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Rollover risk you can't budget for
A 30° bank is already past what a zero-turn is built for. On a 45° face, a lap bar isn't a plan. One incident is a claim, a citation, and a crew member who doesn't come back.
Western North Carolina · Remote-controlled slope mowing
Steep-slope mowing.Nobody on the hill.
Blue Ridge Slope Goat puts a remote-controlled REAPER on the 50° banks, ditches and overgrown hillsides your crews shouldn't touch. The ground gets maintained. Your people stay on flat ground.
Fully insured · REAPER-trained operator · Based in State Road, North Carolina
- Slope capability, any direction
- 50°Slope capability, any direction
- Remote range from the operator
- 1,000 ftRemote range from the operator
- Mowing rate on open ground
- 3 ac/hrMowing rate on open ground
- Saplings and brush it cuts through
- 2"Saplings and brush it cuts through
01 — The position you're in
You're the one who has to answer for that hill.
The bank behind the building. The embankment along the road. The acre between the solar rows, the slope left of the ninth green. It's on your list, it's out of compliance, or it's one bad season from becoming somebody else's problem. You're not short on mowers. You're short on a safe way to get a machine up there.
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The line item nobody wants to price
Steep ground gets dropped from the scope or padded until you lose the bid. Either way it stays on your liability list — and it keeps growing while it sits there.
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Growth that turns into a notice
Six feet of fescue, kudzu and briar. Now it's sight lines, fire load, shading on the solar racks, and a letter from the county with a date on it.
The cost of waitingEvery month it sits, the briars get thicker and the job gets more expensive.
02 — The guide
We've stood at the bottom of that bank, too.
We started this company watching good crews take string trimmers to ground they had no business standing on — because the job had to get done and there was no other way to do it.
There is now. A 1,968-pound machine on rubber tracks takes the grade at 2.4 psi, which means it holds the hill without tearing it up. The operator stands up to 1,000 feet away with a joystick. If the machine tilts, drops, or loses signal, it shuts itself down.
That's the whole idea: the machine gets the slope. Your people get flat ground.
Trained on the machine
Factory procedures for slope operation, recovery and maintenance — not a rental and a YouTube video.
Fully insured
Certificate of insurance before we start, and additional-insured wording on request.
Local, not routed
Based in State Road. We know kudzu, mountain laurel, red clay, and what a 2:1 grade does after rain.
Same hands start to finish
The person who walks your slope is the person quoting it and the person on the remote.
03 — The plan
Three steps, and the hill stops being your problem.
No site visit fee, no retainer, no contract you have to sign before anyone looks at the ground.
- Step 01
We walk the slope
A free site assessment. We measure the grade, check the access, and look at what's growing and what's underneath it — fence line, culvert, pedestal, irrigation head. No charge, no pitch.
On site · 20–30 minutes
- Step 02
You get one number
A written scope with a fixed price: what gets cut, how often, and what we do when the weather or the ground won't cooperate. No hourly surprises, no add-ons after the fact.
Written quote · within two business days
- Step 03
We mow. You get proof.
The machine takes the hill while your crew stays on the flat. After every visit you get date-stamped before-and-after photos and a completion note you can forward to a board, an insurer or a regional manager.
Photo report after each visit
Step one costs you twenty minutes and nothing else. If the slope turns out to be wrong for the machine, we'll tell you that instead of selling you a season.
Start with step one04 — Where the goat works
If your crew won't go there, we will.
One machine, sized for commercial ground. It mows, clears and holds a grade where turf equipment, tractors and hand crews all stop.
Municipalities & roadways
Roadside slopes, medians, ditches and stormwater banks that have to stay sightline-clear and inside the right-of-way.
- Right-of-way
- Ditches
- Guardrail banks
Solar farms
Rack rows, perimeter berms and the steep acreage between arrays — cut low without sending anyone up the berm with a trimmer.
- Rack rows
- Berms
- Pollinator cover
Golf courses
Native areas, mounding and pond banks outside the maintained rough, cut to a consistent height without a crew on the wall.
- Native areas
- Mounding
- Pond banks
HOAs & property managers
Common ground, basin banks and the parcels nobody wants to bid, on a schedule you can put in a budget line.
- Basins
- Common ground
- Easements
Landowners & estates
Ponds, pastures and ridge-top clearings that have gotten away from you. One-time clearing or a season contract.
- Ponds
- Pasture
- Fire breaks
Commercial & institutional
Campuses, schools, churches, industrial sites and treatment plants with banks that can't be hand-mowed safely.
- Campuses
- Schools
- Treatment plants
Operator off the slope
The machine
What the goat actually is
A commercial remote-controlled slope mower on excavator-style rubber tracks. No seat, no rider, no rollover. If it tilts, drops, or loses signal, it stops.
- Cutting width
- 60 in
- Engine
- 40 hp Vanguard EFI
- Max slope
- 50°, any direction
- Ground pressure
- 2.4 psi
- Remote range
- 1,000 ft
- Cut capacity
- 10 ft grass · 2" saplings
- Mow rate
- Up to 3 acres/hr
- Runtime
- Up to 8 hours
- Fail-safe
- Tilt, drop & signal-loss shutdown
- Tracks
- Excavator-style rubber
05 — On the hill
Real ground, real grade, no stock photos.
Every photo below is a job we ran in Western North Carolina. Same machine, same operator, different hill.
Fully insured, certificate before we start
Operator off the slope, up to 1,000 ft back
Tilt, drop and signal-loss shutdown
Date-stamped photo report after every visit
06 — Step one
Get a free site assessment.
Tell us where the ground is and what's on it. We'll come look at it, measure the grade, and give you one written price. No charge for the visit and no obligation after it.
- You send this form
- Takes about a minute.
- We call within one business day
- Chris, not a call center.
- We walk the slope
- 20–30 minutes on site, free.
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