What the yard takes down
Three ways out of a building
Every removal ends the same way — a hole backfilled in compacted lifts and a surface ready for seed — but the route depends on the structure, the salvage and what the ground under it turns out to be.
The wrecking sheet · 2026
Barn or outbuilding removalfrom $4,900
Timber salvaged to the barn-board pile, metal to the scrap bin, stone and concrete to the crusher
House demolition, fullfrom $14,500
Disconnects coordinated, soft-strip salvaged, slab and footings out to full depth
Slab & foundation removal$3.10 / sq ft
Broken, extracted and crushed on site; hole backfilled in 8-in compacted lifts
Silo or tower takedownquoted flat
Sectional drop with exclusion zone, ring footing out, pit backfilled and proof-rolled
On-site concrete crushing$18 / yd³ crushed
Portable jaw plant, your rubble becomes your base — 3/4-minus and blends
The hole, filled$7.80 / yd³ placed
Clean fill from the Oxbow yard, placed and compacted to 95% Proctor, finish-graded
Why the crusher matters
The last day of a building is day one of a lot
Most demolition bills hide a second bill: trucks to the landfill, the landfill itself, and new stone to fill the hole the old building left. The crusher deletes two of those lines — your slab becomes your base, the hole eats its own building, and the invoice reads like engineering instead of like arson.
The sequence
From standing structure to seed-ready ground
Permits and disconnects ahead, dust and drop zones controlled through, and nothing buried that a magnet cannot find. The sequence is the same on a chicken barn and a two-storey house — only the tonnage changes.
Week −2
Paper & power
Demolition permit, utility disconnects and the 811 locate — the boring week that keeps the loud week legal. Salvage rights agreed with you before anything is touched.
Day 1
Soft strip
Doors, fixtures, barn board and copper out by hand, sorted to the yard’s salvage rows. What a picker can reach is money that never rides to a landfill.
Day 2
The drop
Exclusion zone set, water on the dust, and the structure taken down in sections — heavy end first, tracked away from the hole it is making.
Days 3–4
Roots out
Slab, footings and foundation walls broken and pulled to full depth, the pit clean-raked and inspected — a buried foundation is a sinkhole with a delay timer.
Close
Crush & fill
The rubble crushed to base, the pit filled in eight-inch lifts at 95 percent Proctor, finish-graded and seeded — and the hole your building left is full of your building.
The Oxbow loop
A ton buried is a ton bought twice
Landfill tipping runs heavy-vehicle money per ton, the stone to replace a crushed slab runs more, and both of those numbers are avoided by the same machine: a portable jaw plant that turns your rubble into 3/4-minus on your own ground. Last season the yard crushed 9,100 tons of other people’s buildings back into use — roughly 340 truckloads that never queued at a gate.
The magnet guarantee
Every load of fill we place passes a magnet and a hand-pick before it moves — no wire, no shingles, no “clean-ish”. The fill in your hole is the fill on the sheet, and the sheet says clean.
Weighed, not felt
The tonnage is the whole story
A demolition contractor can feel busy or can be measured — the yard scale does the second one. Every figure in this band is a scale ticket or a density log away from anyone who asks, and the asking is welcome.
2025 — 2026
The yard wall
Six takedowns from the last two seasons, photographed at backfill or seed — never at the moment of maximum dust, because the moment that matters is the one where the lot is quiet again.
Clean fill
$7.80/ yd³ placed
- Magnet-passed and hand-picked
- Placed in 8-in lifts, compacted
- 95% Proctor, logged per lift
- Finish-graded and seed-ready
Pickup at the Siding yard: $6.10 loaded, your trailer or ours.
Crushed concrete
$18/ yd³ crushed
- Your rubble, your base, on your site
- 3/4-minus and blended runs
- Deletes the tipping and the trucking
- Replaces bought stone one-for-one
From the yard stockpile: $14.50 / yd³ picked up.
Screened topsoil
$26/ yd³ screened
- Screened to 3/8 in, rock-free
- Delivery in the yard trucks
- Stockpiled dry under cover
- The last inch of every takedown
Amended and blended loads quoted on the call.
Two quotes wanted to bury our collapsed barn in a pit on our own land and bill us for the privilege. Oxbow salvaged the board, crushed the stone into the lane base we needed anyway, and the hole was filled, compacted and seeded in nine days. The invoice had a line on it for salvage credit. I have never seen a demolition invoice go down before.
How much of my building can actually be recycled?
More than the landfill quotes assume: concrete and stone become base, clean dimensional lumber becomes barn board, metals sort to scrap, and even asphalt shingle tabs have a recycling outlet in this county. A typical frame house leaves the site at better than seventy percent diverted — and everything the crusher keeps is tipping fee you never pay.
Do you handle the permits and the disconnects?
Yes — the demolition permit, the utility disconnects with each provider, the 811 locate and the final inspection are all inside the sheet price. The only call you make is the one to us; the paper is what the quiet week before the loud week is for.
What about asbestos and the old stuff nobody labelled?
A pre-demolition survey is required and we will not touch a structure without one — if it finds something, a licensed abatement crew takes that scope before we mobilize, and their clearance letter goes in the job file. Nobody rushes that line item, including us, and any contractor who would is the reason the rule exists.
Can you just fill the old foundation and leave the slab?
We can, and we will tell you what it costs later instead: a buried slab holds water, floats and settles, and whatever gets built over it inherits every void. Full-depth out, crushed, backfilled in compacted lifts — it is the difference between a lot and a memory of a building, and it is rarely more than a day of machine time.
The four regulars
Asked before the drop
The four every takedown call starts with. If yours is not here, the yard line runs seven to five and the person on it has dropped something in your township this season.
Crusher bookings run April to October · salvage rows open Saturdays · (555) 055-4470 · yard@oxbowwrecking.example
Send the structure, get the sheet
What is standing, roughly how big, and where it is. The walk prices the drop, the salvage and the crush — and the credit lines show up on the same page as the charges. yard@oxbowwrecking.example