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Photos from jobs we worked in Tuscola. Each one is from that job, not a stock or equipment photo.
30 miles north of Mattoon — straight up I-57. Full excavation, demolition, and site-work services across Tuscola and Douglas County.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateTuscola sits on I-57 about 30 miles north of our Mattoon shop — an easy run for our crew and an easy haul for our equipment trailers.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles excavation, rock driveways, demolition, land clearing, hauling, pond cleanout, and culvert work in Tuscola, Pesotum, Camargo, and the rural areas of Douglas County. Same equipment, same crew, same straight pricing as a Mattoon job.
Most of our Tuscola-area work is rural — farm-lane driveways, pond cleanouts, foundation excavation for new builds, and culvert installs at driveway entrances. We also handle work in town for homeowners and contractors.
Call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in Tuscola or Douglas County.
Foundations, basements, drainage, trenching, and site prep across Douglas County.
Crushed limestone driveway installs and repairs in Tuscola and rural areas.
Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared. Full scope on our land clearing page →
Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered. Spoils hauled off.
Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts and restoration.
Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements.
French drain installation in Tuscola — perimeter, footing, and yard French drains to carry off groundwater and dry out wet ground.
Soggy yards, standing water and ground that stays wet in Tuscola and the surrounding area. We find where the water is going and give it somewhere better to go.
Open-cut line work in Tuscola — cut on continuous fall to a real outlet, pipe bedded, backfilled and graded smooth.
Pole barn pads, garage and shed pads, residential foundations, and commercial slab prep in Tuscola. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Tuscola. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Tuscola. Holes backfilled, graded, ready for grass or fence.
Yard, driveway, lot, and finish grading — crowned, sloped, and drained right.
New ponds built from scratch — layout, basin, dam, spillway, and seeding.
The dig itself near Tuscola — a new basin cut, or one you already have opened up deeper and wider. Priced by where the dirt goes, not by the hole.
Earthen pond and lake dams built across a draw near Tuscola — keyed core trench, clay placed in compacted lifts, outlet and emergency spillway set to elevation.
Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Tuscola — big-dam construction, spillway sizing and armoring, and the earthmoving a lake takes.
NRCS-spec waterways and WASCOBs — cut, shaped, and seeded to plan.
Cat D6N dozer work in Tuscola — building pads pushed to grade, push-and-pile clearing, pond banks and berms shaped, and finish grading across open ground.
Stripped, cut, compacted, and rocked — ready for the post crew.
Pond jobs around Tuscola are built out of flat, tiled Douglas County ground, so the pond is a shaped basin with a real outlet rather than a dam across a draw. The clay is excellent, which helps — see pond construction cost for what actually sets the number. If an existing pond has slumped banks or an outlet that has quit working, that's pond dam repair.
In Tuscola, that demolition includes barn demolition, grain bin removal, 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 Tuscola that also means silo removal, pole barn demolition, underground tank removal, inground pool removal & pool fill-in, and commercial demolition, farm building demolition, shed removal, interior demolition, storm & fire damage demolition and estate & barn cleanouts — same crew, same trucks, same free on-site walk. Want the number first? Start with a free demolition estimate.
There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Tuscola 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 barn, grain bin, or garage teardown.
Searching for a demolition contractor in Tuscola, IL? Brohez Trucking works Tuscola and Douglas County — Arcola, Arthur, Atwood, Camargo, Hindsboro, Newman, and the rural ground between. Barns, machine sheds, grain bins, garages, mobile homes, and houses come down, get hauled off, and the site gets graded back.
Straight up I-57 from the shop means a short trailer run and a short debris haul, and the Amish-settlement farmsteads around Arthur and Arcola send us a steady stream of timber-barn and outbuilding teardowns. See barn demolition, grain bin removal, or the full demolition services page. Free on-site estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Douglas County farm ground is productive and heavily tiled, and around Tuscola the systems are old enough that nobody has a map. When a line fails the first job is finding it, and that's most of what we're hired for on tile out here.
