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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Wilmington is pinned between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic, so buildable land runs short. New Hanover County holds about 192 square miles of land, the second smallest county area in North Carolina. Overgrown back lots and wooded infill parcels get cleared here for building. We have handled land clearing and dirt work since 2013, and Wilmington sits 25 miles south of our Burgaw base.
The drive down US 117 runs about 40 minutes, with Castle Hayne near the halfway point. That is close enough to look at a Wilmington lot and get machines on site soon after. The person who answers the phone is the person running the excavator and the tracked skid steer. Work here covers clearing, forestry mulching, grading, excavation, stump grinding, bush hogging, demolition and pond digging.
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New Hanover County is the most built out county in the Wilmington metro, and permit data shows it. Since 2018, only about 49 percent of its building permits went to single family homes. The rest went to denser projects, so lots keep shrinking and setbacks keep tightening. Clearing a half acre behind Market Street is a different job than opening raw acreage in Pender County.
Tight lots put the machines close to fences, driveways, power drops and the house next door. A tracked skid steer reaches places a wide machine cannot, and it leaves less rutting in sand. We haul debris off in a dump truck, or grind it down into mulch right on the lot. On older parcels the stumps are the real holdup, so stump grinding follows the clearing.
Wilmington sits on the coastal plain at about 43 feet above sea level, and soil changes fast. Kureb and Baymeade sands on the higher ground drain quickly, so those lots hold a machine well. Leon and Murville soils down in the flats stay wet, and Seagate ground holds water within 30 inches. From November through April that seasonal water table rises, which changes when a lot is workable.
Wet pine flatwoods and pine savanna cover the low flats across New Hanover County, and they hold water. Clearing that ground without a plan for runoff pushes the problem into the next yard over. The City of Wilmington funds a stormwater utility and keeps roadside ditches inside the city limits open. Good grading and dirt work aims water at those ditches instead of the back of the house.
Wilmington runs on two rule sets, and the boundary is the city limit line. New Hanover County Engineering handles sediment and erosion control permits for the county and for the city. Stormwater permits inside the city belong to Wilmington, and tree removal there needs a city permit. Sorting out which office your parcel answers to saves weeks before a machine rolls.
Hurricane season shapes a good share of the clearing work around Wilmington every year. After Florence in 2018, New Hanover County collected more than 1.2 million cubic yards of tree and building debris. Storm damage still turns up as leaning pines and lots that grew back into thicket. We take that cleanup in Ogden, Porters Neck, Murrayville and around Monkey Junction, along with demolition and pond work.
Communities & areas we serve around Wilmington: Ogden, Porters Neck, Murrayville, Monkey Junction, Myrtle Grove, Masonboro.
Wilmington ZIP codes served: 28401, 28403, 28405, 28409, 28411, 28412.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout New Hanover County.
(910) 512-9578 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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