Land Clearing
We clear lots and acreage of trees, brush, and stumps across Montgomery County and Middle Tennessee. The ground gets cleaned up so it is ready to build on or put back into pasture.
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The ground around Cumberland City changes within a mile. Along the river you get soft bottom land that stays wet most of the year. Up on the ridges, silt loam sits over a firm pan that water moves through slowly. That is why a gravel drive washes out on one property while a yard stays soggy on the next.
Wilson Forestry and Excavating is based in Woodlawn, just west of Clarksville. Highway 233 runs from Woodlawn along the river into Cumberland City, so this town is close to home. We handle excavation on this ground: footings, building pads, driveway cuts, and clearing land for houses and farms. Call or text (931) 572-8673 and we will come look at the site and give you a free estimate.
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Cumberland City sits at about 384 feet, right on the Cumberland River, backed up here as Lake Barkley. The TVA fossil plant stands on the water just outside town. A new gas plant is going up on the same site. Behind all of that, the land climbs into the northwestern Highland Rim, so building sites start out sloped.
Cut and fill does most of the work on these ridge sites. We pull the high side down and pack the low side until the pad sits flat and sheds water. What sits under the topsoil sets the plan around here. Ridge ground is silt loam over a firm pan, roughly a foot and a half to three feet down.
South of town, the Wells Creek impact structure left the rock faulted and broken. Stone can sit shallow in one spot and drop away in the next. We check for that on Cumberland City sites before we price site prep and grading. Rock changes the dig and it changes the pad.
Most places around Cumberland City sit back off the pavement. Highway 149 runs northeast toward Clarksville and southwest toward Erin, and Highway 233 follows the river east to Woodlawn. Highway 46 drops down from US 79 at Indian Mound and crosses the river on the state ferry. That ferry is one of only two Tennessee still runs.
Off those highways the drives run long, and they run on gravel. Plenty of them drop off a ridge into a hollow, so the bed has to hold grade. We cut into firm dirt, lay base rock, then crown it so water sheds to the ditches. The hollows here run full after a storm, so a culvert goes in where the drive crosses a branch.
Farm roads and timber roads are built the same way, with heavier rock where loaded trucks turn. Around Cumberland City that is usually a road to a field, a barn, or a tract being cut. Our roots are in building roads for a timber company's log trucks and heavy equipment. It is the same build for a new gravel driveway up to the house.
Stewart County is timber country, and oak and hickory cover most of the ridges. The state forest in the southern half of the county is almost all hardwood. More than 40 percent of the land in the county is held by federal and state agencies. The private acreage out here gets used hard for pasture, hay, and timber.
Once a field around here stops getting cut, saplings and briars take it back fast. Full clearing means dropping the trees and pulling the stumps with the excavator thumb. Then we clean up so the ground is usable again. That is the right call when you want a build site or open pasture back.
When the growth is small and you want the ground left covered, forestry mulching fits better. The mulcher head grinds brush and saplings where they stand and leaves the chips behind. It suits fence lines, old logging trails, and river bottom pasture that has grown up.
Middle Tennessee gets roughly 50 inches of rain a year. On Cumberland City ground, a lot of that water never soaks in. The firm pan under the silt loam holds it near the surface. The water runs sideways and shows up in the low corner of the yard.
Fixing that starts with elevation. We regrade so the ground falls away from the house. Then we set French drains and drain pipe to carry the water to a spot with fall. On a slope above the river, the aim is to move that water off in a controlled way.
Bare slopes and fresh road cuts wash here, and the river is right there to catch it. Wilson Forestry and Excavating is an approved erosion control contractor with TDEC. On a construction site that work is silt fence, rock check dams, and a stabilized entrance. Seeding and matting hold the dirt while it takes.
Communities and areas we serve around Cumberland City: Indian Mound, Carlisle, Bear Spring, Leatherwood, Bumpus Mills, Big Rock, Tennessee Ridge, Dover, Palmyra, Erin.
Cumberland City ZIP codes served: 37050.
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(931) 572-8673 We clear lots and acreage of trees, brush, and stumps across Montgomery County and Middle Tennessee. The ground gets cleaned up so it is ready to build on or put back into pasture.
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A skid steer with a forestry mulcher head grinds brush, saplings, and undergrowth into mulch right where it stands. We also bush hog overgrown fields and pastures back to usable ground.
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We handle the dirt work before a build: building pads, cut and fill, rough and finish grading, and driveway cuts. The ground ends up level where it should be and sloped so water leaves the site.
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We build new gravel driveways, farm roads and access roads across Montgomery County and out toward Nashville. The road bed gets cut and stoned, then crowned so water sheds off instead of standing in the tracks.
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We install erosion control measures that keep soil on site and out of the ditch. Wilson Forestry and Excavating is an approved erosion control contractor with TDEC.
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Water standing in the yard or against the house needs a way out. We regrade the ground and put in French drains and pipe that carry it off.
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We trench and backfill for water lines, electrical conduit, sewer lines, and septic lines. Your plumber or electrician makes the connections, and we handle the digging and the ground work.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Cumberland City. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us what the job is and where the property sits, and we will get you an estimate. You can also call or text (931) 572-8673 if that is faster.
Tell us about the job and the ground. We will get right back to you.