The work runs on both the Amish and English sides of the county. Common failures: clay mains collapsed at a joint, HDPE crushed where a lane crosses it, surface intakes packed shut, and outlets lost when a ditch got cleaned or a fence row pushed out. Where a single wet pocket is the entire problem we'll trench one targeted line to a good outlet instead of touching the rest of the field.
Almost no Douglas County system comes with a drawing, so locating the failure is the first half of the job and usually the longer half. We start where the water actually stands, walk it back toward the outlet, and open test holes at the joints and the crossings — a lane, a waterway, a fence row push-out — because that is where clay lets go and where HDPE gets crushed. Once the failed section is exposed we cut it out, tie new pipe back into solid tile, and backfill so the trench does not become the next low spot.
A lost outlet fails a whole system from the far end, and out here it is as common a cause as a broken main. If the ditch got cleaned, the bank sloughed, or the end section is buried and silted shut, the repair is at the ditch, not in the middle of the field. Surface intakes are the other repeat offender — packed with trash and residue until the low spot ponds every spring. Both get rebuilt so there is something solid to see the water leave from.
The ground has to be dry enough to hold iron before we can work it, which is why most Tuscola tile calls get scheduled around the field, not around the calendar. If you can walk it, we can usually get to it.
Repair and targeted lines only — we don't run a tile plow, and there are plow outfits nearby that do. See drain tile repair in Tuscola, grassed waterways, or trenching in Tuscola. Free estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Driveway culverts, field entrances and road-crossing pipe around Tuscola. This is flat, heavily tiled ground, and that changes the job: around Tuscola a field entrance and a tile outlet often share the same ditch, so the pipe has to be set without pinching the tile that is already draining the field behind it. Most culvert calls out of Douglas County are one of three jobs. A driveway culvert installation, where a new entrance is going in off a township or county road and the pipe, the ends and the stone all have to be set before anything gets driven on it. A culvert repair, where the pipe is still structurally there but has lost its ends, silted shut, or washed out around the sides so the shoulder is falling in. And a full replacement, where the pipe is crushed or rusted through the invert and patching it is money spent on something that fails again next spring.
The thing that decides the job is usually not the pipe. It is how much cover you have over it and where the water is supposed to go once it is through — a culvert set at the wrong invert moves water no better than the crushed one you took out. On a township or county road the permit and the right-of-way rules come first; on a US or Illinois route it is an IDOT highway permit, and that has to be in hand before the first bucket. We tell you which one you are dealing with at the walk.
Tuscola is a straight run up I-57 for us, so a culvert here is a short move — and on this ground the ones that fail are usually the ones whose outlet silted in years ago and nobody noticed until the shoulder started to go. Full detail on culvert repair and installation, or the Illinois driveway culvert permit rules if you are not sure whose road it is. Free estimate — (217) 809-0779.
In almost every case around Douglas County, the culvert under your driveway is yours. The road authority — the township road district, the county highway department, or IDOT, depending on whose road your entrance meets — owns the ditch and sets the rules: what size pipe, what material, how much cover, what the ends look like, and whether a permit is required. But the pipe itself exists to get you across their ditch, so buying it, installing it to their spec, keeping it clear and replacing it when it fails normally falls to the property owner. If a plugged or collapsed driveway culvert backs water up the ditch onto the road, the road authority can and does tell the owner to fix it.
There are local exceptions worth one phone call before you assume. Some township road districts will set a pipe, or supply it, or run their own machine on it as a courtesy for a resident — that is a local practice, not a rule, and it varies from one township to the next. It is also worth asking whether an existing entrance is grandfathered or whether replacing the pipe re-opens the permit. One call to the road office with jurisdiction answers all of it, and it is free.
