Rochester Dirt Work does excavation and dirt work in Byron, MN — digging, grading, gravel driveways, and site prep for acreage lots, farm places, and in-town yards, with a free written estimate on every job.
Byron is the closest farm town to Rochester, and its acreage lots are building fast — new homes, new shops, and plenty of raw lots turning into homesteads. That makes Byron site-prep country: pads, driveways, and drainage, usually on the same lot in the same season.
The order of work is the same on most lots here: dig it first, grade it so the water behaves, then put the surface on — the driveway, the pad, the finished yard. One crew with our own machines runs the whole order.
Byron lots tend to be open and workable, which keeps prices honest — the yards and the access are right there in your written estimate.
Below is the full menu as it runs in Byron, how a job goes from the first call to the final walk-through, and a recent job nearby. When you're ready, call (612) 260-8779 — the look and the written estimate are free.
Foundations, basements, ponds, and trenches in Byron price by the cubic yard — $50–$150 a yard, $1,500 floor — with the spoil spread on your lot or hauled off at $300–$600 a load. Footings get dug below frost depth, and the yardage math goes in your written estimate.
Finish grading at $0.50–$1.25 per sq ft leaves a Byron yard lawn-ready; rough grading at $1.00–$2.25 per sq ft reshapes slope and drainage. Swales and driveway culverts move the water off once the grade sends it there.
New gravel driveways run $1.75–$4.50 per sq ft on a deep frost-ready base; top-up refreshes run $0.75–$1.50. Building pads price by size — $1,500–$3,500 for a garage or shed pad, $2,500–$5,600 for a house pad — cut, filled, and compacted in lifts.
You call (612) 260-8779 or send the form and tell us about the lot in Byron — what you're building, fixing, or draining, and any date you're working against.
We come out and walk the lot in person. Dirt work can't be priced honest off a photo — soil, access, and where the water sits decide the job.
You get the scope and the price in writing, with the unit math shown. The price we write is the price you pay unless the scope changes — and if it does, we talk first.
Machines show up on the day we set. We dig, grade, and haul in the order we talked through, and keep the site passable while we work.
When the last pass is done, we walk the lot with you and check the grades together before we call it finished.
We also serve the towns around Byron — see excavation in Rochester and excavation in Kasson.
Prepped an acreage lot outside Byron for a new shop — stripped the topsoil, built the pad up with fill, compacted it in lifts, and rough-graded the driveway line in.
"We've owned this ground a long time and finally decided to build the shop. They came out, walked it with us, and put the whole thing in writing. The pad was cut, filled, and packed tight, and our builder started on flat ground right on schedule. No surprises." — Walter, Byron
In Byron and ready to move some dirt? Call (612) 260-8779 — we'll come look and put it in writing.