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Land Clearing Photos

Wooded house lots, a lakefront lot, silt fence, and the equipment that does the work. Tap any photo to see it full size.

Clearing a lakefront lot

Mature hardwoods on a lot that slopes down to the water, from the first stakes to a graded house pad.

Leaf-covered wooded lot in winter sloping toward a lake, with a wooden stake in the foreground and an old house beyond the trees
A wooded lot above the lake in winter, before any clearing.
Wooden stake tied with pink flagging tape on a leaf-covered wooded lot, with houses beyond the trees
A stake with pink flagging marking a line through the woods.
Hardwood trees and a long fallen log on a wooded slope, with a lake visible through the bare trees
Mature hardwoods and an old fallen log, with the water through the trees.
Tall hardwoods in full summer leaf on a slope above a lake
Summer leaves filling in the woods above the water.
Large cut logs beside a gravel drive, with freshly cleared red clay and a lake through the trees
Trees cut into logs, with a strip of red clay cleared along the drive.
Yellow track loader with a tree stump and roots in its bucket, beside cut logs, with a lake behind the trees
A track loader carrying a pulled stump in its bucket.
Pile of pulled tree stumps with root balls and leafy brush on cleared red clay, with an excavator bucket at the edge
Pulled stumps, roots, and brush piled up for disposal.
Track loader on a freshly cleared red clay slope above a lake, with stacked logs, cut limbs, and a dock below
A cleared slope with logs and limbs stacked to one side.
Track loader on cleared red clay ground beside a lake, with black silt fence along the shoreline and a dock to the left
Cleared ground above the water, with silt fence along the shoreline.
Steep cut bank of red clay dug into a hillside, with a track loader and a pile of gravel at the top
A cut into the hillside for a house foundation.
Level pad of red clay dug into a slope with a patch of gravel in the middle, silt fence along the water, and a house beyond the trees
A level house pad cut into the slope, with gravel spread and silt fence along the water.
Yellow excavator pouring gravel from its bucket onto a graded lot beside a lake, with a covered dock below
An excavator dropping gravel on the graded lot.

Clearing wooded lots for new homes

Lots cleared for a house and driveway, with some of the bigger trees left standing.

Aerial view of a cleared lot among tall trees, with a red excavator on the gravel entrance and silt fence along the road
From above: a wooded lot cleared for a house, with the bigger trees left standing and silt fence along the road.
Overhead view of a cleared, track-marked lot in the woods, with a red excavator on a gravel entrance
Looking down on a cleared lot, with the excavator on the gravel entrance.
Freshly cleared ground on a wooded lot, with tall pines and hardwoods left standing and a gravel entrance in front
Cleared ground with tall pines left standing around the edges.
Muddy cleared lot covered in track marks, with tall trees and a house in the background
Track marks across a freshly cleared lot.
Muddy cleared strip running between rows of tall trees
A wide path cleared through the woods.
Bare, track-marked ground in front of a line of tall bare trees
Cleared ground stopping at the tree line.
Gravel drive through the woods with orange utility flags and paint marks along the edge and a pickup truck at the far end
Utility-locate flags along a gravel drive, marking buried lines before anyone digs.
Muddy, rutted cleared ground beside a paved road under power lines
Freshly cleared ground beside the road, rutted after rain.
Smooth graded dirt covered in track marks in front of a one-story brick house, with a dumpster to the side
Ground graded smooth around an older brick house.
Excavated footprint with footing trenches in yellow clay beside a mowed lawn, with a dumpster and trees behind
Footings dug for a new foundation next to a mowed lawn.
New gravel driveway leading to a house under construction among tall trees, with a portable toilet and building materials beside it
A gravel drive up to a new house going up on a wooded lot.

Silt fence and erosion control

Silt fence keeps mud on the lot and out of roads, ditches, and streams. It is one of the erosion controls the county checks on a house site.

Aerial view of black silt fence around a cleared lot, with a pickup truck on the gravel drive
From above: silt fence around a cleared lot.
Black silt fence on wooden stakes along freshly cleared ground beside a residential road, with yellow utility-locate flags in the grass and power lines overhead
Silt fence along freshly cleared ground beside the road, with utility-locate flags in the grass.
Black silt fence on wooden stakes running along cleared ground at the edge of the woods
Silt fence along the edge of a cleared lot at the woods.
Silt fence around a cleared lot next to a gravel drive with puddles, with houses beyond
Silt fence around a cleared lot beside the gravel drive.
Corner of black silt fence on wooden stakes beside a gravel driveway, with cleared ground behind
A corner of silt fence where the lot meets the drive.
Silt fence along a snowy, muddy cleared lot with a puddle in front and equipment parked near the trees
Silt fence holding back a muddy lot after snow.

Equipment

The machines that do most of the cutting, digging, and grading.

Wheeled feller buncher with a red cutting head on a cleared site, with pine woods behind
A feller buncher, which cuts standing trees and sets them down in bunches.
Wheeled feller buncher on a cleared site in the Richmond area with pines behind
A feller buncher on a cleared site.
Full-size excavator parked beside brush at a site-work job in the Richmond area
A full-size excavator, the main machine for pulling stumps and roots.
Full-size excavator at the wooded edge of a site-work job in the Richmond area
A full-size excavator at the edge of the woods.
Mid-size excavator with a front blade on a cleared, graded site
A mid-size excavator with a front blade.
Compact excavator with a front blade at the edge of the woods
A compact excavator at the edge of the woods.
Compact excavator at the edge of a wooded lot in the Richmond area
A compact excavator on a wooded lot.
Mini excavator in a fenced backyard, with caution tape around the work area
A mini excavator in a fenced backyard.
Motor grader on a cleared site, with an excavator beside it
A motor grader, used to bring the ground to final grade.

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