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Pollard's Dozer Service Land Clearing & Dirt Work · Buna TX
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Dirt Work & Pads in Buna, TX

Dirt Work · Buna, TX

Pads, Driveways and Dirt Moved Right

Dirt work is where a property goes from cleared to ready. Around Buna, Vidor, Silsbee, Lumberton and all across Southeast Texas, that usually means a pad — for a house, a barn, a shop, a mobile home — built up out of the wet, shaped to shed water, and packed so it doesn't move. It means a driveway that gets you from the road to the house in February without ruts. And it means fill dirt put where the ground is low, spread and worked in instead of dumped and left.

This is dozer country work and it's what the company was named for. We cut and spread pads, build and re-gravel driveways, place fill, and shape ground that drains — on new land we just cleared or on a property you've had for years. If the job needs digging first, the excavator handles it, and the finish grading gets done before we load up, not left for "later."

What We Handle

  • House, barn, shop and mobile-home pads
  • Pads built up, crowned and compacted
  • Gravel driveways built and re-graveled
  • Fill dirt hauled, placed and shaped
  • Low spots filled and drainage corrected
  • Building sites roughed and finish-graded
  • Culverts and drive entrances set
  • Free on-site estimates

Free Dirt Work Estimate

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A Pad Is Cheap Insurance

Everything in Southeast Texas construction starts with getting above the water. Flat ground here isn't the blessing it looks like — when the big rains come, and they come every year, water sits on it. A proper pad lifts the house or barn out of that: built up with the right dirt, crowned so water runs off instead of under, and compacted in lifts so the slab poured on top doesn't crack when the clay moves.

The difference between a pad done right and dirt pushed into a hump shows up two years later, in the foundation. We build pads the patient way — the right material, spread in layers, packed as it rises — because the cheapest part of any build is the dirt, and it's also the only part you can't fix once the slab is on it.

Driveways That Survive the Wet Season

A driveway around here earns its keep in the winter wet, not the summer dry. The ones that fail all fail the same way: no crown, no ditch, gravel dumped on mud. We build them to shed water — base shaped and crowned, gravel spread and worked in, and the low spots that would've become mud holes fixed while it's still cheap.

We cut new driveways through cleared ground, rebuild old ones that have worn down to ruts, and re-gravel drives that just need a fresh lift. Culvert at the road, curve through the trees, parking pad at the shop — tell us where you want to drive and we'll build the road that gets you there.

Fill, Low Spots and Making Water Behave

Half of dirt work is really water work. That low corner that stays soggy till June, the spot where the yard swallows a mower, the slope sending every storm at your slab — the fix is dirt, put in the right place and shaped so the water goes somewhere better. We place and work fill properly: spread, shaped into the grade around it, and packed so it stays where we put it.

Some of those jobs are quick and some turn into real grading projects — either way it starts with eyes on the ground. Get us out for a free look after the next good rain if you can; watching where the water actually goes tells us more than a dry-day walk ever will.

Wide dirt drive being graded with equipment working near new homes Finished gravel driveway spread beside a shop and carport

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Free, no-obligation estimates across Buna & Southeast Texas.

(409) 289-0802
What You Can Expect

How a Job With Pollard's Runs

From the first walk of the property to the last pass of the blade, here is exactly how it goes.

1

Walk the Land

We come see the property — the trees, the brush, the ground under it, and how wet it runs. What you want cleared, what's worth keeping, and what the job really takes. No blind quotes over the phone.

2

Straight Estimate

You get a free estimate with a real number and a real timeline. It covers what's included — clearing, dirt, shaping, debris — and it holds unless the scope changes.

3

Bring the Iron

The dozer, excavator or mulcher shows up when we said and does the job the way we quoted it. Anything unexpected in the ground, you hear about it immediately, not on the invoice.

4

Leave It Right

We walk the finished ground with you before we call it done. Clean lines, shaped banks, a pad you can build on or a pasture you can mow. Done means you say it's done.

FAQ

Dirt Work Questions, Answered

Common questions about dirt work across Buna & Southeast Texas. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.

Call (409) 289-0802

How much does a house pad cost in Southeast Texas?
It comes down to pad size and height, how much dirt has to be hauled in, and what shape the site is in when we start. A pad on cleared, accessible ground costs less than one that needs clearing and a long haul. We look at the site, then give you a free written number.
How high should a pad be around here?
High enough that the building sheds water in a real Southeast Texas rain — which depends on your lot, not a rule of thumb. We look at how the ground drains, where the water wants to go, and build the pad to keep the slab dry through the wet months.
Can you fix my muddy driveway?
Yes — that's a bread-and-butter job for us. Usually the fix is shape first, gravel second: rebuild the crown so water runs off, fix the base in the soft spots, then fresh gravel worked in. Gravel dumped on mud without the shaping just disappears by spring.
Do you haul in fill dirt?
We handle the dirt side of the job — getting fill placed, spread, shaped and packed where the ground needs it. What material and how much depends on the job, and we'll sort all of that out in the estimate so the number you get covers the whole picture.
Do you do the final grading too?
Yes — pads get finished, not just piled. Rough grade, compaction and finish shaping are part of the work, so what we hand off is ground you can build on. Call (409) 289-0802 and tell us what you're planning; the site walk and estimate are free.
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Land Clearing in Buna, TX

Land Clearing

Wooded lots, overgrown acreage and future homesites cleared with our own dozer — trees and brush out, clean workable dirt left behind.

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Brush Clearing in Buna, TX

Brush Clearing

Yaupon, briar and underbrush cleaned out of lots, woods and fence lines — the growth goes, the trees you want stay.

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Excavation in Buna, TX

Excavation

Site digging, ditch and drainage work, culvert setting and dig-outs — our own excavator, run by the people whose name is on it.

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Grading & Leveling in Buna, TX

Grading & Leveling

Rough, rutted or washed-out ground graded smooth and sloped to drain — pastures, yards, building sites and everything between.

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Ponds in Buna, TX

Ponds

Stock ponds, fishing ponds and retention ponds — dug, shaped and banked right, with the spoil dirt put to work on your land.

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Why Choose Pollard's

Why Southeast Texas Landowners Call Us

Three Generations Deep

Started by Grandpa in 1999, run by Dad today, with the third generation on the iron. The name on the machine is the family doing the work — and answering the phone.

One Crew, Whole Job

Dozer, excavator and tracked mulcher under one roof. Clearing, dirt work, grading and the pond get done as one job with one estimate — not three contractors pointing at each other.

Straight Answers, Free Estimates

We walk the property, tell you what the ground actually needs — and what it does not — and hand you a real number. No phone guesses, no surprise extras.

Southeast Texas Born

Sandy uplands, gumbo clay bottoms, wet winters and brush that never quits — this is the only dirt we have ever worked, and we build for what it does.

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Land to clear, a pad to build, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form and we'll walk the property with you and hand you a free estimate — straight answers from the family that's worked this dirt since 1999.

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