Demolition
Commercial and residential teardowns in steel, wood and concrete, with liquid oxygen cutting when a structure needs it. A home typically comes down in one or two days.
Demolition, down to a clean site
Serving All of Northern Michigan
Ponds, roads, septic and demolition.
Tom Oesch's crews, machines and quarry stone, out of Atlanta, Michigan.
Six companies. Only one called back.
5.0 on Google from 29 reviews. Tom was on Laurie Marr's property within 4 hours, working on a quote.
After calling 6 companies( none of them would call us back) we found oesch excavating. Tom was on our property within 4 hours working on a quote. Driveway was put in extremely fast and exceeded our expectations. Great quality.
“Schedule and pricing always reasonable. One of the most trustworthy and dedicated professionals in the area I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Always returns phone calls. Always on time.”
Scott Clark, Google review “I had them clear about 3/4 of an acre for camping and a nice road around my 12 acres. The property was logged in 2018 and had stumps everywhere. They removed the stumps and filled in the holes for me.”
Jamie Cutler, Google review “He dug me a beautiful pond in a spot that was flooding out our roads, he even put in a silt pond with culverts and built up the road around it. It is a great design and we now have it stocked with trout and my kids swim in it all summer!”
Seth Tuuri, Google review
Our own iron, our own trucks.
We supply the materials, machines, and knowledge to ensure your satisfaction. The excavators, the dozer, the trucks and the screened stone are all ours, run by our own crews.
Hitachi excavator, toothed bucketDigs the ponds, septic beds, basement backfill and trench. 
Bucket and hydraulic thumbLifting a fieldstone boulder clear of the dig. 
CAT dozer, blade raisedGrades the drives, roads and cleared pads. 
Tri-axle dump truckHauls our own sand, stone and topsoil in, and the debris out. 
Tri-axle dump trailerTipping a load of fill where the next lift goes. 
Topsoil screening plantTurns raw soil into screened topsoil. We're hiring an operator for it. 
Laser level and grade rodRead from the cab, so trench depth is checked as the bucket cuts.
What can an excavating contractor do for you?
One company from the first tree down to the last load of topsoil. We take care of the entire project in-house, with our own machines, trucks and quarry.
Land clearing and site prep
Lots cleared, trees and rubbish hauled off, ground readied for foundations, roads and geothermal. Laser trenching and wet land trenching too.
Land clearing and site prepTree services
Trimming and removal for homes and businesses, stumps and roots pulled out, and all material removed, clean and mess-free.
Tree trimming, removal and stumpsLakes and ponds
New ponds and lakes, shoreline restoration, and dike and dam repair, with a low ground-pressure bulldozer for soft terrain.
Lake and pond buildingRoad building
Gravel or hard-surface roads and driveways: residential drives, property access roads, housing developments, quarry and trucking roads.
Roads and drivewaysSeptic systems
A laser-measured layout, the permit paperwork filed, materials from our own quarry, the whole system installed and the old one hauled away.
Septic system installsSolar
Residential solar with bifacial panels and net metering, plus geothermal, solar hot water and charging an EV from the sun.
Solar and geothermal installsMaterials and supplies
Sand, stone, screened topsoil, fill, clay and ballfield mix by the load, plus storm drain, water, irrigation and culvert pipe.
Materials and supplies
Sand, stone and topsoil from our own quarry.
Order it by the load for a beach, a septic bed, a ball diamond or a drive, and it comes on our own trucks. The full list lives on materials and supplies, by the load.
Load ticket
Oesch Excavating LLC
18821 Carter Rd, Atlanta, MI 49709
- Sand
- Beach sand · Mason sand · Screened sand
- Stone
- Limestone · Decorative stone · Boulders · Natural stone · Lava stone · Pea stone · Drain stone
- Soil and fill
- Screened topsoil · Fill dirt · Berm dirt · Clay · Mulch
- Ballfields
- Baseball clay · Baseball infield mix
- Pipe, to order
- Storm drain pipe · Water pipe · Irrigation pipe · Municipal water pipe · Culvert pipe (steel and plastic)
Source: our own quarry and screening plantHauled by: our own trucks
A septic bed, read in place.
Every system starts with a laser measuring system on the planned spot and ends with the old system hauled away. Hover or tap a pin to see each part of the bed.
“He dug me a beautiful pond in a spot that was flooding out our roads”
Seth Tuuri, Google review
A flooded camp road, turned into a trout pond.
A silt pond with culverts went in beside it and the road was built back up. Soft ground is what the low ground-pressure bulldozer is for: lake and pond building on wet ground.
Atlanta, Hillman, Gaylord, Alpena
Tell Tom what the ground needs.
Efficient Excavating. Get Your Project Done Correctly. Free estimates for any and all services, and a call back within the next business day.