Our Process
Machines Move Only After You Know the Math
Five steps, in order, on every job. This page is the whole promise — read it, then hold me to it.
The Walk
Everything starts with me standing on your property with you — usually an evening or a weekend, so you don't burn a vacation day. You show me what you want done. I look at what the ground will let happen: access, slope, rock showing at the surface, where water goes, where debris can go. If part of what you want isn't worth doing, I'll say so right there.
The Itemized Written Proposal
Within a few days you get a written proposal where every piece of the job is its own line with its own price — clearing, stumps, rock by the ton, culverts by the pipe, grading by the area. Then I walk you through it, out loud, line by line, and tell you why each thing costs what it costs. If you want to cut a line or phase the job, you can see exactly what that changes.
The Locked Price
When you approve the proposal, that number locks. It doesn't creep, it doesn't get 'adjusted,' and nothing gets quietly added. The only mechanism that can ever change it is a written change order — and that requires your signature, not my say-so.
The Written Change Order
Dirt keeps secrets. If the digging turns up something the walk-through couldn't show — rock where the probe said clay, live terrace tile, buried debris — the machine stops. I show you exactly what's there, what the options are, and what each one costs. Work continues only after you approve a written change order. Nothing hits your bill without your written sign-off.
Same Owner, Start to Finish
The person who walked your property, wrote your proposal, and explained your price is the person on the machine. There's no salesman-then-a-sub handoff, no crew you've never met, no 'let me check with the office.' If you have a question mid-job, you ask the owner — because he's the one standing there.
If Something Turns Up Underground
The machines stop. Mason shows you exactly what he found — rock, old field tile, buried debris — and what the options cost. Work doesn't continue until you approve a written change order. Nothing gets added to your bill without your written sign-off. That's the standing rule on every job.
Why I Work This Way
Because the alternative is the story everybody around here already knows: a vague number, machines that start before the details are settled, and a final bill nobody agreed to. By then the trees are down and the homeowner has no leverage.
Paperwork fixes that. Not fancy paperwork — just an itemized proposal you can read, a price that locks when you approve it, and a written gate on anything that would change it. It's slower for me. It's safer for you. That's the trade, and I made it on purpose.
Start With the Walk-Through
It's free, it happens on your schedule — evenings and weekends — and you'll know the math before anything moves.