MAC Excavation & Landscape

Read the reviews of this Hanson outfit and one name keeps turning up: Mark, who shows up for the estimate and is still there when the last paver goes down. MAC Excavation & Landscape works out of 157 Independence Ave in Hanson and covers the South Shore — Pembroke, Hanover, Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, Plymouth, Halifax and a dozen more towns, by its own account. The work splits between dirt and stone: excavation, grading, drainage and septic installation on one side; paver patios, walkways and retaining walls on the other. Its Angi profile claims twelve years in business. The written history is short and uniformly positive. Google carries 5.0 from 16 ratings and Angi 5.0 from 7, with every rating on both a five. The specifics repeat: a 9-by-9 paver platform with a retaining wall built to hold a hot tub on a two-foot slope, put in during the first heatwave of the summer; a fieldstone retaining wall where the homeowner wished there were ten stars to check; a twenty-year-old walkway brought back, in an April 2026 review, "to its original level and like-new form." A January 2025 customer hired them for holiday lighting instead — a fair sign of how far the work mix stretches. Two things to pin down before booking. The whole written record starts in 2025, and the twelve years Angi lists don't show up anywhere in it, so ask directly how long the crew has been doing this work and for references from older jobs. Angi's page also states the company offers no warranties and doesn't take emergency calls, which is worth settling in writing before a wall or patio goes in. It's also worth knowing the two review counts overlap rather than add up: Angi labels five of its seven reviews as re-posted Google reviews, so this is closer to sixteen customers than twenty-three. For a South Shore homeowner who wants a patio, a walkway or a retaining wall — or a septic and site-prep job handled by one crew rather than three — this is a small, owner-run operation with a young but unblemished run of jobs behind it. Confirm the tenure, get the scope and any workmanship guarantee down on paper, and ask to see a wall they built three or four seasons ago.