Site Preparation
Building pads for commercial buildings, data centers, oilfield locations and custom homes. We cut and fill to the plan grades and compact each pad in lifts.
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Bankston's Builders offers land clearing services for jobs that call for heavy equipment. We take trees and brush off ranch land, commercial sites, oilfield locations and road corridors. Excavators and dozers do the clearing, and grubbing pulls the roots out of the ground.
Land clearing is often the first phase of a bigger dirt-work job. Once the ground is open, the tract can go straight into site preparation for a building pad. A cleared corridor starts a ranch road or a lease road, and our road building takes it from there. Our service area centers on Fort Worth and reaches the Permian Basin and the Texas Hill Country.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
We do ranch clearing south and west of Fort Worth, out to the Texas Hill Country and West Texas. The further west the ranch, the bigger the clearing job tends to run.
Mesquite grows across most of Texas, and it fights back when it is cut. Its dormant buds sit on the underground stem, most of them 2 to 6 inches below the surface. Cut a mesquite at ground level and new sprouts come up from those buds. Grubbing pulls the root crown out below that zone, so the tree is much less likely to return.
With cedar, the species matters. Ashe juniper, the mountain cedar of the Edwards Plateau, does not sprout back from the stump. Redberry juniper, which has spread across the Rolling Plains of northwest Texas, sprouts again from buds at its base. Cutting off the top alone leaves those buds in the ground.
The job starts with the scope: which ground gets cleared and which trees stay. On a building site, the site plan sets those lines. Inside Fort Worth city limits, the city's urban forestry rules also set how much tree canopy must remain.
Big clearing jobs start with a Texas 811 ticket. If a pipeline crosses a tract too big for one ticket, state rules call for a meeting with its operator. Then excavators and dozers take the trees down, and the roots get grubbed out.
The state extension service notes that moist soil lets the root crown come out more completely. When the clearing is done, land grading shapes the ground for drainage and the next phase.
Commercial pads and data center campuses often start as raw land. We clear the footprint and the access routes first. That opens the ground for the rest of our dirt work in Fort Worth and across Texas.
Road corridors work the same way. A new ranch road or access road needs cleared, grubbed ground before any road base goes down.
On a building project, the state's construction stormwater permit covers work that disturbs one acre or more of soil. TCEQ runs that permit, and its website explains who needs coverage.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 300 miles around Fort Worth across DFW, West Texas and the Hill Country.
(214) 557-5106From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form. Tell us what the project is, where the land or the building sits and when you need it done.
We go over the tract or the space, the plans and the access for heavy equipment. On dirt work we also look at the ground and where the water runs.
The scope and the price go in writing before any work starts. The quote spells out what gets cleared, cut, built or finished.
Machines and crews come in on the set date. On a dirt job the work runs in order: clearing, the pad or the road, the trenches, then the drainage. On a build, the trades follow the schedule.
The ground is left graded and compacted to the plan, ready for concrete, a building or a rig. On a finish out or a custom home, the work runs through to the finished space.
Common questions about land clearing around Fort Worth and the rest of our Texas service area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Building pads for commercial buildings, data centers, oilfield locations and custom homes. We cut and fill to the plan grades and compact each pad in lifts.
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Land grading levels lots and tracts and shapes the ground so water runs off. We do rough grading and finish grading with heavy equipment for developers, ranch owners and oil and gas operators.
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We build private, ranch, lease and haul roads on a compacted base with a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts move water off and under the road.
Learn MoreExcavators, dozers, compactors and skid steers do the work, run by crews with real expertise on each machine. The jobs are sized to match: multi-acre clearing, commercial pads, long roads and oilfield locations.
The pad, the concrete and the building can all run through the same company. A custom home starts on a pad we cut and compacted. A commercial project can go from raw land to a finished tenant space.
Developers, oil and gas operators, data center builders and ranch owners all bring us ground to move. Each site gets its own scope, whether that is a detention pond, a lease road or a campus pad.
Tell us about the land or the building and where it sits. We look at the job, then put the scope and the price in writing before any work starts.
Tell us about the land, the pad, the road or the building and where it sits. Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form and we will get back to you with the next step.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
