Hatch Grading & Contracting, Inc.

About Hatch Grading & Contracting, Inc.

Dysart's streets run in a tight grid around the grain elevator that still marks the middle of town, the kind of layout where every driveway backs onto an alley and every alley catches whatever snow the open Tama County fields blow in. Hatch Grading & Contracting, Inc. runs its grading equipment on winter mornings the same way it runs it in summer, blade down, clearing driveways and the short alley stretches before the rest of town is awake. A prairie wind with nothing to break it can pack snow hard against a garage door overnight, and the crew's routes are built around getting those doors open before anyone needs to leave for work. The company clears the wider aprons around outbuildings and machine sheds as easily as a standard driveway, work suited to equipment built for moving dirt as much as snow. Streets near the elevator are usually first to clear, the grain-car spur running quiet under a fresh coat of white until the day's first train comes through.