Septic systems, excavation, driveways, clearing, docks, sawmilling, welding — and just about everything in between. Real work, honest pricing, and a crew that treats your property like our own.
New septic systems — design to final grade
Eljen In-Drain, chamber & stone-and-pipe fields
Tank replacements, pump stations & force mains
Old system removal & abandonment
Leach fields, distribution boxes & risers
Test pits, soil evaluation & state permitting
Site design by Corinne Knapp, Licensed Site Evaluator
HHE-200 applications carried through the town office
Site prep, building pads & cellar holes
Footing trenches, backfill & compaction
Grading, sloping, crowning & finish grade
Ledge removal & rock breaking
Trenching for water, sewer, power & propane
Stump removal, grubbing & fill hauling
Erosion control, silt fence & rip-rap
Demolition & debris haul-off
New driveways — cross road, base & finish
Turnarounds, pull-offs & parking areas
Regrading, reclaiming & reshaping
Culverts & driveway drainage
Gravel, crushed stone, reclaim & fill delivery
Camp roads & right-of-way maintenance
Land clearing & lot clearing
Forestry mulching — excavator & skid-steer mulching heads
Large-lot clearing, mulched in place — no burn pile, no haul-off
Walk-behind mulching for tight spots, trails & treelines
Brush hogging & overgrown field reclamation
Tree removal, limbing & chipping
Stump grinding
Brush piles, burn piles & slash cleanup
Wood-lot access roads & skid trails
Trail cutting — walking, ATV & sled
Remote camp & off-grid site work
Logging-road & camp-road mobilization
Temporary bridges & stream crossings
Material hauled in by ATV & tracked machine
Sites with no road access at all
Access roads cut in from scratch
Ground protection & restoration on the way out
Ponds — dug, shaped & shoreline finished
Pond dredging & cleanouts
French drains & curtain drains
Foundation perimeter drains
Ditching, swales & culverts
Dry wells, catch basins & discharge lines
Waterfront & shoreline stabilization
Lawn install — loam, seed & hydroseed
Sod, topsoil & finish raking
Garden beds, mulch & edging
Tree, shrub & hedge planting
Retaining walls & dry-laid rock walls
Fieldstone & boulder placement
Patios, walkways & paver work
Granite steps & slab setting
Fire pits & outdoor seating areas
Fences — wood, wire, chain link & gates
Raised beds, orchards & homestead gardens
Foundation groundwork & form prep
Footings, frost walls & slabs
Slab-on-grade for garages & barns
Sonotubes & pier foundations
Flatwork, aprons, pads & walkways
Slab cutting, breaking & removal
Fireplaces — stone, brick & block
Chimneys, crowns & repointing
Stone veneer, hearths & mantels
Block foundations & frost walls
Stone steps, walls & walkways
Additions — foundation to finish
Garages, barns & outbuildings
Sheds, run-ins & chicken coops
Framing, sheathing & roof structures
Decks, porches, stairs & ramps
Siding, trim & soffit
Windows & doors
Roofing — shingle & metal
Sheetrock — hang, tape, mud & finish
Interior trim, doors & stairways
Flooring & tile
Painting — inside & out
Camp & barn restoration
Sill replacement, jacking & post repairs
Portable sawmill — timbers & boards cut on site
Docks, stone footings & waterfront structures
Granite slab & boulder setting by boom truck
Well pumps, drop pipe & service line penetrations
Sewer & drain cleaning through Dave’s World
Custom steel fabrication
MIG, TIG & stick welding
Mobile & on-site repair welding
Equipment, bucket & attachment repair
Trailer repair, decks & hitches
Custom brackets, racks & quick-attach plates
Beams, lintels & steel columns
Gates, railings & handrails
Ornamental & structural ironwork
Plasma cutting, shearing & drilling
Generator, propane & oil tank pads
Equipment & RV parking pads
Junk removal, cleanouts & hauling
Old building teardown & disposal
Snow & ice season prep
Whatever the property throws at us
Heat pumps, plumbing & electrical by Dave's World
Plumbing — rough-in to fixtures
Electrical — service, panels & EV chargers
Heating & cooling — heat pumps, boilers & furnaces
Standby generators & transfer switches
Well drilling & pumps
Surveying, site design & engineering
Paving
Insulation & spray foam
If it isn't on here, ask anyway. Odds are we do that too.
From what's underground to what you drive on — and the sawmill, the welder and the dock crib in between. We take on the heavy, dirty, important work, and we do it right.
New Eljen and In-Drain systems, replacements, tanks, pump stations, and old-system removal. Soil evaluation and system design by Corinne Knapp, Licensed Site Evaluator — we dig the test pits, carry the HHE-200 through the town office, and put it in the ground. One call, start to finish.
Driveways, turnarounds, and parking areas. Cross rock, base, and finish, graded to last and to shed water.
Digging, grading, drainage, culverts, and full site prep. The right machines for ledge, rock, and tough ground.
Lot clearing, mulching, hand-cutting, and tree, brush & stump removal — including tight, remote, waterfront sites.
Culverts, water management, rock walls, and groundwork made ready for foundations.
Backyard water gardens to multi-acre farm and fire ponds. Rubber-lined or clay-sealed, spillways, waterfalls and stone edging. See how we build them →
We mill on site with a portable sawmill — beams, timbers and boards cut from your own logs, or ours. Barn frames, sills and posts.
Timber docks set on stone footings, shoreline stabilization, granite steps and boulder placement. Camp and lake work is our home ground.
