Walkers Backhoe and Snow Removal

About Walkers Backhoe and Snow Removal

Walkers Backhoe and Snow Removal starts its route while the cottonwoods along the Big Wood River are still rimmed white with frost, working driveways close to the river bottom where the valley's old irrigation ditches run frozen solid under a crust of snow all winter. Those ditches carry water the whole valley depends on come summer, and the crew knows exactly where each one crosses a driveway or a lane, clearing snow without ever catching a blade on a headgate buried just under the surface. The Big Wood itself runs low and slow this time of year, skinned with shelf ice along both banks, and the cold that settles over its bottomland can hold on well past the hour the rest of town has warmed into an ordinary winter morning. The crew works the equipment steady through that cold, clearing driveway after driveway along the river's edge before moving out to the drier ground further from the water. Frost is still holding on those cottonwoods long after the river-bottom lanes are already open, cleared in the coldest hours rather than waiting on the day to catch up.