Rochester Dirt Work does excavation and dirt work in Pine Island, 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.
Pine Island, up in Goodhue County, is where the Rochester suburbs give way to real acreage — bigger lots, longer lanes, and owners who use their ground: ponds, barn pads, and cut-and-fill work that reshapes a whole lot at once.
On most lots the sequence doesn't change: the digging comes first, grading shapes the ground so water behaves, and the surface goes on last — driveway, pad, or finished yard. Our own machines and one crew run the whole order.
The Zumbro River runs through Pine Island country, and lots near the low ground need their drainage planned, not guessed. We walk the water before we price the dirt.
Below is the full menu as it runs in Pine Island, 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 Pine Island 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 Pine Island 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 Pine Island — 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 Pine Island — see excavation in Zumbrota and excavation in Rochester.
Cut and filled a sloping acreage lot near Pine Island for a pole barn — about 85 cu yd moved on site, the pad area leveled, and the extra dirt used to build up the low end instead of hauling it off.
"Another outfit quoted me hauling half the hill away. These folks showed me how to use the dirt right on my own lot and save the trucking. The lot's level, the barn crew is happy, and I kept the money." — Adam, Pine Island
In Pine Island and ready to move some dirt? Call (612) 260-8779 — we'll come look and put it in writing.