[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":377},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-en-bo-put-site-leveling":3,"project-related-en-bo-put-site-leveling":131},{"id":4,"title":5,"beforeAfter":6,"body":12,"cover":78,"date":79,"description":80,"equipment":81,"extension":85,"gallery":86,"location":120,"meta":121,"navigation":122,"path":123,"seo":124,"service":125,"sitemap":126,"slug":127,"stem":128,"summary":129,"__hash__":130},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling.md","Site leveling and backfill for seven villas in Bo Put",[7],{"beforeImage":8,"beforeAlt":9,"afterImage":10,"afterAlt":11},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-1.webp","The plot before leveling - uneven ground with height differences","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-1.webp","The same plot after leveling and backfill",{"type":13,"value":14,"toc":71},"minimark",[15,25,28,33,36,39,42,45,49,52,55,58,61,65,68],[16,17,18,19,24],"p",{},"We already knew this plot: a month earlier we had ",[20,21,23],"a",{"href":22},"\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july","cleared it of overgrowth"," for the same client. Back then the job was to strip everything away and see what was actually under the scrub. Now the next stage was starting - 7 villas are going up on this land, and the site had to be brought to design levels.",[16,26,27],{},"The ground we inherited was uneven: on one side it rose noticeably, on the other it dropped away. A difference like that doesn't work for building - you cut in some places, fill in others, and bring the whole thing into one plane.",[29,30,32],"h2",{"id":31},"why-hiring-a-single-excavator-made-no-sense","Why hiring a single excavator made no sense",[16,34,35],{},"The client was in a hurry and arrived with a solution already in mind: rent an excavator for a couple of weeks and be done with it. We suggested working the numbers together first.",[16,37,38],{},"On a job this size, an excavator working alone spends less time digging than it does shuffling material. It cuts the soil, swings round, carries the bucket a few metres, tips it, comes back - and repeats that loop until the earth has crawled from one end of the plot to the other. Every one of those movements is billed by the hour, and very little of it is actual productive work.",[16,40,41],{},"So we proposed something else: three machines as one crew. The excavator does nothing but dig. The dump truck takes the soil and drives it straight to where it's needed - even to the far corner of the site. The tractor follows behind and grades it out. Nobody waits for anybody, and every machine has one clear job.",[16,43,44],{},"The numbers came out like this: three machines for three days was cheaper than one excavator for two weeks. On timing the difference was even starker - the client had a finished site almost immediately instead of half a month later.",[29,46,48],{"id":47},"how-the-work-went","How the work went",[16,50,51],{},"A 7-tonne Yanmar ViO70, a six-wheel Hino 300 dump truck and a Kubota L3608 tractor went out to the site.",[16,53,54],{},"We started on the high ground: stripped off the excess soil and at the same time formed a clean slope along the boundary, so the earth wouldn't creep towards the neighbours over time. Nothing we cut was thrown away - that same soil went straight into the low areas.",[16,56,57],{},"From there the work became a loop with almost no pauses. The excavator loads, the truck carries and tips at the right spot, the tractor spreads and compacts in layers. Across three days the machines were barely ever standing still.",[16,59,60],{},"We paid particular attention to the falls. A perfectly flat pad is a bad idea on Koh Samui: come the rainy season, the water simply sits on the plot. The final grading was done with gentle slopes so the water drains away on its own.",[29,62,64],{"id":63},"result","Result",[16,66,67],{},"Three days - and instead of uneven, broken ground there was a level pad at design height, ready for setting out and for the villa excavations. The client walked the site, everything matched what we had agreed, and he invited us to his next project in Ban Po almost straight away.",[16,69,70],{},"Need a plot leveled for construction on Koh Samui? Get in touch - we'll look at the volume and put together a combination of machines that doesn't have you paying for hire days you don't need.",{"title":72,"searchDepth":73,"depth":73,"links":74},"",2,[75,76,77],{"id":31,"depth":73,"text":32},{"id":47,"depth":73,"text":48},{"id":63,"depth":73,"text":64},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fhero.webp","2026-07-17","We already knew this plot: a month earlier we had cleared it of overgrowth for the same client. Back then the job was to strip everything away and see what was actually under the scrub. Now the next stage was starting - 7 villas are going up on this land, and the site had to be brought to design levels.",[82,83,84],"yanmar-vio70","hino-300","kubota-l3608","md",[87,90,93,96,99,102,105,108,111,114,117],{"src":88,"alt":89},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fplot-overview-before-leveling.webp","Overview of the plot in Bo Put before leveling work began",{"src":91,"alt":92},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fclient-explaining-scope-on-site.webp","Client walking the site with us to confirm the target