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Holly Ridge went from 1,268 people in 2010 to 4,171 in 2020, and the count keeps climbing. Most of that growth starts the same way, with someone buying a wooded lot that needs opening up. The pine flatwoods around town grow back fast, so an old cleared spot turns thick again in a few years. We cut lots here down to bare, buildable ground.
Coastal Brush Mowing is owner operated out of Burgaw, one county over, and has cleared land since 2013. The person who answers the phone is the one running the excavator and the tracked skid steer. Our land clearing page walks through the process on any site in the county. For a price on your lot, call (910) 512-9578 or send the parcel number through the contact page.
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US 17 and NC 50 meet in Holly Ridge, and new lots have been selling along both roads for years. A homesite job usually splits into the house pad, the driveway and the septic area. We clear the pad first so the builder can get a survey crew and a footing crew onto it. Then we cut the drive in wide enough for a concrete truck to back down without dragging trees.
Plenty of owners want a screen of trees left standing along the road or the back property line. We mark that buffer before anything gets cut, because you cannot put a pine back. Inside the buffer we take out the brush and the small stems and leave the good timber alone. That keeps the lot private while the builder still has room to work around the house.
Holly Ridge sits about 49 feet above sea level, but the ground is not flat everywhere. Low pockets hold water for days after a hard rain, and those spots turn soft under a wheeled machine. We run tracks for that reason, and we time the wet parts of a lot for a dry stretch. If a low spot needs fill or a swale, that is grading work and we say so up front.
Holly Ridge had 28 residents in 1940 and about 1,000 by 1943, after Camp Davis went in. Traces of that build out still sit under decades of regrowth on lots all around town. Old road beds, buried concrete and fence wire turn up once the brush comes off. We pull that out with the excavator and load it into the dump truck the same day.
More about the service itself is on our Land Clearing page, and everything we do around town is on the Holly Ridge service-area page.
Answers specific to land clearing work around Holly Ridge. 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.