[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":377},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-en-chaweng-stone-relocation":3,"project-related-en-chaweng-stone-relocation":91},{"id":4,"title":5,"beforeAfter":6,"body":12,"cover":52,"date":53,"description":18,"equipment":54,"extension":57,"gallery":58,"location":80,"meta":81,"navigation":82,"path":83,"seo":84,"service":85,"sitemap":86,"slug":87,"stem":88,"summary":89,"__hash__":90},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation.md","Stone relocation and path clearance to a waterfall in Chaweng hills",[7],{"beforeImage":8,"beforeAlt":9,"afterImage":10,"afterAlt":11},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-1.webp","Dense vegetation blocking the path to the waterfall before clearance","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-1.webp","Path cleared, stones placed along the route to the waterfall",{"type":13,"value":14,"toc":46},"minimark",[15,19,22,27,30,33,36,40,43],[16,17,18],"p",{},"The client's villa sits in the hills above Chaweng, close to a natural waterfall on his property. His vision: clear a proper path through the hillside vegetation to the waterfall, and use large stones already on site to line the route - the first phase of a planned rest area with a feature waterfall he intends to build there.",[16,20,21],{},"Before any machinery moved, we walked the site with the client. He showed us the stones he wanted to use, explained how he imagined the composition, and we agreed on the scope and the result he was looking for. Starting a job like this with a shared picture of the outcome is the only way to do it right.",[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"the-work","The work",[16,28,29],{},"The Chaweng hillside is steep and the vegetation was thick. Getting the excavator into position and working safely on the slope required care. One of our crew worked from the excavator arm with a chainsaw to reach trees that couldn't be accessed any other way on that terrain - slow, methodical, but the right approach for the conditions.",[16,31,32],{},"The Caterpillar 305CR lifted and repositioned the large stones up the slope to the elevated area around the villa, then cleared the trees and loaded the debris into the truck for removal. Once the path was open and the bulk of the material was out, the team finished with manual cleanup using rakes - the kind of detail work a machine can't do.",[16,34,35],{},"The client was on site throughout the day, watching the progress and having lunch with the crew. By the end of the day the stones were placed to his satisfaction.",[23,37,39],{"id":38},"result","Result",[16,41,42],{},"One day's work: path cleared, stones lifted and arranged, debris removed. The client confirmed everything matched his vision and the site is ready for the next phase - the construction of the rest area and the artificial waterfall feature.",[16,44,45],{},"If you have a site that needs clearance, earthmoving or landscaping work in the Chaweng hills or elsewhere on Koh Samui, get in touch.",{"title":47,"searchDepth":48,"depth":48,"links":49},"",2,[50,51],{"id":25,"depth":48,"text":26},{"id":38,"depth":48,"text":39},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fhero.webp","2026-04-04",[55,56],"caterpillar-305cr","hino-300","md",[59,62,65,68,71,74,77],{"src":60,"alt":61},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fnarrow-path-to-client-villa.webp","Narrow overgrown access path leading to the client's hilltop villa near Chaweng",{"src":63,"alt":64},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fwaterfall-hidden-in-vegetation.webp","Waterfall hidden in the dense vegetation beside the villa - the destination for the stone path",{"src":66,"alt":67},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fselecting-stones-for-composition.webp","Selecting and reviewing large stones to be used in the waterfall composition",{"src":69,"alt":70},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fworker-on-excavator-arm-with-chainsaw.webp","Our worker standing on the excavator arm operating a chainsaw to clear trees on the steep slope",{"src":72,"alt":73},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Floading-debris-into-truck.webp","Loading cleared vegetation and debris into the truck for removal",{"src":75,"alt":76},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Ffinal-cleanup-by-hand-with-rake.webp","Final manual cleanup with rakes after the excavator work was complete",{"src":78,"alt":79},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation\u002Fresult-path-cleared-stones-placed.webp","Result: cleared path to the waterfall with large stones placed along it per the client's vision","Chaweng hills, Koh Samui",{},true,"\u002Fprojects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation",{"title":5,"description":18},"excavator",{"loc":83},"chaweng-stone-relocation","projects\u002Fchaweng-stone-relocation","Cleared a path through dense hillside vegetation to a waterfall at a private villa in the Chaweng hills, relocated large stones up the slope and arranged them as the first phase of a planned waterfall rest area - done in one day.","DTrQiL0_wM4_HkSyQOUPQLENoT-1EwrkmPNOQsc2Xf8",[92,165,281],{"id":93,"title":94,"beforeAfter":95,"body":101,"cover":136,"date":137,"description":105,"equipment":138,"extension":57,"gallery":142,"location":155,"meta":156,"navigation":82,"path":157,"seo":158,"service":159,"sitemap":160,"slug":161,"stem":162,"summary":163,"__hash__":164},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill.md","Waste