Cox Earthworks Heber Springs, AR · Est. 1972 501-250-4490

Sitework · Excavation · Utilities — Heber Springs · Serving All of Arkansas

Fifty years of moving Arkansas dirt.

Cox Earthworks is the Cox family's commercial sitework and excavation outfit — three generations running iron out of Heber Springs since 1972. Licensed. Insured. And when you call, a Cox answers.

Call the shop — 501-250-4490 Book a site walk ↓
AR Contractor License#3287-C Commercial · Active
USDOT Carrier#581938 · Clean safety record
BBB File Since 20060 complaints on record
OwnershipFamily-owned · 3 generations
0+ yrsIn the dirt — est. 1972, same family name on the gate
0Generations of Coxes on the job today
0BBB complaints in 20 years on file — zero
0ftGPS machine-control grade tolerance on finish work

Scope of work

If it's in the ground,
it's our trade.

Seven lines of work, coded the way your spec book reads them. Commercial, residential, and municipal.

CSI 31 23 16 / 31 22 00

Excavation & Grading

Building pads, roads, parking lots, driveways. Cut, fill, and compaction to plan — GPS machine-control grading on commercial and residential sites.

Pad-ready. Grade-checked. Documented.
CSI 33 10 00 / 33 40 00

Utility Installation

Water, sewer, and storm drainage — trenched or bored, bedded, and built to code. Our state license carries the underground piping, cable, trenching & boring classification.

Licensed class: underground piping & boring
CSI 31 10 00

Forestry & Land Clearing

Clearing, raking, piling, ripping, burning, mulching. Fence line to forty acres — no tract too rough or overgrown.

Dozer + mulcher work, burn management
CSI 31 23 16.26

Rock Excavation

Precision hydrohammering through the hard stuff. Foundations, utility runs, and site development in ground that stops other outfits.

Hydraulic hammer — controlled breaking
CSI 31 24 00

Ponds & Lakes

Recreation, livestock, or drainage — cored, keyed, and compacted with proper grading so it holds water for decades, not seasons.

Built for long-term performance
USDOT 581938

Hauling & Trucking

Gravel, dirt, brush, debris, and equipment moves on our own trucks and trailers — an active USDOT carrier with a clean safety record.

Own iron, own trucks, own schedule
CSI 02 41 00

Demolition & Cleanup

Barns, sheds, slabs, and structures — torn out, sorted, hauled off. Site left clean and ready for what's next.

Tear-out through final grade
Line item 08

Something else in the dirt?

If it takes a dozer, an excavator, or fifty years of ground sense — call and ask. Worst case, we point you to the right outfit.

Ask Larry's crew

Service codes follow CSI MasterFormat® divisions 02/31/33 — the same sections your project manual uses.

Field reports

Real jobs. Our iron.
No stock photos.

FR-01 · Creek crossing · Cleburne County

Culvert set at the waterline

Steep bank, live water, soft bottom. The Kobelco worked off timber crane mats at the creek while the D65 held winch assist from the top of the cut — the kind of access problem that doesn't make it into a brochure, because most outfits turn the job down.

MachineKobelco excavator
SupportD65 winch assist
AccessTimber mats, live creek
FR-02 · Commercial pad · Central Arkansas

Building pad, final grade

Komatsu D51EXi with factory intelligent machine control cutting finish grade against an occupied commercial building — GPS blade, tight tolerance, no surveyor callbacks.

FR-03 · Forestry clearing · Cleburne County

Clearing a pine tract

Working the dozer through standing pine — clearing, raking, piling, and burning handled as one operation instead of three subcontracts.

FR-04 · Mass grading · Arkansas

Four dozers and a pan

When the pad is measured in acres, the iron lines up to match — four blades cutting, the pan hauling, one plan, one grade, one deadline.

The iron

Run by the people
who own it.

No rental-yard roulette. The machines on your job are the machines in these photos — maintained in our own shop on Fort Cox Road.

Komatsu D65EXi intelligent machine control dozer on a freshly graded pad
Komatsu D65EXi · Intelligent machine control · GPS blade
Dozers · Heavy push

Komatsu D65 Class

WX and EXi — clearing, mass grading, winch work. Intelligent machine control on the EXi.

Dozer · GPS finish

Komatsu D51EXi

Factory intelligent machine control — GPS blade for finish grading to a tenth.

Excavators · Mass ex

Kobelco Excavators

Mass excavation, utility trench, culvert sets — plus hydraulic hammer for rock.

Trucking · USDOT 581938

Truck & Trailer Fleet

Tractors and trailers for material hauling and our own equipment moves.

