About Gardner Excavating

Gardner Excavating is a Crockett, Texas dirt-work company, the Circle G, doing the ponds, pads, land clearing and dirt work East Texas is built on. Family owned, and at it for 35+ years.

We are a family outfit, and we run it the old-fashioned way. There is no salesman between you and the work, no crew you have never met showing up to a job nobody looked at. When you call Gardner Excavating, you talk to the folks who will actually run the iron on your place, and that changes everything about how it gets done.

It means the bid is honest, because the person giving it knows exactly what the job takes. It means the work is careful, because our name, and our family's name, is on it, and we live in the same county you do. And it means we stand behind it, because in a town the size of Crockett, your reputation is the only thing you have got.

Built On 35+ Years

You do not last 35+ years in a small East Texas town by cutting corners. You do it one honest bid and one clean job at a time, and you do it by treating folks right so they call you again and tell their neighbors. That is exactly how Gardner Excavating has grown, and it is reflected in what our customers say: easy to work with, came in under bid, and clean work start to finish.

Over those decades we have dug more ponds, built more pads, cleared more land and cut more roads across Houston County and East Texas than we could count, for ranchers, home builders, farmers and families. Plenty of the ground folks live on around here, we shaped.

What We're Known For

Ponds and lakes that actually hold water. House and shop pads built with the right fill and compacted to hold, from a small pad to an 18,000 square foot house pad. And land clearing that turns raw timber into clean, usable ground. Those are the jobs East Texas calls us for most, and the ones we are proudest of.

We Know This Ground

Dirt work in East Texas means knowing specific ground: sand and clay, sometimes on the same lot, thick timber and stumps, and rains that come hard and fast. Experience here is worth a great deal, and it is exactly what folks are hiring when they call us, a crew that has read this dirt and beaten this weather for 35+ years.

What We Do

Our work covers land clearing, house and building pads, ponds and lakes, roads and driveways, culverts and drainage, foundation and site prep, demolition and dirt work, and heavy equipment hauling. Because we do it all, we take a project from raw ground to finished with one family crew.

Where We Work

Based in Crockett, we serve Crockett, Grapeland and Lovelady, Palestine and Anderson County, Lufkin and Angelina County, Trinity and Huntsville, and all of East Texas.

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