Stump Grinding
Stump grinding for lawns and yards. Full stump removal with the excavator when the ground is getting cleared or built on.
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Dirt work is the part of a job you stop noticing once the grass grows back over it. We are a grading contractor based in Burgaw, and we shape ground so water leaves instead of sitting on it. Most of it is land grading, house pads, yard regrades, drainage swales and gravel driveway installation. Coastal Brush Mowing has moved Pender County dirt since 2013, and the person who answers the phone runs the machines.
Most ground around here is coastal plain sand with a water table that sits close to the surface. Low spots hold water for days, and a yard that slopes toward the house shows it every storm. Land grading fixes that by cutting the high ground down and filling the low ground back in. When trees have to come out first, the land clearing and the dirt work happen on one trip.
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Every land grading job starts with a look at where the water goes now and where it should go. We check the high ground and the low spots, then find where runoff finally leaves the property. Building code calls for the ground to fall six inches within the first ten feet of a foundation. Where a fence line or a slope blocks that fall, we cut a drainage swale to carry the water out.
Then the excavator and the tracked skid steer move the dirt: high ground cut down, low ground filled in. Sandy soil moves easy, so we pack fill in layers, a few inches at a time. Loose fill settles later, and a settled pad turns back into the low spot you paid to fix. If the job needs a footing dug or a line run, the excavation happens on the same visit.
How long a gravel driveway lasts comes down to what sits under the stone, not the stone itself. We shape and pack the subgrade first, then crown the middle so rain sheds off both sides. ABC stone, the crush and run mix used on North Carolina drives, locks up tight once it is packed. Where a drive crosses a ditch, the culvert gets set at the right depth before any stone goes down.
Driveway grading brings back a gravel drive that has washed into ruts and settled into potholes. We blade the surface and pull the loose material back toward the center to rebuild the crown. Fresh stone comes in by dump truck and goes down where the drive has worn thin or soft. Ditches get reopened at the same time, since a drive with nowhere to drain washes out again.
Fill dirt and topsoil are two different materials, and using the wrong one causes trouble down the road. Fill dirt comes from below the topsoil layer and packs down tight, because it holds little organic matter. Topsoil is the growing layer, so it goes on last, right ahead of seed or sod. Some of the fill we spread comes straight out of a pond dug on the same property.
House pads get built up in layers, and each layer gets packed before the next one goes on. The finished pad sits high enough to stay dry, which matters where the water table is close to the surface. Land disturbance of an acre or more needs an erosion control plan filed with NC DEQ first. Call (910) 512-9578 or send the details through our contact page, and we will come look at the ground.
From the first walk of the property to the last pass of the blade, here is exactly how it goes.
Call (910) 512-9578 or send the form. Describe the land, what is on it, and what you want it to become. Photos help.
We meet you on the property, look at the growth, the ground and the access, and talk through the right way to do the job.
The estimate is free and comes from seeing the land. You know the price and the plan before any machine shows up.
The machines show up when the ground is ready, the work gets finished, and the property is left clean and usable.
Common questions about grading & dirt work across Burgaw & Southeastern NC. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
Stump grinding for lawns and yards. Full stump removal with the excavator when the ground is getting cleared or built on.
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Rotary cutting for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots and fence lines across southeastern North Carolina.
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Excavation for building pads, trenches, culverts and drainage cuts. We dig it, load it out, and leave the ground at the grade your plan calls for.
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Houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and old slabs taken down and hauled away, with the ground left clean and level.
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We grind underbrush and small trees into mulch on site, so the wood stays as ground cover.
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We dig and shape ponds on residential and rural land across Pender, New Hanover, Onslow and Columbus counties. That covers farm ponds on private land and retention ponds on commercial sites.
View DetailsThe person you call is the person in the machine. You explain the job once, the estimate comes from the one doing the work, and nothing gets lost in a handoff.
Excavators, a tracked skid steer and a dump truck under one name. Clearing, dirt work, demolition and the haul-off get done as one job with one estimate.
Sandy soil, wet low spots, a high water table and brush that never quits. This is the only ground we have worked since 2013, and the work is planned for what it does.
We look at the property, talk through what it needs, and hand you a real number. The estimate costs nothing and the price comes from seeing the ground.
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Read more →Land to clear, an old structure to take down, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you and the estimate is free, from the owner who has worked this ground since 2013.
Tell us about your property and we'll get back to you fast.