Hunter Houses is based in Florence and works across Lamar, South Carolina. Lamar sits about twenty minutes west of us, so getting a machine out here is easy. We tear down old buildings, clear land, dig out stumps and grade dirt for new pads. Fewer than 900 people live inside the Lamar town limits. Downtown runs along Main Street, and the Egg Scramble Jamboree fills it every April. Past the last block, the area is farm fields and woods. Deep lots and open acreage change how a job gets done. We run a mini excavator, a track skid steer, a tractor and a dump trailer.
Lamar is in Darlington County, and the 29069 ZIP covers about 76 square miles. Almost all of it is rural, and that shows up in the work. Manufactured homes make up close to a third of the housing out here. Older frame houses and farm outbuildings still stand on family land. Some of those buildings have not been used in years. One call often covers two jobs at once. A common pair is taking down a house past saving plus clearing the land behind it. Estimates are free, and we come look before we quote a number.
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Lamar grew up as a farming town, and plenty of its houses have stood for decades. Some are past repair, and the family just wants the lot cleared. We handle house and mobile home tear downs the same way every time. We start by checking for power, water, gas and septic lines. Then we pull the structure down with the mini excavator and sort the pile as it comes apart. Concrete steps, block piers, slab and old footings go too, if you want them gone. Debris loads into the dump trailer and leaves the property. What is left is clean, level ground you can mow or build on.
Storms are the other reason people call. Severe weather hits the Pee Dee most years. The National Weather Service has logged storm damage to trees around Oates in Darlington County. A tree through the roof can finish an old barn in one night. We clear the wreck, cut and haul the tree and open the spot back up. Old tobacco barns and pole sheds come down the same way. Tobacco was the county's main crop for most of the last century. Those buildings are still scattered across the fields. If one sits close to a house or a well, we take it apart in sections. We also handle digging out old footings and buried debris when the ground calls for it.
Darlington County has more than 300 farms. About 64 percent of the county's farmland grows crops, and the rest is woodland and rough edges. Those edges creep. Field lines close in and back acres grow up in brush and young trees. We handle clearing overgrown ground two ways. Where you want the debris gone, we push and pile with the track skid steer and haul it off. Where you want the ground ready to mow, forestry mulching grinds the growth in place. The mulch stays put as a mat on top. For fields that only need knocking down once a year, we run a brush hog behind the tractor.
When the goal is a house site, clearing is only the start. We follow with grading and site prep, which means shaping the pad and setting the fall away from it. Water has to run away from the slab, so pad height and fall get set before anything else. Mobile home pads and building pads both get built this way. We take stumps out with the excavator, root ball and all, so nothing settles under the pad later. A long gravel driveway is common out here, since houses sit well back from the road. We shape the base, crown it to shed water and spread stone.
Communities & areas we serve around Lamar: Downtown Lamar, Main Street, Lamar Highway (US 401), Windhams Crossroads, Oates, Lydia.
Lamar ZIP codes served: 29069.
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.
View Details 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 Lamar. 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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