Backcountry Excavation Backcountry Excavation Chelan, WA
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Our work

From raw ground to ready site

We are a new company and we are not going to fill this page with other people's jobs. Below is the work we are set up to take on and what each one actually involves. As our own projects finish, and customers are happy for us to share them, real photographs go up here.

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Raw sagebrush and pine hillside with a single excavator beginning the first cut.
The sequence

How a site usually comes together

Most projects use several of these, and the order matters more than people expect. Get the access wrong and everything after it costs more.

01

Open the ground Land Clearing · Demolition

02

Build the access Driveways & Access Roads

03

Shape the site Site Preparation · Excavation & Earthwork · Foundation Excavation

04

Put the services in Utility Trenching

05

Send the water away Grading & Drainage · Storm Drainage Systems

Built for work like this

Ground work we take on

Each of these is a page of its own, covering what the work involves, who it suits and the questions people ask before booking it.

  • 01 An excavator stripping topsoil and shaping a level building pad, with grade stakes set.

    Site Preparation

    Raw ground turned into a pad you can build on: cleared, stripped, cut to grade and compacted.

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  • 02 A deep foundation excavation with clean cut faces and a spoil pile alongside.

    Excavation & Earthwork

    Digging, moving and placing dirt. Foundation holes, bulk earthwork, backfill and haul-off.

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  • 03 Finish grading work with a fresh drainage swale and a culvert set at a driveway approach.

    Grading & Drainage

    Shaping ground so water leaves the property the way it should, instead of sitting against a building.

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  • 04 An excavator clearing brush and stumps, with half the lot still wooded and half opened to bare soil.

    Land Clearing

    Overgrown or wooded ground opened up. Brush, stumps, slash and debris out, site left workable.

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  • 05 A newly built crushed-gravel driveway with a crowned surface and drainage ditches, curving up through pines.

    Driveways & Access Roads

    Gravel driveways and access roads built or rebuilt to hold up to weather, grade and loaded trucks.

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  • 06 An open utility trench with conduit and a water line bedded in clean sand, spoil windrowed alongside.

    Utility Trenching

    Trenching and backfill for water, power and other underground lines, dug to depth and bedded properly.

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Want to see something closer to your job?

Call and describe what you are planning. We will talk you through how we would approach it, what we are confident about and what we would want to see on site first, and we will say so plainly if it is not work we should be taking on.

Working across Chelan, Manson, Entiat and Wenatchee.

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A finished, freshly graded building pad at dusk with mountain ridges behind.
A finished, freshly graded building pad at dusk with mountain ridges behind.
Start with a straightforward estimate

Tell us what you are building

Send over what you are trying to get done and we will come back with straight answers on scope, access and what the ground work actually needs.

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