We’ve been working the past few weeks at the Hun’s Rugby Ranch in South East Austin off MLK and 183. It has been an awesome project, fixing the roads around the fields, leveling out a parking lot (that was absolutely infested with invasive bamboo!)
We probably invested about 100 hours on this project and are looking forward to a continued partnership going forward!
Rough cut a parking lot for Huns Rugby Ranch in Austin, Texas yesterday. What a great location! We used the Kubota rotary shredder/mulcher.
Huns Rugby Ranch supports the Austin Huns Rugby Football Club, one of the oldest rugby clubs in Central Texas — founded in 1972 when the second side of the Austin Rugby Club broke away to form its own team. Since then, the Huns have grown into one of the largest rugby clubs in the country, fielding men’s teams across all three USA Rugby 15s divisions plus a National 7s program, and they won the USA Rugby Division 1 Men’s Championship in 2017. The club also runs one of the largest youth rugby programs in the state, built around an inclusive “big tent” philosophy that welcomes players of every background.
A club that size needs real infrastructure to match — training fields, event space for tournaments, and somewhere for players, coaches, and fans to actually park when they show up. That’s where projects like this one come in.
A parking lot is only as good as the ground underneath it, and that starts long before anyone thinks about gravel or asphalt. Before a lot can be graded and built up, the site has to be cleared and rough cut — knocking down brush, grass, and vegetation so the ground underneath is actually visible and workable. Skip this step and you’re building on top of root systems and organic material that will settle, shift, and create dips and soft spots once the lot sees regular traffic.
Rough cutting with a rotary shredder/mulcher, like we did here, clears that vegetation quickly and leaves mulch behind instead of debris that has to be hauled off — a big time and cost saver on a property this size. From there, the ground can be properly graded for drainage (nobody wants a parking lot that turns into a pond after a Hill Country downpour), compacted to handle vehicle weight, and built up with base material if the project calls for it.
Here’s the rough cut in action:
Planning a parking lot, event space, or any other project that starts with clearing ground? Reach out to iLandClearing — the site prep is where every good project starts.