About JH Excavation

JH Excavation Inc. is a Powell, Wyoming excavating contractor doing the dirt work the Big Horn Basin is built on , driveways, waterlines, septic systems, foundations, grading, demolition and land clearing.

We're a lean, locally owned, owner-operated outfit, and we like it that way. There's no layer of salespeople between you and the work, no dispatcher reading a script, no crew you've never met showing up to a job the boss never saw. When you call JH Excavation, you talk to the person who will actually run the machine on your project , and that changes everything about how the work gets done.

It means the quote is honest, because the person giving it knows exactly what the job takes. It means the work is careful, because our name is on it and we live in the same community you do. And it means accountability is real , in a market this size, reputation travels fast, and ours has been earned one job at a time.

Built On A Reputation

Ask around and the same words come up: fast, quality work at fair prices. That's not a slogan we made up , it's the kind of thing our customers actually say, and it's reflected in a perfect 5.0-star rating across 32 Google reviews. In a business where plenty of outfits are happy to dump gravel on dirt and move on, we've built something different by doing the unglamorous parts right: the compaction, the drainage, the grade, the clean-up.

Excavation is a trade where the most important work is the work nobody sees. Once the driveway is graveled, the slab is poured or the sod is laid, the layer underneath is invisible , but it's the layer that decides whether all of it lasts. We take that layer seriously, because we know what cutting corners costs the customer down the road, and we'd rather not be the reason someone's driveway washboards or their foundation settles.

We Know This Ground

Building in the Big Horn Basin means building on specific, demanding ground, and experience here is worth a great deal. The valley's alkaline clay-loam soils, gravel benches and mixed alluvial deposits each behave differently under a machine and under a load. Winters drive the frost line deep, dictating how every waterline and septic system has to be set. And in a dry climate, drainage is a quiet make-or-break , snowmelt and the occasional hard rain find every low spot and lazy grade.

We build for all of it: reading the soils before we dig, burying utilities deep enough to beat the frost, compacting fill so it holds, and shaping positive drainage into everything we touch. It's the kind of judgment you only get from working this ground, and it's what our customers are really hiring when they call us.

What We Do

JH Excavation is a full-service excavating contractor. Our core work covers driveways and roads, waterlines and septic systems, foundation excavation and building pads, grading and site prep, demolition and land clearing, sprinkler and irrigation trenching, landscape preparation, and concrete breaking, debris removal and hauling.

Because we handle all of it in-house, we can take a project from raw ground to finished grade without you having to coordinate three separate crews. Clearing, digging, utilities, grading and clean-up , one plan, one schedule, one standard.

Where We Work

We're based in Powell and serve the greater Big Horn Basin , Powell, Cody, Ralston and Garland, Lovell and Big Horn County, and the rural communities across the Basin. Being local keeps us responsive and keeps your quote free of long-haul mobilization costs.

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