Rochester Dirt Work does excavation and dirt work in Kasson, 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.
Kasson is Dodge County farm country, and the work matches: long gravel lanes, farmyard aprons, pads for machine sheds, and drainage for yards that sit lower than the fields around them.
Most lots here need the same order of work: dig it first, grade it so the water behaves, then put the surface on — the driveway, the pad, the finished yard. We run the whole order with our own machines and one crew.
Out here the lots are bigger and the drives are longer, so base depth and crown matter even more — a Kasson lane takes farm equipment, not just the family car.
Below is the full menu as it runs in Kasson, 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 Kasson 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 Kasson 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 Kasson — 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 Kasson — see excavation in Dodge Center and excavation in Stewartville.
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 Kasson and ready to move some dirt? Call (612) 260-8779 — we'll come look and put it in writing.