ACREAGE EARTHWORKS — GOLD COAST HINTERLAND & SEQ

Acreage earthworks involves larger blocks, longer access routes and substantial cut-and-fill volumes. We assess the site and your supplied plans before confirming the scope.

Typical acreage work includes house and shed pads, driveway earthmoving and gravel preparation, arena bases, fence-line clearing and paddock levelling.

We bench house pads to engineer's drawings, excavate retaining footings and prepare the slab base to supplied specifications.

Farm dams are mostly an old-world skill — get the embankment width wrong and the dam leaks; get the spillway wrong and the dam fails in a heavy storm. We build to engineer's drawings for any dam over 0.25 megalitre (which is most of them) and we work with hydraulic engineers we trust regularly. Typical hobby-farm dam: $25,000–$80,000 depending on size and ground conditions.

Most acreage jobs combine several pieces of work into one mobilisation — clear the block, cut the house pad, dig the driveway, build the dam, prep the shed pad — all in one continuous program. That's where the savings are: one mobilisation, one tipper schedule, one set of insurance certificates, one project manager (us) coordinating the lot.