Cedar Removal
Mechanical cedar removal for pasture, ranch and hunting land around Ada. Dozer and excavator take the whole tree with the root, so grass has room to come back.
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Rezz Built Construction Services clears land in Seminole, Oklahoma, and out across the rest of Seminole County. Ada is about 33 miles south of town, so a job here sits well inside our normal working radius. We run north on US-377 and SH-99, cross the Canadian River, then come in past Bowlegs. That drive takes under an hour, so Seminole work gets scheduled the same as work at home.
The 74868 ZIP covers the city, and our route takes in the pasture and timber east toward Sportsman Lake, a city lake with 15 miles of shoreline. It also takes in the acreage out by Seminole State College and the section roads toward Cromwell and Wewoka. Rural tracts are the bulk of what we do up here, and we go further out for large acreage. Most of what we get called for in Seminole County is mechanical land clearing. A Cat D6 dozer and a 30,000 pound excavator push brush and pull the stumps out by the roots. A tracked skid steer cleans up behind them, and debris is piled and burned where allowed. Ground that still holds stumps will not carry a building pad, and it chews up a shredder.
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The Fixico No. 1 came in near Seminole in July 1926 and hit the Wilcox sand at 4,075 feet. It flowed more than 6,000 barrels a day. The town went from 854 people to a boomtown of 25,000 to 30,000. Thirty-nine separate pools opened across the Greater Seminole field, including Bowlegs, Earlsboro, Searight, and Little River.
Peak day came on July 30, 1927, when the district pumped 527,400 barrels. That history is still in the dirt on rural ground across this county. Old lease roads, pad sites, buried pipe, and scattered steel turn up once the brush comes off. The Corporation Commission counts more than 19,000 orphaned wells statewide with no reachable owner. Plugging those wells is the Commission's job. Ours is to clear around what is there and keep the machines off anything questionable. Before digging on old oilfield ground, we file a ticket with OKIE811. Oklahoma law gives excavators two business days of notice, and a ticket runs 14 calendar days.
All of Seminole County sits in the cross timbers. That means post oak and blackjack oak growing over sandy soil and sandstone. The understory fills in with briars and vines that grab everything they touch. Light equipment stalls out in it, which is why the dozer leads.
Cedar is the other half of the problem on old pasture. Eastern redcedar spreads across Oklahoma at roughly 762 acres a day by NRCS counts. OSU measurements put a big redcedar at as much as 42 gallons of water on a hot day. Left alone, it takes the grass first and then the fence lines. We cleared 140 acres of cedar on a USDA contract. The fix that holds is pulling cedar out at the roots. Cutting at the stump buys a season or two. Roots out means the grass comes back and holds. Once the trees are off, the dirt work starts. Sandy cross timbers ground sheds water fast on the rises and holds it in the draws. That shapes where grading and leveling pays off, and where pond construction will actually hold water. The same machines handle roughing in a level building pad, cut to grade and left concrete ready.
It depends on which side of the city limits you are on. Inside Seminole, the city requires a building permit to construct, alter, move, or demolish a structure. That runs through the Community Development Department at city hall on North Main. Outside the limits, Seminole County no longer issues its own permits and points people to the State Fire Marshal.
A floodplain development permit still applies near the creeks and bottoms, under the county flood damage prevention ordinance. We check which office applies before the equipment rolls in. It matters most for taking down an old barn or house inside the city limits. Out on county ground there is less paperwork in the way. Burning is the other rule to track. Oklahoma has two kinds of burn ban, one from the Governor and one from county commissioners. Burning through a ban is a misdemeanor with a fine up to $500. When Seminole County is under a ban, debris gets hauled off or stacked until it lifts.
Communities & areas we serve around Seminole: Wewoka, Konawa, Bowlegs, Cromwell, Sasakwa, Lima.
Seminole ZIP codes served: 74868.
Mechanical cedar removal for pasture, ranch and hunting land around Ada. Dozer and excavator take the whole tree with the root, so grass has room to come back.
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We move, haul, and spread dirt on acreage around Ada with a Cat D6 dozer and a 30,000-pound excavator. That covers cut and fill, fill dirt placement, washed out ground, and rough driveway lanes on rural property.
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We dig footings, trenches, storm shelter pits and pool holes on acreage around Ada, Oklahoma. The work runs on a 30,000-pound excavator, and the locate request goes to OKIE811 before the bucket moves. Rezz Built Construction Services has been doing this since 2023.
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We take down houses, mobile homes, barns and old slabs with a 30,000 pound excavator. Debris goes to a permitted landfill and the ground gets left flat.
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Pond construction for farms and ranches around Ada, Oklahoma. We dig new stock and fishing ponds with a dozer and excavator. We also clean out silted ponds and repair dams.
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We strip the topsoil, cut and fill to your build elevation, and pack the dirt in lifts. The pad comes out level and above grade, ready for your concrete contractor.
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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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