Land Clearing and Site Prep
Excavator land clearing for building sites and development parcels, with the stumps and roots pulled out. We strip and stockpile the topsoil, then rough grade the ground for the next stage.
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Commercial site work covers the dirt and underground work under and around a new commercial building. Turner Excavation is an excavation contractor in Dallas, Oregon, and we build the site side of commercial projects. We clear and grade the lot, build the pad, run the utilities and bring the parking lot to base rock. Our paving and concrete subcontractors then place the curbs and the asphalt under our management.
We work for developers and general contractors, and for business owners who build on their own land. Our shop and yard are in Dallas. We take commercial jobs across Polk and Marion Counties and the rest of the Willamette Valley. Our excavators, dozer, water truck and dump trucks do the earthwork, and many of our jobs run for months.
Tell us about the project and where the site is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.
The job opens with clearing and grubbing, after any demolition work on an old building or slab. Trees and roots come out, and we strip and stockpile the topsoil. Mass grading then cuts the high ground and fills the low ground to the civil engineer's plan.
The building pad comes next. We place structural fill in lifts and compact each lift to the engineer's spec. The engineer's testing firm checks the compaction as the pad goes up. The finished pad sits at the grade on the plans, with the ground around it drained.
The utilities go in while the ground is open. Water, sewer and storm lines run to the building, with conduit for power and communications. Like all our underground utility installation work, it starts with a call to Oregon 811 for locates. Connections to a public main go through the city or the utility, and we work with their inspectors.
Catch basins and storm drainage pipe go in before any rock. Then we shape the subgrade to the grades on the plan. Valley silt and clay soils turn soft when they are wet. Soft subgrade shows up later as ruts and cracks in the asphalt.
So the subgrade gets checked before the rock goes on. Soft spots get dug out and replaced, and on wet ground the plan may call for fabric under the rock. The base rock then goes down in lifts, with each lift compacted. A fine grade on top leaves the lot ready for the curbs and the asphalt.
Dallas gets close to 48 inches of rain in an average year. More than 90 percent of it falls from October through May. Wet clay is hard to grade and compact, so mass grading on clay is mostly dry-season work. Oregon's standard construction specs set October 1 to May 31 as the wet season for erosion control.
We plan the schedule around that calendar. Grading and the building pad go first in the dry months when the dates allow. Utility work and rock work can often go on in the wet months, within the limits the geotechnical engineer sets. Tell us your building start date early, and we work back from it.
Before grading starts, the erosion controls on the plan go in, with a rock construction entrance at the street. Our water truck keeps the dust down in the dry months and wets the fill for compaction. Call or text (503) 507-2919 when your plans are ready.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 70 miles around Dallas across the Willamette Valley.
(503) 507-2919From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (503) 507-2919 and tell us about the land and the project. Plans or a site map help if you have them.
We come out to look at the ground and where the water goes. If there are plans, we go through the quantities with you.
The free estimate comes to you in writing, with the scope of work spelled out. Once you say yes, we set the start date together.
We call Oregon 811 for utility locates before any digging. Then the work goes in the order the job needs, from clearing through base rock.
We work with the city or county inspectors as the utilities go in. We leave the site graded and ready for the builders or the next trade.
Common questions about commercial site work around Dallas and the rest of the Willamette Valley. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Excavator land clearing for building sites and development parcels, with the stumps and roots pulled out. We strip and stockpile the topsoil, then rough grade the ground for the next stage.
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Mass grading and cut and fill for subdivisions, commercial sites, farms and nurseries. We move the soil to the grades on the plan and compact the fill in layers.
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Trenching for water lines, power conduit and drain lines across acreage and commercial sites. Every run starts with an Oregon 811 locate request and ends in compacted backfill.
Learn MoreWe put in the water, sewer, storm and dry utilities, then build the street over them. Our paving and concrete subcontractors finish the curbs and asphalt under our management.
Our excavators, dozer, water truck and dump trucks do the heavy work. Our crew and foreman run the site from the first cut to final grade.
We look at the plans and the ground before we price the work. Then the free estimate comes to you in writing, with the scope spelled out.
Our shop and yard are in Dallas, in Polk County. We take on projects about 70 miles out, across the Willamette Valley and over the Coast Range to Newport.
Tell us where the land is and what the project needs, and send the plans if you have them. Call or text (503) 507-2919 or use the form, and we will set a time to look at the job.
Tell us about the project and where the site is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.