Pads & site prep
House, barn and shop pads cut and filled to elevation, compacted in lifts and shaped to drain. See house pads.
Excavation services · Jack, Wise, Young, Palo Pinto & Parker counties
Excavation contractor for country property
Digging, hauling, backfilling and cleaning up behind it. The unglamorous half of every rural build, done by people who will be around next year if you need them again.
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What excavation services does Jacksboro Services offer?
We dig house and barn pads, stock tanks and ponds, water line and utility trenches, culvert crossings and footings, and pull stumps and mesquite roots with the excavator. Then we backfill, compact and haul off what you do not want, on ranches, homesites and barns across Jack, Wise, Young, Palo Pinto and Parker counties. We do not do electrical, plumbing or septic work.
An excavation contractor based in Jacksboro
Most excavation out here is not a city basement. It is a pad for a house or barn, a stock tank, a water line to a trough, a culvert under a new drive, or a stand of mesquite that needs to come out by the root. That is the work we are set up for.
We are based in Jacksboro and work across Jack, Wise, Young, Palo Pinto and Parker counties, from Bryson and Graham to Bridgeport, Decatur, Mineral Wells and Weatherford. If you are looking for an excavating contractor near you in that area, call and describe the job. We will come walk it and give you a number, and the estimate is free.
What we dig
Footings & foundations
Dug to your plan and your engineer's spec, squared up, with spoil placed where it will not be in the concrete crew's way.
Trenches
Water lines, electrical conduit, drain lines and irrigation, cut to depth, bedded, and backfilled clean. See trenching.
Tanks & ponds
New stock tanks dug and shaped, and old silted tanks cleaned back to depth. More on pond construction.
Culverts & crossings
Driveway entrances and ranch road crossings dug to grade, with the pipe set at the ditch flow line. See culvert installation.
Stump & root removal
Stumps, mesquite and old root balls lifted out whole with the excavator bucket, below the root crown so mesquite does not come back. See mesquite grubbing.
After the dig: backfill, compaction and haul-off
Backfill and compaction. Backfill goes back in lifts and gets compacted, sloped away from any building so you are not fighting water at the foundation later. Dirt pushed back in one pile and left to settle is how you get a low spot by next spring.
Haul-off. Spoil, rock, root balls and brush hauled off the property, or spread and windrowed on-site if you would rather keep the dirt. Fill from a tank dig often becomes the pad on the same job.
Cleanup. We leave the ground rough-graded behind us so it can be driven, mowed or seeded.
The machines we dig with
A tracked excavator does the digging: tanks, trenches, footings, culvert crossings and root balls. A Case 1150B crawler dozer pushes spoil, builds up tank dams and spreads fill over pads. Our Takeuchi TL12R2 and TL10 track loaders handle tight access, backfill, spreading and finish grading. Matching the machine to the job is a big part of keeping an excavation price reasonable: you do not want a dozer billing hours on work a track loader can finish, or the other way round.
Questions people ask us
How much does excavation cost?
Excavation is quoted per job after we see it. What moves the price: how much dirt has to come out and how deep, whether we hit rock, how far spoil or fill has to travel, access for the machines, and how far the job is from Jacksboro. Tell us what you are building and we will give you a number on site, free.
Do you handle the utility locate?
We will place the 811 request for the work we are doing. What we cannot know about are private lines that were run without records. Anything you can tell us about what is buried on the place helps a great deal.
How deep can you dig?
Deeper than most rural jobs need. Practically, the limit around here is rock rather than reach — Palo Pinto and western Jack County ground in particular can turn to limestone sooner than you would like. We will tell you what we hit and what it means for the price.
What if you hit rock?
It happens, and it is the most common reason an excavation job moves off its estimate. We flag the possibility up front where the ground looks likely, and if we hit it we stop and talk to you about options before we run up hours.
Do you do septic excavation?
We do not install septic systems. All septic work in this area goes to an installer who holds a Texas OSSF installer license. Here is how that works.
Can you work on small or tight sites?
Yes — that is what the Takeuchi track loaders are for. Between the excavator and the TL10 we can get into places a full-size machine cannot. See skid steer work.
Do you do demolition?
No. We do not take down buildings, slabs or other structures. We dig, grade, backfill and haul off spoil, rock and brush. If a structure has to come down first, that goes to a demolition contractor before we start.
Where we work
We are based in Jacksboro and work out from there across Jack, Wise, Young, Palo Pinto and Parker counties. If you are close to the edge of that circle, call and ask — we will tell you straight whether it is worth the drive for both of us.
- Jacksboro
- Bryson
- Perrin
- Cundiff
- Jermyn
- Post Oak
- Graham
- Olney
- Mineral Wells
- Graford
- Bridgeport
- Runaway Bay
- Chico
- Bowie
- Whitt
- Salesville
- Decatur
- Weatherford
- Springtown
- Possum Kingdom Lake
Tell us about the property.
Call and describe what you are looking at — acreage, how thick it is, and what you want it to look like when we are done. We will come walk it and give you a number.