Schueller Snow Plowing, Scrap Metal & Washing

About Schueller Snow Plowing, Scrap Metal & Washing

By the time most of Epworth has gone in for supper, the yard at Schueller's is still going — a truck getting washed down, a load of scrap sorted into the trailer, the plow mount going back on for the night ahead. This is a hill-country town built around machine sheds and gravel lanes, and a business that plows, hauls scrap, and washes equipment fits the rhythm of a place where one outfit does what the day calls for. When snow comes across the ridges west of Dubuque, the plow truck is the one running after dark, clearing farm approaches and driveways so the roads out toward Farley and Peosta stay open for the first trucks out in the morning. There's a particular pride in a driveway pushed clean to the gravel, in a farmyard you can walk across without post-holing through a drift, in equipment that comes back from a wash looking like it just rolled off the lot. Whatever the day calls for — plow work, scrap work, a truck washed down — the yard runs on it, and that suits a hill town where one outfit handles it all.