Land Clearing, Excavation & Demolition

Land Clearing

Land Clearing & Lot Prep

South Mississippi doesn't stay cleared. Leave a lot alone for a few seasons and the pines, sweetgum, and briars take it back. Whether you're prepping a homesite, opening up acreage, or getting a commercial pad ready for construction, we turn an overgrown parcel into a workable piece of ground.

Underbrush and small-tree clearing — root rake work, not just knocking it flat
Homesite and building-pad clearing ahead of construction
Fence line, driveway, and access road clearing
Overgrown lot cleanup for sale listings and code compliance
Debris handling — mulched, piled, burned where allowed, or hauled off

The difference between a cleared lot and a mess with the trees pushed to one edge is what happens to the debris. We plan the haul-off before the first tree comes down, so you end up with usable ground — not a brush pile you're stuck with.

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Excavation & Grading

Dirt work is where projects go right or wrong before anything gets built. Water that ponds against a slab, a driveway that washes out every hard rain, a pad that wasn't cut level — those are grading problems, and they're a lot cheaper to fix with a machine than after concrete's down.

Building pad and homesite excavation
Rough and finish grading for drainage that actually drains
Driveway cutting, gravel work, and washout repair
Trenching for utilities, culverts, and drain lines
Dirt hauling — fill brought in, spoil hauled out, on our dump trailers

Around here the question is always water: where it comes from, where it sits, where it needs to go. We grade with the next big rain in mind, because in this part of Mississippi it's never far off.

Talk Through Your Dirt Work

Dirty Works equipment working a cleared site

Demolition

Demolition — Structures, Interiors & Concrete

Some buildings are past saving, and dragging out the decision just costs you taxes, insurance, and liability on a structure nobody should be walking into. When it's time, we take it down clean — and because we also run the hot-side, cold-side, and HVAC work on commercial buildings, we know what's inside a structure before we open it up.

Full structure takedowns — houses, barns, sheds, mobile homes, outbuildings
Interior demo and strip-outs for remodels and tenant turnovers
Concrete removal — slabs, driveways, patios, footings
Utility disconnect coordination and permit guidance before the first swing
Site left graded and clean, not a crater with debris in it

Demo is the easy part. Doing it without surprising a gas line, and hauling off every load so the lot is ready for what's next — that's the job.

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Our Iron

Our Iron, Not Rentals

Plenty of outfits quote your job, then drive to the rental yard the morning it starts. We own our machines — the excavator, the skid steer, the dump trailers — and it changes how the job runs.

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No rental-day markup buried in your quote
No waiting on an equipment yard's availability to start your project
Operators who run the same machines every week and know what they'll do
Maintained by us, so a breakdown doesn't stall your job for a week

Owned equipment is the same reason our service trucks show up stocked: we'd rather control the tools than make excuses about them. When the iron is ours, the schedule is ours too — and yours.

Put Our Machines on Your Job

Dirty Works dumpster staged on a cleared site

Cleanup & Haul-Off

Site Cleanup With Dumpsters Included

Here's where hiring us gets simple: the dumpsters are in the family. Our sister company, Dirty Works Dumpsters, delivers roll-offs straight to your site — so demo debris, brush, and construction waste go from the machine into the can without a second contractor in the loop.

Roll-off dumpsters delivered, swapped, and hauled by our own sister company
One crew and one call for demo, cleanup, and haul-off — one invoice, too
Construction site cleanup between phases and at final
Debris, junk, and storm-material removal from any property

When the demo crew and the dumpster company answer the same phone number, nothing sits. The can shows up when the machine does, and the site is clean when we leave.

One Call Does the Whole Job

Storm Damage Site Work

Hurricanes and straight-line winds don't schedule appointments. Downed trees across a driveway, a debris field where the yard was, a structure too damaged to leave standing — that's clearing, demo, and haul-off on a faster clock, and it's the same crew and the same machines we run every week. After a storm we prioritize blocked access and unsafe structures first. For the full storm-response picture — commercial equipment recovery included — see our disaster recovery page, or just send us photos of the damage.

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Who We Serve

Anybody With Ground That Needs Work

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Contractors & Builders

Pads cut, lots cleared, and sites cleaned on your schedule — a dirt-work sub who shows up when the schedule says and answers texts.

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Businesses

Lot expansions, demo ahead of a build-out, drainage fixes, and site cleanup — with the paperwork commercial clients need.

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Homeowners

Homesite clearing, driveways, old outbuildings that need to go, and overgrown acreage brought back under control.

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Property Managers

Vacant-lot cleanup, code-compliance clearing, structure removal, and turnover debris hauled — one vendor, one invoice.

Vendor-packet ready: COI and W9 on request, photos on every job, straight quotes with the haul-off included. If you manage properties across South Mississippi, put one number in your phone for dirt, demo, and debris.

Service Area

Pearl River County & South Mississippi

Poplarville Hattiesburg Gulfport Biloxi Picayune Wiggins Petal Bay St. Louis Pearl River County

Based in Poplarville, we run land and site work across Pearl River County, the Pine Belt, and the Gulf Coast. Close to us but not on the list? Text us your address — odds are we cover you. Everything else we do — kitchen equipment, refrigeration, HVAC, lighting — is on the main Dirty Works Services site.

Why Dirty Works

Straight Quotes. Clean Sites.

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Since 2007

Nearly two decades working in this region, licensed and insured. We live here, we work here, and the ground you're standing on is the ground we know.

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Owned Equipment

Excavator, skid steer, dump trailers — our iron, not rentals. No rental markup in your quote and no waiting on an equipment yard to start your job.

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100% Text-Friendly

Our crew is usually in a machine and can't take a call — but we always answer texts. Text photos of your lot or site to 601-337-1069 and you'll get a faster, more accurate quote.

Common Questions

Land & Site Work FAQ

How much does land clearing cost in South Mississippi?

It depends on what's standing on the lot — acreage, tree density, how thick the underbrush is, and whether debris gets mulched on site or hauled off. Nobody can quote that honestly sight-unseen, but we can get close fast: text photos of the property and the rough acreage to 601-337-1069 and we'll give you a real number, usually without needing a first trip out.

Do you haul off the debris, or do I need to arrange that separately?

We handle it. Our sister company, Dirty Works Dumpsters, delivers roll-off dumpsters straight to the site, so demo debris, brush, and concrete leave on our trailers and in our cans. One crew, one call, one invoice — you're not coordinating between a demo contractor and a separate hauler.

Can you take down a whole structure, or just do interior demo?

Both. We do full structure takedowns — old houses, barns, sheds, mobile homes — as well as interior strip-outs for remodels and concrete removal like slabs, driveways, and patios. Tell us what's coming down and we'll walk the job with you, flag anything that needs utility locates or permits, and give you a straight plan before the first machine shows up.

Do you rent out your equipment, or do you run the machines yourselves?

We run our own machines with our own operators — excavator, skid steer, and dump trailers we own outright, not rentals picked up the morning of your job. Owned iron means we know each machine, we're not burning your budget on rental days, and there's no waiting on an equipment yard's schedule to start your project.

Can you handle storm damage cleanup on my property?

Yes. Downed trees, debris fields, and damaged structures are the same work we do every week — clearing, demo, and haul-off — just on a faster clock. After a storm we prioritize properties with blocked access or unsafe structures. See our disaster recovery page for the full storm-response picture, or just text photos of the damage to 601-337-1069.

Land Clearing, Excavation & Demolition — South Mississippi