Rochester Dirt Work does excavation and dirt work in Dodge Center, 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.
Dodge Center is Dodge County farm town through and through — working farms, acreage homes, and in-town lots that still behave like farm lots: long drives, big aprons, and drainage that has to handle field runoff, not just roof water.
Most lots here want the work in the same order — digging first, then grading that gives the water somewhere to go, then the surface: the driveway, the pad, the finished yard. We run that whole order with our own machines and one crew.
Flat country drains slow. Around Dodge Center the grade has to be set deliberate and checked with a laser, because there's no hill to do the work for you.
Below is the full menu as it runs in Dodge Center, 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 Dodge Center 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 Dodge Center 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 Dodge Center — 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 Dodge Center — see excavation in Kasson and excavation in Chatfield.
Rebuilt a rutted 1,200 sq ft farm lane outside Kasson — dug out the soft spots, laid a deep base for frost, crowned it so water sheds to the sides, and finished it in Class 5 gravel.
"Every spring the lane turned to soup and the delivery trucks stopped even trying. They dug out the bad spots instead of just spreading new rock on top, built the base up deep, and crowned it. This spring the water ran off the sides like it's supposed to." — Ruth, Kasson
In Dodge Center and ready to move some dirt? Call (612) 260-8779 — we'll come look and put it in writing.