Holmes Excavating, Inc.

02/16/2026

06/06/2025

🔨 Precision in Progress 🔥
Check out this awesome transformation in the works! 👀 We’ve been hard at it bringing this blasted stone staircase 🪨➡️ and solid retaining wall 🧱 to life — carefully crafted step by step 👣 to blend right into the landscape 🌿🌲.

Big shoutout 🙌 to the crew for their hard work 💪 and serious attention to detail 🎯. We’re going to be putting the finishing touches on this one today — and it’s looking 🔥🔥.

Stay tuned for the final reveal! 👏

📍 Proudly serving Lake Vermilion, Tower, Cook, and Embarrass, MN with quality excavation and hardscaping solutions.

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05/30/2025

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05/22/2025

We made some good progress in the first six days of road bans being lifted. Demoed the old cabin and extra bunk house. Removed the out house and a good amount of trees. Had FLIP’s Controlled Blasting come in, drill a ton of holes, and pour in the magic stuff to help bust up this massive rock so we could start digging for the new foundation since we couldn’t blast.

We made a rock retaining wall with some boulders that our machine did not want to move what so ever, but we got it done and placed them best we could given the circumstances.

Quickly got the crawl space dug out and brought in one foot of crushed rock to get to grade and that’s it. Todd with Wassa Homes had their guys come in and got the foundation installed in less than 4 hours!

We’re happy to be back in the action💪🏼

08/07/2024

Little barge action yesterday morning.

04/26/2023

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218-343-0646

01/01/2021

Happy New Year!