Land Clearing, Grading & Dirt Work in Dunnellon, FL

A lot of the parcels around Dunnellon are wooded acreage that nobody has touched in years. Scrub oak, palmetto, cedar, greenbriar and vine growth take over fast out here, and it's common for an owner to buy five or ten acres and not be able to walk more than twenty feet into it.

We open that up. That can mean a driveway and a building spot cut into the middle of a wooded parcel, a perimeter and fence line cleared so a survey crew can find the pins, or a full clear down to bare, workable ground. Trees you want kept stay — tell us which ones and we work around them.

The soil west of the Withlacoochee runs sandy and shallow over rock, which drains well but does not hold a shape on its own. Grading here is about getting the fall right the first time and compacting properly, not just knocking the high spots down.

We handle rough and finish grade, fill and spread, leveling and compacting pads for houses, barns, sheds, shops and RV parking, and shaping so runoff moves away from structures and off your access instead of pooling in the low corner of the lot.

Driveways are a big part of the work out here because they're long, they're dirt or gravel, and they take a beating in the summer rain. We cut new drives into raw parcels, put in culvert and approach work, and rebuild drives that have washed, rutted or gone soft.

Plenty of them don't need another load of rock — they need to be regraded with a proper crown so water sheds off both sides. When rock is genuinely the fix, we bring in and roll base, gravel or millings so it holds instead of scattering.

After a wooded parcel is cleared you're left with roots, stumps and buried wood in the sand. Root raking pulls that out so the ground is clean enough to grade, seed, fence or build on without something surfacing later.

We also do straight cleanup: old brush and burn piles, storm-downed limbs, leftover building material, abandoned junk on a vacant lot, and hauling with the dump trailer. If you need material coming in rather than going out, we deliver dirt, fill, rock and road base.

Rural lots and narrow tree lines are where a compact track loader earns its keep — it gets into places a full-size dozer can't and does far less damage getting there. We run ours with a grapple, bucket, root rake and auger, plus an excavator for digging and heavier grapple work.

Builders, fence crews, well and septic contractors and homeowners in the Dunnellon area use us for machine time on specific tasks: backfill, spreading, trenching access, demo cleanup, post holes and punch-list dirt work.