Our History
Rasmussen Excavation was formed in 1973 by the late Donald and Rosalyn Rasmussen of Georgetown, NY. They began their business with a few necessary basics - a solid farm-boy work ethic, fair and honest business practices, a love for moving dirt, and a love for CAT machines!

With his son David at his right hand, Don began working for farmers, the Soil Conservation Service, and homeowners with their first machine - a 1956 CAT D6 bulldozer.

Leaving behind a growing trail of satisfied customers, demand for their expertise grew, and by the mid 1980's they were employing 10 men, owned 10 CAT machines and were doing a variety of residential, commercial and municipal site work projects. In the early 90's the excavation business branched into utility work involving storm sewer, sanitary sewer and water line construction.

Another change that took place in the 90's was the addition of our sand and gravel business, Rasmussen Gravel Products LLC. Today we operate two active pits and with a growing customer base we provide local contractors, homeowners and municipalities with quality abrasives, gravel and stone products.

Following the passing of Don Rasmussen in 1997, David took over the full operation of the businesses and has maintained the same level of integrity and quality workmanship.

Some of our more recent projects have included site work for Wal-Mart, Lowes, Madison Wind Energy, Munnsiville Wind Energy, and multiple land developers including Stringer Development, Oot Brothers, and many others.

In 2004 we opened our first two equipment rental stores. Known as Rasmussen Rents, the stores are located in Binghamton and Canastota. Since then we have added two satellite stores in Madison, ME, and Norwich, NY. These stores rent a wide variety of heavy equipment, attachments, and small tools to commercial customers, municipalities, school districts, hospitals and homeowners. It is a growing business which complements our construction company nicely.

Today our companies employ 23 full and part-time people, including our construction crews, a full-time project manger/estimator, an equipment manager/salesman, mechanics, truck drivers, and office personnel. We are proud that our "key man" tenure is 20+ years. We are always looking for hard-working, honest people seeking employment in the construction industry.

We are humbled when we consider what has become of our various business endeavors, but we are convinced that its success is due to hard work, faithful employees, fair, honest and upright practices and the faithfulness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Don and Rosalyn's legacy of integrity lives on and continues to make us proud to be part of this organization.