Company Profile:
Emil and Ernie Baranko started moving dirt to subside their farming and ranching in 1967 doing primarily soil conservation work. They expanded into the oil field in the 1970s and were incorporated in 1979. In the 1970s Ernie took over the farm and continued ranching while Emil took over the construction portion. Emil expanded into county DOT work in the 1980s when the oil boom took a down turn. He also expanded into the coal and power plants in the 1990s. His sons, Gregg and Glenn, first got involved by working for the company in the summer and after school. Emil retired in 1999, leaving Gregg and Glenn to run the business. Glenn bought Gregg out in 2007. The company is based in Dickinson, North Dakota, with yard and shop facilities in Center and Fairfield, North Dakota. Glenn also owns a coal crushing facility in Center, North Dakota, providing stoker and lump coal to customers throughout North and South Dakota and into Canada. Click on Center Coal Company for more information.
We have expanded into all types of earthwork including:
- Underground
- Landfill facilities
- Heavy highway
- Material hauling
- Land development
Expansion and Clients
We are continuously growing and have completed projects in sizes from few hundred yards to over a million yards. Here are a few of the clients we have worked for:
- Hess Corporation
- Great Northern Railway
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe
- Marathon Oil Corporation
- N.D. Public Service Commission
- Montana Dakota Utilities
- N.D. Department of Transportation
- Dakota Gasification Company
- Minnkota Power Cooperative
- Basin Electric Power Coop
- Great River Energy
- Falkirk Mine
- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
These are just a few of the many clients we have worked for in the past. As of April 2003, we became a preferred supplier for Basin Electric Power Cooperative.