Land clearing that leaves your place better.
Overgrown acreage, homesites, fence lines and whole tracts. Dozer, trackhoe and excavation work from a family that lives near Chapel Hill and works about 30 to 40 miles around Tyler.
We walk it first
Every job starts the same way. We come walk it.
A small place takes an hour or two. A big overgrown tract, we map it, pull the plat for the elevations, and walk the edges and the sections that matter.
While we're out there we're looking at what's standing on it, whether there's timber value, and what the ground is going to fight us on. Then I'll ask you a couple of things. Do you want the timber, or do you want it gone? Is it going back to grass, or staying bare dirt so you can build?
After that, you get a number.
Ask what's standing on it before anybody hauls it off
Most people don't know timber has value sitting right there on their own property.
The good timber outfits around here stay booked a long way out. But when we're already on your place with dozers and excavators, our timber buyer can load with our equipment instead of hauling his own in.
Every tract is different, so we look at yours before anybody promises anything.
Every land job has a part nobody plans for
We cleared a subdivision down in Troup that was so grown up you couldn't walk through it. There's a creek through part of it, and you have to stay a set distance off that creek or you're dealing with silt control. Then it rained every other day. We brought in logging equipment just to open it up.
It got done. The question isn't whether something comes up. It's whether the crew you hired stays until it's right. We stay.
How it looks when we pull off
When we take on a job, somebody from our family is there. Accountable for the handshake, the equipment, and how the place looks when we pull off.
Anybody can knock down trees. The difference is whether you leave ruts everywhere, piles nobody asked for, and a road torn up from hauling. Or whether you leave the place better than you found it.
Scott Offerle, O-L Guy Farms
Questions people ask
How much does land clearing cost?
It depends on what's standing on it, whether there's timber value, what the ground is going to fight us on, and what you want it to be when we're done. We walk it first. After that, you get a number. The number follows the work.
What if the stumps sit right on a road?
We had a job where every stump sat on the edge of a county road and couldn't be dug out. We cut every tree, cabled them back away from the road, raked around the stumps and brought a grinder in. It took longer, so the bid was higher. The number follows the work.
When is the best time to clear?
Winter, when the hay slows down, we lean harder into clearing, excavation and right of way work. Fall and winter are the window for a lot of land work.
Will it go back to grass?
If you want it to. Clearing usually means the ground needs grass next. We do seedbed prep, planting and leveling too.