Calhoun faces Charleston across the Hiwassee, the McMinn County side of a river pair that has functioned as one community since the ferry days. For us it’s the natural north end of the service map: cross the bridge and you’re on the same river ground, the same clay, the same weather, and the same kind of properties, mill-town lots in Calhoun proper and working acreage in every direction. Pullen’s Land Works handles excavation, grading, drainage, and land work across the Calhoun area. Free walk-throughs: (423) 716-4143. Calhoun’s character is riverside practical: houses that served the mill era, small-town streets, and country properties that work for a living just outside them. The projects match, pads, drives, drainage, clearing, and the fixes that keep older lots functional, and they reward a crew that treats the north county as home range rather than a road trip.

Older-lot corrections

Mill-era neighborhoods have mill-era grading, and time has edited it: yards that pitch at foundations, drives worn below grade, walls past their era. We restore fall away from houses, rebuild drives with crown and base, and replace tired walls with drained ones. See our drainage services and retaining wall services.

River-country site work

Same river rules as Charleston: pads above the honest wet line, culverts sized for creek-fed storms, and erosion control where banks are negotiating with the current. Elevation first, always. See our excavation services.

Acreage and farm projects

Clearing, pasture reclamation, pond work where clay and water agree, and the barn pads and equipment drives that McMinn-side acreage runs on. One crew, walk to final grade. See our pond excavation.

Local ground, local knowledge

The Calhoun-Charleston pair shares everything, church softball, school runs, and the river that named them both, and we work both banks with the same crew. That riverside ground has been worked, flooded, and farmed for two centuries, with the layers to prove it, and what the soil under a given Calhoun tract will actually do is mapped in the USDA Web Soil Survey. Reading those layers before the first cut is the local advantage.

How hiring us works

Free walk-through, written quote, number holds. North-county jobs get batched efficiently, so a Calhoun quote visit never waits on geography, and small jobs pencil the same as they do in Cleveland.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our French drain worked fine for two years and now backs up every spring. What changed?

Near the Hiwassee, the most common cause is the outlet elevation. The drain was designed for a stable water table, but when the river rises in spring it pushes the table up, and the outlet that was well above the water table in summer is now underwater. The fix is either relocating the outlet to a point that stays above the high-water level or adding a backflow preventer.

We filed for a permit and were told we were in the wrong county. How does that happen?

Calhoun sits across the McMinn County line. Permits go through McMinn County Planning, not Bradley County.

What's different about building a retaining wall near the Hiwassee versus an inland lot?

The soil near the river stays at a higher moisture content for longer stretches, which means more outward pressure on a wall of the same face height. We engineer the drainage and geogrid reinforcement for the actual saturation conditions, not a standard inland residential spec.

You're a Bradley County crew. Do you really cover McMinn?

The near side of it, gladly: Calhoun, the Riceville direction, and the river country. It’s twenty-five minutes from our location, closer than half of Bradley County.

My yard floods from the road side, not the river. Fixable?

Usually. Road-side flooding is ditch-and-culvert trouble, and correcting the entrance culvert plus a swale typically ends it. Free look either way.

Can you handle a whole farm project list?

Preferred: priced together, sequenced together, one mobilization. Bring the whole list to the walk-through. Both banks, one crew: (423) 716-4143.

Excavation in Calhoun, TN