From a building envelope on a wooded lot to a view cut or reclaimed field, we clear Gilmanton land right — stumps out, debris handled, grade left ready for what’s next.
A lot of Gilmanton land is a generation into growing back, and reclamation is its own kind of excavation: mowing and grubbing juniper and pin cherry out of old pasture, pulling stumps, removing the rock that every New Hampshire field produces, and grading it back to something you can hay or fence. The town’s network of dirt roads is part of the deal here — beautiful ten months a year, posted and impassable for loaded trucks in mud season, so material hauling gets planned for late summer and fall. Long driveways are the norm; a 600-foot farm drive with proper ditching is a routine Gilmanton quote. Around Crystal Lake the standard shoreland rules apply within 250 feet, but most of our Gilmanton work is upland: woodlot house sites where the questions are hardpan, springs that surface in April, and where to push the stump pile.
Reclaiming a Gilmanton field? Don’t just brush-hog it and call it done — grub the roots out. Mowed juniper and gray birch come right back in two seasons; grubbed and graded ground stays open. And keep the stones: a picked-rock pile is free material for the base of your next farm road.
Clearing is more than dropping trees. We take the lot from standing woods to usable ground: trees down and hauled or milled, stumps pulled and removed (not buried — buried stumps sink and leave holes years later), brush chipped or hauled, and the topsoil stripped, saved, and re-spread where you want it. The job ends with a lot that’s actually ready — rough-graded, drained, and clean.
Near the water we work within the NH Shoreland Water Quality Protection Act — the waterfront buffer has a tree-point system and clearing limits, and we plan cuts so your project stays legal and your frontage stays compliant.
Wooded-lot clearing in the Lakes Region typically runs $3,000–$8,000 per acre depending on tree density, terrain, and haul-away; lighter brush clearing runs less. Every job gets a free site walk and a flat quote before a machine moves.
Most heavily wooded Lakes Region acres run $3,000 to $8,000 to clear completely — trees, stumps, and debris — depending on density, terrain, and access. Light brush and sapling clearing costs far less. A site walk pins the number down, and the quote is flat.
Within 250 feet of a lake, NH's Shoreland Water Quality Protection Act limits cutting — the first 50 feet uses a tree point system and the area beyond it must keep a percentage of natural vegetation. Plenty of clearing is still allowed; it just has to be planned. We handle that planning on every waterfront job.
We pull stumps and haul them with the rest of the debris — chipping brush on site where it makes sense. We don't bury stumps on the lot; buried wood settles and leaves sinkholes in a lawn years later.
Free site walks, test pits before quotes, flat pricing, and a crew that knows Lakes Region ground.
Tell us where the property is and what you’re trying to do. We’ll walk the site, talk it through, and give you a straight, flat quote.
