If it's too wet, we'll tell you and wait rather than leave you a pad that settles.

Yes. Most of the ponds we're asked about are for farm and hunting land: water for cattle, fishing and bass ponds, and ponds for ducks and deer.

A low spot where water already gathers, in ground that holds water, with room to get machines in. We'll walk your land and help you pick it.

Yes. On a slope, the low side gets a dam built up in rolled lifts so it holds the water back.

Opening the dam so the water drains, digging out the muck and digging the basin back out, building the dam back in rolled lifts, cleaning up and letting the pond fill again.

Often, yes. A leaking dam or a silted-in basin is what renovation is for. We'll walk it with you and tell you straight what it needs.

Yes. Digging the basin back out to a good depth is part of most renovations, once the water is down and the bottom has dried enough to work.

Yes. Show us the trees you want to keep and we'll clear around them.

If you're building, clearing, so the ground can be graded. If you just want the brush gone, forestry mulching is often the better fit.

A mulching head on a track loader grinds brush and small trees into mulch right where they stand. Nothing is piled or hauled off.

Yes. We dig out the bad spots, rebuild them and fix the crown or ditches so water stops sitting in the drive.

Yes: roads to barns, ponds and the back of the property, crowned to shed water.

It depends on what you need it for: walking and checking the fence, or room for a new one. We set the width with you when we walk it.

Often, yes. Regrading so the ground falls away from the house, sometimes with a swale, is usually the fix. We'll look at it with you.

That's usually the easiest time, while the machines are already on site. Mention it when we walk the land.

Our focus is residential land. If you have something bigger, call and we'll talk it through.

Yes. We come walk your land with you, talk through what it needs and give you a number. It costs you nothing.

Call or text (334) 320-8389 or use the form on our contact page to tell us where the land is and what you want on it. We'll set up a time to look at it.

Yes. You can text (334) 320-8389 the same way you'd call it.

Monday to Friday, 7 AM to 7 PM. You can call or text anytime.

Because no two pieces of land are the same. How much has to be cleared, how much dirt has to move and how easy it is to get machines in all change the number. We'd rather see your ground and give you a real one.

Where the land is, what you want on it (a house, a pond, a drive) and anything you know about getting a machine in. If you have a builder or a plan, mention it. That's enough to get started.

About 50 miles around Montgomery, AL, give or take. If you're near the edge, ask.

Montgomery, Prattville, Troy, Auburn and Opelika, AL, and the country in between. Each town has its own page under service areas on this site. Selma, AL is inside the radius too.

Residential land is our focus: homeowners, landowners, farmers and ranchers, and hunting land. If you have something bigger, call and we'll talk it through.

Montgomery, AL. We're a service-area business, so we come to your land.