Custom steel built in our own shop — racks, gates, railings, brackets and beams — plus mobile repair welding out on the job.
Additions from foundation to finish, garages, barns and outbuildings. Framing, roofing, siding, windows, decks and porches.
Hang, tape, mud and finish, with 33 years of it on the crew. Trim, doors, stairs and paint — flat walls that stay flat.
Fireplaces, chimneys, stone and block, veneer and hearths. Our mason builds the thing people notice first in a room.
Well pumps, fences, barn restoration and specialty work. Foundations, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and drain cleaning through our trusted partners.
The stuff people forget to ask for — we already do it. And what we don't self-perform, we coordinate with trusted trades.
Not sure if it's something we do? It probably is. Just ask.
Every septic system we install is designed by Corinne Knapp, a Licensed Site Evaluator with a degree in soil science and more than thirty years reading Maine ground. She walks the lot, reads the test pits we dig, and puts her license on the design. We do the rest: the HHE-200 through the town office, the tank, the field, and the finish grade.
You still deal with us. One call, one schedule, one person accountable — from the first test pit to the last rake of loam.When a job needs mechanical trades, we bring in Dave's World: Maine's heat pump and home comfort specialists, with plumbing, electrical, panel upgrades and generators. They're right here in Dover-Foxcroft with us, and they cover the whole state.
You still deal with us. Homestead Heroes is your general contractor — one contract, one schedule, one person accountable for the whole job.Excavator, skid steer, two walk-behind mulchers, a portable sawmill, a dump truck — and a 60 × 60 shop with two lifts and a full welding bay behind all of it.
Set up for large-lot clearing. Ask about mulching your whole lot.
A shed built in your yard means a crew, a mess and a tarp over it every time it rains. We build it on a bench in the shop, out of the weather, and bring it to you done.
Your logs or ours, cut to size on our own portable sawmill. Beams, boards, sills and posts — no waiting on a lumber order.
On a bench in the 60 × 60, with the saws and the welder right there. Square, dry, and no day lost to weather.
Our truck, our trailer. Nobody else’s schedule, and nothing sitting half-finished in your yard waiting on a delivery date.
On a pad we built, graded to drain and level enough that the door still shuts right in five years. The excavator is already on the trailer.
If it fits on a trailer, we can build it in the shop. If it doesn’t, we build it on your site — same crew either way.
We’re building a shed for a client this fall — milled, framed and finished in the shop, then hauled out and set on a pad. We’ll photograph the whole thing, start to finish, and it goes up here when it’s done.
Talk to us about one →Our very first job was a camp eight miles up a back logging road in Willimantic. We trucked the excavator and the skid steer in over ground that was never meant to carry them, built crossings where the road had washed out, and hauled the rest in by ATV — every yard of stone, every length of pipe, every Eljen panel, load by load.
Then we put in a full 1,000-gallon tank and a 1,296 square foot Eljen field, permitted and inspected, like it was a job in town.
Logging roads, camp roads, right-of-ways, or no road at all. We plan the route, protect the ground, and get the iron to the site.
Where a crossing has washed out or never existed, we build one — then leave the ground and the water better than we found them.
When a loaded truck can't follow, stone, pipe, panels and tanks go in piece by piece until the whole system is on site.
A look at what we've been building lately across Maine.
A complete waterfront system in Willimantic: Eljen In-Drain Type B field, two 750-gallon tanks, a boathouse grinder pump, and a 2" force main — designed and permitted around a sloped, near-shore site.
Walked a skid steer with a mulching head roughly 1,500 feet up a power-line corridor, worked it over ledge with an excavator, and hand-cut and cleared the lot — carefully keeping the trees the homeowners wanted.
Cleared and dug the turnaround, set a 30-foot culvert, placed all new gravel from cross rock to finish, and restored the surrounding area with stacked rock and cleanup.
Nine of us now, office and field, and between the trades alone about a century and a half of it — excavation, carpentry, sheetrock and masonry all under one roof. You hear from us the whole way through, photos and video included.
Homestead Heroes started because I was building my own home. I’d bought all the equipment — the excavator, the skid steer, the mulching heads, the sawmill — and hired good people to help me build it. When the house was finished, the people who built it became Homestead Heroes.
Plenty of outfits that claim they do everything are watered down — jack of all trades, master of none. We’re doing the opposite. We can take on any job because we have somebody elite in each part of it.
Toby came up through the trades with his father and brother, then moved into heavy equipment — excavators, skid steers and dozers on septic systems, pond digging, trenching and land clearing. After years on the HVAC supply side he came back to the field.
Today he helps run the company alongside Matt, managing jobs and running iron.
Runs the financial side of the business and looks after the people who do the work.
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Runs the digital side — the website, the marketing, and the systems that keep estimates, scheduling and job records straight.
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More than 30 years in roofing and carpentry, focused on custom home building — quality craftsmanship and homes made to last. Moved to Maine 22 years ago to raise his family; hunts and fishes the woods and waters with his boys.
Twenty years of experience in construction, across just about every stage of a build.
Pipe installation, module placement, excavation support and site cleanup — and a chainsaw he keeps sharp.
In the trades since vocational school at sixteen — carpentry first, then drywall from age twenty. Three decades finishing luxury homes across New England, and seven years running his own company.
Started with Maine Masonry at fifteen and was running crews as a foreman before he was twenty. Nineteen years leading residential masonry crews in Florida, home to Maine in 2011.
Tell us what your property needs. We'll take a look, give you a straight answer, and a fair price.