Excavating contractor · Brimfield, Illinois · Since 2014
A field that sits wet costs you planting days every spring. AKW installs field tile on GPS grade, shapes waterways, digs and cleans ponds, and handles the dirt work in between. Fall tile season books in August.
Pond cleanout, soil off the water · Central Illinois
What AKW does
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Pattern tile, mains and laterals, waterway shaping and maintenance. Every run goes in on GPS grade, so the water moves the day the trench closes and the wet spot stops costing you yield.
For farmers, farm managers and ag landlords
Field tile and drainage02
New ponds built to hold, and old ponds brought back. The long-reach excavator pulls silt and cattails from the water without tearing up the bank you want to keep.
For landowners and homeowners
Pond building and cleanout03
Basements, footings, final grade, culverts, driveways, clearing and forestry mulching. Dug square, graded to plan, ready for the next trade on schedule.
For builders, contractors and homeowners
Site prep and excavating
The part most contractors skip
Tile only works if the grade is right for the whole run. AKW installs with GPS machine control, which holds the planned grade foot by foot instead of trusting an eyeball and a laser pole. No bellies in the line, no backfall, no dead runs you find out about next spring.
Every job is also mapped as it goes in. You get an as-built record of where every main and lateral sits, how deep, and what size. When you repair a line in ten years, add a wet spot to the system, or sell the farm, that map is worth real money.
Pulling tile · Central Illinois
Recent work
Every photo below is an AKW job site. No stock photos anywhere on this page.
From the air
Silt and cattails out of the water, the bank cut back and shaped, rock set where the waves hit. Four clips off one AKW pond job this summer.
Bank cut back and shaped
Service area
AKW works out of Brimfield and covers the ground around it: Elmwood, Farmington, Princeville, Hanna City, Yates City, Williamsfield, Kickapoo, and up to Dunlap and Peoria on the east side. Tile and pond jobs regularly run out to Eureka, Metamora and Washington across the river, and down to Canton, Knoxville and Galesburg on the west end.
If your ground sits in Peoria, Knox, Fulton, Stark or Woodford County, it is inside the normal working area. On the edge of that or just past it? Call anyway. For the right job the machines will travel.
Ask if we cover your ground: (309) 303-1854
About AKW
New Cooper Husemann has recently stepped into an ownership role and is now AKW's estimator, working alongside Kevin and Michelle.
AKW Excavating started in 2014 with Kevin and Michelle Windish out of Brimfield, Illinois. Kevin has been in the excavating business for 30 plus years, long enough to have dug through most kinds of ground this part of the state can serve up.
When you call, you talk to the people who run the machines, not a dispatcher. The equipment in these photos is the equipment that shows up. Quotes come from walking your ground, not from a satellite photo, and the job is done when the water runs where it should.
Basement dug and squared · Central Illinois
Free estimate
Pick a day and time that works. Kevin or Cooper will call to confirm, walk the ground with you, and get you a straight number.
Kevin or Cooper will call to confirm the time. If it is urgent, call now.
Rather just call?
Kevin Windish(309) 303-1854 Cooper Husemann(309) 446-9148 Akwexcavating1@gmail.com