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Wilson Land Management LLC
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Serving Smithville, MO and surrounding areas

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In business since 2025

Free estimates

Small jobs welcome

We pride our company on reliability, great communication,\nintegrity, and quality work. We are experts in our trade and will do our best\nto keep you as educated as we can on your particular task or project. We look\nforward to earning your business!

Response time8 hrs
Response rate100%
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True Guard Aquatics, LLC dba True Home Service
2.9(
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Serving Smithville, MO and surrounding areas

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In business since 2012

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At True Guard Aquatics, we pride ourselves on reliability, great communication, integrity and quality work. We foster a stress-free experience. This approach has set us apart from our competition and keep our customers coming back.

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Williams underground & utilities
New to Angi

Serving Smithville, MO and surrounding areas

Approved

Free estimates

Small jobs welcome

Credit card accepted

We are company founded on quality of work and respect. Specializing in all utilities power, water, etc. We do all forms of excavation and grading. We also offer directional drilling and trenching. As the owner I’ve been in the industry for 9 years and I will be hands on in every job that we do making sure it is done right and in a timely manner.

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Excavating questions, answered by experts

Prior to excavation, you should prepare the dig site and call 311 before you sign anything.

To get your site ready for excavation, you should move anything in the area that isn’t affixed to the land. You can save money on the excavation by removing hardscaping, including walkways, decks, concrete patios, and paver patios.

Before you carry out any digging, you should call 311 to confirm that there are no utility lines running through your excavation site. Skipping this step could lead to severe injury and property damage if your excavator hits a water, sewage, or gas line.

Tree experts don’t advise against digging through tree roots, but instead encourage caution and consultation with a local arborist to make sure you don’t damage the tree’s structure or interrupt its water or nutrient intake. An arborist can recommend specific practices when digging and help prune the roots or dig a trench for utilities with a tool that can remove soil without touching the tree’s roots.

A mini excavator can dig between 5 and 11 feet deep, depending on the type and size of the mini excavator. Mini hydraulic excavators are more powerful and can reach deeper into the earth, but electric models have a more limited range. Mini excavators over two tons in size are also more powerful and able to dig as deep as 11 feet.

Excavations take a few days or up to a few weeks. The time it takes to excavate an area depends on the size of the area, the type of soil, the type of excavator, and even the time of year, since winter can make digging up the ground more difficult.

Skunk digging looks like a series of small, cone-shaped holes on a lawn or around the perimeter of a home, porch, deck, or shed. The holes that skunks dig when searching for grubs tend to be no more than four inches in diameter and may be up to four inches deep.

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