Monticello keeps old locomotives on rails at the edge of town, and this country has always had a liking for heavy iron doing plain work. Hislope Backhoe Service Inc. brings its own to winter: big lots opened up, drifts cut down and carried off, banks pushed back into corners so parking spaces stay spaces all season long. Snow that beats a shovel does not beat a loader, and a lot properly relieved of it in December is still fully usable in February. Walks get cleared and ice gets treated on the same trip, because the last ten feet are where people actually fall. Snow removal for Monticello and the towns across Piatt County.