clearance, fill and leveling of a plot in Bang Rak",[96],{"beforeImage":97,"beforeAlt":98,"afterImage":99,"afterAlt":100},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Fbefore\u002Fbefore-1.webp","Overgrown roadside plot full of waste before the work began","\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Fafter\u002Fafter-1.webp","The same plot after clearing, fill and leveling - with a new fence line",{"type":13,"value":102,"toc":131},[103,106,110,113,117,120,123,125,128],[16,104,105],{},"A plot of 122 square wah - roughly 488 m² - in Bang Rak, opposite the local health centre. The owner wanted to rent the land out, but it couldn't be shown in the state it was in: dense overgrowth with years of accumulated rubbish underneath. The brief: clear everything, raise the level with fill and grade it flat, ready to hand over to a tenant.",[23,107,109],{"id":108},"day-one-clearing","Day one: clearing",[16,111,112],{},"The 7-tonne Yanmar excavator stripped the overgrowth together with the waste-laden top layer - there's no point separating that kind of sandwich by hand, the bucket takes it all in one pass. The trucks ran it to the landfill: 10 loads of waste and greenery in a day. By evening the plot stood empty.",[23,114,116],{"id":115},"days-two-and-three-soil-down-the-mountain","Days two and three: soil down the mountain",[16,118,119],{},"The fill came from a quarry at Maenam Soi 1 - and that was the trickiest part of the job. The way out is a long, steep descent, and the truck goes down loaded. On runs like that everything comes down to the driver: speed, engine braking, distance. Our drivers know this route well - all 20 runs went without a hitch.",[16,121,122],{},"On site, the usual trio did the work: the truck tips, the Kubota tractor spreads the soil across the plot, the excavator trims along the retaining wall and in the corners the tractor can't reach. That's why the fill and grading took only two days.",[23,124,39],{"id":38},[16,126,127],{},"Three days - and a rubbish-choked wasteland became a clean, raised, level plot behind a new fence line. The owner got land he can show to tenants without apologising for it.",[16,129,130],{},"Need a plot prepared for rental, sale or construction on Koh Samui? Get in touch - we'll quote the volume and timeline before work starts.",{"title":47,"searchDepth":48,"depth":48,"links":132},[133,134,135],{"id":108,"depth":48,"text":109},{"id":115,"depth":48,"text":116},{"id":38,"depth":48,"text":39},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Fhero.webp","2026-09-29",[139,140,56,141],"yanmar-vio70","hino-super-fm18","kubota-l3608",[143,146,149,152],{"src":144,"alt":145},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Fexcavator-starting-on-waste-and-overgrowth.webp","Excavator starting on the waste and overgrowth at the edge of the plot",{"src":147,"alt":148},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Fwaste-disposal-at-the-landfill.webp","Disposing of the collected waste at the landfill",{"src":150,"alt":151},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Ffill-soil-delivered-to-site.webp","Dump truck delivering fill soil to the site",{"src":153,"alt":154},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill\u002Ftractor-spreading-soil-across-the-plot.webp","Tractor spreading the delivered soil while the excavator works along the retaining wall","Bang Rak, Koh Samui",{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill",{"title":94,"description":105},"site-preparation",{"loc":157},"bang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill","projects\u002Fbang-rak-waste-removal-and-fill","Preparing a 488 m² plot in Bang Rak for rental: waste and overgrowth hauled away in 10 truck runs, fill brought in over 20 runs, the ground raised and leveled. Three days in total - one for clearing, two for fill and grading.","2dLwCvQPRi4lZkndRPJ19kChaV811aK4qIL92MJK5TA",{"id":166,"title":167,"beforeAfter":168,"body":174,"cover":233,"date":234,"description":235,"equipment":236,"extension":57,"gallery":237,"location":271,"meta":272,"navigation":82,"path":273,"seo":274,"service":275,"sitemap":276,"slug":277,"stem":278,"summary":279,"__hash__":280},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling.md","Site leveling and backfill for seven villas in Bo Put",[169],{"beforeImage":170,"beforeAlt":171,"afterImage":172,"afterAlt":173},"\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":175,"toc":228},[176,185,188,192,195,198,201,204,208,211,214,217,220,222,225],[16,177,178,179,184],{},"We already knew this plot: a month earlier we had ",[180,181,183],"a",{"href":182},"\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.",[16,186,187],{},"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.",[23,189,191],{"id":190},"why-hiring-a-single-excavator-made-no-sense","Why hiring a single excavator made no sense",[16,193,194],{},"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.",[16,196,197],{},"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.",[16,199,200],{},"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.",[16,202,203],{},"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.",[23,205,207],{"id":206},"how-the-work-went","How the work went",[16,209,210],{},"A 7-tonne Yanmar ViO70, a six-wheel Hino 300 dump truck and a Kubota L3608 tractor went out to the