See the number
before the machine
shows up.
Nobody in this trade prices anything online. The answer is always “we’d have to come look.” Not here. Tell us the job and get a published range for the digging in front of you — right now.
What the estimator prices
Defined site work,
with known access.
Four things drive most of the price: what the job is, roughly how big, how the machine gets in, and what happens to the material. The estimator asks exactly that.
Instant estimate
Price the dig
in about a minute.
Answer four questions and get a real published range for site work — no phone tag, no waiting on a callback. It’s the whole reason this page exists.
What is the job?
The honest part
What’s underground is
the one thing
no tool can see.
The range assumes normal digging. That covers most jobs. But rock, an old buried foundation, a century of fill, a high water table, or an unmarked line will change the number — and there’s no app on earth that can see through your dirt.
- Soil a machine can dig — clay, loam, ordinary fill.
- Access we agreed on, wide enough for the right machine.
- No shallow bedrock and no surprises left in the ground.
Plenty of outfits bury a “rock clause” in the fine print and spring the change order on you later. We’d rather explain it first. If we hit ledge and have to run the hammer, there’s a stated surcharge — you see it before the machine keeps going, not on the final bill. A surprise gets confirmed and priced before we continue. Never after.
Call before you dig — it’s the law
Every job starts with
a locate call.
Pennsylvania law requires calling 811 before any digging. It’s free. The utility locate takes about three business days, and it’s the reason you don’t hit a gas line. We make that call on every single job we run.
Doing your own digging — a fence post, a garden, a mailbox? You have to make the call too. Hitting a buried line is exactly what this law exists to prevent. Two minutes on the phone beats an afternoon with the gas company.
Not priced online — and here’s why
Some jobs need a look, not a form.
The estimator prices defined site work with known access. Some work can’t be quoted honestly from a screen — it needs eyes on the ground, and sometimes an engineer. For any of the below, pick up the phone. There’s no “get a price” button here on purpose.
Mine subsidence
Known or suspected workings under the site. Needs a look, and sometimes an engineer, before anyone digs.
Foundation repair & underpinning
Structural work under an existing building. Not a site-work range — we come look.
Commercial site development
Subdivisions and stormwater systems that need an engineered plan and municipal approval.
Emergency work
A collapsed line, a sinkhole, a washout in a storm. Call — don't wait on a form.
Snow removal & plowing
Commercial lots through the winter. Our off-season line. Set it up by phone.
Blasting & state permits
Anything needing a blast or a permit from a state agency rather than the township.
Got one of these? Talk to the operator, not a form.
(570) 555-0142Why hire us
Twenty-five years,
one valley, our machines.
Owned, not rented.
The online range assumes normal soil and normal access. Rock, an unmarked utility, a high water table, or an old buried foundation changes the number — and that gets confirmed and priced before work continues, never after.
For builders & contractors
Contractor work is welcome. Hitting your schedule is the job.
GCs, pool installers, concrete crews — if you need a sub who shows up the day you booked and doesn’t hold up the trades behind you, that’s us. We know the dig is the thing everyone else is waiting on. We treat it that way.
How it goes
Three steps, no mystery.
Get a range
Run the estimator or call. You get a published low-to-high number for the work in front of you.
We come look
We mark utilities through 811, check access, and read the soil. Anything the range didn’t assume gets flagged and priced now.
Written scope, then dig
You get the work and the price in writing. Only then does the machine move. No verbal surprises, no after-the-fact adds.
Where we work
Lackawanna & Luzerne.
Scranton and the surrounding boroughs, plus the rural townships out past the sewer lines where septic is the whole game.
What people say
Word of mouth, in writing.
“Called about water in the basement every spring. They put in a curtain drain and regraded the back. First dry spring in years. Explained the clay problem so it actually made sense.”
“We had a price before anyone came out, which no one else would do. Hit rock on the trench, they'd already told us that could happen and showed us the number before they kept going. No games.”
“Used them to dig footings for a garage on a referral from our builder. Showed up the day they said, didn't hold up the concrete crew. That's the whole job as far as I'm concerned.”
Request a quote
Tell us what’s
in your yard.
Fastest answer is the estimator or a phone call. Prefer to write it out? Send the details and we’ll come back with a range and next steps.
Call the operator(570) 555-0142
Dig season: April–November, roughly. Frozen ground shuts most work down.
Off-season: plowing, planning, and booking spring jobs.