Land clearing in Sand Springs is mostly hill work: oak, cedar and brush growing on rock, with a slope under all of it. Justin opens up homesites, drive routes, fence lines and grown-in corners, and he sees the property in person before he prices it.
Timber, brush and stumps taken off the spot where the house or shop goes, so a pad can be cut into the slope.
A way up to the building site opened through the trees, wide enough for a gravel drive to follow.
Cedar, briars and saplings pulled out of pasture and back corners that have closed in.
A line cleared so fence can go up, or a ditch opened so it can carry water again.
Sand Springs follows the Arkansas River west out of Tulsa, with Keystone Lake just upstream. Most of the city is in Tulsa County. It also reaches north into Osage County and south into Creek County, and Prattville, on the south bank of the river, is part of it.
North of the river the ground climbs into Cross Timbers country, which is old post oak and cedar on stony hills. The Keystone Ancient Forest, the preserve the city looks after, is that same kind of woods left alone for a few hundred years.
That is the ground people here are trying to build on. The lots are wooded and they are not level. Clearing a homesite in Sand Springs is less about how many acres there are and more about getting a machine onto a hillside and taking off only what has to go.
Strip the trees and brush off a hill and the next hard rain has nothing to slow it down. Water moves quickly on this ground and it carries loose dirt with it.
So it pays to open up the footprint, the drive route and the working room a builder needs, and to leave the cover on the rest of the hill. If the yard or the drive already washes, read about drainage and French drains as well.
How long clearing takes depends on what is growing and what it is growing in, far more than on the size of the property. Thin brush on an open bench goes fast. Big oak stumps set in rocky ground do not. Neither does a hillside with old wire and scrap lost in the briars. Justin clears with a machine and a bucket, and he goes over the property on foot first, so the price fits the job that is really there.
Plenty of people buy a wooded lot here because of the trees. Tie a ribbon on the ones that are staying and say so at the estimate.
Be sure of your corners too. On a wooded hillside it is easy to be wrong about where a line runs. If there is a well, a septic tank, lateral lines or a water line anywhere near the work, show him where. Buried utilities are marked through OKIE811 before any digging, and in Oklahoma that call is the law.
The brush and timber can be stacked and left, burned, or loaded and taken away. Hauling costs the most and leaves the cleanest site.
Burning comes with rules. State open burning rules want a land clearing fire kept at least 500 feet from any occupied home that is not on your own property. A county can also call a burn ban in dry weather. Sand Springs touches three counties, and inside the city limits you should ask the fire department before lighting anything. The choice is settled at the estimate because it moves the price.
On a hill lot, clearing is rarely the whole job. Next comes a pad cut and compacted with the dozer, then a gravel drive shaped so water runs off it, not down it. The digging for footings and lines follows.
Justin does each of those himself, so they can be priced together as one job. If an old slab, a shed or a barn is sitting where the new building goes, see demolition in Sand Springs.
The rest of his work in town is on the Sand Springs page. The main land clearing page covers Tulsa, and there is a page for land clearing in Sapulpa. He also takes work in Berryhill, Oakhurst and Prue. Every town is listed on the service areas page.
Yes. Sand Springs is one of the towns Justin works in around Tulsa. He comes to the property, looks at it himself and the estimate costs nothing.
In most cases, yes. He checks the slope and the way in before he prices it, and he will say so plainly if part of the lot cannot be reached with a machine.
It can if too much comes off. On sloped ground it is better to open only the building footprint and the drive route and leave cover on the rest. Grading and drainage can be priced with the clearing if water is already a problem.
On the footprint of a build, yes. Trees, brush and stumps all come off so a pad can be cut. Stumps set in rocky ground take longer, which is one reason he looks before he quotes.
Most jobs end up being two or three of these at once, and they get quoted together.
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