MID TN EXCAVATOR
Full-Service Site Work Done Right.
Middle Tennessee’s residential and commercial excavation and site work — from raw land to build-ready ground, one crew, every phase.
Licensed & Bonded
Contractor #83847
Septic #14383
Where We Work
We’re based in McEwen, TN and run crews across Middle Tennessee — closer to home for smaller residential jobs, up to 100 miles out for the right commercial project.
Core Service Area
- McEwen
- Waverly
- Dickson
- Erin
- Hurricane Mills
- Vanleer
- Centerville
- Tennessee Ridge
- New Johnsonville
- Cumberland City
Extended Service Area
- Nashville
- Clarksville
- Columbia
- Franklin
- Murfreesboro
- Spring Hill
- Brentwood
- Lebanon
- Hendersonville
- Smyrna
Commercial
Large-acreage projects, subdivision prep, commercial site work, and infrastructure earthwork across Middle Tennessee. We carry the equipment, the license, and the bonding to handle jobs that smaller operators can’t touch.
- Land developers and subdivision builders
- General contractors sourcing a dependable excavation subcontractor
- Large private landowners with ongoing earthwork needs across
- Humphreys, Dickson, Hickman, Perry, Maury, Montgomery, and Davidson counties
- Civil engineers and architects coordinating site development
- Project managers and estimators putting together commercial bids
Residential
If you just closed on raw land and need someone to make it buildable — clearing, grading, driveway, septic, building pad — that’s the job we were built for. One contractor from raw ground to ready-to-build, start to finish.
- Homeowners building on raw or wooded acreage in Middle Tennessee
- Land buyers who need site prep before a builder can start
- People relocating from Nashville or out of state who want the process handled professionally
- Residential contractors who need a reliable excavation sub on their schedule
- First-time land builders who need one contractor to handle every phase — clearing, grading, septic, and driveway — start to finish
WHY JD LEE EXCAVATING
Unlike most small, one-man operations, JD Lee Excavating runs a full fleet of heavy equipment — giving us the capacity to handle large-scale residential and commercial projects without delay, without rental dependency, and without sending the wrong machine to the wrong job.
Our fleet includes bulldozers with rippers, excavators with heavy-duty bucket attachments, pans and scrapers, haul trucks, low boys, and dump trucks. For compaction work — particularly on building pads and pond construction — we run both a padfoot compactor and a smooth drum roller, equipment that most local operators simply don’t own. We also run a GPS-based grade control system for precision earthwork on projects where tolerances matter.
We’re capable and agile enough to turn around smaller, local jobs quickly. But what sets JD Lee apart in the Middle Tennessee market is the depth of iron behind every project — owned, maintained, and ready to work.
- 25+ Years in Middle Tennessee
- $3M Licensed Project Capacity
- 100-Mile Service Radius
- Licensed & Bonded Contractor #83847

