Land clearing, forestry mulching, excavation and grading along the US-29 corridor, out through Roebuck, Camp Croft and Pauline — this is our home ground.
25 Years Operating Heavy Machinery
Family-Owned & Family-Operated — Based in Roebuck
Free Estimates — Always
The US-29 corridor south and west of Spartanburg runs from Warren H. Abernathy Highway down through the Reidville Road and John B. White Sr. Boulevard junctions and out along US-221 toward Roebuck and Pauline. Roebuck sits at 735 feet with about 2,350 residents; a few miles east, Croft State Park spreads across 7,054 acres of hardwood and pine with Fairforest Creek running through it and 165-acre Lake Craig at its center. This is rolling Piedmont — red Cecil and Pacolet clay over ten to twenty-five feet of saprolite, with Pacolet slopes commonly running 15 to 25 percent.
The land use here splits sharply. West toward I-26 Exit 22 it’s dense and commercial: more than 75,000 people within five miles of the Reidville Road corridor, over 30,000 vehicles a day, and the Westgate Mall and W.O. Ezell retail area. South and east toward Roebuck, Camp Croft and Pauline it turns to acreage — twenty and thirty acre tracts with creek frontage being marketed for their subdivision potential, working farm ground, and long driveways back to homesites in the woods. Both need clearing work, and they need very different equipment and approaches.
This is our home market. Eastern Land Solutions works out of Roebuck, right in the middle of this corridor, which means no travel time and no mobilization charge. Our dump trucks, chippers and machines are already here.
Every service Eastern Land Solutions offers is available across the US-29 corridor, Roebuck, Camp Croft, Pauline and the south side of Spartanburg. This is the market we’re based in, and it’s the one we know best.
We clear everything from single homesites off SC-295 to twenty and thirty acre tracts around Roebuck and Pauline that owners are opening up or preparing to subdivide. On the commercial side, lot clearing along the US-29 and Reidville Road corridors is close-quarters work with traffic to manage. We haul off with our own dump trucks and bring in a grinder on the larger jobs. On any parcel inside the former Camp Croft footprint we check the site record first.
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Mulching is well suited to this corridor’s acreage work — trails, fence lines, property boundaries and selective clearing back toward the Fairforest Creek drainages, where the mulch mat holds red clay on a 20 percent slope instead of letting it wash into the creek. It’s also the least invasive way to open up wooded ground, which matters more than usual on land inside the old Camp Croft boundary, where minimizing ground disturbance is simply good practice.
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Grinding and full stump excavation across Roebuck, Pauline and the US-29 corridor. On building pads and driveways the root ball has to come out or the ground settles later; on established lawns grinding is usually enough. This is high-demand work — stump grinding is by a wide margin the most searched service term in this market — and we’re set up for both single stumps and whole-tract stump clearing.
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Site and foundation excavation, utility trenching, driveway cuts, culverts, ponds and drainage across South Spartanburg. Piedmont clay here percolates at roughly 0.1 to 0.5 inches per hour, so drainage has to be planned rather than patched. Inside the former Camp Croft ordnance footprint we take excavation seriously and check the parcel history — that area is a Formerly Used Defense Site and the guidance on suspected munitions is to stop, mark it and call 911.
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Rough grading, building pads, driveway and shed bases, slab prep, lot leveling and drainage swales. Pacolet slopes through Roebuck and toward Croft run steep enough that pads need cutting and benching rather than scraping. Long gravel driveways back to wooded homesites are common here and they need proper crown and ditching or the first storm takes the surface off. We grade for where water goes first.
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New right-of-way cutting, sewer and utility easement clearing, access road cutting and maintenance re-clearing across the corridor. Sewer right-of-way work — both new corridors and maintaining old ones that have grown up — has been steady work for us for years. Around Roebuck and Pauline it’s often long access lanes back to rear acreage, plus bush hogging on a cycle to keep them from reverting.
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Removals on job sites, large and hazardous trees, and storm cleanup. Twenty-five years of taking trees off sites across the Upstate, two high-capacity chippers and our own dump trucks. Southern pine bark beetle pressure across Upstate forests has forced removals of infested stands, including inside area state parks, and dead pine near a house or a driveway is not something to leave standing.
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This corridor sits on Cecil, Madison and Pacolet soils: brown topsoil for a foot, red clay by twelve inches, brick-red and dense by two feet, then ten to twenty-five feet of saprolite before hard rock. Pacolet ground commonly runs 15 to 25 percent slope, drains fast on the surface and erodes fast once it’s bare. Fairforest Creek and its drainages cut through the Croft side of the corridor, and the low ground along them behaves completely differently from the uplands. Roebuck sits at 735 feet, Camp Croft at 656 — enough relief across a few miles to matter when you’re planning where water ends up.
We are based in Roebuck, inside this corridor. Our daily routes are US-221 South Church Street, SC-295 from Una all the way down toward Pacolet, US-29 Warren H. Abernathy Highway, SC-296 John B. White Sr. Boulevard and Reidville Road, SC-215 East Blackstock Road, and SC-56 Cedar Springs Road. We know where a lowboy can turn around, where the Reidville Road traffic backs up at Exit 22 with 30,000 vehicles a day, and which back lanes toward Pauline will take a loaded dump truck after a wet week.
