Johnsonville, SC sits in the eastern end of Florence County, and Hunter Houses takes on demolition and land clearing there. The center of Johnsonville lies 1.5 miles south of where SC 41 and SC 51 cross the Lynches River. Census estimates count 1,251 people inside the city limits and 5,972 across the 29555 ZIP. So most of the ZIP's people live outside town. Inside Johnsonville, an old house at the end of its life calls for residential demolition. Out in the county, land clearing opens up wooded lots and fields gone to brush. When a mobile home wears out, it can come off the lot to make room for a newer one.
We are based in Florence, the county seat, 35 miles northwest of Johnsonville. Broadway Street through the middle of town is SC 341, which leads 20 miles west to Lake City. SC 41 and SC 51 run 4 miles north to US 378 at Kingsburg and 5 miles south to Hemingway. Our fleet is a New Holland mini excavator and a track skid steer, plus a tractor and a dump trailer. We also build dirt pads for houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and shops. Estimates are free and given on site, after we have seen the structure or the land. Give us a call or request an estimate online.
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Johnsonville was founded in 1913, and much of its housing has years on it. By Census estimates, the median home inside the city limits was built in 1973. Across the whole 29555 ZIP, the median is 1987. Some older houses reach the point where a teardown makes more sense than another round of repairs. The mini excavator takes the structure down, and the debris loads into our dump trailer. That matters here, because the city's Wednesday roll-cart pickup takes only household garbage placed inside the cart. So the lumber and roofing from a teardown leave the property with us.
Mobile homes make up a large share of housing around Johnsonville. Census estimates count 837 of them among the 2,588 homes in the 29555 ZIP, about one home in three. Florence County as a whole sits at 17.7 percent, so this ZIP runs close to double. When an old unit is past saving, mobile home demolition clears it off the lot. Then the spot can get a new dirt pad for the next home. The pad starts with stripping topsoil and roots off the footprint, since that soft material settles later. Fill goes on in layers, and the top ends up flat and a few inches above the ground around it.
Johnsonville sits in river and farm country. The city's website names five area rivers: the Lynches, Great Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Black and Waccamaw. Kingsburg, just up the road, is a farming community wedged between the Great Pee Dee and the Lynches. Poston sits along SC 51 and US 378. A field left alone for a few seasons can grow up in brush and saplings. Grass and light growth come down with brush hogging. For land clearing, the track skid steer and its brush cutter take down the thicker growth. The mini excavator digs out the stumps, and the ground is pushed back level.
Clearing near the rivers can bring permit rules into play. Federal law requires a Section 404 permit before fill goes into waters of the United States, wetlands included. So a wet low spot may need that permit before any fill dirt goes in. Acreage matters too. State stormwater coverage applies once a job disturbs one acre or more. The state agency, SCDES, counts clearing, grading, excavating and filling of low areas as land disturbance. For sites under one acre, Florence County has its own Stormwater and Land Disturbance Application, with no application fee. Our land clearing permit guide has more on these rules.
Communities & areas we serve around Johnsonville: Kingsburg, Poston, Hemingway.
Johnsonville ZIP codes served: 29555.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Florence County.
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We tear down houses, barns and outbuildings around Florence. The debris gets hauled off and the lot is left clean.
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We take down single-wide and double-wide mobile homes around Florence, haul the debris off in our dump trailer and level the old pad.
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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, level rough yards and get home and mobile home sites ready around Florence. Free on-site estimates.
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We build dirt pads for houses, mobile homes, shops, barns and sheds around Florence, with the topsoil stripped and the fill shaped in layers.
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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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We take down yard and lot trees in Florence, SC with a mini excavator, dig the stump out on the same visit and haul the wood off.
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We run our track skid steer on yards and lots around Florence to spread fill and gravel, shape dirt pads, cut brush and clean up after the work.
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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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