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Hampstead sits right on US 17, and most lots here are still woods. Pines and heavy brush cover ground where a house plan needs open dirt. We do land clearing for building sites across Hampstead and the rest of Pender County. Coastal Brush Mowing has run this work since 2013. The person who answers the phone runs the machines. You talk to the same person from the first look through the last load hauled off.
Hampstead is the largest community in Pender County, and it keeps growing. The 2020 census counted 7,016 people here, up from 4,083 in 2010. NCDOT has the US 17 Hampstead Bypass funded in the state transportation plan. More houses are going up on wooded acreage that has never been touched. Clearing one of those lots is dirt work as much as tree work. The ground here holds water in the low spots, so we plan the clearing around how the site drains.
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Most Hampstead building lots start as standing timber with vines and small stems underneath. We mark the house pad and the driveway line off the survey stakes you already have. Good logs get stacked to one side. Trash wood and root balls go to a burn pile or into the dump truck. Stumps come out with the excavator. The tracked skid steer moves the piles and cleans up behind it. What is left is open ground a builder can stake a foundation on.
Hampstead is unincorporated, so Pender County handles zoning and site plan review. Most lots out here run on a septic system and a private well. Pender County Environmental Health runs the on site wastewater program. Its specialists do soil tests to see if a lot can carry a septic system. They have to reach the test area on foot. When the soil work has not happened yet, we open a path and clear the drainfield area first.
Lots fronting US 17 and the roads off it come with an access problem. You need a way to get equipment onto the property before any clearing starts. We punch in a rough drive first, usually along the line your permanent driveway will take. That gives the excavator and the dump truck a place to work off the road. Around the golf course roads near Olde Point Country Club and Castle Bay Golf Course, shoulder room is tight. We stage the equipment on the lot.
Clearing is the first step, and the ground underneath is rarely flat. Once the wood is off, we can shape the pad and cut the drainage the site needs. Sandy soil moves fast in heavy rain, so the pad wants a crown and somewhere to send water. Stumps left behind sink and leave soft holes in a lawn for years. We deal with those before topsoil goes back. Read how we handle stump grinding in Hampstead, or see our main land clearing page.
More about the service itself is on our Land Clearing page, and everything we do around town is on the Hampstead service-area page.
Answers specific to land clearing work around Hampstead. Something else on your mind? Call us.
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.