Monett, Missouri
Driveways, drainage and dirt work.
For farms, acreage and home places around Lawrence and Barry County. We run CAT equipment and the owner is on every job.
Monett, Missouri
For farms, acreage and home places around Lawrence and Barry County. We run CAT equipment and the owner is on every job.
We've stepped back from big commercial site work on purpose. Small jobs are the work now - which is why we can be at your place this week instead of next month.
Dirt & rock
New gravel drives, regrading ruts and washboard, filling potholes, adding rock, and crowning so water sheds instead of standing.
Pads for shops, barns, pole buildings and equipment sheds - cut, filled, compacted and finished to grade.
Gravel, base rock, topsoil and clean fill hauled in and spread properly, not dumped in a pile for you to move.
Water
New culverts set, crushed or rusted tube replaced, plugged ends cleaned out, and the approach rebuilt so it quits washing.
Ditching, French drains, swales, and grading water away from foundations, barns and shops. The wet spot that never dries - that one.
Cleanouts, silt removal, bank and spillway repair, and new small ponds where the ground will hold water.
Clearing & removal
Cedar and brush pulled out of fence rows, overgrown pasture opened back up, stumps and root balls removed and hauled off.
Old sheds, fallen barns, concrete and slabs torn out and hauled away. Site left clean and level behind us.
Sized for farm lanes and tight yards - big enough to do the work, not so big it tears up your place getting there.
Around here you hit chert and red clay about as often as you hit topsoil, and they behave nothing alike. Clay holds water and moves when it freezes. Chert will eat a driveway that wasn't built with enough base under it.
That's why so many gravel drives in this county wash out every spring no matter how much rock gets dumped on them - the rock isn't the problem, the crown and the ditch are. Water has to have somewhere to go before the surface will ever hold.
We grade for where the water goes first, then rock it. Same day's work, and it lasts years longer.
REPLACE - a short paragraph in the owner's own words: how long he's been running equipment, how he got into it, and why he'd rather do a driveway on a Tuesday than chase a commercial contract.
REPLACE - one more: what he wants people to know before they call.
“A one-day driveway is a real job to us, not a favor.”
- [Owner's name], VF Excavating
Photos off a phone are fine. Captions should say where, how big, and how long it took - that's what people are actually trying to work out.
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We stay close to home - roughly REPLACE-45-minutes out of Monett. That covers REPLACE-confirm-towns and most of Lawrence and Barry County.
If you're a little past that, call anyway. If we're already working your direction it's usually no trouble.
It depends on length, how much rock is already there, and whether the ditch has to be reworked. Most residential drives land in a predictable range and we'll give you a firm number in writing before we start. REPLACE - put a real range here if you're willing to. A number beats "it depends" every time.
REPLACE - real answer. "Usually within a week" is worth a lot on this page if it's true.
We can do either. Most people have us bring it - we know what size holds up on Ozark ground, and it comes spread, not piled at the end of the drive.
No. Half-day jobs are what we built this around. If a bigger outfit told you it wasn't worth loading up for, that's exactly the call we want.
Usually. Send a photo when you call and we'll tell you straight - including if we think it's not worth doing or somebody else is a better fit.
REPLACE - real answer. Frozen and saturated ground both change what's possible, and saying so plainly reads as expertise.
Estimates are free and you get a firm number before anything starts. Texting a photo of the problem usually tells us most of what we need.
000-000-0000REPLACE - real hours