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Site Preparation in Lebanon, Oregon —
Pad Prep & Lot Clearing

Building a shop, barn, garage, or house? We get the site ready for your foundation contractor — cleared, cut, filled, compacted, and drained so whatever goes on top stays level.

Site Preparation

We leave the pad
ready to pour.

Site prep is where grading, clearing, and drainage all come together on one job. Most of our customers are building something — a shop, a barn, a house, or just a level spot for the RV — and they need the site ready before the next trade shows up. That's us.

What's included

  • Clearing. Brush, saplings, stumps, and debris.
  • Cut & fill. Move dirt from high to low, bring the pad to spec.
  • Compaction. Roll and pack to contractor spec.
  • Drainage. Swales and culverts built into the pad so water moves away from the structure from day one.
  • Access road. Cut in the approach for concrete trucks and delivery.
  • Final grade. Leveled, crowned, and ready for the next trade.

Who we work with

We coordinate directly with your foundation contractor, builder, or general contractor so the pad is ready when they need it — not a day early, not a day late. If you're DIY-ing it, we'll still build it to code and hand you a pad you can build on with confidence.

What we don't do

We don't pour the foundation, frame the building, or run the final building trades. We stop when the pad is ready. That's where we're most useful, and where the line is clean for everyone.

Six-stage horizontal workflow diagram for a rural building project — land clearing, stump removal, driveway access, drainage, site preparation, and build-ready pad.
Site prep sits at step 5 of the standard rural-building workflow — and the steps before it determine how clean the prep job goes.

Read more: building a shop, barn, or ADU — the order that saves money.

The full package

Every pad job uses all of these.

01

Land Clearing

Clear the site before the cut-and-fill starts.

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02

Grading

Level the pad to contractor spec.

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03

Drainage

Build water-shedding into the pad from day one.

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Where We Work

Site preparation in Lebanon and across Linn County.

We provide site prep services in Lebanon, Albany, Corvallis, Salem, Sweet Home, Brownsville, Jefferson, Scio, Tangent, Halsey, Harrisburg, and the rural acreage between them. See the full service area for distances.

FAQ

Common questions about site prep.

Do you work directly with my foundation contractor?

Yes. Most pad-prep jobs hand off to a foundation crew or pole-barn installer next. We coordinate the schedule and the spec — your contractor tells us elevation and dimensions, we deliver a pad ready for them.

What compaction do you target?

Standard residential pad work: rough-graded, compacted in lifts with the skid steer's weight and a vibratory plate. For engineered specs (commercial, heavy structures), your engineer specifies the test and we work to it.

Do you handle the building permit?

We handle the dirt; your general handles the building permit. We help with grading and erosion paperwork when it's required.

How big a pad can you do?

Practically, up to about 6,000 sq ft. Larger and it becomes a multi-day job — possible, but you may want to compare against a heavier-iron contractor for time efficiency.

Building something?

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