Excavation & Dirt Work in Central Minnesota

Every patio, driveway, retaining wall, and landscape install starts with the dirt underneath it. We've seen too many jobs from other crews fail in their first or second winter because the dirt work was rushed — settled slabs, sagging walls, water running toward the house. The visible finish work is the easy part. The dirt is what makes it last.

We run skid steers, mini-excavators, and compact dozers — the right size of machinery to get into back yards, lake lots, and tight side yards without tearing up what you don't want torn up. We also know when not to bring a machine and to do a small job by hand. The goal is to leave the property cleaner and better-drained than we found it.

Common dirt work projects: site prep for new patios, driveways, sheds, garages, and pole barns; grading and re-grading yards that have settled or pool water; drainage fixes for wet basements, soggy lawns, and washed-out beds; trench work for drain tile, downspout extensions, gas, water, electric, and irrigation; tear-out and haul-off of old concrete, old walls, and decommissioned features.

Drainage is the dirt-work category most homeowners under-think and most regret later. If water is sitting against your foundation, dumping off the roof in the wrong spot, or running across the patio every time it rains, we'll find the actual source and fix it — usually with some combination of regrade, drain tile, downspout extensions, and a clean swale that moves water somewhere it belongs.