Fairview Land Clearing & Building Pads
This is the Fairview in Cullman County, on Highway 69 between Cullman and Arab. Old fields, wood lots and county road tracts cleared and made ready for a house, a shop or a barn.
Small town, farm county, old sawmill ground
Fairview is a town of a few hundred people in northeastern Cullman County, incorporated in 1968. Highway 69 runs east and west through it and County Road 1527 cuts northwest to southeast. Cullman is to the west, Arab is to the east, and Baileyton is the next town out on 69. Settlers came to farm in the 1840s, and by about 1900 the area had several sawmills, so timber and field have both been part of this land for a long time. Most people in town work off the farm today. Farming and forestry are a small share of Fairview’s jobs, but the county around it had 1,574 farms and over 8 million broilers on hand in USDA’s 2022 count.
So what is under your place? Most of Cullman County sits on Pottsville sandstone and shale, thinnest at the north end, and the Mulberry Fork gets its start in this corner of the county, south of Arab. Plateau soils like Hartsells and Linker run about 20 to 40 inches down to sandstone, and that kind of land often goes to pasture, poultry and woods. Which one you have depends on the tract, so we look before we promise a depth. Past that, the honest answer about your dirt takes standing on it.
What grows here
Hay and pasture grass on open ground, mixed hardwood and pine on the rest. On plateau soils USDA says loblolly and shortleaf are what move in when a field goes unused.
What the ground does
Upland soil here tends to run acid and washes easily once the cover is off. Depth to rock changes from one tract to the next.
Common jobs here
Part of a family tract opened for a house and shop, pads for barns and farm buildings, a culvert and stone at a county road entrance, and a farm road back to the far field.
What Fairview ground usually calls for
Mostly county road tracts and Highway 69 frontage, from town out toward Simcoe, Baileyton, Berlin and Holly Pond.
Old field and wood lot clearing
Growth cut back off the part you want to use, with the hardwoods you pick left standing. It all gets mulched where it falls, so nothing needs burning.
Shop, barn and farm building pads
Cut, filled and compacted to the size your plan calls for. Depth to rock varies out here, so we check it before we quote the cut.
Culverts at county road entrances
A pipe in the ditch with stone over it, so the entrance holds up and water keeps moving. We ask about the road ditch before the pipe goes down.
Farm roads to the back of the place
A stone road a loaded truck can use, across a long tract to the far field or a new house site, shaped to shed water.
The work
Pictures here come from Suttles & Sons, never stock: the same trucks and machines that work farm ground and wood lots along Highway 69.
Dump trucks parked on a graded red dirt site at dusk.
Black dump truck beside a load of gravel.
White and yellow dump truck on a red dirt site.
Little is posted for Fairview, so start with a phone call
We could not find a posted clearing, grading or building permit rule for the Town of Fairview. That does not prove there is none. Call Fairview Town Hall first, and ask whether your tract is inside the town limits at all.
Outside town, talk to the Cullman County road department about any pipe in a county road ditch. On Highway 69, a new entrance generally goes through ALDOT.
The state rule is easier to pin down: ADEM’s construction stormwater permit applies at one acre or more of disturbance, or as part of a larger plan that reaches that size. When we quote, we say what we know of. You still want the final word from the office itself.
What changes a Fairview quote
Farm country jobs are usually simple to price once we know these four things.
How much you really need open
A few acres around a house site is a different job than taking back a whole wood lot. Tell us what you plan to use.
Rock under the pad
A cut that hits sandstone early can mean less cut and more fill, and that changes the load count.
The road entrance
Ditch depth and the pipe size the road office wants decide how much goes into one driveway.
Loads of stone
A long farm road mostly comes down to how many loads of chert and gravel it takes to reach the end.
Near Fairview, east and west on 69
Out from Fairview we take jobs in Simcoe, Baileyton, Berlin and Holly Pond. Cullman and Arab have their own pages below.
Fairview land questions, answered straight
Can you give me a ballpark to clear my Fairview acreage?
Not a fair one until we see it. What is growing, how much you need open and how far the trucks have to run all move the number. Send photos and a map pin to (256) 735-3214 and we will quote that piece of ground.
What do you do with the brush? I do not want a burn pile.
You will not get one. Brush and trees get ground into mulch and stay on the ground. If dirt or other material has to go, it leaves in our own trucks.
Will you leave the shade trees around the old home place?
Yes, if you show us which. Tie something bright on them or point them out, and we work around them and stay off the roots as best the job allows.
Does the Town of Fairview require a permit to clear land?
We did not find a rule posted, so call Town Hall and ask. Outside town the county road department is the first call for road ditch work. At an acre or more of disturbance, ADEM's stormwater permit can apply. You will hear what we are aware of when we quote.
Is this page for the Fairview in Cullman County?
Yes, the one on Highway 69 between Cullman and Arab. The name shows up elsewhere in Alabama, so send a map pin and there is no mix up.
Will you cut a level spot for a barn or a chicken house out here?
Yes. We do building pads for farm buildings. If it is a poultry house, the company you grow for and its engineer decide the dimensions, and we work to their numbers. We check rock depth before anything else.
My driveway entrance washes out in a big rain. Can you fix it?
Usually. Often it comes down to the pipe and the stone over it. We install driveway culverts and chert and gravel driveways. Send a picture of the ditch on both sides.
What should I take pictures of for a quote?
The thickest growth, the spot you want built on, and the entrance from the road. Add a map pin. Usually that is enough, and if it is not we will come look.
Land work for the Fairview side of the county
Land clearing in Fairview, Alabama with Suttles & Sons is plain work: clear what you need, mulch what comes down, build the pad, set the culvert, and haul the stone in our own dump trucks.
Based in Cullman, we work this end of the county along Highway 69. Read more on land clearing, building pads and access roads.
Quotes come after we see photos or the land, and they are free. Call or text (256) 735-3214.
Ask about your Fairview place
Text a map pin and a few pictures, and say what you want to end up with. Kalob will give it to you plain, no runaround.
Request an estimate
Photos help most. Text them to (256) 735-3214 after you send this.