site.",[16,212,213],{},"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.",[16,215,216],{},"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.",[16,218,219],{},"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.",[23,221,39],{"id":38},[16,223,224],{},"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.",[16,226,227],{},"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":47,"searchDepth":48,"depth":48,"links":229},[230,231,232],{"id":190,"depth":48,"text":191},{"id":206,"depth":48,"text":207},{"id":38,"depth":48,"text":39},"\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.",[139,56,141],[238,241,244,247,250,253,256,259,262,265,268],{"src":239,"alt":240},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fplot-overview-before-leveling.webp","Overview of the plot in Bo Put before leveling work began",{"src":242,"alt":243},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fclient-explaining-scope-on-site.webp","Client walking the site with us to confirm the target levels",{"src":245,"alt":246},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-digging-soil.webp","Yanmar ViO70 excavator cutting soil on the plot",{"src":248,"alt":249},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fcut-slope-and-soil-excavation.webp","Soil excavation and the cut slope formed along the plot boundary",{"src":251,"alt":252},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Ftruck-unloading-soil-on-plot.webp","Dump truck unloading soil at the required point on the plot",{"src":254,"alt":255},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-digging-tractor-spreading-soil.webp","Excavator digging while the tractor spreads soil across the site",{"src":257,"alt":258},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-and-tractor-working-together.webp","Excavator and tractor working as a pair",{"src":260,"alt":261},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fleveling-the-plot.webp","Leveling the plot after the fill was spread",{"src":263,"alt":264},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fview-from-excavator-cab.webp","View from the excavator cab during the work",{"src":266,"alt":267},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fplot-view-from-road.webp","View of the plot from the road",{"src":269,"alt":270},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Ffinal-leveled-plot.webp","Finished leveled plot, ready for construction","Bo Put, Koh Samui",{},"\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling",{"title":167,"description":235},"land-leveling",{"loc":273},"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",{"id":282,"title":283,"beforeAfter":284,"body":305,"cover":343,"date":344,"description":309,"equipment":345,"extension":57,"gallery":347,"location":271,"meta":369,"navigation":82,"path":182,"seo":370,"service":371,"sitemap":372,"slug":373,"stem":374,"summary":375,"__hash__":376},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july.md","Site clearance in Bo Put, Chaweng - Koh Samui",[285,290,295,300],{"beforeImage":286,"beforeAlt":287,"afterImage":288,"afterAlt":289},"\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":291,"beforeAlt":292,"afterImage":293,"afterAlt":294},"\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":296,"beforeAlt":297,"afterImage":298,"afterAlt":299},"\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":301,"beforeAlt":302,"afterImage":303,"afterAlt":304},"\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":306,"toc":339},[307,310,313,317,320,323,326,330,333,336],[16,308,309],{},"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.",[16,311,312],{},"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.",[23,314,316],{"id":315},"how-the-work-was-done","How the work was done",[16,318,319],{},"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.",[16,321,322],{},"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.",[16,324,325],{},"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.",[23,327,329],{"id":328},"three-days-clean-result","Three days, clean result",[16,331,332],{},"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.",[16,334,335],{},"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.",[16,337,338],{},"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":47,"searchDepth":48,"depth":48,"links":340},[341,342],{"id":315,"depth":48,"text":316},{"id":328,"depth":48,"text":329},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fhero.webp","2026-07-10",[346,141,56],"yanmar-b32",[348,351,354,357,360,363,366],{"src":349,"alt":350},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fplot-before-clearance.webp","Overgrown plot in Bo Put before clearance work began",{"src":352,"alt":353},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fexcavator-cab-view-during-work.webp","View from the excavator cab during active site clearance",{"src":355,"alt":356},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fdigging-out-large-tree-stump.webp","Excavator digging out a massive tree stump from the plot",{"src":358,"alt":359},"\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":361,"alt":362},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Ftractor-pulling-log.webp","Kubota tractor pulling a large felled log across the cleared area",{"src":364,"alt":365},"\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":367,"alt":368},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fsite-clearance-bo-put-july\u002Fcleared-plot-result.webp","Final result - clean, level plot in Bo Put ready for construction",{},{"title":283,"description":309},"land-clearing",{"loc":182},"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",1792387873565]