Land Clearing & Excavation in Ames, TX

Our Services in Ames, TX

Ames is a small town about thirty-seven miles west of us in Liberty County, just off US 90 near Liberty itself. It is a long run from our yard, so we are straight with people about that: we work out here on jobs with enough to them to justify the move, and we say so honestly when a job would be better served by somebody closer.

We reclaim pasture, clear and mulch acreage, dig ponds, build pads and drives and cut drainage in Ames and the surrounding Liberty County country. Free on-site estimates.

Distance is the first honest thing to say about working in Ames. This is the western edge of where we go, and mobilising equipment thirty-seven miles out of the Golden Triangle on a lowboy costs the same whether the job is two days or two weeks. That does not make it unworkable, it makes it a question of scale. A decent-sized pasture reclaim, a pond, a pad or a combination of work on the same property carries that cost comfortably. A small one-off job usually does not, and we would rather tell an owner that than pad a number to make the trip worthwhile.

The land out here is Liberty County bottom and prairie country, and it is genuinely good land for the work we do. Acreage rather than lots, cattle and hay ground, timber on the lower parts, and a long history of the same families holding the same tracts. What that produces is the classic reclaim job: ground that carried stock a generation ago and has been left to close in, coming back as yaupon, Chinese tallow, privet and greenbrier until it cannot be walked.

How that ground gets reclaimed depends entirely on what goes back on it, and that conversation happens before the quote. Pasture and hay need the root systems out or the same growth returns within a few seasons. Recreational and hunting tracts are usually better served by mulching, which costs less, opens the ground and leaves a mat that holds soil, on the clear understanding that it is a rotation rather than a permanent fix.

Water here behaves as it does across this whole region, which is slowly. The fall is minimal, the soils hold, and the drainage picture is dominated by where water is allowed to leave rather than by what happens inside a fence line. Liberty County drainage infrastructure and the Trinity system carry water off this country, and connecting into any of that is a permission question. When somebody calls about standing water we trace it to the outfall before quoting, because a great many complaints out here cannot be fixed on the property at all.

Harvey was severe through this part of the state and the Trinity basin took an enormous amount of water, and Imelda followed two years later. The practical legacy on individual properties is drainage that no longer works the way it used to: ditches silted, culverts crushed or undersized, and low ground holding water where it never did before. A lot of what looks like a new drainage problem out here is actually an old system that stopped functioning during those events.

Ponds do well on this ground and the clay holds water without a liner. What matters is honest depth so the pond does not go green and struggle in a dry stretch, a properly designed emergency spillway, and a decided ending for the spoil. On acreage there is nearly always somewhere on the same property that wants that material, which removes the haul cost entirely and turns disposal into a second useful job.

Burning is often the cheapest ending for material on a big pasture job out here and it is also the thing most likely to be unavailable when you want it. County burn bans move through the year and TCEQ outdoor burning rules apply on top of whatever is active, so we confirm the current position rather than planning around an old answer.

Access is the usual rural question, and at this distance it matters more, because discovering that an approach will not carry a loaded lowboy after a thirty-seven mile move is an expensive morning for everybody. We check it before scheduling. This is Gulf Coast country and the wet months are genuinely unworkable.