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

Excavation · Buna, TX

When the Job Calls for Digging

Excavation covers the digging side of dirt work around Buna, Vidor, Silsbee, Lumberton and all across Southeast Texas — the jobs where material has to come out of the ground, not just get pushed across it. We dig with our own excavator: site dig-outs before a pad goes in, ditches cut so water finally has somewhere to go, culverts set at driveways and crossings, and the mess dug out when something's gone wrong under the surface.

Digging pairs with everything else we do. A pond starts as an excavation job. A pad on soft ground starts with digging out the muck and replacing it with material that packs. A driveway across a wet-weather draw starts with a culvert set right. One crew, one estimate, and the digging gets done as part of the plan instead of hired out separately.

What We Handle

  • Site dig-outs and soft-spot removal
  • Ditches cut and cleaned for drainage
  • Culverts set at drives and crossings
  • Pond and tank digging
  • Slopes and banks cut and shaped
  • Debris and old-fill dig-outs
  • Spoil dirt used on site where it helps
  • Free on-site estimates

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Drainage: The Job Under Every Job

Most excavation around here is about water in the end. This country is flat, wet and generous with rain, and ground that doesn't drain rules everything built on it. Cutting a ditch that actually falls, cleaning one that's silted flat, setting a culvert where the water crosses the drive — that's the digging that turns a soggy property into a dry one.

Water work rewards doing it right the first time. A ditch cut with real fall moves water for years; one eyeballed flat just relocates the puddle. We shape ditches and swales to carry water where it should go, and set culverts at the grade the water wants — sized and bedded so they're still working when your kids own the place.

Dig-Outs, Soft Spots and Problem Ground

Some ground can't be built on as-is — the black gumbo that pumps under a loaded truck, the corner of the site that never firms up, the old fill somebody buried stumps in twenty years ago. The fix is honest and mechanical: dig out the bad material, get down to ground that holds, and bring the hole back up with dirt that packs.

That kind of dig-out is the unglamorous start of a lot of good pads. It's also where experience with this exact dirt earns its money — knowing how deep the soft goes, what's under it, and when a wet week means the smart move is waiting. We'll tell you the truth about your ground, even when the truth is "not this week."

The Excavator and the Dozer, Together

The excavator and the dozer are better together than either is alone. The excavator digs, lifts, and works precisely in tight spots; the dozer moves volume and finishes grade. A pond job digs with one and shapes banks with the other. A site job digs out the bad, then blades in the good. Because both machines are ours, the job doesn't stall waiting on a subcontractor's schedule.

If your project has digging in it — a ditch, a culvert, a dig-out, a pond, or something we haven't listed — the first step is the same free walk-through as everything else we do. We'll look at the ground, tell you what we'd dig and why, and put a straight number on it.

Excavator working a cleared corridor with culvert pipe staged for install Sandy basin dug and shaped in the pines on an excavation job

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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

Excavation Questions, Answered

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

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What excavation work do you handle?
Site dig-outs, ditch and drainage work, culvert setting, pond digging, bank and slope shaping, and digging out soft or junk-filled ground before a pad goes in. If it's dirt coming out of the ground around Southeast Texas, ask — if it's not our kind of job, we'll say so straight.
Can you fix standing water on my property?
Usually, yes — standing water means the ground has nowhere to send it. The fix is some mix of ditch, swale, culvert and fill, and which mix depends on your lot. Best time for us to look is right after a rain, when the water shows us exactly what it's doing.
Do you set culverts?
Yes — at driveways, crossings and ditch lines. Grade and bedding are what make a culvert work: set right, it moves water for decades; set lazy, it silts up or washes out in a season. It's a small job we treat like a big one, because redoing it costs more than doing it.
Do I need an excavator or a dozer for my job?
You need the right combination, and that's our call to help you make. Digging, lifting and precise work is excavator; pushing volume and finishing grade is dozer. We run both, so the estimate covers the job — not whichever single machine a company happens to own.
How do estimates work for excavation?
Same as everything we do: free, and in person. Digging jobs especially depend on what the ground turns out to be, so we look first, talk through what we expect to find, and give you a real number. Call (409) 289-0802 and we'll set up a time to walk it.
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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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Dirt Work in Buna, TX

Dirt Work

House pads, barn pads, gravel driveways and fill — dirt hauled, placed, shaped and packed so what you build on it stays put.

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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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Get In Touch With Pollard's Dozer Service

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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