Land clearing in Ardmore is acreage work. Carter County runs on cattle, and the ground shows it. We get called out to pasture with cedar coming in, and to creek bottoms grown up in brush. Our clearing is mechanical. A Cat D6 dozer and a 30,000 pound excavator push trees over and lift the stumps out. A tracked skid steer cleans up behind them. What is left is ground you can mow and graze again. Ardmore sits about an hour south of Ada, down I-35.
Moving a dozer and an excavator this far costs real money, so we favor full jobs. A good Ardmore job is a whole tract cleared with stumps out, plus the dirt work on the same trip. That covers burning or hauling the piles and roughing in a building pad. Call (580) 344-7473 and tell us the acreage and what is growing on it. Estimates are free. A pin drop helps too. We can usually say on the phone whether the job fits our machines.
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Ardmore sits at about 880 feet, roughly nine miles south of the Arbuckle Mountains. Drive north and the ground changes fast. The top end of Carter County is a band of rocky limestone hills, sloping to steep. Soil up there is shallow, and limestone breaks through at the surface. That ground has always been range, and brush takes it fast. Cedar on thin dirt pulls out clean, since the roots have nowhere deep to go. Rock is the catch. A dozer blade rides up on outcrop instead of cutting. We switch to the excavator and take those stumps one at a time. We leave rock ledges alone instead of stripping topsoil off a hillside.
Town itself sits low, with Caddo Creek and Hickory Creek running past it. The widest bottoms in the county follow Caddo Creek and Walnut Bayou. That dirt is deep loam and it floods. Bottom timber runs bigger too, mostly post oak with elm along the banks. Those stumps hold, so we dig them out with the excavator. Wet bottom ground ruts under a D6, so we try to work it in a dry stretch. Piles stay up out of the drainage. Old cropland is the other Ardmore job. Much of that ground washed into gullies and grew up in brush. That overlap of brush work and dirt work runs through everything else we take on around Ardmore.
Cedar is the tree that takes pasture away here. Carter County had 266,539 acres of pastureland in the 2022 Ag Census, and farms here average 333 acres. OSU measurements put a big cedar at as much as 42 gallons of water on a hot day. The trees shade grass out and burn hot when a grass fire comes through. They add about a foot of height a year, and seedlings keep coming behind them. Dozer work is one of the two recognized controls, along with prescribed fire. Our cedar work on grazing ground takes the tree out at the root, so it does not come back.
The piles are the other half of the job. On rural tracts we usually burn on site, which is normal in Carter County. County commissioners can pass a burn ban when fire danger climbs. They did in October 2024 during a dry fall. State rules also put land clearing fires at least 500 feet from an occupied home off the property. Smaller tracts around Lone Grove and Dickson often sit too close to a house. Those piles get hauled off. Check the county burn ban status before you set a date. Owners often want more done while the machines are here. That might be grading a pad, or having us dig a stock pond.
More about the service itself is on our Land Clearing page, and everything we do around town is on the Ardmore service-area page.
Answers specific to land clearing work around Ardmore. Something else on your mind? Call us.
Cedar taking the pasture, a pad to build, an old house to take down, or a pond you have been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you, and the estimate is free, from the owner who runs the machines.
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