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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Surf City straddles the Intracoastal Waterway, with part of the town on Topsail Island and part on the mainland. The town sits in both Pender and Onslow counties, off NC 210 and NC 50. The mainland side has grown since Surf City began accepting voluntary annexations in 2003. Town population more than doubled between the 2010 and 2020 census counts. We clear lots and move dirt on both sides of the bridge, out of Burgaw since 2013.
Most Surf City work is small and close in, so machine size matters more than raw power. We run excavators and a tracked skid steer, with a dump truck for haul off. That size fits between houses and down the short driveways common on the island. Jobs here range from demolition on older island cottages to fresh lot work on the mainland. Call the number on this page and you reach the owner, the same person who runs the machines.
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Island lots in Surf City are small, and the town limits how much ground you can disturb. The Coastal Forest Overlay District covers every property on Topsail Island and any lot beside coastal water or marsh. Under that rule, work stays inside the front, rear and side setbacks, plus the driveway access. Trees three inches across or larger stay put, unless they are dead or diseased. Fill tops out near two feet above the street crown, so we plan the pad around that number.
Old Settlers Beach has houses dating back to the 1950s, mixed in with new multi story builds. When an old cottage comes down for a new elevated house, the town wants a demolition permit and a posted bond. We take the structure apart, haul it off and leave a clean pad for the builder. Buried footings come out with the slab, and leftover roots get a stump grinding pass. Sand digs fast, but it will not hold a steep bank, so slopes get graded wide and low.
West of the bridge, Surf City runs inland along NC 210 toward US 17. That ground is pine flatwoods and old farm field, with a water table that sits high in low spots. Magnolia Reserve and Saltwater Landing sit on that stretch, and more building is coming behind them. The town requires a lot clearing and grading zoning permit before the first tree comes down. Once it is issued, we clear the building envelope and shape the pad with grading and dirt work.
Hurricane Florence pushed storm surge over the dunes at Surf City in September 2018. Sand piled four and five feet deep in the streets, and some of it ended up inside houses. Storms since then have been smaller, but downed pine and grown over lot lines follow every big blow. We cut and haul the debris, then run bush hogging across the rough ground. Brush comes back fast here, so vacant lots need a pass once or twice a year.
Communities & areas we serve around Surf City: Old Settlers Beach, Del Mar Beach, Sears Landing, Sandy Ridge, Magnolia Reserve, Saltwater Landing.
Surf City ZIP codes served: 28445, 28443.
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.
Tell us about your property and we'll get back to you fast.