Straightline Grading & Excavation · Verity, Copperline County · Est. 1994
Figures first. Machines second. Excuses never.
Straightline grades subdivisions, building pads and pond basins on GPS machine control, tests its own compaction, and prints the tolerance on the handover sheet. Every figure on this page came off a finished job with an inspector signature on it.
Why the ledger
A grade sheet with every handover
An earthwork quote moves for one reason: the contractor priced the dirt instead of reading it. We walk the parcel, pull the plan quantities, and check the soils against what the county says is under it. Then the number sits still — through 412,000 yards of it sitting still, customers stopped asking whether it would.
The tolerance is the contract
Plus or minus 0.04 ft on finish grade, 95% standard Proctor on structural fill, both tested and both printed on the sheet you keep. If a lift fails density, it is re-compacted on our hours, not your budget.
Services
What the ledger covers
01
Land clearing & grubbing
Brush, stumps and root mat off, topsoil stripped and stockpiled on site, spoils trucked or windrowed to your spec. Whole parcels or house footprints — the rate is the same per acre either way.
02
Basements & foundation digs
Nine to twelve feet, benched and sloped to OSHA tables, over-excavation quoted before the bucket finds bad soil. Digs finish within 0.5 in of stake line so your formwork crew never shims.
03
Fine grading, GPS controlled
Dozer and skid steer on machine control, cutting to the model at ±0.04 ft. Pads, building floors, road subgrade — shot in, cut in, verified with the rover before we call it done.
04
Ponds, swales & drainage
Pond basins with clay cores packed in 6-in lifts, swales cut to a 1.5% minimum fall, riprap set at inlets. Water goes where the plan says, and stays where we put it.
05
Septic & utility trenches
Perc-tested fields, aggregate-bedded pipe, backfill compacted in lifts under the drive it crosses. Trench benches, bedding depth and inspection sign-offs handled end to end.
How it goes
From site walk to compaction report
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 0
The site walk
We walk the parcel with your plans, read the slope, the soil and the access, and flag anything the drawings do not say — septic fields, drainage easements, the neighbour whose fence the trucks pass. The quote is written before we leave the gate.
Day 1
Stake & survey
The rover goes in, benchmarks are set, and cut-and-fill is staked to the model. Every machine that follows cuts to those hubs — no eyeball grading on a Straightline job, ever.
Days 2–3
Strip & stockpile
Six to eight inches of topsoil stripped and stockpiled on site for your finish landscaping, brush and root mat grubbed and hauled. What is worth keeping never leaves in a dump bed.
Days 4–8
Cut, fill & grade
Earth moves in balance where the site allows — cut here, fill there, each structural lift placed at eight inches and graded before the next. Fine grade runs on GPS control to the tolerance printed in the contract.
Final
Compact & certify
Every structural lift tested to 95% standard Proctor, finish grade verified at ±0.04 ft, and the whole record — lifts, tests, tolerance checks — printed on the grade sheet you keep with the invoice.
Our Forty-acre subdivision needed 61,000 yards moved, a pond that the county would accept on the first review, and finish grades tight enough that no foundation crew could complain. Straightline hit the model, handed over a grade sheet with every lift tested, and passed both county inspections without a single correction. I have used them on four developments since.
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Put your project in the ledger
Parcel size, the plan you hold, and the date the ground has to be ready. We walk the site, price the earthwork against the model, and the tolerance goes on the contract before a machine moves. grade@straightlinegrading.example