Excavation
Site excavation, foundation and pad excavation, cut and fill, trenching and mass excavation for homes, commercial sites and development tracts across the San Antonio area, with excavators, dump trucks and skid steers.
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Pasture around Pleasanton fills back in fast. Mesquite and huisache come up thick, and the fence lines close in. Out on the acreage an old stock tank silts up and quits holding through a dry summer. In town a lot sits with a tired house on it and a builder waiting on the slab.
Global Contractors LLC is based right here. Our yard sits on 17 acres in Pleasanton, so the machines start the day in town. We have run sitework since 2006, first for cities, counties, schools and general contractors. Today the work is private and commercial excavation, demolition, clearing, grading, utilities and ponds. Call (253) 606-9497 for a free estimate.
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Pleasanton sits where Bonita Creek runs into the Atascosa River, in the northeast corner of Atascosa County. US 281 and State Highway 97 run through town. FM 476, FM 1334 and FM 5350 fan out from there, and I-37 passes by to the east. From our yard it is a short run across the county, and straight up US 281 to San Antonio.
Soils here run deep, with a loamy surface layer over clay subsoil. Down in the river bottoms it is clay and sandy loam mixed together. Sandy loam cuts easy and drains, so a trench needs shoring and a pad needs compaction in lifts. The clay under it swells when it gets wet and shrinks when it dries out.
We moisture condition that clay and roll it in lifts so a building pad holds its shape. Under all of it is the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer, mostly sand with bands of gravel, silt, clay and lignite. Plenty of places out here still pull water from a well. We call Texas 811 before we dig so the lines get marked.
This is brush country. Mesquite, huisache, prickly pear and thorny shrub cover the open ground, with live oak and post oak in the better dirt. Leave a tract alone for a few seasons and the brush closes it up. Fence lines, senderos and hunting lanes fill in the same way.
Mesquite is the stubborn one. AgriLife Extension research describes an underground bud zone that resprouts once the top is taken off. In the wetter parts of Texas, mesquite roots run out as far as 50 feet from the plant. Cutting the trunk alone leaves that bud zone sitting in the ground.
So we pull the stump and the root ball with the excavator instead. Land clearing with excavators and skid steers takes a tract down to bare ground. Where you want the ground left covered, the forestry mulcher grinds the brush where it stands. Debris goes on the trucks or stays on the ground as mulch.
A stock tank is part of the country here. Tanks on this ground get stocked with catfish, bass and sunfish. The city puts average rainfall near 26 inches a year. A tank has to catch a wet month and carry the place through a dry one.
Soil decides whether a tank holds. Sandy ground leaks and clay holds, so we dig test holes before we shape anything. Where there is clay to work with, it goes in the core and gets rolled in lifts. Pond and stock tank work also covers cleaning out a tank that silted in.
The rest of the acreage work is dirt work. Fill dirt, select fill, caliche and base come in on our trucks and get spread. Ranch roads, house pads and low spots get built up and shaped to drain. Bigger sites get detention and retention ponds built to the engineer's plan.
Atascosa County keeps adding subdivisions, businesses and families, and the county judge calls that growth steady and sustainable. Pleasanton is drafting a new long range plan to guide it. New commercial building has been going up along Oaklawn Road. Growth like that brings old structures down and new pads in.
Demolition here means houses, mobile homes, barns, sheds, metal buildings and slabs. The excavator and the attachments do the work, the trucks haul the debris off, and the lot gets graded. Old septic tanks, wells and buried tanks turn up on rural teardowns, so we look before the digging starts.
Inside the city limits, permits go through Community Development Services at City Hall on Second Street. Outside them, the county offices sit on the courthouse circle in Jourdanton. Atascosa County Environmental Health takes the septic applications and wants the design from a licensed engineer or a site evaluator. That same county office handles floodplain development permits, subdivision applications and driveway permits on county roads.
Communities and areas we serve around Pleasanton: Downtown Pleasanton, Goodwin Street, Oaklawn Road, River Park Road, Second Street, Bonita Vista, Country Trails, Deer Run, Oak Forest, Encino Village, Leming, Coughran.
Pleasanton ZIP codes served: 78064.
Free estimates throughout Atascosa County and the surrounding area.
(253) 606-9497 Site excavation, foundation and pad excavation, cut and fill, trenching and mass excavation for homes, commercial sites and development tracts across the San Antonio area, with excavators, dump trucks and skid steers.
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Mechanical demolition for houses, garages, barns, commercial buildings, slabs and pools. We take the structure down, haul the debris off and grade the lot.
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Residential demolition for houses, mobile homes, garages, barns and sheds. We take it down, load the debris out and leave the lot graded.
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Commercial and industrial demolition for retail buildings, warehouses, metal buildings, restaurants and strip centers. We take the structure down, haul the debris off and leave the site graded.
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Swimming pool demolition in San Antonio, partial fill in or full removal. We take out the shell, the deck and the equipment, then backfill the hole and grade the yard.
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Concrete removal for driveways, slabs, patios, sidewalks, parking lots and old foundations. We break it out with the excavator, haul it off and level the ground back.
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Land clearing services for lots, acreage and ranch land around San Antonio. We clear brush, mesquite, cedar, trees and stumps with excavators, skid steers and a forestry mulcher.
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Forestry mulching grinds cedar, mesquite and brush into mulch right where it stands. The chips stay on the ground as cover, so nothing leaves the property.
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Site preparation for builders, developers and commercial property owners around San Antonio. We clear and grub, cut and fill to the plan, build pads and set the final grade.
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Dirt work across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We level and grade land, bring in fill dirt, build pads and fix low spots that hold water.
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Underground utility installation around San Antonio: water mains, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, storm drains and culverts. We trench, bed the pipe, backfill in lifts and leave the ground at grade.
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Pond construction across San Antonio and the ranch country around it. We dig stock tanks, ranch ponds and detention ponds, build the dam and cut the spillway.
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Dump truck services across San Antonio and about 50 miles around the city. We haul spoils and debris off jobs and deliver fill dirt, caliche, base and gravel by the load.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Pleasanton. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Tell us where the property is and what needs to happen: a lot cleared, a slab out, a pad built. Call (253) 606-9497 or send the form, and we will line up a time to come look.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.