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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Coastal Brush Mowing handles land clearing, excavation, grading and brush mowing for property owners in Holly Ridge, NC. We have done this work since 2013, and the person who answers the phone is the one running the machines. Our base is Burgaw in Pender County, and Holly Ridge sits well inside our normal service area. The town sits in Onslow County where NC 50 meets US 17, just inland of the Surf City bridge.
Holly Ridge more than tripled between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, growing from 1,268 people to 4,171. That kind of growth puts two very different kinds of jobs on our schedule in one week. New lots in places like Summerhouse on Everett Bay need clearing, stump removal and a level building pad. Older tracts out toward Folkstone need heavy brush cut back, then excavation and grading and dirt work.
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Most of the new construction in Holly Ridge tracks US 17, the main route between Wilmington and Jacksonville. The old Camp Davis army base beside that highway is now a 700 acre industrial park. In February 2026 the town approved Project Ajax, a 1,500 acre plan for as many as 2,750 homes. Every one of those lots starts the same way, with somebody opening the ground and setting the grade.
Sandy coastal plain soil digs easy when it is dry and turns soft after a hard summer rain. Low spots in the pine flatwoods hold water, so drainage gets set before a pad is shaped. We run excavators, a tracked skid steer and a dump truck, so material leaves on the same trip. Stump grinding and demolition of an old shed or slab fit into the same visit on the property.
Brush comes back fast on this coastal plain ground, and an open field closes in on its own. Hurricane season adds to the mess, with limbs and downed pine piled at the back of a lot. Bush hogging handles the yearly cut on pasture and along fence lines that have gone thick. It is the right call when the land is usable and you plan to keep it cut every year.
Forestry mulching grinds standing brush and small trees into chip that stays right on the ground. The chip works as a mulch layer, which holds sandy soil in place on a bare lot. That matters near Stump Sound and Everett Bay, where runoff from a bare lot reaches shellfish waters. Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve sits on that same sound, with 52 acres and more than 3,000 feet of shoreline.
Communities & areas we serve around Holly Ridge: Summerhouse on Everett Bay, Neighborhoods of Holly Ridge, The Preserve at Morris Landing, The Reserve at Holly Ridge, Village at Folkstone, Folkstone.
Holly Ridge ZIP codes served: 28445.
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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Land grading, house pads, gravel driveways and drainage swales across Pender County. We cut and fill the ground so water runs off it and away from the house.
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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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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.
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