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Serving Rantoul, Illinois

Excavation In Rantoul, IL

63 miles from Mattoon. Full excavation, demolition, and site-work services across Rantoul and Champaign County.

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Excavation & Site Work in Rantoul

Rantoul sits north of Champaign on I-57 — the former home of Chanute Air Force Base. It's right at the north edge of our service area, and we run it regularly for the right job.

Brohez Trucking LLC handles excavation, rock driveways, demolition, land clearing, hauling, pond work, and culvert installs in Rantoul and the surrounding parts of Champaign County. Same crew, same equipment, same straight pricing.

We work for homeowners, builders, landlords, and contractors throughout Rantoul — including the redevelopment lots around the former Chanute base — and the rural ground out toward Thomasboro and Gifford.

Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate anywhere in Rantoul or northern Champaign County.

Services Available

All of our services are available in Rantoul.

⛏️ Excavation

Foundations, basements, drainage, trenching, and site prep.

🪨 Rock Driveways

New gravel driveway installs, repairs, and grading throughout Rantoul.

🏗️ Demolition

Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.

🌲 Brush & Tree Clearing

Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared. Full scope on our land clearing page →

🚚 Dirt & Material Hauling

Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered. Spoils hauled off.

💧 Pond Cleanout

Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts and restoration.

🚧 Culvert Repair

Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements.

💧 Drainage & Tile

Drainage tile, French drains, foundation drains, and yard drainage in Rantoul. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.

🧬 Trenching

Trenching in Rantoul for drainage tile lines, French drains, culvert lines, and water lines — cut on continuous fall to a real outlet, pipe bedded, backfilled and graded smooth.

📐 Site Preparation

Pole barn pads, garage and shed pads, residential foundations, and commercial slab prep in Rantoul.

🏠 Foundation Excavation

Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Rantoul.

🌳 Stump Removal

Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Rantoul.

⛰️ Grading

Yard, driveway, lot, and finish grading — crowned, sloped, and drained right.

💧 Pond Construction

New ponds built from scratch — layout, basin, dam, spillway, and seeding.

💧 Pond Dam Construction

Earthen pond and lake dams built across a draw near Rantoul — keyed core trench, clay placed in compacted lifts, outlet and emergency spillway set to elevation.

🌊 Lake Construction

Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Rantoul — big-dam construction, spillway sizing and armoring, and the earthmoving a lake takes.

🌾 Grassed Waterways

NRCS-spec waterways and WASCOBs — cut, shaped, and seeded to plan.

🚜 Dozer Work

Cat D6N dozer work in Rantoul — building pads pushed to grade, push-and-pile clearing, pond banks and berms shaped, and finish grading across open ground.

🏗️ Pole Barn Pad Site Preparation

Stripped, cut, compacted, and rocked — ready for the post crew.

Ponds around Rantoul are built basins, not dammed draws — the ground is flat, so the pond is shaped out of the field and given a proper outlet rather than backed up behind a dam. That changes the dirt math, and what a pond costs to build covers how. Older Champaign County ponds mostly need bank shaping and outlet work: see pond repair.

In Rantoul, that demolition includes barn demolition, garage & shed teardown, mobile home removal, and concrete & foundation removal — torn down, hauled off, and the site graded clean. See all demolition services. Out on the farmsteads and commercial lots around Rantoul that also means silo removal, pole barn demolition, underground tank removal, inground pool removal & pool fill-in, and commercial demolition — same crew, same trucks, same free on-site walk.

What a Teardown in Rantoul Costs Depends On

There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Rantoul comes down to size and construction, whether the foundation or slab comes out, asbestos on the older buildings, how tight the access is, and how far the debris has to haul. We read all of that at a free on-site walk and hand you a straight number.

See what moves the price on a house, garage, mobile home, or barn teardown.

Demolition Contractor in Rantoul, IL

Need a demolition contractor in Rantoul, IL? Brohez Trucking works Rantoul and northern Champaign County — houses, garages, sheds, mobile homes, commercial structures, barns, and grain bins on the farm ground around town. Rantoul has a lot of mid-century housing and old base-era buildings, and those teardowns need the utilities properly killed and the debris separated before the machine starts.

We bring our own excavator, dozer, and dump trucks, so the teardown and the haul-off are one contractor. See house demolition, garage demolition, or every demolition service we run. Free on-site estimate at (217) 809-0779.

Drain Tile & Field Tile Repair in Rantoul, IL

North Champaign County is flat prairie, tiled about as completely as ground gets in Illinois. Rantoul adds something the farm ground doesn't have: the former Chanute base redevelopment lots, where seventy years of construction went in over top of whatever field tile was there first.

That's a specific kind of call and one we do a lot of — an old field main cut or capped by construction nobody documented, and the ground upstream goes wet the next spring. On the farm side around Thomasboro, Gifford, and Ludlow it's the ordinary failures: collapsed clay, crushed laterals, buried outlets. Both are locate-and-splice jobs and the locate is where the money is saved.

Repair and targeted lines only — no pattern tile. See drain tile repair, trenching in Rantoul, or drainage. Free estimate — (217) 809-0779.

Local Crew, Real Equipment

Working Around Rantoul

Rantoul sits north of Champaign on I-57 — about 12,300 people, best known as the former home of Chanute Air Force Base. It's roughly 63 miles from Mattoon, right at the north edge of our 60-mile service area — but we run it regularly for the right job.

Sub-areas we cover too: Thomasboro, Gifford, Ludlow, and out toward Fisher and Paxton.

Common Rantoul jobs: demolition of old outbuildings and foundation removal on the former-base redevelopment lots, site prep and grading, drainage in the flat prairie ground, and rock lanes and driveways on the rural acreages around town. Redevelopment lots and county entrances around Rantoul carry pipe that's decades past its life; culvert replacement handles the ones that can't be patched again.

No travel surcharge. Even at the top of our radius, Rantoul jobs price the same as anything else — mobilization is built into the estimate, one straight number.

Rantoul, IL FAQs

What areas around Rantoul do you cover?

Rantoul, Thomasboro, Gifford, Ludlow, and out toward Fisher and Paxton. Rantoul sits at the north edge of our service area — still no travel surcharge.

How do you get to Rantoul from Mattoon?

Straight up I-57 north past Champaign. About 63 miles — right at the top of our 60-mile radius, but we run it regularly for the right job.

Do you work the old Chanute / former-base lots?

Yes — demolition of old outbuildings, foundation removal, site prep, and grading on redevelopment lots around the former Chanute Air Force Base area.

Is there a travel charge to Rantoul?

No. Even at the edge of our radius, mobilization is built into the estimate — one straight number.

Are you insured?

Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.

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Where Rantoul Sits

Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Rantoul and the surrounding county regularly.

Got A Job In Rantoul?

Call us and we'll come look. No pressure, no obligation — just a straight number.

When you call, you talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a salesman.

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