Excavation & Grading in Cherryville, NCGaston County · home base
Cherryville is where the trucks are parked, so there is no travel time and no travel charge. Free on-site estimates, insured for $1 million, and thirty years of experience with exactly this kind of ground.
What We Do in Cherryville
Excavation & Grading in Cherryville
Lot grading, building pads, cut and fill, drainage
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Land Clearing in Cherryville
Trees, brush, stumps and debris
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Demolition in Cherryville
Outbuildings, slabs, mobile homes & old concrete
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Brush Hogging & Heavy Brush Cutting in Cherryville
Overgrown fields, pasture & heavy growth
Learn more →Gravel Driveways in Cherryville
New drives, rebuilds, crown & drainage
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Concrete Driveways in Cherryville
Driveways, parking pads, walks & aprons
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Emergency & Storm Cleanup in Cherryville
Downed trees, washouts & blocked access
Learn more →Site Work in Cherryville, Gaston County
Cherryville sits where NC-150 and NC-274 cross, in the northwest corner of Gaston County within a few miles of both the Lincoln and Cleveland lines. The ground here is gentle Piedmont — nothing like the slope you hit up in Burke — but the red clay underneath it is heavy, and it holds water once a machine has compacted it. That single fact drives most of the drainage work we do in town.
On a typical Cherryville lot the topsoil is thin and the clay starts shallow. Strip it for a pad and you are on clay almost immediately, which is good bearing material but sheds water rather than taking it. North of town toward the Lincoln County line there is a rock ledge that turns up in footing trenches often enough that we look for it before quoting, rather than handing you a change order once the bucket finds it.
So we grade for water first and looks second. Yards get pitched away from the house, drives get a real crown and a ditch that actually outfalls somewhere, and pads get built up rather than cut into a low spot. Being based here means Rodney can usually walk a Cherryville job the same week you call, and it means the estimate is based on ground he has already worked a hundred times.
Excavation & Grading Contractor in Cherryville, Gaston County
Cherryville grew up around the railroad and then around trucking — Carolina Freight was headquartered here for decades and shaped the town more than any other single employer. The New Year's Shooters tradition still runs here and goes back generations. What matters for our work is the land around all that: working farms, family acreage getting split off for houses, and long private drives running back off NC-274. The defining challenge is not slope or rock, it is water — flat-ish clay ground that will pond and stay ponded if nobody shapes it properly.
Common Projects in Cherryville
Three jobs come up here more than anything else. Gravel driveways, because properties run deep off the state roads and a quarter-mile drive on bare clay turns to mud by February without crown and ditching. Yard regrading after a new build, because builders rough-grade to get a certificate of occupancy and leave the water sitting against the foundation. And brush hogging on acreage that has grown up two or three seasons — often land being cleaned up before it gets divided.
What the Ground Does Here
Gentle Piedmont ground with red clay that holds water once it is compacted, and a shallow rock ledge in places on the north side of town toward the Lincoln County line.
Getting Equipment In
NC-150 and NC-274 carry most of the traffic through town, and Highway 274 north is the route to nearly everything on the Lincoln County side.
Permits in Cherryville
City of Cherryville planning for anything inside the city limits, and Gaston County Building & Development Services for county parcels.
Free Estimates Across Cherryville
Whether you are out on NC-274 toward the Lincoln County line, off NC-150 on the Shelby side, or right in town near the old depot, we will come look at your Cherryville project and leave you a written price at no cost.
Free Estimate in Cherryville
Tell us where in Cherryville the job is and what needs doing. Rodney will come look at it and leave you a written price.
- Rodney looks at the job himself
- A written price, not a range that moves
- No charge for the visit, no pressure after
Tell Us About the Job
Why Cherryville Property Owners
Call Us
We Know Gaston County
Cherryville is home — the trucks are parked here. Heavy clay that holds water means we grade for drainage first, and we already know which parcels off Highway 274 sit on rock.
The owner runs the job
Rodney quotes it and Rodney does it. No gap between what you were told and what happens on site.
The price is written down
A number on paper after we have walked the ground. It does not move unless you ask for something different.
Insured for $1 million
Certificate available on request, for you, your builder or your HOA.
Water gets dealt with
Most of what we are called to fix is somebody else’s drainage. We grade so water leaves.
We clean up after ourselves
Debris hauled off, ruts filled, the site left in a condition you would be happy to show somebody.
Our Own Job Photos
Cherryville, North Carolina
Cherryville sits in Gaston County, home base from our shop in Cherryville. Free on-site estimates from our Cherryville excavation and grading contractor.
Cherryville, NC — Frequently Asked Questions
What Cherryville property owners ask us most. If yours is not here, call (828) 455-0928.
Little Acres Grading covers Cherryville from our base in Cherryville — home base. Rodney Little has 30 years running equipment in Gaston County and the counties around it, and he quotes the job and runs the machine himself. Insured for $1 million, free on-site estimates, and a written price that does not move. Call (828) 455-0928.
Yes. Cherryville is inside our normal service area — home base from the shop — and there is no travel charge. Estimates there are free, the same as anywhere else we work.
Faster than anywhere else we work, because this is where we are based. There is no travel time and no travel charge on a Cherryville job, and Rodney can usually walk it within a few days of your call.
Almost always compacted red clay with nowhere to go. Clay is fine bearing ground but it does not drain, so if the yard was left flat — or worse, pitched toward the house by a builder's rough grade — the water sits. The fix is regrading to a positive fall and giving the runoff a route off the property.
City of Cherryville planning for anything inside the city limits, and Gaston County Building & Development Services for county parcels. We handle that as part of the job and tell you up front if anything about it affects your start date.
All seven: excavation and grading, land clearing, demolition, brush hogging, gravel driveways, concrete driveways, and emergency and storm cleanup. Residential and light commercial both.
Seven Counties, One Crew
Every town we cover, by county. Pick yours and see what the ground does there.
Gaston County
- Cherryville (You’re Here)
- Gastonia
- Mount Holly
- Belmont
- Dallas
- Stanley
- Bessemer City
- Lowell