Hangartner Tree Services & Stump

About Hangartner Tree Services & Stump

Night settles heavy in the timbered hills around Postville, thick enough that Hangartner Tree Services & Stump is often still working long after the last porch light downtown has gone dark. Snow behaves differently under oak ridges than it does on open prairie — it drifts against the tree lines and piles deep in the hollows where a road disappears from view. The crew clears the long farm lanes back into those hollows first, then works toward the flatter in-town streets for driveways and walks. Past the edge of Postville, toward Farmersburg, the bluffs close in tight and the road narrows to one plowed lane between the timber. Sunup finds the hollows open again, holding nothing but tire tracks and the kind of quiet only deep hills can hold.