Ground
Seven things I get called for. Most of them turn out to be about water once you dig into them.
01
Pads for houses, camps, garages and barns.
Rough grade through finish grade. Where the ground allows I balance the cut and the fill on site, so you are not paying to truck material off one end of the job and back onto the other.
02
New driveways, rebuilds, and the ones that wash out every spring.
Ditching, culverts sized to the water that actually comes through them, and gravel that stays where it is put. A driveway fails at the water long before it fails at the surface.
03
Wet cellars, soft lawns, the low corner that never dries out.
Footing drains, curtain drains, swales, and an outlet that daylights somewhere sensible. Water is behind most of what I get called to fix, and it is usually cheaper to move it than to armour against it.
04
Clearing for a house site, a field, a view, or a woodlot road.
Stumps out and brush handled. Anything worth sawing gets set aside rather than buried — that is the whole idea behind Clear & Mill.
05
Retaining walls, walkways, steps, patios, fire pits.
Twenty years of hardscape and landscape work sits behind this part of the business. Walls get built to drain, because a wall that holds water is a wall that moves.
06
Trees across the driveway, a washed-out road, a yard full of limbs.
Call and I will tell you honestly whether it is a today job or a next-week job. Big wood gets set aside for the mill if there is anything in it worth sawing.
07
Residential plowing, Farmington to New Sharon.
Free quote before the first storm. Worth booking in the fall — the list is only so long, and it fills.
Before the first bucket
Working near water in Maine comes with rules. If any part of your job sits inside the shoreland zone — and in a town the Sandy River runs straight through, plenty of them do — there are erosion and sediment control requirements that apply before the first bucket of dirt moves. Bring it up when we walk the site and we will sort out what your job needs before it starts, not after the fact.
Call and describe the job. I will tell you whether it is something I do, roughly what it takes, and when I could get to it.