Whoever has jurisdiction over the road your driveway meets — and that is decided by the road, not by your address. A township road is the township road district and its highway commissioner. A county highway is the county highway department or county engineer. The US routes through Tuscola are IDOT, and that permit has to be in hand before anything is dug. A city street inside Tuscola is the city. If you do not know which one your entrance meets, the Douglas County highway department can usually tell you in one call. We walk that with you at the estimate instead of finding out afterwards — the Illinois driveway culvert permit page lays out all four.
Cleaning is the answer more often than people expect, and it is much the smaller job. If the pipe is silted in, root-choked, or its outlet disappeared under years of ditch growth, the pipe is usually still fine and the water simply has nowhere to go. Replacement is the call when the invert — the bottom of the pipe — is rusted through, when the pipe is crushed or out of round, when the ends have washed out and the shoulder is falling in beside it, or when it was undersized for what actually comes down that ditch. The tell most owners see first is a soft spot or a sinkhole in the drive over the line: that is fill washing into a hole in the pipe, and no amount of cleaning fixes it.
Free on-site look either way — (217) 809-0779, or read the full culvert repair and installation page.
Photos from jobs we worked in Tuscola. Each one is from that job, not a stock or equipment photo.
General photos of our equipment and past work across central Illinois — not photos of Tuscola jobs. For Tuscola jobs, see Recent work near Tuscola above.
Tuscola sits at the I-57 / US-36 crossroads — Douglas County seat, 30 miles north of Mattoon. The local Amish community around Arthur and Arcola makes this corner of our radius unique: we work alongside Amish builders on pole barn pads, drives, and pond projects regularly. Different pace, same straight quotes.
Sub-areas we cover: Tuscola, Arcola, Arthur, Atwood, Camargo, Pesotum, Hindsboro, Garrett, Newman, and rural Douglas County. Arcola and Arthur are the heart of the Illinois Amish settlement — we know how to work that market.
Common Tuscola-area jobs: pole barn pads (huge demand around Arthur for ag and equipment buildings), long farm-lane rock driveways, drainage tile work on the productive Douglas County farm ground, pond construction and cleanout on Amish and English farms alike, foundation digs in town, and culvert installs along county roads. We also run NRCS / SWCD grassed waterway jobs in Douglas County — practice 412 work in season. Entrance pipe along the Douglas County roads gets crushed by loaded equipment, so culvert replacement comes up as often as new installs do.
Routes: I-57 north — straight shot from Mattoon, 30 miles, about 40 minutes with equipment. Route 45 if we're heading toward Arcola or Arthur on the back roads.
Yes — regularly. Pole barn pads, drives, ponds, and farm work for Amish builders and customers. We work alongside the Amish carpentry crews when needed and bring the iron they don't have.
Yes — Tuscola, Arcola, Arthur, Atwood, Camargo, Pesotum, Hindsboro, Garrett, Newman, and rural Douglas County. Arcola has its own dedicated Arcola page.
I-57 north — 30 miles, about 40 minutes with equipment. Route 45 for the back-road runs to Arcola and Arthur.
Yes — regularly. Tuscola is 30 miles up I-57, well within our normal service radius.
No. Mobilization is built into the estimate.
Yes — drain tile and field tile repair is regular work for us in Douglas County. Collapsed clay mains, crushed lines where a lane crosses, plugged surface intakes, and outlets lost when a ditch got cleaned. We locate the failure, dig it, and tie back into good pipe. Repair and targeted lines only — we don't run a tile plow.
We start where the water stands and work back toward the outlet, opening test holes at the joints and at the crossings — lanes, waterways, pushed-out fence rows — because that's where lines fail. Most of what we're hired for on tile out here is the finding, not the fixing.
Rock driveways and excavation are the volume — Douglas County is mostly rural and farm-related work.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage.
"Excellent service. Very personal. Used twice on two different projects. Going to use for the third. Highly recommended."
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Tuscola and the surrounding county regularly.
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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