Got Land to Clear, Grade, or Prep?
Tell Steve what you're working with and get a straight, written quote before anything starts.
Request a Free QuoteSteve McMichael runs Swamp Gator ULM out of Sanderson, about 45 minutes southeast down CR 229, and handles Starke land clearing and forestry mulching himself, machine included. Old strawberry and citrus ground gone back to scrub pine, a homesite waiting on a pad, a fence line that has disappeared under brush: he walks it, prices it in writing, then does the work personally.
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A lot of Bradford County acreage was farmed a century ago and has been growing wild ever since. Sound familiar?
Land that grew citrus or strawberries a lifetime ago has gone back to scrub pine and blackberry, and you want it open again
You bought acreage off US 301 or a county road that looked clear from the road and turned into a wall of brush once you walked it
A builder will not put a homesite on the schedule until the pad is cleared and graded first
Leftover concrete, rusted fencing, and piles of old junk are in the way, and you want them gone, not stacked into a burn pile
Fence lines and property boundaries have disappeared under years of brush and volunteer pine
You want the driveway cut in and shaped before you haul equipment or a house trailer onto the lot
Rainy season ground stays soft longer than you expect, and you need someone who can still get equipment on it
Fill out the short form below and Steve will set up a walkthrough on your Starke property. No pressure and no obligation, just a straight look at what you have and a number in writing. Need to talk it through first? Call (386) 515-2115.
Bradford County landowners, homeowners planning a build, and people clearing raw acreage for the first time have all had Steve out on their property at some point. A few of them left a word about how it went.
Five kinds of heavy equipment work, and Steve owns the machines for every one of them. A Starke homesite off US 301 usually calls for two or three in a specific order; an old farm tract that has sat untouched for decades needs an entirely different mix. Because it is all one operator, one job never sits idle waiting on somebody else's truck to show up.
Full clearing on Starke tracts, from a quarter acre for a shop to a multi-acre parcel headed for pasture. Trees, brush, and stumps come out or get ground into mulch depending on what the property needs when the work is done.
A single mulcher head chews through standing brush and small trees and turns them into chip right where they stood. There is nothing to haul off and nothing to burn, and on Bradford County's sandier stretches, that chip layer is what keeps the topsoil from washing off before anything new takes root.
Shaping the ground so water actually leaves the property instead of sitting on it. Flat tracts around Starke are the ones this matters most for; get the grade wrong and a heavy rain turns a buildable lot into a mud problem for a week.
Pads cut for a house, a drive run in off the county road, and drainage tied into the rest of the property. Clearing and dirt work on one quote means one operator and one schedule, so your lot is not sitting half-done waiting on a second contractor.
Old slabs, downed fencing, leftover concrete, and years of dumped junk hauled off so the property is actually usable once the equipment leaves. It all goes out with everything else cleared from the tract, on the same job.
There is no crew, no dispatcher, and no subcontractor in the chain. Steve McMichael walks your Starke property himself, writes the quote himself, runs the machine himself, and is the person who answers when you call afterward with a question about the work.
The number he gives you is the number you pay, provided the scope stays the same. Steve puts it in writing after seeing the ground himself, not off a phone description. Landowners around Bradford County have plenty of stories about a bid that grew once the machine was already on site. This is not that.
Starke is farther from Sanderson than some of the towns Swamp Gator works, so scheduling runs on Steve's route for the week rather than same-day convenience. Most jobs can still begin within 24 to 72 hours of an approved estimate, and if he is booked out further than that he will say so up front. Licensed and insured, working North Florida since 2017, 5.0 stars across more than 80 Google reviews.
Three steps, start to finish, from the first call to a cleared tract.
Call (386) 515-2115 and tell Steve what is on the Starke tract and what you want when it is done: a building pad, open pasture, a cleared fence line, ground ready for pasture again. The end use decides the method, so say it up front. It helps to know roughly where the property lines run and whether the tract has ever been surveyed.
Steve drives out and looks at the tract himself: what is growing on it, how a machine gets in and back out, and whether any part of it sits low enough to need a second look before the work starts. The written number comes off that walkthrough, never off a phone description.
Once you approve the quote, your job gets a slot on the calendar, and most jobs can still begin within 24 to 72 hours depending on what is ahead of yours. Whoever quoted the job is the one who shows up to do it, no substitutions, clearing exactly what got written down and nothing extra tacked on without a conversation first. If something turns up under the brush that changes things, you hear about it before it shows up as a surprise charge.
Whether you have an overgrown lot, a fence line gone to brush, or ground that needs a building pad, it starts with one call. Reach Swamp Gator ULM at (386) 515-2115 or use the estimate form, and Steve will set up a free walkthrough on your property. You get an honest read on the ground and a price in writing before the work starts, with no pressure to book until you're ready.
Answers to the questions Starke and Bradford County property owners ask most before a machine ever shows up.
Reach out by phone at (386) 515-2115 or through the form, and Steve will get a walkthrough on the calendar for your Starke property within days. What you walk away with is an honest read on the ground and a firm number, with zero pressure to book anything until you are ready.
Swamp Gator ULM works Starke and the rest of Bradford County, alongside Sanderson, Macclenny, Glen St. Mary, Lake City, Live Oak, Lake Butler, Middleburg, Jacksonville, and Gainesville, all from the same Sanderson base. Licensed and insured, owner-operated since 2017, 5.0 stars across more than 80 Google reviews.
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