[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":203},["ShallowReactive",2],{"service-projects-en-land-leveling":3},[4,132],{"id":5,"title":6,"beforeAfter":7,"body":13,"cover":79,"date":80,"description":81,"equipment":82,"extension":86,"gallery":87,"location":121,"meta":122,"navigation":123,"path":124,"seo":125,"service":126,"sitemap":127,"slug":128,"stem":129,"summary":130,"__hash__":131},"projects_en\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling.md","Site leveling and backfill for seven villas in Bo Put",[8],{"beforeImage":9,"beforeAlt":10,"afterImage":11,"afterAlt":12},"\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":14,"value":15,"toc":72},"minimark",[16,26,29,34,37,40,43,46,50,53,56,59,62,66,69],[17,18,19,20,25],"p",{},"We already knew this plot: a month earlier we had ",[21,22,24],"a",{"href":23},"\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.",[17,27,28],{},"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.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"why-hiring-a-single-excavator-made-no-sense","Why hiring a single excavator made no sense",[17,35,36],{},"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.",[17,38,39],{},"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.",[17,41,42],{},"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.",[17,44,45],{},"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.",[30,47,49],{"id":48},"how-the-work-went","How the work went",[17,51,52],{},"A 7-tonne Yanmar ViO70, a six-wheel Hino 300 dump truck and a Kubota L3608 tractor went out to the site.",[17,54,55],{},"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.",[17,57,58],{},"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.",[17,60,61],{},"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.",[30,63,65],{"id":64},"result","Result",[17,67,68],{},"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.",[17,70,71],{},"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":73,"searchDepth":74,"depth":74,"links":75},"",2,[76,77,78],{"id":32,"depth":74,"text":33},{"id":48,"depth":74,"text":49},{"id":64,"depth":74,"text":65},"\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.",[83,84,85],"yanmar-vio70","hino-300","kubota-l3608","md",[88,91,94,97,100,103,106,109,112,115,118],{"src":89,"alt":90},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fplot-overview-before-leveling.webp","Overview of the plot in Bo Put before leveling work began",{"src":92,"alt":93},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fclient-explaining-scope-on-site.webp","Client walking the site with us to confirm the target levels",{"src":95,"alt":96},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-digging-soil.webp","Yanmar ViO70 excavator cutting soil on the plot",{"src":98,"alt":99},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fcut-slope-and-soil-excavation.webp","Soil excavation and the cut slope formed along the plot boundary",{"src":101,"alt":102},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Ftruck-unloading-soil-on-plot.webp","Dump truck unloading soil at the required point on the plot",{"src":104,"alt":105},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-digging-tractor-spreading-soil.webp","Excavator digging while the tractor spreads soil across the site",{"src":107,"alt":108},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fexcavator-and-tractor-working-together.webp","Excavator and tractor working as a pair",{"src":110,"alt":111},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fleveling-the-plot.webp","Leveling the plot after the fill was spread",{"src":113,"alt":114},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fview-from-excavator-cab.webp","View from the excavator cab during the work",{"src":116,"alt":117},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling\u002Fplot-view-from-road.webp","View of the plot from the road",{"src":119,"alt":120},"\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":6,"description":81},"land-leveling",{"loc":124},"bo-put-site-leveling","projects\u002Fbo-put-site-leveling","Leveling and backfill of a plot in Bo Put for a development of 7 villas. 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The job was to strip the site back to bare, level ground.",[30,142,144],{"id":143},"how-we-approached-it","How we approached it",[17,146,147],{},"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.",[17,149,150],{},"Running both machines in parallel meant we could clear a substantial plot in two days rather than four.",[30,152,154],{"id":153},"what-the-work-involved","What the work involved",[17,156,157],{},"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.",[17,159,160],{},"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.",[30,162,65],{"id":64},[17,164,165],{},"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.",[17,167,168],{},"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":73,"searchDepth":74,"depth":74,"links":170},[171,172,173],{"id":143,"depth":74,"text":144},{"id":153,"depth":74,"text":154},{"id":64,"depth":74,"text":65},"\u002Fimages\u002Fprojects\u002Fhua-thanon-villa-site-clearance\u002Fhero.webp","2026-04-28",[177,83,84],"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",1792387870156]