CSLB #726702 · C-61/D-56 · Trenching Only · Since 1996
Trenching is not a sideline It's the license
One man, one mini excavator, thirty years of Sierra foothill rock. Tight access, wooded lots, steep ground. CSLB #726702 — Trenching Only — since 1996.
About
The man on the phone is the man in the seat.
Charlie Hale is a trenching specialist — not a general contractor, not an excavation company. He holds California CSLB License #726702, classified C-61/D-56, Trenching Only. He's been licensed since August 1996. That's thirty years of digging in Sierra foothill ground.
The ground here is the Sierra foothills gold belt: red clay over tilted slate and schist, decomposed granite, and serpentine. In the dominant local soil series — Josephine and Mariposa — bedrock can start 15 to 31 inches down. California has an estimated 47,000 abandoned mines, concentrated in Gold Rush counties like Nevada County. The Empire Mine in Grass Valley alone ran 367 miles of tunnels. Old mine dirt and unknown fill are real things here — knowing what you're digging into matters.
A mini excavator with the right teeth, run by someone who has felt this ground for 30 years, is the difference between a clean trench and a torn-up yard. Charlie is that someone.
Services
Trenching services — all nine of them.
One license, one machine, nine ways to use it. Every service below is trenching — because that's all the license allows. Charlie works with your electrician, plumber, propane company, landscaper, or general contractor. He digs the trench; they install the line.
Trenching
The flagship — the license is the niche. Clean, code-spec trenches for foundations, pipelines and conduit.
Utility Trenching
Water, power, propane and gas lines, communications. The 811 careful-dig story lives here.
Mini Excavator Services
A machine sized to get where the big rigs can't. Narrow gates, between structures, under canopy.
Tight-Access & Small-Space Digging
Narrow gates, between structures, under canopy. Where the big rigs can't go.
Irrigation Trenching
NID/PCWA raw-water country. Drip lines, stock water, mainlines on rural foothill properties
Tree & Plant Hole Digging
Orchards, screening rows, ornamental planting. Augering and bucket work in rocky foothill ground.
Access Paths for Wooded & Hillside Lots
Access cutting with drainage and culvert trenching for fire-safe foothill access.
Residential Trenching
Propane lines, power runs, irrigation, drainage. The most common work Charlie does.
Commercial Trenching
Utility runs, conduit banks, foundation trenches. Code-spec work for commercial sites.
Service Areas
Based in Cedar Park, TX — serving all cities within 50 miles across 13 Central Texas counties.
Grass Valley
Nevada City
Cedar Ridge
Rough and Ready
Penn Valley
Rough and Ready
Alta Sierra
Lake of the Pines
Chicago Park
Auburn
Colfax
Meadow Vista
Goodyears Bar
Downieville
Testmonial
106 Hogan Way, Goodyears Bar, CA 95944
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