Lot Clearing in Lawton, OK

Lot clearing in the Lawton area usually means taking a piece of ground that has been left alone for years, full of cedar, elm and hackberry saplings, greenbrier, and fallen limbs, and turning it into something you can build on, fence or mow. We clear residential lots and small acreage around Lawton, Elgin, Cache and the rest of Comanche County, and on into Stephens and Cotton counties.

Start with what you want to end up with

The right clearing method depends on what comes next.

• Building a house or shop. The building pad and driveway area usually need everything removed, including stumps, so the dirt contractor can grade. Trees outside that footprint can often stay.
• Putting up a fence. A strip along the line is cleared wide enough for the fence crew and equipment, with cedars and saplings cut low.
• Getting it mowable. Brush and small trees are cut at the ground and the debris removed or mulched, so a mower or brush hog can keep up from then on.
• Selective thinning. Undergrowth and weak trees are removed and the best post oaks, pecans or elms are kept and pruned, turning a thicket into a shaded yard.

Saving the good trees

On many rural and edge-of-town lots there are a few mature oaks worth keeping. Post oak in particular does not tolerate having its root zone compacted by heavy equipment or buried under fill, so we keep machines off the ground under the crown where we can and talk with you about where a house pad and drive should go relative to the trees you want. Marking keepers with flagging before we start avoids mistakes.

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Methods

For light clearing, hand crews with saws and a chipper do the work, which leaves the ground undisturbed. For dense brush and cedar, a forestry mulcher grinds standing material into a layer of mulch that protects the soil and breaks down over time. When stumps have to come out for construction, they are ground or pulled. Brush can be chipped, hauled or, on rural land where it is allowed, piled for burning by the owner after checking county burn rules.

Before work starts

We walk the property with you and look for fences, survey pins, wells, septic systems, buried lines and drainage. Call 811 before any stump grinding or digging so public utility lines are marked. If the lot is inside city limits, check with the City of Lawton about any rules for your project, especially if work will reach the street or an easement. For larger tracts, it helps to know where your property lines are; a survey is a good idea if the corners are uncertain.

What we do not take on

We are a tree and brush outfit, not an excavation company. Final grading, dirt work, building pads, ponds and road building belong to a dirt contractor. We can clear the lot so that work is ready to start.