Cross Iron Excavating

About Cross Iron Excavating

Out past Fairfield's edge, where the streets give way to section-line roads, the gold domes at Maharishi University catch the first light before anything else in the county does, and Cross Iron Excavating is usually already out on those same rural roads by then, plow down on a farm lane or a long gravel driveway. This is a crew that spends the rest of the year cutting waterways and grading building sites on the farms around town, so a snowstorm just means the same machines pushing a different kind of load — snow instead of dirt, off a lane instead of out of a pond site. The open cropland west and south of Fairfield doesn't hold snow so much as move it, wind stacking a lane shut overnight that was clear at supper, so a farm family counts on that lane being open again before chores start. A cleared path from the barn to the road, a driveway pushed back to gravel — it's work that doesn't show up downtown but matters just as much out where the county roads run straight for miles. Same excavator, same operator, just working through a Jefferson County winter instead of a Jefferson County summer.