Twenty minutes of preparation on your side saves machine-time on ours, which saves money on your invoice. Here’s the whole list.
Free, required, and it needs a few working days. Water, gas, power, cable and fibre all run shallow.
811 doesn’t mark these: irrigation, invisible fence, a run out to a shed or a well pump, septic lines and the drain field. Only you know. Tell us or mark them.
Subdivision tree restrictions are common and enforced privately.
Flagging tape or spray paint on every tree you’re keeping. Bright colour, at eye height, visible from the direction the machine will approach. Don’t rely on ‘the big one near the corner’, from a cab it all looks similar.
Well heads, septic lids, survey pins, buried tanks, a headstone, a memorial tree. Anything you’d be upset about.
If you don’t, say so, we won’t guess. Survey line clearing.
A tracked machine on a trailer is heavy. Low branches over the drive, a soft culvert, a tight turn, a locked gate, tell us now.
Equipment, materials, fencing, a boat, scrap. If it’s in the work area, assume it’s in the way.
Unlock the gate or get us the code or a key.
Move vehicles well clear of the work area. Machines throw debris.
A machine on a rural road at 7am is a surprise worth avoiding. It costs nothing and it prevents most complaints.
Inside, or well away, for the whole day.
Someone who can make a decision available by phone is ideal, in person for the first thirty minutes is better.
Fifteen minutes, and it is the highest-value quarter hour of the whole job.
Same angles we’ll use for the after shots.
Keep children and animals indoors while we work. Not negotiable.
Mulching makes dust.
Mark your keepers clearly, and mark your buried lines. Nearly every problem on a clearing job traces back to one of those two, and both take twenty minutes with a can of paint.
Everything. Machine, fuel, tools, water. We don’t need power, we don’t need your water, and we don’t need a bathroom. If we need something from you we’ll ask before the day.
Call and you get John Williams, not an answering service and not a dispatcher. If it’s after hours or a Sunday, send the form and you’ll have a text back and a callback first thing.
