Land Clearing
Full-property and lot clearing: trees, brush, undergrowth, fence lines, and right-of-way, hauled off or mulched in place and left build-ready.
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Storm cleanup in Baldwin and Mobile County starts with the trees and limbs sitting where you need to drive. EMCO Builders runs a compact track loader on private property, once the site is safe to work on. We cut and push the downed pines off the drive, then pile the limbs where the loader can reach. Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Sally in 2020 both put a lot of timber on the ground here.
We work the debris that is already on the ground, and we stage it where the county can reach it. When you want the brush gone instead of stacked, we finish it by mulching the brush and limbs in place. Broken stumps and torn root balls are a separate job: grinding out the stumps and root balls a storm leaves. Every job starts with an on-site look at the ground, and the written estimate that follows is free.
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Tall pines with shallow roots in sandy ground are the trees that come down first along this coast. The track loader cuts and pushes that downed wood off drives, lanes and the ground around your buildings. We pile the limbs and brush where the equipment can reach, and we reopen the lane in and out. Vegetative debris gets staged at the curb or in the right-of-way, stacked in the separate piles the county asks for.
A tree resting on a house, a roof or a power line is tree-service and utility work first. Once it is down on the ground and the site is safe, we clear it and the mess around it. A shed or outbuilding the wind flattened is its own job: taking down a storm-wrecked shed or outbuilding. The written estimate spells out how the debris leaves your property and what we stage at the curb for pickup.
FEMA is plain about this: debris removal from private property is the responsibility of the property owner. What FEMA does fund is pickup of the debris that residents place at the curb along publicly used roads. County contractors collect it from there, which is why getting your piles out to the curb is the whole game. Broken limbs on private ground are not funded unless they hang over the public right-of-way and pose an immediate threat.
After Hurricane Sally in 2020, Mobile County took storm vegetative debris and construction debris only, kept in separate piles. Piles mixed with household trash, appliances, electronics or metal got skipped, and no self-haul drop-off site was offered. The debris went curbside or in the right-of-way, clear of the roadway, the sidewalk and the storm drains. Baldwin County keeps its own debris plan through its Emergency Management Agency, so check the county storm page.
We schedule by access and safety first, and the work starts once it is safe to get equipment in. About 36,000 people a year are treated for chainsaw injuries, and the CDC says the risk climbs after hurricanes. Downed power lines stay untouched until the utility verifies they are dead, and bystanders stay two tree lengths back. Spring poles, the bent saplings a storm leaves under tension, are one more reason to use equipment.
As we work, limbs and brush go into the piles the county will take, and the lane stays open. Storms wash gullies and cut ruts across a yard, and that ground often needs regrading ground that washed or rutted. When the wood is off, you get open ground you can mow and drive on again. Before the next season comes around, the smart work is getting land ready before storm season.
From the first walkthrough to the final one, here’s exactly how your project runs.
We come out and look at the actual ground: the growth, the slope, the wet spots and the access. We listen to what you want done and give you a clear, written estimate. No pressure and no phone-quote guessing.
We lock in a date, plan equipment access and where debris goes, and account for drainage and any lines or wetlands to protect. You know the plan before anything starts moving.
Our crew runs our own track loader and its attachments, keeps the site clean and keeps you posted. Decades of experience means we read the ground and adjust instead of tearing it up.
We walk the finished property with you, load out or mulch whatever the plan called for, and leave the ground clean, graded, and ready for whatever you are building next.
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Full-property and lot clearing: trees, brush, undergrowth, fence lines, and right-of-way, hauled off or mulched in place and left build-ready.
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Brush, underbrush, and small trees ground into mulch in a single pass. No burning, no hauling, and a clean natural finish left behind.
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Site leveling, slope and drainage correction, building pads, driveway base, and cut-and-fill, all shaped to drain and hold on the rainy Gulf Coast.
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Foundation and footing digs, drainage work, culverts, utility trenching, and ditch cutting, dug to line and grade and hauled off clean.
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Driveway culverts and cross drains sized to the ditch, set at the right grade, and backfilled so the drive holds through Gulf Coast rain.
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Structure teardown, mobile home removal, concrete and slab tear-out, and outbuilding demolition, knocked down and hauled off in one job.
Learn MoreThree decades clearing, grading, and digging across Baldwin and Mobile County. Pine and hardwood, wet lowland, red clay and coastal sand each get worked their own way, so the ground drains and builds right.
Alabama Home Builder License #13967 and full insurance behind every job. Your property and your liability are covered.
You get a written estimate after an on-site look, with a plain-English price for the whole job. We tell you what the job really takes, then we show up and do it.
We run our own track loader with a forestry mulching head, a bucket and a bush hog, so we control the schedule and the quality of every job.
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Read more →Need land cleared, a lot graded, a driveway put in, or a storm mess cleaned up? Reach out for a free, no-obligation estimate. We’ll look at the ground with you, give you a clear price, and get your job on the schedule.
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