Red Mesa Mini Excavating · Cortez, CO
Serving Montezuma & Dolores Counties Cortez · Mancos · Dolores · Towaoc · Lewis

Mini excavator & skid steer scheduling

Book the machine.
Skip the phone tag.

Half-day blocks for mini excavator and skid steer work across Cortez, Mancos, Dolores, Towaoc and Lewis. You request the block — the dispatcher confirms your start time.

Mini excavator
$120/hr, four-hour minimum on every booking
Skid steer
$900 day rate for grading, leveling and cleanup
Booking
Send a request any time. We confirm before the machine rolls

This week at a glance

Machine time, posted before you call.

A sample week of half-day blocks. Nothing on this board holds a machine on its own — request the block you want and the dispatcher confirms it before the machine rolls.

Mon

AMBooked

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Tue

AMBooked

PMBooked

Wed

AMOpen

PMBooked

Thu

AMOpen

PMBooked

Fri

AMBooked

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Sat

AMOpen

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Blocks move as jobs finish · Request a block

How booking works

Three steps, one machine.

Booking runs like a dispatch slip: name the window, name the job, and we lock the block.

Step 01

Pick your window

Look over the week, then send the half-day block you want. If you need a set start time, call and we'll hold the slot while you line up the site.

Step 02

Tell us the job

Mini excavator, skid steer, stump removal, grading and leveling, or a gravel drive refresh — say the work and the address so we load the right machine.

Step 03

Lock the block

We confirm the window and the start time. Four hours is the minimum booking on the mini excavator; the skid steer runs at a day rate.

Freshly cut tree stump with roots, chips and dark soil beside an excavator bucket
On the job

Stump removal — roots cut, chips hauled, ground raked out.

Job tickets & sample rates

Rates posted like job tickets.

Sample pricing for the work we run most. Send the address and what needs moving with your booking request and we'll confirm the quote before the machine rolls.

Job ticket 01

Mini excavator

$120/hr

Four-hour minimum on every excavator booking.

Job ticket 02

Skid steer

$900day rate

Full day on the machine for grading, leveling and cleanup.

Job ticket 03

Stump removal

from $175each

Stump cut out and the hole cleaned up.

Job ticket 04

Grading & leveling

from $700

Pad prep, yard leveling and site shaping.

Job ticket 05

Gravel drive refresh

Drive graded, crowned and re-dressed so water runs off instead of sitting.

from $1,050

Service area

Montezuma and Dolores Counties.

The machines run out of Cortez and work the towns and back roads around it. If you're on the list below, you're in the dispatch area.

Montezuma County

Cortez Mancos Towaoc Lewis

Dolores County

Dolores

Out past the towns? Send the address with your booking request and we'll confirm travel before we lock the block.

Finished gravel driveway with fresh track marks curving toward a rural house among pinyon and juniper
Fresh gravel and clean edges — a drive that sheds water again.

Book machine time

Pick your slot. We'll bring the digging.

Send the half-day block you want and the job it's for. The dispatcher confirms your start time and the machine shows up ready to work — no phone tag required.

  • You send a block and the job details
  • We confirm the window and start time
  • The machine shows up — 4-hr minimum on the excavator

Booking request

Four-hour minimum on the mini excavator. We confirm your start time before the machine rolls.