No Job Too Big or Small
Site prep, basements, driveways, land clearing, septic systems, and hauling. Family owned in Superior, running our own iron on jobs across the South Shore.
Real jobs. Our photos. No stock.
When you call Joe Kimmes Construction, you talk to the person who will be sitting in the excavator. No sales rep, no subcontractor roulette, no waiting on rented equipment.
Tell us what needs moving. We will call you back with straight answers, usually the same day.
Prefer to talk? Call 218-348-4829
From the first tree dropped to the last pass of the grader, one crew handles it. Every photo below is from our own jobs.
Building pads, garage preps, grading, and drainage. We leave a site the concrete crew can pour on.
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Full basement digs, footings, backfill, and rough grade. Dug to spec and ready for forms.
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New driveways, regrades, and gravel top-ups with a proper base that survives the spring thaw.
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Lot clearing, stumping, and brush mowing. We clear it, pile it, and leave workable ground.
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Conventional and mound system installs, tank sets, and repairs, dug and graded right.
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Rock placement for banks, culverts, and shorelines that need to stay where you put them.
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Screened black dirt for lawns and gardens, plus sand and gravel for bases, drives, and backfill. Picked up or delivered.
Aggregate delivery, spoil haul-off, and equipment moves. Licensed interstate carrier: USDOT 2303173, MC 788943.
No waiting on rentals or subs. The machines live in our yard in Superior and go where the work is.
The yard, one evening this springFrom tight-access digs to the Komatsu 400 for the big stuff.
Pads, driveways, and finish grading that holds water where it should go.
Backfill, cleanup, and heavy brush mowing on tracks.
Quad-axle trucks with our name on the door, hauling every day.
The operator you meet at the estimate is the operator on your job.
From landmark commercial sites to a driveway outside town. Same iron, same standard.
Ongoing heavy dirt work with excavator and dozer.
Full site prep, clearing to finish grade.
Water line install and site expansion work.
Dozens done across Douglas County, town roads to cabin drives.
Tell us what you are planning. You talk to the owner, not a call center.
We look at access, soil, and drainage before we quote anything.
A clear price for the work described. No padding, no surprise extras.
Our crew, our machines, done when we said it would be.
We live here, hire here, and haul here. When the community needs a hand, the same quad-axle that hauls your gravel shows up full of donations.
That is what family owned actually means: you will see us at the hardware store, the hockey rink, and the job site down your road.
Every site is different, so we quote after a site walk instead of guessing over the phone. The estimate is free, and the price we give is the price we work to. Call 218-348-4829 and we will set up a time.
Spring fills up fast once the frost is out, so call before the season if you can. That said, we work year round: winter is actually a good window for land clearing and some hauling, since frozen ground protects your property.
We take it from staking to rough grade: the dig, footing prep, backfill after the walls are up, and final grading. Your builder pours; we handle everything the dirt touches.
The base. Red clay around Superior holds water, so a driveway needs proper excavation, fabric where it counts, and the right depth of base rock before the top gravel goes down. That is why ours do not turn to soup in April.
Yes. We screen our own black dirt and sell sand and gravel by the load, delivered or picked up. Call for current prices and delivery to your area.
We are based in Superior and work across Douglas County and the Twin Ports: Duluth, South Range, Poplar, Maple, Lake Nebagamon, Solon Springs, Iron River, Brule, and the surrounding townships. Not sure if you are in range? Just call.
Based in Superior, WI. If your dirt is within an hour of the yard, we probably already have a machine near it.
Call Joe, walk the site, get a straight price. That is the whole process.
That photo? A land-clearing burn on one of our jobs. Real work, real late.