Land Clearing
We clear wooded lots, overgrown property and old pasture around Statesboro. Trees, brush and stumps come out, and you get ground you can use.
View Details Home Our Work About Contact Call (912) 712-6034
Drainage work in Statesboro starts with the ground under the grass. Most yards here are a foot or two of loamy sand sitting on clay. Rain soaks in fast, hits the clay and spreads sideways with nowhere to go. Watson Outdoor Living installs French drains, cuts swales and sets culvert pipe so that water has a way off your property. We dig it with a CAT 308 excavator and shape the surface with a CAT 275 track loader.
A French drain is a gravel filled trench with a perforated pipe in the bottom. Water drops into the gravel, enters the pipe and runs downhill to a ditch or a low corner. We also handle the bigger drainage moves, like a swale across a flat lot or a pipe under a farm crossing. When the whole yard needs reshaping, that becomes land grading and leveling. Call or text (912) 712-6034 for a free estimate.
Tell us about your property and we will get right back to you.
Bulloch County soil explains most of it. The county's biggest soil map unit is Pelham loamy sand, about 62,000 acres of it. The USDA rates it poorly drained, with a water table within a foot and a half of the surface part of the year. The Tifton and Fuquay loamy sands on the higher ground drain well up top, but they sit on a clay rich subsoil. Water moves down through the sand and stops at the clay.
Add close to four feet of rain a year and flat lots, and you get a yard that stays soft for days. You see it as dead grass in the low spot, ruts by the shop door and water against the slab after a summer storm. Drainage fixes give that water a lower place to go. Sometimes that is a pipe. Sometimes it is just a swale cut to the ditch.
We start by finding the fall. Water only moves downhill, so the outlet has to sit lower than the wet spot. The excavator trenches from the problem area to the outlet, usually 12 to 24 inches deep with a steady slope. Filter fabric lines the trench so sand does not fill the pipe. Perforated pipe goes in the bottom, washed stone goes over it, and the top gets sod or more stone.
Downspout lines work the same way without the gravel. Solid pipe carries roof water from the house to a daylight outlet at the ditch or the back of the lot. On a flat Bulloch County lot the outlet is the hard part, and we tell you up front if the fall is not there. Jobs that need engineered plans start with an engineer. Most yard drainage does not.
Not every drainage problem wants a pipe. A shallow swale cut across a lot moves more water than a French drain, and it costs less. We shape it with the track loader so it mows like the rest of the yard. Culvert pipe carries water under a farm road or a path so the road stops washing. We set the pipe to grade, bed it, and backfill and pack it.
Pipe under a driveway where it meets a county road works differently. Bulloch County will install that driveway pipe for a set fee. Any digging in the right of way needs a permit from the County Engineer. We handle the pipe on your side of the line and the driveway itself. That part of the work sits on our gravel driveways page.
We work out of Statesboro and cover about 50 miles around it. That takes in Brooklet, Register, Portal, Metter, Claxton and Sylvania close in, and Rincon, Springfield, Pooler and Richmond Hill toward the coast. Flat sandy lots hold water the same way in all of them. On one recent job we set an extended culvert for drainage, hauled in nine loads of fill and finished with a tight grade after a stump came out.
Published 2026 guides put exterior French drains around $10 to $35 per foot installed, with 50 to 100 feet a common run. Your number depends on the fall, the outlet and how much pipe the yard needs. Deeper digging for footings and pits sits on our excavation page. We look at the ground first and the estimate is free. Call or text (912) 712-6034.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Statesboro & Southeast Georgia.
(912) 712-6034From the first look at the property to the last pass of the grapple, here is exactly how it goes.
We come see the property first: the growth, the ground under it, access for the machines, and what you want the land to become. Clearing prices live in details a phone call cannot see.
You get a real number and a real timeline, and what it covers is spelled out: clearing, stumps, grading, debris. It holds unless the scope changes, and you hear about any change before it costs anything.
The CAT 275 and 308 show up when we said they would. Brush gets mulched or piled, trees and stumps come out, dirt gets shaped, and debris leaves on the trailer.
We go over the finished ground with you before we leave. Smooth dirt you can mow, grade or build on, and a property that looks better than the day we pulled in.
Common questions about drainage across Statesboro & Southeast Georgia. Don't see yours? Call and ask.
We clear wooded lots, overgrown property and old pasture around Statesboro. Trees, brush and stumps come out, and you get ground you can use.
View Details
Forestry mulching grinds standing brush and small trees into mulch on the spot. We run a CAT 275 with a mulcher head, and the chips stay on your ground as cover.
View Details
We clear brush and underbrush around Statesboro, GA. Overgrown fence lines, property edges, and back yards get opened back up, with the trees left standing.
View Details
Machine based tree removal in Statesboro and Southeast Georgia. We fell the tree, then dig the stump and roots out when you want them gone.
View Details
Fallen pines, snapped limbs and yard debris cleared after a storm. The excavator lifts trunks off fences and sheds, and the debris leaves on our trailer.
View Details
We dig stumps out with a CAT 308 excavator instead of grinding them. The stump and root ball come up whole, get hauled off, and the hole gets backfilled and leveled.
View DetailsYou deal with the same crew from the first call to the last pass. Questions get answered at the property by the people doing the work.
The CAT 275 mulches and grapples, the CAT 308 digs, lifts and loads. Clearing, trees, stumps, grading and haul-off finish as one project with one estimate.
Estimates happen at the property because clearing prices live in the details. You get a number that holds, and any change in scope gets discussed before it costs anything.
Sandy loam, pine thickets, wet bottoms and summer regrowth: this is the ground we work every week, from Bulloch County out about 50 miles in every direction.
Real reviews from real clearing, tree and dirt work jobs on Google.
Watson exceeded our expectations with his attention to detail and his ability to meet our timeline. I will recommend them to anyone!
Truly one of the best young men I’ve worked with. Him and his team exceeded my expectations. I’ve had them come for landscaping and debris removal, and each time I’m pleased. I recommended him to a few co-workers of mine and they consistently thought the pricing was reasonable.
Excellent, professional work!
Land to clear, brush taking over a fence line, a stump that needs to come out whole, or a lot you want build-ready? Call, text, or send the form. We come look at the property, you get a free estimate with a real number, and the same crew handles the job start to finish.
Tell us about your property and we will get right back to you.
