Land Clearing in Vance, AL
Vance is a small town on US-11 in southeast Tuscaloosa County, with timber, creek bottoms and new building lots around it. Down South Land Solutions clears land, mulches brush, builds pads and sets culverts here with its own machines. Estimates are free: call or text (205) 535-6376.
Clearing, Mulching & Dirt Work in Vance
Before it was Vance, this was Trion, a trading center and stagecoach stop on the Huntsville Road, the route US-11 follows today. In 1872 it was renamed Smallwood for Charles Smallwood, who ran a local sawmill, and in 1879 it became Vance. The railroad came through in 1873, and lumber still matters around here. Most of the town is in Tuscaloosa County, with a strip on the south side in Bibb County. Vance is inside our service area, and we take jobs here.
In 1993 Mercedes-Benz announced its first United States plant here, and I-20/59 crosses the north side of town. Ground near a plant and an interstate gets built on: house lots, shop sites and small businesses on land that used to be timber. That means clearing, building pads and setting culverts where drives meet the road. We do it with a Cat dozer, an excavator and tracked loaders. Tell us where the land is and what is on it.
Hurricane Creek starts here
Hurricane Creek forms in Vance where Davis Creek and Coal Creek meet, then runs west through Brookwood and Cottondale to the Black Warrior River at Holt. Silt from mining, roads and construction has troubled it for a long time. So clear only what the job needs, keep the slopes covered and leave a strip of woods along the bank. Mulched ground keeps its chips, and they hold dirt in place far better than bare ground. Bigger sites can need an ADEM construction stormwater permit.
Pads for houses and shops
A shop or house pad on this ground is cut on the high side and filled on the low side, with the fill laid in lifts and packed as it goes. Every stump and root ball is pulled before fill goes on, since buried wood rots and lets the pad drop. Bring the plan or the stakes and we build to them. Our shop and barn pads page has more.
Drives off US-11 and the county roads
A drive onto US-11 needs ALDOT's approval. A county road is Tuscaloosa County's call, and on the Bibb side it is Bibb County's. Inside the town limits, ask the town. The pipe under the drive has to be big enough for the water that reaches it, and the drive needs a crown and ditches to last. See culvert installation and land clearing in Tuscaloosa County.
Work We Take On in Vance
Four services that fit the ground around Vance, plus everything else we do.
Lot Clearing in Vance
Wooded house lots and lake lots cleared, drive roughed in, ready for the pad.
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Shop & Barn Pads in Vance
Compacted dirt or gravel pads for shops, barns, carports and mobile homes.
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Culvert Installation in Vance
Driveway and field-road culverts set, bedded, backfilled and covered.
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Logging Cleanup in Vance
Tops, slash and stump sprouts mulched on cutover. Ready for what comes next.
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Can you clear a wooded lot for a new house in Vance, AL?
Yes. The trees come down, the stumps come out whole, brush is mulched or burned where the rules allow, and the drive is roughed in so trucks can reach the site. Then the pad is cut and compacted. Burning more than a quarter acre, or within 25 feet of woods or grass, needs an Alabama Forestry Commission permit. Call or text (205) 535-6376 for a free estimate.
Is Vance in Tuscaloosa County or Bibb County?
Mostly Tuscaloosa County. A small strip on the south side of town reaches into Bibb County. That matters for permits on county roads, because each county handles its own. We take jobs on both sides of the line.
What happens to the tops and stumps after a timber cut near Vance?
A logging crew takes the merchantable wood and leaves the tops, limbs, slash and stumps. That cutover grows back fast in sweetgum and briars. A mulcher grinds the tops and sprouts down so the ground can be replanted, turned to pasture or opened for hunting. Our logging cleanup page covers it.
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How a Job Runs
Tell Us What You Have
Call, text or send the form. County, rough acreage, what is growing on it and how a truck and trailer gets in.
We Look at the Ground
Close by, we come and look. Farther off, we can go over it with you on satellite first, then see it on the ground before the work starts.
A Number to Plan Around
Estimates are free and priced off the property. Small jobs carry a minimum, and you hear the figure before you commit.
The Machines Go to Work
We settle what comes out and what stays. Mark the trees you want kept, or walk it with us and point them out.
Finished, Not Just Knocked Down
Holes filled, ground pulled back to grade, and the fall set so water leaves the site instead of standing on it.
Got Ground to Clear in Vance?
Call or text, or send a few details. Estimates are free.