Land Clearing & Skid Steer in Davenport, FL

The lots that are still left to clear in Davenport

Most of Davenport is finished. Stucco on a slab, a two-car garage, an HOA. Land clearing here is what's left between the subdivisions: the older homes on real lots in the grid near Bay Street, and the strips of pasture and scrub along the edges toward Loughman and ChampionsGate that a new phase hasn't reached yet. Somebody buys one of those and needs the back fence line out of the vines, or a spot leveled for a shed.

That's a morning for Rob and the machine. The grapple takes the palmetto, the saplings and the pile of limbs the last owner left. Old fence posts and wire come out. A stump or two lifts with the root ball and rides in the trailer. Then the bucket rough-levels the pad. If it needs fill to build up, that's a separate quote through partner dump trucks, because the trailers carry debris, not dirt.

Storm piles in the newer neighborhoods

The subdivisions along US-27 and Ronald Reagan Parkway don't have lots to clear, but they have storm piles. After a named storm every yard in Solterra and Providence has oak limbs, fronds and a fence section in it. Small piles the crew loads by hand. A downed tree gets the grapple. The stand-on mini fits through a standard gate when the yard is fenced, and everything leaves in the trailer the same day instead of sitting at the curb. Providence and Solterra have guardhouses; leave a pass or send the gate code and the machine comes in on its trailer like any other truck.

Same-day clearing, quoted flat

Because the yard is here, Davenport is the one town where the machine can often come the day you call. Rob looks at the lot in person, usually on the way to or from another job, and quotes flat: $350 for a half trailer of debris, $700 for a full, machine time quoted with the job. Big timber near the house, a whole tract, or anything on an engineer's drawing is somebody else's work, and he'll tell you who.