Clearing includes road building?

[treeman82]

I was talking with a prospect this afternoon about clearing some land for his new house, when he asked if I can build the road for him as well. I've never done this, and don't intend to do it in the future either, but for those who clear land on a regular basis, is building roads a task that you regularly perform?

 

[sILlogger]

when you say clearing are we talking cutting the trees/brush, or clearing with equipment? roadbuilding is for the work or machines=dozer

 

[redprospector]

Around here if you bid a timber sale with the USFS you have to build specified roads to their specs.
For thinning on private property, that's a different ball game. Roads are way extra if I even consider them.

Andy

 

[ASD]

we do but then we are licensed for

tree work
demo
grading
and
building

 

[Frank Boyer]

I was talking with a prospect this afternoon about clearing some land for his new house, when he asked if I can build the road for him as well. I've never done this, and don't intend to do it in the future either, but for those who clear land on a regular basis, is building roads a task that you regularly perform?

In CA you need a contractors license for road building. By that I mean a license that is for heavy construction, and it includes a test. There is a reason that Engineering contractor's don't climb trees and Arborists don't run dozers.

 

[treeman82]

The answers I have seen so far support what I had always thought... the tree company comes in and cuts the trees, the excavation company does the road, foundation, septic, etc.

The prospect thought that the guy who builds the road also typically does the land clearing. Personally I'm not big on clearing land, but when I don't have much work coming in, and can probably get some pruning / tree pres work out of it... I won't complain.

 

[joesawer]

Cutting in a temporary road is not a complicated thing. Building a permanant one involves some engineering, skill and considerable expense.
If you don't do road building it would be like asking a heavy equipment construction company to trim or cut the trees. They might take the job but should probably sub the tree cutting.

 

[DGDrls]

Cutting a drive

Be careful

My years in Westchester revealed many thinks about downstate
NY. One being there is lots of hard rock down there.
Are you above or below Chappaqua/Pleasantville?

Let the road builders do it.

DGDrls

 

[treeman82]

I'm right by Somers. This job is actually up by Patterson / Southeast.