Schmidt Excavating & Snow Removal

About Schmidt Excavating & Snow Removal

South of downtown, past the Iowa City Municipal Airport, the ground flattens out into some of the widest open lots in town, hangars and warehouse yards with nothing to break the wind for a quarter mile in any direction. Schmidt Excavating & Snow Removal runs equipment built for that scale, clearing long stretches of pavement in straight passes rather than the tight in-and-out turns a residential street calls for. The same crew works ordinary driveways too, on the quieter grid of houses back toward town, where the machine gets throttled down to fit between a mailbox and a fence line instead of running flat out across an apron. Iowa City's open southern edge catches wind straight off the farmland beyond the city limits, and a lot that's clear at 6 a.m. can carry a new skin of drifted snow by midmorning. Reading that wind, and getting back out to the widest lots a second time before it matters, is most of the job on the south side.