Excavation & site work · Goodlettsville, Tennessee
KG Excavating is an owner-operated excavation contractor based in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. Keith Galbreath handles site preparation, pond construction and repair, driveway installation, and utility trenching across Middle Tennessee — and comes to the property to quote the work before anything starts.
Four core service lines. Every job starts with a site visit, because access, soil, slope and drainage decide the work far more than the square footage does.
Clearing, grubbing, cut and fill, and finish grading to get a buildable, drainable pad. Includes stripping and stockpiling topsoil, establishing subgrade, and shaping the site so water leaves it where you want it to.
New pond construction, plus repair and cleanout of existing ponds. Covers dam and core trench work, spillway and overflow, bank shaping, and keying the basin so it holds water instead of seeping away.
New driveways and rebuilds of ones that have washed out. Base preparation, geotextile where the ground calls for it, gravel placement and compaction, plus the culverts and ditching that keep a drive from failing again after the first hard rain.
Trenching and backfill for water, electric and septic lines, plus the drainage work that protects them — culvert crossings, headwalls, riprap, French drains and surface grading that moves water away from structures.
Most site failures are water failures. A pad that holds water, a drive that washes out, a pond that won't fill — all of it traces back to how the profile was cut and where the water was sent. This is the section every excavation quote is really about.
A typical prepared pad in section: topsoil stripped and stockpiled, subgrade compacted, base rock placed, and the finished surface pitched to fall away from the structure into a swale. The dashed line is the existing grade before work began.
Photographs from KG Excavating's own completed projects across Middle Tennessee.
Three barrels set and armoured with riprap, with the crossing built up and graded over the top.
Basin keyed and banks shaped, shown after filling.
Root balls this size are why clearing gets quoted separately from grading.
Base built, gravel placed and compacted, shoulders seeded and strawed.
Cut and filled to grade, shaped so water leaves the pad.
Finished bank line and water level, some seasons after completion.
Ring (615) 714-5553 and explain what you're trying to do. A rough idea is enough at this stage — location, what's there now, and what you want instead.
KG Excavating comes to the property. Access for equipment, soil and slope, where the water currently goes and where it needs to go — these decide scope and price, and none of them can be judged over the phone.
A written quote based on what the site actually needs, not a per-hour guess. Scope, sequence and what's excluded are set out before anything is committed.
Keith runs the equipment himself, so the person who walked the site is the person on the machine. Sites are left graded and tidy, not just dug.
Excavation is quoted from the ground, not from a form. Call and describe the project and KG Excavating will come look at it.
Call (615) 714-5553Service area
Based in Goodlettsville and working across the surrounding Middle Tennessee counties. Call to confirm coverage for your address.