Dozer Work, Grading and Lot Leveling in Tulsa, OK

Dozer work around Tulsa

Out toward the county line the Tulsa lots get bigger, and the work turns into pads, grading and drives. The towns around Tulsa are the same story. Bixby has flat river bottom lots where water sits rather than runs. Owasso and Glenpool have new builds, shops and pads going onto ground that was pasture a few years ago.

Justin runs the machine himself. He comes out, walks the ground with you and gives you a fixed number before anything starts.

Building pads

A pad for a house, a shop or a barn gets cut, filled and compacted to grade. For a building pad a survey is usually needed first, and it is worth having for anything near a property line.

Fill can be hauled in, or the pad can be built with the dirt already on site. Which one is cheaper depends on the property. When it is close, it gets priced both ways.

Grading that fixes water

A yard that holds water is often a grading problem, not a pipe problem. Sometimes the ground simply falls toward the house, and reshaping it is the cheaper fix. If grading will not do it, Justin will say so and talk about a drain instead. See drainage and French drains.

Before and after the dozer

If the lot is grown in, the trees, brush and stumps come off the footprint first. That is land clearing. Once the pad is in, the access to it is the next job. See driveway installation. Most jobs end up being two or three of these at once, and they get quoted together.

Oklahoma811 is called before anything gets dug. Wet ground stops dirt work, so the start date depends on the weather as well as what is already booked.