The work splits by geography. West toward I-26 it’s commercial and dense residential — lot clearing, pad prep, trenching and stump removal with traffic and neighbors to work around. South and east toward Roebuck, Camp Croft and Pauline it’s acreage: twenty and thirty acre tracts with creek frontage being opened up or prepared for subdivision, working farm ground, pasture reclamation, long driveways cut back to homesites, and pond and drainage work. Croft State Park itself is 7,054 acres of hardwood and pine at the center of it, with 17 miles of trails and old farmsteads and family cemeteries dating to the 1700s inside the boundary.
There is one piece of local knowledge that genuinely matters here more than anywhere else we work: former Camp Croft is a federal Formerly Used Defense Site. The WWII Infantry Replacement Training Center covered 19,034 acres and trained roughly 250,000 soldiers, and the ordnance operable units still under Army Corps management cover about 3,500 acres — not just the state park, but the Wedgewood subdivision and surrounding agricultural and industrial property. Munitions and explosives of concern may remain in the ground. A 2016 Corps proposal put full clearance at upwards of $40 million and it has not been funded. The guidance is simple and we follow it: never touch, move or disturb a suspected item — mark the location and call 911. On top of that, Spartanburg County requires a Land Disturbance Permit and SCDES requires NPDES coverage and a SWPPP at one disturbed acre, two acres triggering a Comprehensive SWPPP by a licensed SC professional.
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Eastern Land Solutions works out of Roebuck, inside this corridor. No travel time, no mobilization charge, and if something needs looking at we can usually be there the same day.
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Michael Manning, his son Marshall, and two operators — one who has been with Michael over thirty years, one over ten. Four people, same faces, owner’s number.
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Former Camp Croft is a Formerly Used Defense Site with roughly 3,500 acres of ordnance operable units, including residential ground. We check parcel history before we excavate here. Most contractors don’t know to.
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Dump trucks, excavators and two high-capacity chippers, with a grinder brought in on the big jobs. We handle a thirty-acre tract off Pauline and a half-acre lot off Reidville Road with the same crew.
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Free estimates across the whole corridor, and a straight answer about what your property actually needs. Family-owned, trustworthy and honest — that’s the entire pitch.
Eastern Land Solutions is based in Roebuck, right in the middle of this corridor, and provides land clearing, forestry mulching, excavation and grading throughout South Spartanburg. Our coverage runs west to Easley, northeast to Gaffney and south to Laurens — we do not cross into North Carolina.
It requires care and it requires knowing which parcel you’re on. Former Camp Croft is a federal Formerly Used Defense Site, and the ordnance operable units still under Army Corps management cover roughly 3,500 acres — including Croft State Natural Area, the Wedgewood subdivision and nearby agricultural and industrial property. Munitions and explosives of concern may still be in the ground; a 2016 Corps proposal put full clearance at upwards of $40 million and it remains unfunded. The official guidance is to never touch, move or disturb a suspected item — mark the location and call 911. We check parcel history before we excavate anywhere in this footprint.
There’s no honest flat rate, because the number is driven by what’s standing and how steep it is. Grown-up pasture with brush and saplings is a fraction of the cost of mature mixed hardwood and pine with stumps that have to come out. Slope matters — Pacolet ground through this corridor commonly runs 15 to 25 percent — and access matters, since a long wooded driveway means slower equipment moves. We walk it with you and give you a firm number for free.
Yes — it’s the single most requested service in this market by search volume, and we do both grinding and full stump excavation. Grinding shaves the stump below grade with minimal disturbance and is usually right for an established lawn. Excavation pulls the whole root ball and is necessary when something is being built on that spot. We backfill and rough grade after excavation so you’re not left with a hole.
That’s common work through this corridor, especially on the acreage south and east toward Pauline and Croft. We clear the lane, cut the road bed, set culverts where a drainage crosses, crown the surface and cut ditching on both sides. The ditching is the part people skip and then regret — on Piedmont clay running a 20 percent grade, an uncrowned gravel drive loses its surface in the first big storm.
Spartanburg County requires a Land Disturbance Permit, and its definition of land-disturbing activity explicitly includes clearing, removal of vegetation, stripping, grading, grubbing, excavating, filling and logging. SCDES requires NPDES Construction General Permit coverage and a SWPPP for anything disturbing one acre or more, with a Comprehensive SWPPP by a licensed SC Professional Engineer, Landscape Architect or Tier B Land Surveyor at two acres. Under an acre it’s a Form 2628 notification and a letter of exemption. If your lot is part of a Larger Common Plan of development, coverage applies regardless of size.
Both. Farm and pasture work is a real part of what we do around Roebuck and Pauline — fence lines, pasture reclamation where brush and volunteer pine have taken over, access lanes to the back of a tract, and bush hogging on a maintenance schedule. Forestry mulching usually makes the most sense on pasture because the organic matter stays on the ground instead of being hauled off. We handle residential, farm and small commercial work.