Blackburn & Sons Excavation

About Blackburn & Sons Excavation

West of downtown, the streets stop being flat almost as soon as they start climbing toward the Selkirk foothills, and that's where Blackburn & Sons Excavation spends most of a snow morning. Excavation equipment built for grading a hillside lot turns out to handle a steep, switchbacking driveway just as well, and this crew runs those grades the way they'd run a dirt job — gauging the slope, working the blade angle before the truck ever loses traction. Priest River winters bring a mix of wet, heavy snow down in the valley and drier cold dropping off the mountains, so no two driveways pack the same way. The heavier equipment means the steep ones — the kind that scare off a smaller outfit — get cleared same as the flat ones downtown. It's the same grading judgment, aimed at a different kind of slope, one storm at a time.