J.A. Smith Excavating LLC

08/18/2026

When you left the job with no rain in the forecast…1.6” later!!!

The good news I get to see how well the finished ones drain.

08/01/2026

I believe that’s going to be a wrap for the week!!

The week started Monday morning with over .75” rain but we dodged the rain the rest of the week and had great weather. Scrape the tops soil off and off to hogging dirt.

Here is a few pics of some of the 400-600’ long terraces we are building.

The Challenger has been pulling her weight!! I’m sure glad we have tracks especially in the beginning of the week when it was pretty wet.

07/02/2026

It’s not always sunshine and rainbows out here.

06/30/2026

Carter and I went on a road trip yesterday to bring home a new addition. There has never been a challenger tractor in my shed but here it goes!!!

06/12/2026

Fortunate for good weather, good help and great customers!!

04/08/2026

Check out some of the latest! Normally don’t like to do much water way work in the spring time because they wash out but hoping with some erosion straw and good seeding we can hold it fingers crossed 🤞since the weather patterns this spring have been favorable.

Unfortunately had to do some tile repair work also. This pipe is around 20 years old and it seems like the bigger it is the less years you can get out of it. The 12” T was crushed down which we see a lot of times when the terraces are being built with scrapers vs dozers.

03/28/2026

Little Saturday terrace action. Doing some rebuilds and a new one in there also. Dirt is working great for march!!

03/26/2026

03/26/2026

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03/12/2026

Sure is a nice day to be moving equipment!