Hunter Houses handles demolition and land clearing in Marion, SC. Marion sits about 22 miles east of Florence on US 76, an easy run for our equipment. We work the city itself and the farm roads spread around it. That takes in the historic Main Street district, Courthouse Square, Temperance Hill and Rains. Marion is the county seat of Marion County, and the 29571 ZIP reaches far past the city limits. One job here is a tight lot near downtown, the next a grown-up tract off a dirt road. Both get the same mini excavator and track skid steer.
The ground around Marion is flat coastal plain and the city sits about 69 feet above sea level. Bottoms near the Great Pee Dee and Little Pee Dee rivers hold water long after a rain. That changes how we clear a lot and how we set a pad. We keep light equipment on tracks and stay off the softest ground with heavy loads. About a third of the housing in Marion County is manufactured homes. Old pads and worn out singlewides come up on a lot of these calls. We price the work after we see the site, so set up a free on-site estimate first.
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Marion County took hard flooding twice inside of two years. Hurricane Matthew dropped about 17 inches of rain on eastern South Carolina in October 2016. Hurricane Florence pushed water back over that same ground in September 2018. Nichols, near the North Carolina line, lost close to 90 percent of its 261 homes in Matthew. Both storms brought federal disaster declarations for Marion County. A frame house that sat wet and empty for years usually has a rotten floor system underneath it. The siding can look fine while the frame is gone. Those are the houses people call us about here.
Most of what we take down in Marion is residential. Older frame houses, mobile homes, barns and small outbuildings make up the bulk of it. We work a structure down in pieces with the mini excavator instead of dropping it all at once. Metal and wood get separated as we go. The debris loads into the dump trailer and leaves the property that day. Old slabs and buried footings come out when they are in the way. What is left is a level spot you can build on or just mow. Ask about house demolition when you call.
Land in Marion County goes back to woods fast. Wet ground and long warm seasons push saplings and briars into any field that sits idle. Two seasons is enough to lose sight of a fence line. We clear with a track skid steer and a mini excavator. Work starts at the road and moves back. Trees that have to come out come out with the root ball. That is the same method behind our stump removal. On acreage where you want ground cover left behind, forestry mulching shreds the brush where it stands. The mulch layer stays on the dirt and there is nothing to burn. Bigger jobs fall under land clearing on acreage.
Bottomland near the rivers needs a lighter touch. The Great Pee Dee runs down the west side of Marion County. The Little Pee Dee runs down the east. Catfish Creek runs past the city, and a paved trail links the old train depot to its canal. Ground near those runs holds water long after the rain stops. We time that work for dry stretches and keep heavy loads off the softest spots. Higher ground away from the bottoms dries out sooner and takes a pad well. That is where most gravel driveways and building pads go in. Once a field is open, brush hogging keeps it that way.
Communities & areas we serve around Marion: Historic Main Street district, Courthouse Square, Temperance Hill, Centenary, Rains, Sellers.
Marion ZIP codes served: 29571, 29589, 29592, 29519.
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.
View Details 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.
View DetailsA few of the questions we hear most around Marion. Don't see yours? Call us and ask.
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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