levels",{"src":94,"alt":95},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-digging-soil.webp","Yanmar ViO70 excavator cutting soil on the plot",{"src":97,"alt":98},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fcut-slope-and-soil-excavation.webp","Soil excavation and the cut slope formed along the plot boundary",{"src":100,"alt":101},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Ftruck-unloading-soil-on-plot.webp","Dump truck unloading soil at the required point on the plot",{"src":103,"alt":104},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-digging-tractor-spreading-soil.webp","Excavator digging while the tractor spreads soil across the site",{"src":106,"alt":107},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-and-tractor-working-together.webp","Excavator and tractor working as a pair",{"src":109,"alt":110},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fleveling-the-plot.webp","Leveling the plot after the fill was spread",{"src":112,"alt":113},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fview-from-excavator-cab.webp","View from the excavator cab during the work",{"src":115,"alt":116},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fplot-view-from-road.webp","View of the plot from the road",{"src":118,"alt":119},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Ffinal-leveled-plot.webp","Finished leveled plot, ready for construction","Bo Put, Koh Samui",{},true,"\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling",{"title":5,"description":80},"land-leveling",{"loc":123},"bo-put-site-leveling","projects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling","Leveling and backfill of a plot in Bo Put for a development of 7 villas. The client planned to hire one excavator for two weeks - we proposed an excavator, dump truck and tractor crew instead, finished in 3 days and came out cheaper.","1DpivfnYx2KysntSgQUqskP3oqgCpimb9Mu-JVe4sWo",[132,203,298],{"id":133,"title":134,"beforeAfter":135,"body":136,"cover":174,"date":175,"description":140,"equipment":176,"extension":85,"gallery":178,"location":194,"meta":195,"navigation":122,"path":196,"seo":197,"service":125,"sitemap":198,"slug":199,"stem":200,"summary":201,"__hash__":202},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance.md","Land clearing for villa construction in Hua Thanon",null,{"type":13,"value":137,"toc":169},[138,141,145,148,151,155,158,161,163,166],[16,139,140],{},"A plot in the south of the island had been sitting unused for years. Palms, trees, dense undergrowth and uneven sand mounds had taken over the land completely, making it impossible to start construction without a full clearance first. The job was to strip the site back to bare, level ground.",[29,142,144],{"id":143},"how-we-approached-it","How we approached it",[16,146,147],{},"Plots like this one - overgrown, with deep-rooted palms and trees near boundary walls - need the right combination of machines. We brought two excavators: the Yanmar B32 for the open areas and heavy roots, and the Yanmar VIO70 for work along the boundary wall. The VIO70's zero tail swing lets it operate right up to the edge without risk of hitting the concrete - something a standard excavator can't do safely.",[16,149,150],{},"Running both machines in parallel meant we could clear a substantial plot in two days rather than four.",[29,152,154],{"id":153},"what-the-work-involved","What the work involved",[16,156,157],{},"The trees and palms were felled, tipped and the root systems dug out completely - leaving roots in the ground causes problems later when the soil settles. Bushes and undergrowth were stripped, scattered sand mounds leveled and any pits or hollows filled. The Hino 300 ran continuous trips to haul everything off site for proper disposal.",[16,159,160],{},"Working on sloped terrain in the south of the island also meant paying attention to how the cleared ground would drain - we shaped the surface with a slight natural slope to prevent water pooling once the vegetation was gone.",[29,162,64],{"id":63},[16,164,165],{},"Two days, two excavators, one truck. The plot went from overgrown jungle to a clean, flat, workable surface. The client was satisfied with both the result and how the job was managed - clean site, no damage to the boundary wall, waste fully removed.",[16,167,168],{},"Land clearance done properly at this stage saves significant time and cost later. A site that's clean, level and draining correctly gives every subsequent trade - surveyors, foundation crews, builders - the best possible starting point.",{"title":72,"searchDepth":73,"depth":73,"links":170},[171,172,173],{"id":143,"depth":73,"text":144},{"id":153,"depth":73,"text":154},{"id":63,"depth":73,"text":64},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Fhero.webp","2026-04-28",[177,82,83],"yanmar-b32",[179,182,185,188,191],{"src":180,"alt":181},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Ftwo-excavators-working.webp","Two excavators clearing the overgrown plot in Hua Thanon simultaneously",{"src":183,"alt":184},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Fdigging-out-palm-roots.webp","Excavator digging out palm tree roots to fully clear the plot",{"src":186,"alt":187},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Fexcavator-working-near-concrete-wall.webp","Yanmar VIO70 zero-tail-swing excavator working close to the concrete boundary wall",{"src":189,"alt":190},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Fexcavator-operators-lunch-break.webp","Excavator