Before a lot can become a yard, it has to be cleared
Plenty of properties in Tooele County start as ground nobody has touched in years: scrub, volunteer trees, weeds gone to seed, old fence lines and whatever previous owners left behind. Until that comes off, nothing else can be planned properly, because you cannot see the actual grade, the drainage, or what you are working with underneath.
We clear rural lots, overgrown yards and new building sites using our own skid steers and mini excavators. Vegetation and brush come out, root balls get pulled where they would interfere with future grading or construction, debris is loaded and hauled off, and the site is left clean and open.
Large acreage is a specialty rather than an exception. Tooele Valley lots run big, and clearing an acre or more takes both the right machines and the willingness to spend real days on a property. Because our equipment lives at our Grantsville yard, we are not renting by the hour or waiting on a delivery slot to start.
Clearing is almost always step one of something bigger, so we clear with the next phase in mind. Root balls that would cause settlement come out. The ground is left workable rather than churned. And if we are also doing the grading, irrigation and planting, those follow straight on without a handover gap.
What’s included
- Site walk to assess density, tree size, hidden debris and access
- Brush, scrub and unwanted vegetation removal
- Root ball extraction where required
- Old fencing, outbuildings and abandoned hardscape where in scope
- Protection of trees, utilities and irrigation that stay
- Loading and haul-off of all debris
- Site left clean and open for the next phase
- Notes on any permit or county requirements we think apply
Common problems we solve
An acreage lot you cannot walk across
Years of unchecked growth on a rural property. Clearing opens it up so you can actually see what you own and plan what to do with it.
A new lot buried under construction leftovers
Builders and previous trades leave more behind than most owners expect. It has to go before grading, or it settles unevenly under whatever gets built on top.
Overgrowth crowding the house
Scrub against the building, volunteer trees in the wrong places, and weeds seeding into everything else. Clearing it back gives the landscape somewhere to start.
A property that’s become a fire and weed liability
Dense dry growth on a rural lot is a genuine risk in a Utah summer, and neighbouring properties notice. Clearing reduces the fuel load and the weed seed bank.
What affects the price
- Lot size and the area actually being cleared
- Vegetation density and tree or root ball size
- Debris volume and disposal cost
- Access for machinery around the property
- Structures: old fencing, sheds or slabs coming out too
- Terrain. Steep or rocky ground slows everything down
Where we clear
Land clearing is busiest across Erda, Grantsville, Pine Canyon and rural Tooele, where acreage lots are the norm, with additional work in Lake Point and Stansbury Park.
Our guide on clearing an overgrown or rural lot before landscaping walks through the process in more detail.