Drainage & Erosion Control
Drainage and erosion control around Shelby, from driveway culverts and ditching to swales, washout repair and rip rap on banks.
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Excavation is the dirt work that has to happen before anything gets built or fixed. Around Shelby, NC that usually means footings dug for a shed, a garage or a house. It means a driveway culvert set at the right depth so the drive stops washing out. It means trenching to pull standing water away from a building or a low spot in the yard.
We bring our own machines, excavators in a couple of sizes, a dozer, skid steers and grapple trucks. The mini excavator fits between a house and a fence line where a full size machine cannot go. We cover Shelby, Kings Mountain, Boiling Springs, Gastonia, Lincolnton, Cherryville, Dallas and Bessemer City. Forest City, Rutherfordton, Spindale, Lawndale and Grover sit inside the same 25 mile radius.
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Every job starts with a free on site estimate, so we can see the ground and the access. We look at where the water runs, what the soil is doing and how a machine gets in. Then we call 811, and the buried lines get marked before a bucket touches the ground. Marking takes a few days, so we set the start date around it.
On dig day we set the machine and pull the dirt out in lifts. We check depth as we go, because a footing has to hit the number on the plan. For culvert installation we cut the ditch line, bed the pipe and backfill it in layers. Tight spots get the mini excavator, and open ground gets a bigger machine or the dozer.
The dirt we pull out has to go somewhere, and we settle that at the estimate. Clean soil can be spread on a low spot on your property if you want it there. The rest loads into the grapple trucks with the stumps and roots and leaves the site. We rake the work area smooth, and grading to a finished slope is its own service.
Excavation companies price this work by machine hours and truck loads, and we do the same. Depth and volume set the base, because both decide how long a machine sits on the job. A shallow drainage trench moves a fraction of the dirt that a full footing dig moves. We measure the area and the depth at the estimate, so the number comes off real dirt.
Red clay digs slow and sticks to the bucket when it is wet, which costs machine time. Out toward the foothills, rock can sit a foot or two down and change the whole plan. If we find it we show you, then work it with a bigger machine or shift the dig. Access counts too, because a narrow gate or a soft yard slows every trip in and out.
Hauling spoil off takes trucks and time, so where the dirt ends up moves the price a lot. Spreading it on site costs less when you have a low spot that can take the fill. A wet weather spring or a running creek in the hole can slow a dig by days. You get a price at the estimate, and we tell you up front what would change it.
Builders call us as their excavating contractor for the dig, then take the job from there. We cut footings for sheds, garages, shops and homes, to the depth and width on the plan. We dig only, so forms, steel and inspections stay with your builder and your inspector. Site prep digging after land clearing is steady work too, once the trees and stumps are gone.
Driveways that wash out in every hard rain are the call we get most around here, and we handle the culvert, ditch and erosion control work that fixes them. One customer had us dig and set two 24 inch culvert pipes to reach his property. A pipe has to match the water the ditch carries, and it has to sit at the right fall. Undersized pipe, or a flat set, is why the gravel keeps ending up out in the road.
Cleveland County is full of farm ponds, creeks and wet weather springs that eat at their banks. We clean and cut pond banks and stream banks, and reshape an edge that has caved in. Excavator work at the water line pulls out silt, brush and trees that washed down. Farms near Lawndale, Grover and Cherryville use us for lanes, ditches and pulling stumps.
LDS Solutions is veteran owned and operated, and we carry full insurance on every job. Estimates are free and done on site. If a building has to come down first, demolition is a separate service. Call (704) 600-8146 and we will come look at the ground.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Shelby, NC and 25 miles around.
(704) 600-8146From the first call to the last pass of the rake, here is how it goes.
Tell us where the land is and what you want it to do. We set a time to come see it, usually within a few days.
We look at the ground, the growth and the access in person. You get a real number and a plan before any machine moves.
Our own equipment rides in on our lowboy. Most residential jobs run one to three days, and you see progress the first morning.
Debris is mulched or hauled off and the ground is left ready to use. We look the job over with you before we leave.
Common questions about excavation across Shelby, NC and 25 miles around. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
Drainage and erosion control around Shelby, from driveway culverts and ditching to swales, washout repair and rip rap on banks.
Gravel driveway installation, repair and regrading around Shelby, plus farm lanes, access roads and gravel parking pads on Piedmont clay ground.
Land grading in Shelby, NC. We cut, fill and compact so your yard, pad or gravel drive sits flat and sheds water instead of holding it.
Forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees into a mulch layer where they stand. Nothing gets hauled off and nothing gets burned.
Bush hogging for fields, pastures and overgrown lots around Shelby, NC. Our rotary cutters take down waist high growth, briar and small saplings, and put the ground back in shape.
Tree removal in Shelby, NC for leaning, dead and storm-downed trees. We drop them with machines and haul the wood off.
LDS Solutions runs the way a veteran-owned company should: show up on time, do the work right, leave the place better than you found it. Our own crew runs our own machines.
Tracked mulcher, skid steers, excavators, dozer and grapple trucks, all owned. Your job never waits on a rental yard, and the right machine is always on the trailer.
We come look at the ground in person, tell you what the job takes, and give you a real number before any machine moves. The estimate costs you nothing.
Red clay that ruts when wet, pine and privet that come back every summer, foothill slopes that shed rain sideways. We work this ground every week and plan for it.
Gravel driveways wash out when water runs down them instead of off them. The crown, ditch, culvert and stone that fix it for good, with published repair costs.
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Stump grinding runs about $100-$400 per stump and leaves the roots. Pulling the stump and roots out costs more but clears the spot for building. How to pick.
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Most NC land clearing under 1 acre needs no state permit. Over 1 acre for development requires an erosion control plan filed 30 days ahead. The rules, plainly.
Read more →Land to clear, a field to mow, trees down from a storm, or a building that needs to come down? Call or send the form. We come look at the ground in person and the estimate is free. We clear land. You build dreams.
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