Altamont sits up on the benchlands below the Uintas, and a lot of the open ground around town has spent years growing brush, collecting rock, and holding whatever got parked out back. Before anyone can pour a footing or set a shop, that parcel has to be opened up and cleaned off in a way that keeps the good soil and the trees you want to save.
Our lot clearing in Altamont handles the whole first step. We walk the property with you, mark what stays, clear brush and trees, dig out stumps and rock, and haul the debris away. Since our crews plan trips out from the Basin, we schedule your job as a dedicated day or block of days so the work gets done in one push instead of a little at a time.
We know benchland soils, Blue Stakes timing, and Duchesne County frost depth, and we plan your clearing around all three.
Our excavators, skid steers, and dump trucks handle brush, stumps, rock, and hauling without bringing in extra subs.
If part of your lot doesn't need clearing yet, we'll say so and keep the open dirt to what your project needs.
We haul every load of brush, rock, and junk off the property and leave the cleared area neat and ready to work.
At 6,391 feet on the south slope of the Uintas, Altamont ground is a little different from the valley floor. Soils on the upper benches can be thin and rocky in spots, with cobble just under the surface and sagebrush rooted deep into it. Lots that have sat empty for years also pick up kochia, cheatgrass, and goatheads in every bare patch. Clearing here usually means digging, not just mowing.
Older parcels add their own extras. Rolled up fence wire, scrap metal, old pipe, and piles of who knows what tend to collect on rural ground, and all of it has to come out before a builder can work. With the Altamont, Bluebell, and Cedar Rim oil fields all around town, it’s not unusual to find leftover pipe, pallets, or cable tucked into the sage on a lot that once saw some field traffic.
We like to know what’s going on the lot before we touch it. A house, a shop, a driveway, a stack yard for equipment: each one needs a different footprint and a different amount of open space. We mark the areas you want cleared, flag trees and features that stay, and talk through where trucks and machines will come in.
That conversation keeps us from opening up more ground than you need. Every square foot of bare dirt is something you’ll fight wind and weeds on later, so a tight plan pays off. It also helps us bring the right machines on the first trip out, which matters when the drive is part of the job.
We price every lot after we’ve seen it in person. These are the details that move the number the most:
Pulling a stump or prying out a big rock is digging, and in Utah the person digging makes the Blue Stakes call. On our jobs, that’s us. The call has to go in at least 3 business days before we dig and no more than 14 calendar days ahead, and a ticket expires after 21 days, so we time it around the actual clearing date. Private lines to wells, shops, and outbuildings won’t always be marked, so tell us what you know about.
Bigger trees, especially cottonwoods and Russian olive along a ditch, often take more than a quick pull. When a lot has a stand like that, our tree and stump removal service handles the cutting and root work so the ground is clean for digging later.
Clearing is step one. Once the lot is open, foundations and footings come next, and in Duchesne County footings need to sit at least 30 inches deep for frost. Roots and stumps left in the building footprint just get in the way of that work, so we pull them out of the pad area now.
When you’re ready for the next phase, our excavation crew for footings and basements can pick up right where clearing leaves off. One team on both steps means fewer trips out and less waiting between trades.
Bare ground doesn’t stay bare. Wind moves loose soil across open benches, and weeds will fill in a cleared lot within a season if nothing happens next. Altamont also gets more snow than most Basin towns, so a site cleared in fall can turn into a muddy mess come spring melt.
We’d rather plan clearing so the next step follows close behind. If the lot needs shaping for drainage, site grading on the same trip can set the slope right after clearing. That keeps water moving away from your build area and gives your builder a clean start.
We walk your Altamont lot together, flag the trees you keep, and look at access, slopes, rock, and buried junk.
You get a free lot clearing quote that lays out the cleared area, stump and rock work, hauling, and topsoil plans.
Our crew clears brush and trees, pulls stumps and rock, and loads everything out in a planned block of days.
We walk the cleared lot with you, confirm flagged trees are untouched, and talk through grading or excavation next.
