Hunter Houses does demolition and land clearing in Hartsville, South Carolina. We work out of Florence, about 24 miles southeast, and Hartsville is a short run through Darlington. The jobs we take on here are residential and rural, on house lots and on acreage. Old houses and single-wide mobile homes come down, and wooded ground gets opened back up. The mini excavator handles the teardowns and the track skid steer handles the clearing. Estimates in Hartsville are free and done on site.
Hartsville sits in northwestern Darlington County, and street addresses here run through ZIP 29550. The town is on the edge of the Sandhills, so the dirt is deep sand with clay bands through it. Sand digs fast and drains fast, and it also moves, which changes how a pad or a drive gets built. Pine and scrub oak come back quickly on any ground you quit mowing. Land out toward Kellytown and Lydia is farm country, and the buildings on it age out. Old structures and thick regrowth are the two jobs this area produces. We handle demolition of houses and mobile homes, land clearing on wooded lots, forestry mulching and excavation and dirt work. We also do stump removal with an excavator, grading and site prep, gravel driveways and brush hogging.
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Hartsville grew up around a cotton mill that opened in 1903. The mill company built a village of small houses beside it. The mill shut down in 1984. Plenty of houses from that era are still standing, and some have gone past saving. Older streets near downtown carry the same age, including the East Home Avenue and West College Avenue historic districts. When a house that old comes down, the material is heavy and awkward. Plaster and brick chimneys weigh more than anything in a new build. We take the structure down with the mini excavator and load it straight into the dump trailer.
Barns and mobile homes make up a good share of the teardown work in this part of Darlington County. Ground out toward Kellytown and Lydia is rural, and farm buildings on it reach the end of their life. Wind gets under loose tin and finishes the job. Darlington County was inside the federal disaster declaration after Hurricane Florence in 2018. Storms since then keep adding to the list. We break the structure down and load the debris out. Slabs and block piers come out too when you want the ground clean. What you get back is bare dirt you can run a mower over.
Black Creek runs through Hartsville and backs up into Prestwood Lake. That lake covers about 300 acres on the north edge of town. Lake Robinson sits north of it, roughly 2,250 acres across the Darlington and Chesterfield county line. Ground near water like that grows thick. In the Sandhills, longleaf pine stands over turkey oak, and briars and berry canes fill the floor. Leave it a few years and you cannot get through it. We open ground like that back up with the track skid steer and the mini excavator. You pick how far it goes, from a mowed edge to bare dirt.
Acreage around Hartsville runs to old farm ground and cutover pine. Darlington County was farming country long before Sonoco put its head office here. The Coker family bred cotton seed on experimental farms in Hartsville. That ground carries National Historic Landmark status now. Plenty of land around town is still fields and woods lines. When you want a house seat or a shop pad, the trees and root balls have to leave. The wood either hauls off in the dump trailer or gets shredded in place. We size the job to what you actually plan to build.
Communities & areas we serve around Hartsville: North Hartsville, Kellytown, Prestwood Lake, Lake Robinson, Pine Ridge, Lydia.
Hartsville ZIP codes served: 29550, 29551.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Darlington County.
(217) 741-6050
We tear down houses, mobile homes, barns and outbuildings around Florence. The debris gets hauled off and the lot is left clean.
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We clear overgrown lots and acreage around Florence. Underbrush and small trees come out, and the piles get hauled off on the dump trailer.
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We mulch brush, briars and small trees in place and leave the ground covered in mulch. Good for understory cleanup, hunting land and grown up acreage.
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We handle residential excavation around Florence with a mini excavator and a track skid steer. Root digs, buried debris, pad cuts and low spots that hold water.
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We dig stumps out with a mini excavator, root ball and root runs included. The wood gets hauled off, and the hole is backfilled and rough leveled.
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We grade lots and build dirt pads for homes, sheds, barns and mobile homes. Free on-site estimates around Florence.
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We cut and build new gravel driveways, and regrade drives that have washed out or gone to potholes. Work runs from short residential drives to long farm lanes.
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We brush hog overgrown pasture, fields, vacant lots and fence lines around Florence. Book a one-time cut or a yearly maintenance mow.
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A structure that needs to come down, an overgrown lot, stumps in the way, ground that holds water, a pad or driveway that needs building? Call or send the form. We come look at the property and hand you a free quote with a real number on it.
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