Barn Pad capped with Road Base in Elizabeth, CO

Before a new barn needs to be built anywhere in or near Elizabeth, Colorado – your would be a wise to contact (and hire) Dirt Dogs is your “Go-To” for your barn pad. Because under your barn – when we do the barn pad work – is a perfectly level surface that will bring cheers of joy to the folks who pour your concrete on top.

Laser Leveling
Did we mention that we laser level our barn pads…so they are perfectly smooth? We do!

This project took about 4 days of work. It was about 40′ x 50′ and if you notice the photo above – we graded around to create a flow-line that moves water away from the barn. We brought in 3 trucks and  laid down a 6″ surface of road base at the engineer’s request.

Bottom line..
If you’re building a barn in Elizabeth, CO (or anyplace in the Colorado Front Range )and want the barn pad for your building to be done by the best around – give Dirt Dogs Excavating, Grading and Earth Moving a call today!

Laser Leveling an Existing Horse Arena in Castle Pines

Dirt Dogs Excavating recently laser leveled an existing horse arena for a great client and property owner in Castle Pines, Colorado. As most equestrian riders know, when you use your tractor to flatten out your area – after a which those “turn-around” areas get nasty with deeper tire tracks and craters that just get worse over time. But that’s where we can come to the rescue. For this horse arena we brought in our laser and our small but mighty skid steer and in about an hour we got the job done. The riding surface was a perfectly level, soft and sandy – a perfect surface for the owner-rider and horse lover which was our wonderful client.

Another horse arena job done right! Of course if you are  a local Colorado horse owner and equestrian rider and need some help with your barn or horse arena we invite you to contact  Dirt Dogs Excavating . Whether its a brand new horse arena, barn, driveway or landscaping project – tell us what you need or get our advice and we will move the earth for you!

Laser Leveled Horse Arena Footing

To be honest, Dirt Dogs Excavation is your horse area expert up and down the front range of Colorado. One thing we specialize in is repairing existing horse arenas by coming in and laser leveling the footing so the arena is just like new. Did we say … laser leveling? Yep! Sounds high-tech…and it is! Thanks to our smart tech we can perfectly smooth off the footing to your horse arena. It will be so nice that your horse will want to kiss you on the mouth. (Really! But don’t do that…really.) As you can see in this photo we did wonderful work on this  large horse arena in Colorado Springs.  The owner was so excited that right after we finished the job she  thanks us and hopped in her tractor (with a big smile on her face) and started scarifying the surface while her horses watched eagerly.

Of course, if you want a new horse arena or need to repair and/or upgrade your existing arena – give us a call and we’ll take care of you!

RV Storage Facility

Dirt Dogs just finished up working on an RV Storage facility in Elizabeth, CO. Earlier in the year we took a raw piece of land and moved approximately 125,000 cubic yards of dirt to create the building page an initial drainage. It took us about 8 weeks of excavation work to get that ready to build on. The owner then built a 32 unit RV storage facility.

Once they were done buildng the building we came back for “round 2.” We brought in 140 semi loads of asphalt to cover the road in…the area around the building and a parking lot.

BELOW you can see the “BEFORE” photo!

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Clay base for Horse Arenas

Installing clay base for horse arenas is one of our specialties here at Dirt Dogs Excavation.  This is a 4 inch hard clay base which has been laser leveled and rolled for compaction. This creates a hard surface but still has enough ” bite” to keep the surface from being slick. It keeps the dirt sub-base permanently separated from the sand which  is now ready for the sand footing to be installed.  When you want the best surface for your horses to train and prance around on – you can’t get much better than this. Of course we would invite your calls if you’re in need of excavating or sprucing up your Colorado horse arena!

Horse Arena Laser Leveling

The best horse arenas need level ground which can also handle the rain and water runoff properly. This picture was taken down the center of the arena. If you look closely,  you can see the ever so slight slope from the center out. Dirt Dogs Excavation created this very gentle slope with our laser system to help with drainage and eliminate ponding. In fact the slope is almost impossible to notice with the naked eye. That’s because we do really great work when it comes to making horse arenas. For the record….
this is a 150′ x 200′ horse arena built with a 6″ crusher fine drainage system  underneath it. This arena sits in the Franktown area of Douglas County, Colorado. If you want something this pretty for your horses to play around on … give Dirt Dogs Excavation a call and we’ll help you out!