Hofsommer Excavating Inc. started as Heinie's Trenching Service in Oakes, North Dakota in the late 1950’s. Kent’s Dad ( Henry) served the local community for several years trenching for water, sewer, telephone, & power lines as well as basement excavation, burying rock piles, ditching for field drainage and any other service that could be accomplished with a backhoe, even grave digging.
Kent, started working with his dad in 1960 while still in grade school, and continued working with him through high school and college, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Oregon Tech.
Kent & Henry began “pipe pushing” for telephone and other utilities in the early 1960’s which was the beginning of the horizontal boring activities that is his specialty today.
After Henry passed away in 1973, Kent was on his own. Kent had to carry on the family business which had grown to multiple backhoes, dump trucks and boring equipment. With North Dakota’s economy slowing down and the company’s ability speeding up Kent hit the road to engage in road boring projects all over the United States.
We were involved in predominately telephone projects from New York to Florida to Washington State to California and many points in between.
