Driveway grading, drainage, brush clearing and small digs around Canaan and the surrounding towns.
Plenty of property work sits in an awkward gap: too much for a shovel and a wheelbarrow, not enough to interest an excavation contractor with a lowbed and a crew. A washed-out driveway, a wet corner of the yard, a line of brush taking back the field edge, a dozen post holes.
That gap is what the tractor and the excavator are for. Machines small enough to get through a gate and work near a house without tearing up everything around them, big enough to move real material.
Timing matters more here than in most places. Frost is in the ground into April in an average year, and working saturated ground during mud season creates ruts and compaction that take a full season to recover from. Some jobs genuinely want to wait a few weeks, and I will say so instead of taking the deposit and making a mess.
Driveway work generally goes best once things dry out in late spring, and again in early fall before freeze-up. Drainage problems are the exception — the right time to look at those is while it is raining and you can actually see where the water goes.
Any dig gets Dig Safe called first — it is free, it is the law in New Hampshire, and the underground utilities on a rural property are almost never exactly where people remember them being. Septic tanks, leach fields, well lines and old buried oil lines get located before the bucket goes in the ground, not after.
This is light earthwork, and being straight about the ceiling matters more than winning the job. Septic system installation, foundation excavation, road building, blasting and large-scale site work belong to a full excavation contractor with the equipment and the permits for it. If your project is over the line, I will tell you and point you toward someone who does that work.
The Work
Clearing a wooded lot: trees down, logs stacked, ground ready for what comes next. Tap any photo to see it full size.
Questions
It is sized for residential property — it fits through a normal gate and works close to a house. Some marking in soft ground is unavoidable, but the machine is small enough that it is a lawn repair, not a reconstruction.
In most cases, yes. Regrading and reworking existing material, with fresh gravel where it is thin, solves a lot of driveways that people assume need to be rebuilt.
Either way works. Material can be delivered to the site by the pit and I place it, or for smaller quantities I can bring it. Say which you prefer when you call.
Where
Based in Canaan and working roughly a 30-mile radius through Grafton County and into the surrounding towns. Pick your town for local detail, or see the full service area.
Free Estimates
Tell me who you are and what you need done. I will get back to you to talk it through.
Rather talk now? Call 603-387-6072.
Free Estimates
A loose doorknob or a full remodel, a mower that will not start or a driveway that needs grading — call or text and describe the job.
