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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A lot in Madison can dig two different ways. Out on the flat farm ground toward the Limestone County line, the red clay runs deep and the machines move. Up on the rises near Rainbow Mountain, rock shows up a couple of feet down. That is the ground your house pad, driveway or pond has to sit on.
Precision Excavation is based in Trinity, just west of Decatur, and we travel the 20 miles over to Madison. We dig, grade and move dirt with trackhoes, a dozer and our own dump trucks. That covers clearing an overgrown lot, cutting pads, building driveways, ponds, rock and small demolition. Call or text (256) 303-7210 and we will come look at the ground for free.
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Madison sits mostly in Madison County, and the west end of the city crosses into Limestone County. The town uses three ZIP codes: 35756, 35757 and 35758. Which side of that line your land falls on changes who you call about a permit or a setback. Check with the city or the county before you settle on a building spot.
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System calls this belt the Limestone Valleys. It is the same red clay country as Decatur and Huntsville. Extension says the best of that soil runs more than 20 feet down to the limestone parent rock. On the hillsides and rises, that same limestone sits close to the surface.
Cedar trees grow thick on those shallow, alkaline spots, so a stand of cedars often means rock is near. We plan the job around what the ground actually holds. Trackhoes with rippers pull the rock out for a pad or a drive, and the dump trucks carry it off. Pulling rock out of the way is regular work for us in this part of the valley.
Madison counted about 56,900 people at the 2020 census. The 2025 estimate puts the city near 68,000. Limestone County next door grew close to 19 percent over those same five years. Most of that new room comes out of old cotton and pasture ground on the west and south sides.
You can see it at Clift Farm, built on a century old family farm. Town Madison went up by Toyota Field. Past those, people are setting single houses, shops and barns on five and ten acre pieces. The Mazda Toyota plant went up on a 2,400 acre site on the Limestone County side, with about 4,000 workers.
That rural building is our work out there. We cut the footprint, then start building the pad up in compacted lifts so water sheds away from it. After the pad, we shape the drive, crown it and haul in gravel or crusher run. Your builder and the plan set the pad elevation, and we cut to it.
Water runs through a lot of Madison dirt work. Indian Creek, Bradford Creek and Mill Creek all cross the city, and the greenways follow them. The Bradford Creek trail passes hardwood banks and wetland pockets. On the southwest edge, County Line Road drops toward Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and the Beaverdam Swamp boardwalk.
Land near those bottoms holds water through a wet winter. North Alabama winters and springs stay soft, and heavy machines can make a mess of soggy ground. When a low spot stays wet, the answer is usually reshaping the ground so water leaves. A dozer moving dirt beats fighting the same puddle every March.
The same clay that holds water in a field is what makes a pond hold. Digging and shaping a farm pond on acreage outside town is steady work here. Old ponds silt in and get cleaned out, with the spoil spread or hauled off. Anything close to a creek or wet area is worth a call to the county first.
Plenty of Madison land sat idle while the town grew around it. Ten years without a bush hog leaves privet, honeysuckle and briars you cannot walk through. Cedars come up fast on the shallow limestone rises. Sweetgum and hardwood volunteers fill in along the creek edges.
What we run depends on what you want left standing. A full clear with the dozer and trackhoe takes the trees, stumps and roots out. The dump trucks haul the debris off and the ground gets rough graded. That is the choice when a pad, a drive or a pasture is going in.
If you want the big trees kept and just the floor opened, mulching the brush in place does it. The skid steer grinds the saplings and briars, and the chips stay on the ground as cover. Spring storms drop limbs and whole trees around Madison, and that cleanup goes out with the trucks too.
Communities and areas we serve around Madison: Downtown Madison, Town Madison, Clift Farm, Rainbow Mountain, Millstone, Creekwood, County Line Road, Wall Triana Highway, Balch Road, Browns Ferry Road, Old Madison Pike, Triana.
Madison ZIP codes served: 35756, 35757, 35758.
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(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 and stumps come out, the debris gets hauled off, and the ground is left 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 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 dump trucks haul it 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.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Madison. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us what you need done and where the property is. Call or text (256) 303-7210, or send the form and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.