A lot of open ground around Rangely has been sitting for years. Some of it is high desert scrub with cheatgrass and kochia between the bushes. Some sits low near the White River, where tamarisk and Russian olive grow thick. And plenty of it has served as a laydown spot for pipe, pallets, or old equipment at some point in the oil field’s long run.
Our lot clearing in Rangely deals with all of it. We cut and remove brush, drop the trees you don’t want, pull stumps from the building area, gather junk and scrap, and haul everything away. Topsoil can be pushed into its own pile if you want it for later. The goal is simple: open, workable ground with your keeper trees still standing and nothing left behind to trip up the next crew.
We know what grows and what gets buried around Rangely, from river bottom tamarisk to old pipe on former yard sites.
Loaders, saws, and dump trucks let us cut brush, pull stumps, and haul debris in one trip without extra crews.
If clearing the building area is all you need, we'll say so instead of stripping the whole lot and inviting more weeds.
We pick up wire, scrap, and loose limbs before leaving, so the next crew starts on clean, open ground.
Clearing a lot in Rangely is a different job than clearing one in a wetter part of the state. With only about 11 inches of precipitation a year, most open ground grows slow and tough. Sagebrush and rabbitbrush hold their spots for decades, cheatgrass fills every gap by late spring, and kochia and goatheads take over anything that has been disturbed. None of it is tall, but all of it has to come out before a foundation or slab goes in.
Dry ground also means the soil is easy to lose. Once the cover is gone, the wind starts working on it, so we clear with the next step in mind and avoid stripping more than the project needs.
Every lot is different, but these are the things we plan for most often when we walk a site:
When the junk pile turns out bigger than the brush pile, our debris hauling service adds the extra loads so nothing ends up stacked at the edge of your property.
The Rangely Oil Field has kept this town working for nearly a century, and that shows up in the land. Shop sites, pipe yards, and equipment lots tend to need wide, open clearing with room for trucks and trailers to swing around. Ground that once held stored material can have steel, cable, or blocking buried just under the surface, so we go slower near anything that looks like an old laydown area.
If something turns up that looks like it held fuel, oil, or chemicals, we stop and talk with you before it goes in a truck. That kind of material needs its own disposal path.
Lots near the White River grow a different crop. Tamarisk and Russian olive line the river corridor and spread onto any low ground they can reach. They grow in thick, thorny clumps, and both sprout back from roots left in the soil. That makes them the slowest part of most clearing jobs in town.
For big trunks or dense stands, our tree and stump removal work takes the trees down and digs out the root crowns, so they don’t come back up through your new driveway or yard.
Cutting brush at the surface is one thing. Pulling stumps and digging out rock is excavation, and Colorado 811 needs a call at least 2 full business days before digging, not counting the day you call. Whoever does the digging makes that call, so when we pull stumps, it’s on us.
Locators mark the public lines. They won’t know about a private power run to an old shop, a buried water line, or abandoned pipe on an older parcel, so tell us anything you know about what’s underground. If your property corners are unclear, having them marked before we start is a lot cheaper than clearing a neighbor’s trees.
Clearing is only the first step. Bare ground in Rangely picks up dust on windy days and grows a fresh crop of cheatgrass the next spring, so the sooner the next phase starts, the better. We pay extra attention to the building footprint so stumps and big roots aren’t left for the excavation crew to fight.
From there, grading shapes the site so snowmelt and summer storms drain away from where you plan to build. Footing depth follows local building requirements, so check with the Rio Blanco County building department on your plans before the dig starts.
We walk your Rangely lot with you, flag trees to keep, and note buried scrap, soft spots, and access for trucks.
Your free quote spells out what gets cleared, what stays, whether topsoil is saved, and how debris leaves the site.
We cut brush, drop unwanted trees, pull stumps from the footprint, and load out scrap, rock, and junk.
We walk the cleared lot together, confirm your keeper trees made it, and talk through grading or excavation next.
