Sub-compact equipment services for residential, light commercial and municipal projects.
San Juan Dirtworks is fully insured and offers excavation, landshaping and grading, drainage solutions, trail construction and maintenance, vegetation removal, snow removal, and metal detection service.
Offered Services
We love digging in the dirt!
Excavation
Small scale excavation projects such as utility trenching, French drains, landscape clean-up and pad leveling.
Landshaping and Grading
Regrading around foundations, modifying slopes in yards and leveling areas for outdoor seating areas, fire pits and utility sheds.
Drainage Solutions
French drains, underground downspout drains, dry wells and swales.
Vegetation Removal
Removal of shrubs and small trees, like Juniper and Oak that are receptive to fire brands and are fire hazards that threaten your home and property when a wildfire happens.
Trail Construction and Maintenance
Trail layout, construction and maintenance. Tread repair, realignment and rehabilitation. Water management, signage and restriction devices.
Snow Removal
Call-When-Needed snow removal with tractor based plowing and snowblowing for berm removal and challenging driveways where trucks get stuck.
About Us
San Juan Dirtworks is a fully insured and owner-operated small business based in the heart of the San Juan Mountains, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. From trail construction and maintenance to residential drainage systems and vegetation removal, we take pride in doing difficult jobs correctly for reasonable rates.
Sub-compact Equipment
Our primary machine is the highly versatile Kubota BX23S, a purpose-built “all-in-one” sub-compact tractor-loader-backhoe designed for property maintenance and working in confined spaces that larger machines either cannot operate in or create significant impact. At 2800 lbs, this machine exerts very little ground pressure and yet is a powerful and capable digger with a max digging depth of 6′ 1″.
For projects that require the specific capabilities of a mini-excavator, we operate the Kubota U-17, a 3700 lbs and 3.8 psi zero tail swing machine with variable track width from 39″ to 51″ and a max digging depth of 7′ 7″.
Casey Bristow
Casey has over twenty-five years of experience in land management and has been operating equipment in a wide range of environments for over forty years. He worked for the San Juan National Forest as a wildland firefighter, trail builder, and equipment operator for seventeen years and has operated alpine and nordic snowcats in northern Colorado, heavy dirtwork equipment in the Sierra, tractors, and other farm equipment along the west slope of the Appalachians, and has hundreds of hours with backhoes and mini-excavators here at home in the San Juans.
Casey, his wife, and son live downtown Pagosa Springs and enjoy all that the amazing San Juan Mountains offer. When not digging in the dirt, Casey and his family are usually fishing, hiking, biking, traveling, or working on their town ranch. During the winter months, he can usually be found on the snow on Wolf Creek Pass skiing with his son at the ski area, or working in the backcountry with Wolf Creek Backcountry’s Pass Creek Yurt and the Wolf Creek Avalanche School.
Contact Us
I am available by email, text message, and by phone.. in that order of preference. The below form sends an email and I will get back to you as soon as I get out of the machine. If you need a quicker response you can send a detailed text message to the number shown above.