operators on a lunch break during the site clearance in Hua Thanon",{"src":192,"alt":193},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Fcleared-site-ready-for-construction.webp","Fully cleared and leveled plot in Hua Thanon - ready for villa layout and construction","Hua Thanon, Koh Samui",{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance",{"title":134,"description":140},{"loc":196},"hua-thanon-villa-site-clearance","projects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance","Two-day land clearance on an overgrown plot in Hua Thanon. Removed trees, palms and roots, cleared undergrowth, leveled sand mounds and hauled all waste off site.","R4DgfgC4CqXW-XBmvJWqKE9TbsOy-SXeI_B-22FF6Zo",{"id":204,"title":205,"beforeAfter":206,"body":227,"cover":265,"date":266,"description":231,"equipment":267,"extension":85,"gallery":268,"location":120,"meta":290,"navigation":122,"path":22,"seo":291,"service":292,"sitemap":293,"slug":294,"stem":295,"summary":296,"__hash__":297},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july.md","Site clearance in Bo Put, Chaweng - Koh Samui",[207,212,217,222],{"beforeImage":208,"beforeAlt":209,"afterImage":210,"afterAlt":211},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-1.webp","Dense vegetation covering the plot before clearance","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-1.webp","Plot cleared and leveled after day one",{"beforeImage":213,"beforeAlt":214,"afterImage":215,"afterAlt":216},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-2.webp","Overgrown section with large trees and palms","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-2.webp","Same section cleared, stumps removed, ground exposed",{"beforeImage":218,"beforeAlt":219,"afterImage":220,"afterAlt":221},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-3.webp","Trees and palms covering the plot before work started","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-3.webp","Area fully cleared and ready for leveling",{"beforeImage":223,"beforeAlt":224,"afterImage":225,"afterAlt":226},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-4.webp","Plot perimeter overgrown before work started","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-4.webp","Perimeter cleared, clean ground level achieved",{"type":13,"value":228,"toc":261},[229,232,235,239,242,245,248,252,255,258],[16,230,231],{},"The client - a developer with an active construction portfolio on the island - called us at 9 in the morning. By 11 we were on site together, walking the plot and agreeing on the scope. That evening we mobilised the machinery. Work started the next morning, and three days later the site was clear.",[16,233,234],{},"The plot is in Bo Put, close to the temple เจดีย์ศรีสุคตคีรี (เจดีย์เขาหัวจุก) in the Chaweng area. It was heavily overgrown - large trees and palms with deep root systems, uneven ground throughout. The kind of site where you need the right combination of machines and a crew that works at pace.",[29,236,238],{"id":237},"how-the-work-was-done","How the work was done",[16,240,241],{},"Before mobilising, we assessed the site and made a deliberate call on equipment. The tractor would handle the bulk of the clearing - pushing, dragging and moving vegetation across the plot. A compact excavator was enough for the large stumps and root extraction; there was no need for a full-size machine. That decision saved the client money on equipment hire, and it meant we could deliver the Yanmar B32 on the same Hino 300 truck that was already working the site - no separate low-loader required.",[16,243,244],{},"The Kubota L3608 tractor worked continuously, dragging felled logs and pushing material into loading position. The Hino 300 ran trips to haul everything off site between deliveries.",[16,246,247],{},"Some of the stumps were exceptional in size - one was bigger than the driver standing next to it. Getting those out cleanly without damaging the surrounding ground takes patience and the right angle of attack with the bucket.",[29,249,251],{"id":250},"three-days-clean-result","Three days, clean result",[16,253,254],{},"Day one: felling, initial clearing, start on the large stumps.\nDay two: stump extraction, trees and palms cleared, rough leveling.\nDay three: final leveling, cleanup, waste removal complete.",[16,256,257],{},"The client walked the site at the end of day three and confirmed everything was done to spec. He also proposed continuing the collaboration into the construction phase - the kind of outcome that comes from working fast and keeping the site in order throughout.",[16,259,260],{},"Site clearance in Bo Put, Chaweng or anywhere on Koh Samui at this pace is possible when the crew knows what they're doing and the machinery matches the job. If you need a plot cleared, get in touch - we can usually mobilise within 24 hours.",{"title":72,"searchDepth":73,"depth":73,"links":262},[263,264],{"id":237,"depth":73,"text":238},{"id":250,"depth":73,"text":251},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fhero.webp","2026-07-10",[177,84,83],[269,272,275,278,281,284,287],{"src":270,"alt":271},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fplot-before-clearance.webp","Overgrown plot in Bo Put before clearance work began",{"src":273,"alt":274},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fexcavator-cab-view-during-work.webp","View from the excavator cab during active site