Pavey Excavating Co Inc

About Pavey Excavating Co Inc

The ground around La Porte was shaped by glaciers that left behind the kettle lakes the city is named for and packed the soil beneath Door Prairie hard and heavy — the same clay-thick ground Pavey Excavating Co Inc has always worked with its equipment now turned to winter plowing. Out past the edge of town, where the old prairie opening once let travelers pass through unbroken forest, the driveways run long and the wind has nothing to stop it, so a front-end loader does the job a pickup plow can't. Lake-effect snow off Lake Michigan can bury a rural lane in a single night while La Porte itself sees half as much, a difference the crew has learned to read before the forecast even changes. There's a particular satisfaction in opening a quarter-mile farm drive down to gravel with the same machine that once dug its foundation, snow banked shoulder-high on either side by the time the pass is finished. By midmorning those long rural drives sit open end to end, the prairie flat and white on either side, the only sound out there the idle of a diesel engine cooling down.