Selective clearing on a wooded tractCedar and understory brush taken out, the mature oaks left standing, and the ground raked clean. The tree cover a place keeps is a choice, and it gets made before the machine starts.
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Stock tank cleaned out and the flat reworkedSame tank, same fence line, one season apart. The brush came off the flat, the pond was dug back out and reshaped, and the banks were pulled to a grade that holds instead of sloughing in.
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Old trailer and shed taken out, lot opened to the waterA mobile home and a metal shed gone, the lot cleared and leveled, and the good trees left where they stood. What was a place you could not walk through is a lot with a view of the dock.
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Stump ground out, yard put backGround out below grade and the hole filled, so the mower goes over it and the grass closes back in. A stump cut flush is still a stump; the job is not done until the yard forgets it was there.
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Cutting in off the road above the lake · GrafordOpening a building site out of solid cedar on a ridge above Possum Kingdom. The swath runs from the road in, the brush goes to one pile for hauling, and the hardwoods worth keeping are still standing.Cleared and shaped beside a new build · GrahamBrush off, ground worked flat and the fall carried away from the new building. Red dirt like this is worth shaping while the machine is still on site -- it is a different job once it has set up hard.Cleared to the line you drawThe edge is the whole job. Everything on one side comes out, everything on the other stays, and the line is where you said it would be.Working through heavy brushGrubbing a brush-choked pasture back to grass. Roots come out with the top, or it all grows back in two seasons.Forestry mulcher for the light stuffWhere the growth is small enough, the mulcher grinds it in place and leaves the chips as cover. No burn pile, no haul-off, no bare dirt.Dozer and root rakeThe rake blade is what separates clearing from mowing. It pulls the brush up by the roots and shakes the dirt back out on the way, so what leaves the place is wood and not your topsoil.Fresh tank, holding waterA pond is a dirt job with a water problem attached. Dig it where the draw feeds it, key the dam into ground that will seal, and it holds.Pad built and boxed in Graham · GrahamBase rock brought up level and compacted inside fresh concrete, with the approach poured flat to the street. The pad is the part nobody sees once the building is on it, and the part that decides whether it sits right in ten years.Finished house sitePad under the slab, drive approach cut to meet the concrete flat, and the yard cleared and prepped around it. The part of the job you stop noticing the day the house goes up.Building pad, cut and rolledPad cut, shaped and rolled out to the stakes, with the fall carried away from where the slab goes. Get this part right and the concrete crew has nothing to argue with.Driveway rebuilt in Jacksboro · JacksboroA long drive between two houses, re-rocked the full width and crowned so the water leaves at the edges. Wide enough that a truck and trailer can pull through without anybody dropping a wheel off the side.Drive and carport pad in Perrin · PerrinFresh rock run all the way under the carport and out to the road, graded flat where it is parked on and given fall where it is driven on. The muddy spot by the shop is usually the reason people finally call.Drive and shop approach in Graford · GrafordRocked from the road to the shop door and squared off where the trailer gets backed in. The bare strip on the right is the next pass -- the yard gets shaped back once the heavy traffic is done.Trenching across pasture · Strawn and GordonStraight, square-walled trench cut across open pasture with the spoil windrowed on one side so it goes back in clean. Dug to depth the first time beats chasing a shallow line later.Gravel drive, base laid and crownedFresh base rock laid the full width from the gate back, crowned so water runs off the edges instead of cutting a rut down the middle. Cheap driveways are the ones you rebuild every spring.Building the pad upDirt pushed and built up to make the pad, before any of it gets shaped or rolled. Cut the high side, fill the low side, and keep the water running away from where the slab is going.Finish grade around a build siteThe last pass is the one people walk on. Blade it smooth, hold the fall away from the structure, and leave it ready to seed or rock.Lot cleared corner to cornerA lake lot taken down to clean, level dirt and the debris loaded out rather than pushed into a pile at the back. When the trailer leaves, there is nothing left for you to deal with.
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