Where we work
Based in Chelan, Washington, working across Chelan, Manson, Entiat and Wenatchee. Each page below covers what the ground and the access are actually like in that community.
- Chelan County
Chelan, WA
Chelan is home. It is also where a lot of the hardest ground in the valley is, and most of what makes a job here difficult shows up before the first bucket of dirt moves.
Excavation in Chelan - Chelan County
Manson, WA
Manson sits on the benchland along the north shore, and a lot of the ground there has been orchard at some point. That changes what is under the surface.
Excavation in Manson - Chelan County
Entiat, WA
Entiat runs from the Columbia back up a narrow river valley, and properties up that valley tend to be long on ground and short on easy access.
Excavation in Entiat - Chelan County
Wenatchee, WA
Wenatchee mixes town lots with orchard and acreage on the edges, and the two need very different approaches on the ground.
Excavation in Wenatchee - Chelan County
Cashmere, WA
Cashmere, Monitor and Dryden sit on the Wenatchee River bottom. Bedrock is a hundred feet down, so the trouble is never rock. It is what the river and the floods left on top of it.
Excavation in Cashmere - Chelan County
Leavenworth, WA
Leavenworth, Peshastin, Plain and Lake Wenatchee sit on some of the deepest loose ground in the state. The boulders in it are the whole story.
Excavation in Leavenworth - Grant County
Quincy, WA
Quincy sits on the floor of the Quincy Basin, on Ice Age flood gravel over basalt. Two things catch people out here. The caliche and the sand.
Excavation in Quincy - Douglas County
Waterville, WA
The Waterville Plateau is easy ground to work on top of and hard ground to dig into, because of what sits about two feet down.
Excavation in Waterville - Okanogan County
Omak & Okanogan, WA
Omak and Okanogan sit on stacked glacial lake terraces. Which terrace you are on decides what the job actually is.
Excavation in Omak and Okanogan - Okanogan County
Brewster, WA
Brewster, Bridgeport and Pateros sit on the Great Terrace of the Columbia. It is layered, inconsistent ground that was stacked up against a wall of ice, and it does not dig the same twice.
Excavation in Brewster - Okanogan County
Methow Valley, WA
The Methow is cobble and boulder country. Twisp, Winthrop, Carlton and Mazama all sit on it, and it is the reason a trencher is usually the wrong tool up here.
Excavation in the Methow Valley
Outside these areas?
Distance matters more on a small job than a large one, because moving equipment costs the same either way. Call and describe what you need, and we will tell you honestly whether it makes sense for us to travel to it.
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.