Hofsommer Excavating Inc.

Hofsommer Excavating Inc (HEI) started as Heinie’s Trenching Service in Oakes, North Dakota in the late 1950’s. Henry (AKA Heinie) Hofsommer (Kent’s Dad) 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 digging graves.
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.