clearance",{"src":276,"alt":277},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fdigging-out-large-tree-stump.webp","Excavator digging out a massive tree stump from the plot",{"src":279,"alt":280},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fgiant-stump-bigger-than-driver.webp","A tree stump larger than the driver - scale of the vegetation on site",{"src":282,"alt":283},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Ftractor-pulling-log.webp","Kubota tractor pulling a large felled log across the cleared area",{"src":285,"alt":286},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Floading-trees-and-stumps-into-truck.webp","Loading felled trees and stumps into the Hino 300 truck for removal",{"src":288,"alt":289},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fcleared-plot-result.webp","Final result - clean, level plot in Bo Put ready for construction",{},{"title":205,"description":231},"land-clearing",{"loc":22},"site-clearance-bo-put-july","projects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july","Full site clearance in Bo Put near Chaweng, Koh Samui. Felled trees, extracted giant stumps, cleared palms and vegetation, leveled the ground - ready for construction in three days.","vo2r0WQi-zmFqPhUDj--_hwrTY4GqkpQJU0MYt3YMQ4",{"id":299,"title":300,"beforeAfter":135,"body":301,"cover":342,"date":343,"description":305,"equipment":344,"extension":85,"gallery":345,"location":367,"meta":368,"navigation":122,"path":369,"seo":370,"service":371,"sitemap":372,"slug":373,"stem":374,"summary":375,"__hash__":376},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling.md","Septic tanks, utilities and site leveling in Maenam",{"type":13,"value":302,"toc":337},[303,306,310,313,316,320,323,326,329,331,334],[16,304,305],{},"A project in Maenam on a property where the villa construction was already finished. What remained was the sewer connection, the septic tanks, and getting the grounds in order - fill brought in and the surface leveled.",[29,307,309],{"id":308},"working-in-tight-spaces","Working in tight spaces",[16,311,312],{},"The defining feature of this site was the space. The villas were built, the landscaping partly done, trees already in the ground. Bringing large machinery in here means damaging something, guaranteed.",[16,314,315],{},"We used a compact 3-tonne Yanmar. It fits between the buildings, works right up against walls and needs no room to turn. Everything that had to be dug was dug, without touching a single structure or planting.",[29,317,319],{"id":318},"sequence-of-works","Sequence of works",[16,321,322],{},"The tanks and septic units went in first - before anything was covered over. Then we cut the trenches for the pipework and utilities, laid them and checked the runs.",[16,324,325],{},"With everything in place, the fill started arriving. Our dump truck ran the loop: load, deliver, unload on site. The excavator spread the fill, buried the utilities and brought the overall ground level up.",[16,327,328],{},"The final stage was grading - the surface brought level, with water runoff taken into account.",[29,330,64],{"id":63},[16,332,333],{},"Two to three days and the site was done: septic tanks installed, utilities laid and buried, ground level raised and the surface graded. The work moved fast enough that we never got round to taking \"before\" photos.",[16,335,336],{},"Need a septic tank, utility trenching or fill and leveling on Koh Samui? Get in touch - we work on finished properties where the buildings and landscaping must not be touched.",{"title":72,"searchDepth":73,"depth":73,"links":338},[339,340,341],{"id":308,"depth":73,"text":309},{"id":318,"depth":73,"text":319},{"id":63,"depth":73,"text":64},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Fhero.webp","2026-07-03",[177,83],[346,349,352,355,358,361,364],{"src":347,"alt":348},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-working-between-villas.webp","Compact excavator working in the tight space between finished villas",{"src":350,"alt":351},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Fbackfilling-the-septic-tank.webp","Backfilling the installed septic tank with soil",{"src":353,"alt":354},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Floading-soil-onto-our-truck.webp","Loading fill onto our dump truck for delivery to the site",{"src":356,"alt":357},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Ftruck-unloading-soil-at-the-property.webp","Dump truck unloading the imported fill on the client's property",{"src":359,"alt":360},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Fraising-the-ground-level-with-fill.webp","Raising the ground level with imported fill using the excavator",{"src":362,"alt":363},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Fleveling-the-ground.webp","Final grading of the ground across the site",{"src":365,"alt":366},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling\u002Four-excavator-operator.webp","Our excavator operator at work","Maenam, Koh Samui",{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling",{"title":300,"description":305},"drainage",{"loc":369},"maenam-septic-and-site-leveling","projects\u002Fmaenam-septic-and-site-leveling","Septic tank installation, sewer and utility trenching, backfill and site leveling in Maenam. Worked with a compact excavator in tight spaces between finished villas - completed in 2-3 days.","i16qqGmpPb9flIxs8KyeM7GHc8jn5o5PnuQIOwQbWjs",1785946165698]