Hey Pal! Equipment Services Family owned & operatedThe owner runs the machine Call 727-234-5590

Sub work for pool builders, GCs and site contractors — Tampa Bay

Dirty work.
Done right.

Excavation, grading, pool digs and demo out of Largo. Owner-operated — we do the dirty work so you don’t have to.

Excavator and track loader

The work

Before and after, four real jobs.

Drag the handle to see the change.

Before
After

On a pool dig

    The work we want

    Four jobs. All of them dirt.

    Excavation, grading, pool digs, demo. Four things done every week — instead of a menu of forty services nobody is good at.

    01

    Pool digs

    Residential pool excavation for builders and homeowners. Dug to the plan, dirt handled, site left clean for the next crew.

    • Dug to the builder’s plan
    • Dirt hauled away or spread on site
    • Driveway and yard protected

    02

    Excavation

    Footers, trenches, drainage, tank pulls, driveway cuts. Any hole that has to be the right depth the first time.

    • Footers and foundation digs
    • Utility and drainage trenching
    • Cut, fill and haul-off in one price

    03

    Grading

    Pads that sit flat, and water that runs away from the house. Grading is where a job gets won — or where it comes back on you six months later.

    • Slab, shed and addition pads
    • Driveway base and lot leveling
    • Water pushed away from the house, not toward it

    04

    Demolition

    Structural, concrete, exterior. If it has to come out before the real work starts, it comes out and leaves on the same trip.

    • Structural: sheds, carports, garages, additions
    • Concrete: driveways, patios, slabs, pool decks
    • Exterior: fences, decks, pavers, old landscaping
    Also does Land clearing Fill dirt Debris removal Stump grinding Tree work Junk removal Job site clean-ups Beach & shoreline grading

    If it needs a machine, ask.

    Those four fill most of the calendar, but they are not the whole list. A lot of the best jobs start with somebody saying “you probably don’t do this, but…” — and usually he does. Recent ones:

    • Driveway wideningDug the dirt out along the side so the homeowner could pour new concrete and park two cars.
    • Bamboo takeoverCleared a backyard that had been lost to bamboo and downed timber, root balls hauled off.
    • Storm-washed beachSand graded and banked back up along the Gulf after the water took it out.
    • Waterfront utilitiesTrench cut along a fence line, conduit laid and covered, ground put back.

    Got something odd? Send a photo and he’ll tell you straight if it’s a job he can do.

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    How the job runs

    Same three steps, every job, every time.

    Nothing here is a surprise on the invoice or a phone call you have to chase. This is how the day goes whether it’s a pool dig for a builder or a cracked patio for a homeowner.

    Before we start

    Priced off the real thing

    Send the plans, or just photos of the job and how a machine gets in. Utilities located, depths confirmed, permit pulled if it needs one. You get a fixed written price with haul-off already in it — not an hourly number that grows.

    On the day

    One operator, start to finish

    We show up on the day we booked. Turf and sprinklers get covered, the cut is run to grade, and dirt is loaded as we go instead of piling up in the driveway waiting on a truck.

    Before we leave

    Site handed back clean

    Dirt hauled away, the way in put back how we found it, holes filled and packed, site raked and swept. The next trade walks onto a clean pad.

    Family owned

    Family owned, and family run.

    Hey Pal! Equipment Services is a family business. Nick answers the phone, walks your property, gives you the price, and is the one in the seat on the day of the job. No sales rep, no crew you’ve never met, nobody subbing your work out without telling you.

    That’s also why the schedule is honest. If the day is booked, you get told it’s booked instead of getting a truck that never shows.

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    The owner runs the machineNick Damico, owner-operator. The same man on the phone, on the walkthrough, and in the seat on the day.
    MachinesCAT track loader + Takeuchi TB235-2 excavator
    WorksResidential · waterfront · shoreline
    Pool digsDug in-house, excavator on site
    HoursMon–Sat, 7:00am – 6:00pm

    Recent work

    The machines, mid-job.

    Every one of these is Nick’s own machine on his own job — beaches, waterfront utilities, pool shells and trenching across Tampa Bay.

    Beach & shorelineSand graded and banked back up along the Gulf after a storm
    On the jobCutting a strip out front — CAT track loader, residential street
    TrenchingUtility run cut along a fence line, dirt piled alongside for backfill
    Mini excavatorTakeuchi TB235-2 on a waterfront lot — the digging machine
    Utility installConduit laid and ready for cover, waterfront property
    Pool excavationShell dug, formed and steel set — the hole done right

    How it goes

    Three steps, no surprises on the invoice.

    01

    Send photos

    Text pictures of the work and the access to 727-234-5590. Most jobs get a ballpark back the same day, before anybody drives out.

    02

    Walkthrough and price

    Free on-site look, then a written price that covers the haul-off too.

    03

    We dig

    We show up on the day we booked, protect what stays, and leave the site raked and swept.

    Service area

    Tampa Bay, and the yards nobody else wants to get into.

    Based in Largo, working across Pinellas County — and into Hillsborough for the right job. Builders outside the list — call anyway. If the schedule works, the drive works.

    Straight answers

    What people ask before they call.

    What does a pool dig cost?

    It depends on depth, how much dirt comes out, and how close a truck can get to the hole. Send the builder’s plan and a photo of the access and you’ll get a real number instead of a range.

    Do you haul the debris away?

    Yes. Concrete, dirt and structure debris leave with us and go to the right facility, and disposal is inside the quoted price. Want the clean fill or dirt left on site instead? Say so and the price comes down.

    Do I need a permit?

    Structural demolition and most work touching utilities or drainage does. Breaking out a driveway slab or pulling a stump usually doesn’t. We tell you which one it is before we start.

    Will the machine tear up my yard?

    Tracks spread the weight far wider than tires — that’s the whole reason to use a tracked machine on a finished lawn. Some marking happens on wet ground; we rake and level before we leave.

    Do you take small jobs?

    Yes. One stump, one patio, one trench, one clean-up. Small jobs get grouped into a day so nobody pays a trip charge for twenty minutes of work.

    Free estimate

    Tell us what’s in the way.

    Fastest answer is a phone call — it rings the owner, not an office. After hours, fill this out and you’ll hear back the next working day.

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    Goes straight to Nick’s phone. No newsletter, no sales calls.

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