Land Clearing & Excavation in Nome, TX

Our Services in Nome, TX

Nome is a small town about eighteen miles west of us on US 90, in the far western corner of Jefferson County. It is a few hundred people surrounded by a lot of land, which makes it exactly the sort of place where most of the calls are about acreage that has got away from somebody.

We reclaim pasture, clear and mulch tracts, dig ponds, build pads and drives and cut drainage throughout Nome and the surrounding country. Free on-site estimates, owner on every job.

Nome is small and the ground around it is not. The properties out here run to real acreage, they are held long term, and the most common job is reclaiming ground that has quietly closed in over ten or twenty years while nobody was using it. Pasture that ran cattle a generation ago comes back as yaupon, Chinese tallow, privet and greenbrier, and in this rainfall that transition happens faster than owners expect.

The decision that actually matters on a reclaim is not which machine but what the ground is for afterward, and we would rather have that conversation before quoting than after. Pasture and hay ground need the roots out or the same growth returns within two or three seasons and the work was rented rather than bought. A recreational tract or hunting ground is usually better served by mulching, which costs less, opens sight lines and leaves a mat that holds the soil, provided everyone accepts it is a rotation. Selling somebody a mulching job as a permanent fix is the most common dishonesty in this trade and we do not do it.

This is old oil country as much as farm country, and that shows up on the ground. There is a long history of production through this part of the county, and rural tracts here regularly carry old lease roads, pads, tank batteries and pipeline right of way running across otherwise ordinary pasture. Clearing across an active right of way is a different job with different rules, and finding out a corridor exists before the machine is on the property is considerably better than finding out during. We look for that on the walk and we get locates before iron where there is any doubt.

Water behaves the way it does everywhere on this flat ground, which is to say slowly. Pine Island Bayou drains the country north of here and the rest is a matter of inches of fall. Standing water complaints out this way are frequently outfall problems rather than problems inside the fence line, and the honest answer is often that the receiving ditch is at capacity when it rains and no amount of ditching on your ground will change that. We trace it before quoting. Harvey and Imelda both moved a great deal of water across this area and left a number of properties draining differently than they used to.

Ponds are common and the clay holds water without a liner, which is why there are stock ponds on so many tracts around here. What they need is honest depth so they do not go green in a dry stretch, a properly designed emergency spillway, and a decided ending for the spoil. There is nearly always somewhere on the same property that wants that material, which turns a disposal cost into a second useful job and saves the haul entirely.

Access is the practical limit on a good number of jobs out here. The drives are long, the crossings are old, and the approach has to carry a loaded lowboy before any equipment reaches the work. On some of these properties the first thing that happens is improving the access enough to bring machines in, which the owner then has permanently.

Burning is worth raising at the estimate on any large pasture job, because it is often the cheapest ending for the material and the one most likely to be unavailable when you want it. Jefferson County burn bans move through the year, TCEQ outdoor burning rules apply on top of whatever is active, and we confirm the current position rather than relying on last month's answer. Seasonally this is Gulf Coast clay and February and March are frequently not workable at all.