Site Development
Land clearing, common, foundation and rock excavation, underground utilities, septic systems, driveways, road construction, landscape.
Trucking & excavating · Ely, Minnesota
The earthmoves.
Three generations of hard work in the Ely woods, from a team of horses to Caterpillar diesel.
TISOVICH · SAY “TIS-O-VICH”
Meet the family
Gary & Bob Tisovich.
A hands-on, tradesman-oriented company that works directly with the owner or contractor to make the building process as easy as possible.
Robert “Bob” Frank Tisovich, the youngest son of Frank, graduated from Ely Memorial Senior High, attended Vermilion Community College, and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Duluth. He worked as a construction accountant for large national firms in Chicago and Minneapolis and as business manager for a regional road-construction firm in Ely. He is President of the company and still works in the field on the jobs.
Gary Frank Tisovich, Frank’s oldest son, is a lifelong Ely resident who trained in heavy equipment operation and maintenance at Staples Vocational Technical College. He is field foreman and the shop mechanic who keeps the fleet running.
- 1948
- one of the first shovels in Ely
- 3
- generations: Charles Sr., Frank, Gary & Bob
- 14
- Charles Sr.’s age when he came from Slovenia
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Honesty.
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Respect & integrity.
03
Pride in a job well done.
About 90 years of photos
From horsepower to diesel power.
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Pre-1920
Before World War I, Charles Tisovich Sr. came to the United States from Slovenia by himself at 14 and took his team of horses into the woods to transport logs. His sons Rudy, Charlie and Frank grew up working alongside him.
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1930s
The brothers bought some of the first trucks in the Ely area to haul logs out of the woods.
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1948
Rudy was killed in Italy during World War II. Charlie and Frank added one of the first shovels in the Ely area in 1948, and later a bulldozer, expanding into construction while continuing to truck.
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Frank’s era
Frank bought out Charlie’s share and expanded into underground utilities, residential and commercial earthwork and road building. Gary and Bob’s earliest memories are cleaning dirt off the machine tracks in the old repair shop.
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1980s
In the early 1980s Gary started his own trucking business hauling forest products to regional wood-product plants.
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Today
A fleet from compact machines for tight sites to large Caterpillar earth movers, kept in shape in a fully equipped shop where every winter the equipment is torn down and rebuilt for the next season.
Construction services
Small, large or in-between.
Septic Systems
Septic system design and installation.
Road Building
Land clearing, preparation, construction and road repair.
Landscaping
We work with your ideas & plans or your landscape architect’s design plan.
Environmental & Recreational
Shoreline reclamation, wildlife ponds, beach enhancement, dock site construction.
Snow Removal
Snow plowing and snow removal.
Transportation
Transportation of heavy and large items.
Aggregate
Washed aggregates, septic rock and sand, road-building materials, pit run, Class 5, rip rap, landscape stones, garden dirt, topsoil.
Tell us about your project.
Call 218-365-6547
“A skilled operator, and quality equipment, can make all the difference.”
“Trader” Craig Loughery · Burntside Lake
Hi Bob,
Notes from neighbors.
You obviously know your stuff and take great pride in your work as evidenced by how clean the site was after you were done.
Your prices are very reasonable and you have never gone a penny over one of your estimates. You always start and finish the job on schedule.
I call Tisovich and they delivered within 2 days, on time and very friendly.
It's great to deal with a company that does what they say they will do.
As a retired General Contractor, I was very pleased with all aspects of working with him.
He is very pleasant to do business with, discussed his plans well and there were no hidden costs involved. His equipment is well maintained.
Great place for a load of pit run, sand, whatever. Highly recommended.
Letters from tisovich.com and public Google reviews.
On the job
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Contact
1004 East Harvey Street
P.O. Box 276 · Ely, MN 55731
- Phone218-365-6547
- Phone / fax218-365-6620
- Emailinfo@tisovich.com
- DirectionsOpen in Google Maps
Gary & Robert Tisovich
We would like to provide you with quality construction services on your project. Please contact us.
