Gilmanton is farm-and-woodlot country: old fields going back to brush, long gravel driveways off quiet back roads, and homesteads around Crystal Lake and the Iron Works. Our work here is land coming back into use — reclaiming overgrown fields, clearing house lots out of woodlots, and building farm drives that hold up under tractors and firewood trucks.
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.
Foundations, pads, trenches, and grading — test pits first, flat quotes, on schedule.
Gravel driveways built with real base and crown — and washouts fixed for good.
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.
