Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service grades house pads, yards, fields, and road beds statewide from three Google listings, rated 5.0 on Google.
A short recording answers first. Press 1 and you're put through.
We read the 1-to-3-star Google reviews of 88 Arkansas clearing and tree companies, and 172 of them were about the work itself. These six questions cover what goes wrong on a grading job, and each answer is a promise the person running your job carries out.
9 of 172 reviews: ruts and a torn-up yard after the machines
If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, we tell you and reschedule. Any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
2 of 172 reviews: the drainage was worse after the work
Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave. We walk the site with you before we call the job done.
17 of 172 reviews: work different from what was agreed
Before the machine starts, we walk and flag the boundaries and anything you want saved, or send you photos of them.
12 of 172 reviews: the price changed with nothing in writing
You get a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included. The price changes only if you approve the change in writing first.
15 of 172 reviews: no firm date, only "next week"
Your quote comes with a start week. If the weather moves it, we call you.
61 of 172 reviews: the crew stopped answering
Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job.
What Arkansas landowners ask Google before they hire someone to grade a lot or level a yard. Each answer starts with the answer.
It means shaping the soil to the level and slope a job needs. Rough grade sets the overall shape by cutting high spots and filling low ones, and finish grade smooths the top. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service does both, and before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave.
No. Land clearing takes the trees, brush, and stumps off, and grading shapes the soil left underneath so it sits level and drains. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service does both, so a wooded lot can go from standing timber to a graded pad without hiring a second company.
It depends on how much ground and where. Arkansas's construction stormwater permit, ARR150000, covers work that disturbs 1 acre or more, and grading or filling in a mapped flood hazard area needs a floodplain development permit first. On the first visit, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you which rules may touch your job and who handles each.
A walk of the yard, flags on what stays, cutting high spots and filling low ones so rain runs away from the house, then a smooth finish grade. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service calls the day before and again when the crew pulls in, and walks the yard with you before calling the job done.
Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service is fully licensed and insured. We carry liability insurance and send the certificate on request.
We have the equipment for any land clearing or earth-moving job, so clearing a lot, grading the pad, and putting in the gravel drive can stay with one crew. The estimate is free, and our lines are open 24/7.
We work statewide from three Google listings: Hindsville, Greenbrier, and Hot Springs. The crew comes to your land.
Six steps, in order, and what you see at each one.
Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job. If we can't take your job, we say so on the first call.
You show us the low spots, the wet spots, and where the pad or drive should go. Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave.
You get a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included. Your quote comes with a start week.
We call the day before, and again when the crew pulls in. Before the machine starts, we walk and flag the boundaries and anything you want saved.
High spots are cut, low spots are filled, and the top is smoothed. If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, we tell you and reschedule. Any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
We walk the site with you before we call the job done. Final payment is due after the walkthrough. Every payment gets a receipt.
Some call it lot grading, some call it land leveling or smoothing. These are the five kinds of Arkansas ground we grade.
The ground for a house, a shop, or a barn, cut and filled to a flat pad. Gravel, the driveway, and the rest of the build ground are site prep and dirt work.
Yard grading that slopes the soil away from the house so rain runs off. When a yard needs pipe or a French drain too, see drainage solutions.
Land leveling for bumpy fields, washed-out spots, and old ruts, so a mower or a hay crew can cross them.
The dirt bed of a drive or a farm road smoothed out before the gravel goes down.
A rough grade after land clearing: stump holes filled and the ground evened out so the next job can start.
All three get land ready to use, and each does a different part of the work. Here is what each one works on and what it leaves behind.
Grading leaves smooth ground that sheds rain and holds a pad, a drive, or a mower. Three things decide how it looks, and we walk each one with you at the end.
Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave and what it will need afterwards.
If we have to leave before the job is finished, you get the return date before the crew leaves.
Every review on our three Google listings is five stars.
Mark and his team are outstanding! They were quick to get back with us, and did an excellent job.
A great job they did on my farm.
They did a superb job and the crew completed the job on time. Thank you!
I will recommend it to everyone and my family
On the first visit we tell you which Arkansas rules may touch your job (burn bans, the 1-acre stormwater permit, septic permits) and who handles each.
Each region page lists its towns and the line nearest you. All three of our lines reach the same crew.
Benton, Washington, Madison, and Carroll counties
Pulaski, Faulkner, Saline, Lonoke, Perry, Conway, and Grant counties
Crawford, Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Johnson, Scott, Pope, and Yell counties
Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Baxter, Stone, Izard, Fulton, Sharp, Van Buren, and Cleburne counties
Garland, Montgomery, Hot Spring, Clark, Pike, and Polk counties
Randolph, Lawrence, Clay, Greene, Craighead, Mississippi, and Poinsett counties
Independence, Jackson, White, and Woodruff counties
Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis, Lee, Phillips, Monroe, Prairie, and Arkansas counties
Miller, Hempstead, Little River, Sevier, Howard, Lafayette, and Nevada counties
Union, Columbia, Ouachita, Calhoun, Dallas, Bradley, and Cleveland counties
Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Ashley, Chicot, and Desha counties
Every Arkansas town with its own page, and the line nearest each one
The rest of what landowners ask before the dozer arrives.
Read the guidesIt depends on how much soil has to move and how far, so Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service prices each job after walking it. You get a written quote before any work, and it lists every charge, travel included. Our guide to Arkansas land grading fees after clearing explains what moves the price.
Any time the ground is dry enough to work without rutting. If it's too wet, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you and reschedules. Your quote comes with a start week, and if the weather moves it, we call you.
Yes, for small fixes. A low spot by a downspout can be filled with a shovel and a rake, while reshaping a whole yard or cutting a building pad is machine work. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service has the equipment for any land clearing or earth-moving job.
Slope the soil away from the foundation so rain runs off instead of toward the walls. The International Residential Code, section R401.3, asks for a fall of at least 6 inches within the first 10 feet. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service grades yards, and any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
A short recording answers first. Press 1 and you're put through.
