Excavation and Dirt Work
General excavation with trackhoes, a dozer and dump trucks: digging, grading and moving dirt and rock on homesites, farms and rural land.
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Russellville, the Franklin County seat, sits in the northwest corner of Alabama on the Highland Rim. Land around town can be rocky or wet, and sometimes both. A wooded lot may need clearing, a rock cut and a gravel drive before a house goes up. On an old farm, there may be a falling-down barn to take down or a silted pond to clean out.
Precision Excavation is an excavation contractor based in Trinity, just west of Decatur, and we travel to Russellville from there. Here, our excavation and dirt work means digging, grading and moving dirt with trackhoes, a dozer and dump trucks. We also handle land clearing, pads, ponds, driveways, rock, demolition and hauling. Call or text (256) 303-7210 for a free estimate.
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Russellville grew where Jackson's Military Road crossed the Gaines Trace, and the town was incorporated in 1819. Today Jackson Highway, US 43, follows parts of that old road and leads north to Muscle Shoals. Franklin County was one of Alabama's first iron-ore mining centers, with early mining along Cedar Creek near Russellville. In the Reconstruction era, the town was a center of the iron and steel industry.
That past can still be in the ground. The USDA soil survey for Franklin County maps more than 4,000 acres as mine pits and dumps. If you know a tract was mined or filled, tell us at the estimate.
The same survey maps more than 90,000 acres of the county as sandstone or limestone rock land. If rock turns up in a pad or drive cut, a trackhoe (an excavator) with a ripper breaks it loose. Boulders are moved aside or hauled off as part of our rock removal work. Solid ledge that a ripper will not break needs other methods, and we say so at the estimate.
Cedar Creek flows through the north-central part of Franklin County, and Bear Creek crosses its southwest corner. Both are Tennessee River tributaries. TVA built a reservoir on Bear Creek in the late 1960s, creating Bear Creek Lake. In 1978, TVA dammed Cedar Creek, creating Cedar Creek Lake.
Back from the water, farm ponds suit this farm and livestock country. Our pond construction work digs new ponds, builds and shapes the bank and cleans out ponds that have silted in. The spoil is spread on the property or hauled off by the load.
Under section 26a of the TVA Act, a dam or other obstruction affecting navigation, flood control or public lands along or in the Tennessee River or its tributaries needs TVA's approval first. So check with TVA before any fill, digging or shoreline work near the water or across a creek. Our pond permit guide has more on the rules.
The ground changes from one side of Russellville to the other. From Moulton, AL-24 runs west on a rural, mostly flat and straight route to outside town. West of Russellville the road turns winding and rolling, and the four-lane there took several ridge cuts to build. On either side of town, our grading shapes yards, building sites and pastures to a plan.
On flat ground, a house pad is built up in compacted lifts, with fill brought in by the load. On a slope, we cut into the high side and use that dirt to build up the low side. Either way, the finished pad is graded so water sheds away from it. That matters here, where NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals put Russellville at about 57 inches of rain a year.
December and March are the wettest months on average, and October is the driest. A soil called Savannah covers more than 34,000 acres of the county. From January to March, it can hold water 1.5 to 3 feet below the surface. A drive on ground like that needs a firm base, a crown and ditches, which our gravel driveway work builds.
Farming, livestock, timber and quarrying stone are among Franklin County's industries, and poultry processing is one of the largest. A pasture or fence line on farm ground can grow up in brush when it sits. Our dozer work pushes the brush out and reclaims the pasture. To open a wooded lot, land clearing takes out trees, brush, stumps and roots with the dozer and trackhoe.
The debris is hauled off, buried on site or burned, depending on the tract and your plans. If you choose to burn, that part is yours as the landowner. A fire of a quarter acre or more needs an Alabama Forestry Commission burn permit. Where the ground should stay covered, forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees in place with a skid steer.
On April 27, 2011, tornadoes killed 26 people in the Franklin County communities of East Franklin and Phil Campbell. Storms still bring trees down across the county. The dozer and trackhoe clear them, and our stump removal pulls each stump, root ball and all. Old houses, barns, sheds and mobile homes come down with our demolition work. Our dump truck hauling takes debris off and brings fill dirt, topsoil, gravel and crusher run in by the load.
Communities and areas we serve around Russellville: Phil Campbell, Hodges, Vina, Liberty Hill, Belgreen, Spruce Pine, Frankfort, Halltown, Pleasant Site, Atwood, Cedar Creek Lake, Bear Creek Lake.
Russellville ZIP codes served: 35653, 35654.
Free estimates throughout Franklin County and the surrounding area.
(256) 303-7210 General excavation with trackhoes, a dozer and dump trucks: digging, grading and moving dirt and rock on homesites, farms and rural land.
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We clear wooded lots and overgrown acreage with the dozer and trackhoe. Trees come down and stumps come out of the ground, root ball and all. The debris is hauled off, buried or burned, and the ground is left rough graded.
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We pull stumps out of the ground with the trackhoe, root ball and all. One stump in a yard or a whole logged tract, the holes get filled and the ground rough graded.
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We mulch brush, briars and small trees in place with a skid steer mulching head. The wood ends up as a mulch layer on the ground.
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We run a crawler dozer for pushing brush, rough grading and leveling ground across North Alabama. That covers spreading fill, cutting pads, reclaiming grown-up pasture and shaping pond banks and road beds.
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We grade yards and building sites across North Alabama so water runs away from the house. The dozer and trackhoe cut the rough grade, and a land plane on the skid steer sets the finish grade.
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We build house pads for new homes, barns, shops and metal buildings on lots across North Alabama. Fill comes in by the load, goes down in packed lifts and gets graded so water runs away from the building.
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Rock removal for house pads, driveways, ponds, pastures and fence lines across North Alabama. Trackhoes with rippers break the rock loose, and the rock gets stacked, buried on site or hauled off.
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We dig new farm ponds, enlarge old ones and clean out ponds that have silted in. The trackhoe cuts the basin, the dozer shapes the bank, and the spoil gets spread or hauled off.
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We build new gravel driveways and farm roads, and regrade old ones that have rutted or washed out. Base cut, crown shaped, ditches cut, rock hauled in and graded out.
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We tear down old houses, barns, sheds, mobile homes and concrete slabs with the trackhoe. The dump trucks haul the debris off and the ground gets leveled behind us.
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Two dump trucks move material by the load across North Alabama. Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, crusher run and chert come in, spoil and debris go out.
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Great service, good communication and good work! All I could ask for. Highly Recommend.
Big John done a great job on my project! Couldn’t ask for a better guy or a better job!
The team at Precision were all very professional and efficient. They were able to deliver the vision we had for our property. There’s no one I would recommend more for any of your land improvements
We are new to the area. We needed an extra parking space installed and some pipes installed along the road. John and his crew did an awesome job. He worked us in between his scheduled work. His work is top notch!! This is a great company to deal with. His prices are very reasonable. We are very satisfied with our choice of contractors.
Could not ask for better service the project that was done for us was professional and completed very quickly. This was just the start of a bigger project that Precision Excavation old will be doing for us. This is the only company I trust to do quality work.
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