Road & Site Work Services

We can start with raw land, blue prints or just an idea you have. Let us design and build your driveway.  I have over 20 years experience designing, building, repairing and maintaining rock roads in mountainous terrain.  We guarantee all our work, even Winter work!

Our services include site preparation for slab, plumbing and  building foundations.  We can even build code compliant slab (natural rock) foundations.  We also do cellar and basement preparation.

No home is complete without a septic system.  We can install both septic tank and the drain fields according to your plumbing specifications.  As well as help you repair/fix problem septic systems.

Most road work involves shedding unwanted water from drives and yards.  Erosion and sediment control is a big problem in the mountains. We can plan and construct natural drainage & ponds to catch and utilize the extra water run off. This can be used for backup water storage and farming irrigation.

Most folks building in this neck of the woods have an eye to farming.  We can plan and prep areas to farm by logging existing trees for timber & stump removal.

The following photos depict the process of turning a narrow rocky and rough road or driveway into a wide smooth and well drained end product.

Photo 1. The tools needed to do the job. Using the Oil Quick System these three tools can be exchanged in under 5 seconds. The general purpose bucket is used to move bulk materials and to smooth and sort material throughout the project. The Connect Works CH 75 Hydraulic Hammer breaks up ledge and rocks. The MB 50 Crusher Bucket processes rock into surface gravel.

Photo 2. This photo shows the work area striped of all organic materials such as leaves sticks brush and loamy soils. By doing this the soils good enough to be used for road bed sub grade are exposed and ready to be worked.

Photo 3. This is the immediate work area. Completed work is beyond the machine and the un-worked area is in the fore ground. You can see that the tools are placed so they can all be reached with ease.

Photo 4. With the general purpose bucket mounted I am starting to remove loose material and establish the profile of the ditch and the road shoulder.

Photo 5. Shown here is a section of ledge blocking the ditch excavation.

Photo 6. The Hammer is now mounted and ready to break up the ledge. While it is on the machine I will also break any large rocks within reach.

Photo 7. The broken rock has been pulled from the ditch line and the final ditch and shoulder grade has been set.

Photo 8. Using the general purpose bucket all rock over 5” has been removed from work area and piled at the leading edge of the work zone. All remaining materials have been used to set a sub grade, and then have been compacted by treading the machine back and forth over it. 

Photo 9. The crusher scoops up rock from the pile at the leading edge of the work zone.

Photo 10. The crusher is swung around to the leading edge of the finished product and is ready to directly crush onto the road bed to lay down the surface gravel.

Photo 11. The gravel has been smoothed and compacted leaving a finished product behind.

This process repeats over and over as I work my way down the road. Typically about 15’ to 20’ get done per sequence. The rate of progression depends on the quality of the soil and the type of rock encountered. If enough rock is not produced from the ditch lines additional materials are trucked in.