The family

The road to the shop
has our name on it.

The shop sits at 50 Fort Cox Road, Heber Springs. When your family works the same ground long enough that the county names the road after you, you don't get to do sloppy work — everybody knows where to find you.

Larry Cox started the company in 1972. More than fifty years on, it's still his name on the license — with Connie, Matthew, and Lance Cox running the office, the estimates, and the crews. Three generations, one standard.

We're not the biggest earthmover in Arkansas, and that's the point. The person who prices your job is the person on the dozer. Call the number on this page and a Cox picks up — not a call center, not a sales rep, not a menu.

Hard WorkHow we bid it
PrecisionHow we build it
RespectHow we leave it
Original Larry Cox Construction truck-door decal — 250-4490 Heber Springs

The original door decal — same phone, same town

1972

Larry Cox Construction founded

Larry Cox starts moving dirt in Cleburne County under his own name.

2006

Two decades of clean record begins

BBB file opens. Twenty years later it still reads: zero complaints.

2009

Incorporated

Larry Cox Construction, Inc. — commercial license, growing municipal and commercial work.

Today

Cox Earthworks

GPS machine control on the blade, third generation in the cab, same family answering the phone.

Working range

Shop in Heber Springs.
Range: all of Arkansas.

Crews and trucks roll out of Fort Cox Road to jobs anywhere in the state — pads in the metro, ponds in the Delta, clearing in the Ozarks. If it's Arkansas dirt, we'll come move it.

★ Heber Springs — home baseAll 75 Arkansas countiesStatewide · licensed & insured
HomeownersPads, driveways, ponds, clearing — priced straight, done once.
CommercialDevelopers & GCs — pads, parking, utilities, rock. Prequal packet below.
MunicipalPublic works with a licensed, insured, clean-record contractor.

For GCs & project managers

The prequal packet,
already on the table.

Most sub qualification packets take a week of emails. Ours is public record — verify every line before you ever pick up the phone.

Arkansas Contractors Licensing Board License #3287-C

Commercial contractor — classifications: Highway, Railroad & Airport Construction · Underground Piping, Cable, Trenching & Boring. Licensed as Larry Cox Construction, Inc.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin. USDOT #581938

Active intrastate carrier — company tractors, trailers and drivers with no safety violations or accidents on record.

Better Business Bureau File since 2006

Twenty years on file, zero complaints. Insured, incorporated (2009), family principals named on every public record.

Verify independently: ACLB contractor search (aclb.arkansas.gov) · FMCSA SAFER (safer.fmcsa.dot.gov) · bbb.org — certificates of insurance furnished on request.

Straight answers

Questions we get
on every job.

Are you licensed for commercial excavation work in Arkansas?

Yes — Arkansas Contractors Licensing Board License #3287-C (Commercial), with classifications for Highway, Railroad & Airport Construction and Underground Piping, Cable, Trenching & Boring. We're insured, and certificates of insurance are furnished on request.

How far will you travel for a job?

Anywhere in Arkansas. The shop is in Heber Springs and our trucks haul our own equipment statewide — from the Ozarks to the Delta. For work outside Cleburne County, mobilization gets priced into the job up front, so there are no surprises.

Can you dig through rock without blasting?

Yes. We run a hydraulic hammer (hydrohammer) on our excavators for precision rock breaking — foundations, utility trenches, and site development in ground that stops a regular bucket. It's controlled, it's accurate, and it doesn't need blast permits.

Do you build ponds and lakes?

We've been building them for fifty years — recreation, livestock, and drainage ponds, cored, keyed, and compacted so they hold water for decades. We also repair and reshape existing ponds that were built wrong the first time.

How do I get a price?

Call 501-250-4490 and talk it through with a Cox, or text a photo of the site. For most jobs the next step is a site walk — we look at the ground before we put a number on it, so the number holds.

Get us on site

Talk to a Cox
about your ground.

Call the shop — a Cox answers 501.250.4490
Email[email protected]
Shop50 Fort Cox Rd, Heber Springs, AR 72543
HoursMon–Fri 8:00–4:30 · Weekends: on the lake
Best for estimatesCall or text a plat / site photo — we'll talk it through before we ever bill a minute

Book a site walk

Step 1 of 3 — what's the ground telling you to build?

Where & when

Step 2 of 3 — so the right machine shows up.

Timeline

Who do we call back?

Step 3 of 3 — this opens your email app with everything filled in. Nothing is sent until you hit send.

Request drafted.

Your email app just opened with the details — hit send and we'll call you back. In a hurry?

Call now: 501-250-4490
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