As Chief Operating Officer, Daryl oversees all projects and operations of DSL Excavating LLC. He is a highly skilled and experienced owner/operator with over 35 years of business management experience and heavy equipment operation within the commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential arena. Recognized as an expert in all things dirt, Daryl brings a very unique skill set to DSL Excavating LLC.
Daryl Dickson’s experience is vast. As President of D&D Landscaping & Excavating, Inc. from 1982 through 2015, Daryl managed all areas of business operations including strategic planning, management, financial management, administration, estimating, project management, operations, inventory and supply management, scheduling, human resource management, quality control and safety compliance, client, vendor and supplier relations, permits, licenses, bonding, etc. In addition to handling all areas of operations and oversight of the business, Daryl is a very experienced heavy equipment operator. He is an accomplished operator of all sizes and makes of bulldozers, excavators, backhoes, tractors, skid steers, power rakes, rock hounds, tree spades and hydro seed machines. Daryl also has a valid commercial driver’s license and operates semi-tractor trailers and lowboys for mobilization and demobilization as well as tri-axle tandem dump trucks.
Daryl and his team are experienced at all aspects of excavation and landscape. They are capable of clearing, grubbing and demolition, site work preparation, footing preparation, cutting grade, soil stripping, creating roads and parking lots, all utilities, storm sewers, above and below ground retention ponds, finish grade, finish grade for concrete sidewalks and curbs, seeding and heavy highway seeding. He and his team have even designed, created and managed a large scale 4×4 off road 4×4 course for off road vehicles that included a 2 mile trail through woods and hills, three mud pits, a rock crawl, jumps, swamp track, hill climbs and a tug-o-war site.
Mr. Dickson is an accomplished landscaper as well having installed ponds, fountains, trees, shrubs, stone, retaining walls, brick patios, courtyards, decorative planters and benches on hundreds of residential and commercial projects.
In addition to landscape and excavation experience, Daryl Dickson has vast agricultural experience. He has excavated and installed lakes and ponds varying in sizes up to three acres. He has dredged ponds and created wetlands as well as installed drainage tile for farm fields.
As owner of D&D Farms for over 25 years, Daryl is a successful grain farmer growing his operations from 150 acres to over 700 acres. He operates a grain drying and storage facility and is responsible for risk assessment and profit management, soil testing and balancing, strategic planning of seed rotation, as well as fertilizer and herbicide maintenance. He operates GPS driven 300 horse power tractors, vacuum planters and a variety of combines and buggies. He manages and completes all farming activities including moboard and chisel plowing, field preparation with disc and cultipacker tools, planting, harvesting and bailing of hay.