Land Clearing & Excavation in Howland, OH
Howland lots are mostly built on, so the work here is the tricky kind: a wooded back lot, an overgrown line between neighbors, a yard that floods, a new garage that needs a pad. We do it with care and the right size machine.
Clearing, Mulching & Dirt Work in Howland
Between Warren and Niles, Howland is one of only two urban townships in Trumbull County, with about 19,000 people. It stayed thinly settled until housing went up in the 1950s, and it has been filling in ever since. That history shows in the land. There are finished neighborhoods, and tucked between them are wooded parcels, deep back lots and strips nobody has touched in decades. Those leftover pieces are the usual clearing jobs.
Logan Earthworks is based in Farmdale, in the same county, so this is close-to-home work. We bring a forestry mulcher for brush and small trees, excavators for stumps and digging, and a compact track loader for grading in tight yards. Jeff looks at every job first. He will tell you what can be saved, what has to go and how we will get in and out without tearing up the lawn more than we must. Our county page covers the wider area.
Back lots and property lines
The usual Howland job is a back third of a lot that has gone to honeysuckle, buckthorn, grapevine and volunteer maples. It blocks the view, drops limbs on the fence and gives the deer a place to bed. We mulch it down, leave the good trees and grind the stumps you do not want to mow around. On a shared line we stay on your side and ask you to have the line marked. If you are not sure where it is, a surveyor settles that before we cut. See our lot clearing page for new-build sites.
Water that has to go somewhere
Howland is lower ground than the east side of the county, and Mosquito Creek comes down from the lake through this area toward the Mahoning River. Yards here take water from the neighbors uphill and are slow to give it up. We regrade so the yard falls away from the house, cut shallow swales, and put in French drains where there is an outlet to carry the water to. Read more on French drains and yard drainage.
Driveway culverts and the township permit
Here in Trumbull County, Howland Township has its own application for putting in a driveway culvert or digging in the road right-of-way. Ask the township what it needs to see for the location, size and type of pipe. So before a new drive, a widened apron or a replaced culvert, call the township. State routes and county roads have their own offices. We can build the drive, set the pipe and shape the ditch once you have the approval in hand. A locate request to OHIO811 has to be placed before digging, and we sort out who places it when we look at the job.
What We Get Called for in Howland
The four jobs that come up most around Howland, plus everything else we do.
01Lot Clearing in Howland
Wooded and overgrown lots cleared and stumped so your builder can start.
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02Drainage in Howland
French drains, swales, ditches and culverts that move water off your property.
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03Grading in Howland
Rough and final grading, yard leveling and slopes shaped to shed water.
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04Excavation in Howland
Foundation digs, building sites, utility trenches, ponds and general earthmoving.
DetailsEverything else we do in Howland
Do you clear overgrown back lots in Howland, Ohio?
Yes. We mulch brush, vines and small trees, take down the larger ones that need to go and grind stumps. We keep the trees you want. Howland is close to our base in Farmdale. Call (330) 625-5754, and Jeff will walk the lot with you and give you a free estimate.
Do I need a permit to replace a driveway culvert in Howland Township?
Howland Township has an application for installing a driveway culvert or excavating in the road right-of-way, so ask the township before any work at the road. If your drive meets a state route or a county road, a different office is in charge. Rules and fees change, so get the current answer from them. We build to what they approve.
Can you get equipment into a fenced back yard in Howland?
Usually. A compact track loader fits through a gate opening that a full-size excavator cannot. If a fence panel would have to come out, ask about it when we look at the job. We look at access, wires, the septic field and sprinkler lines before we bring anything in.
Photos from Logan Earthworks jobs
How a Job Runs
Talk It Through
Call or send the form. Tell us where the ground is and what you want it to look like when we leave.
We Look at the Site
Jeff walks it with you: the growth, the slope, the wet spots, the way in and out for the machines.
A Straight Plan
You get a free estimate and a plain recommendation on the approach that fits the ground.
The Work Gets Done
We bring the right machine for the job and do the work the way we said we would.
Clean and Ready
We leave the site cleaned up and ready for the next step, whatever that is for you.
Got Ground to Clear in Howland?
Call Jeff or send a few details. Estimates are free.