Dave's Excavating Inc

About Dave's Excavating Inc

Marion wakes up along the Mississinewa River, and Dave's Excavating Inc is usually already out working the grid of streets before that river fog lifts off the water. This is a town built for heavy equipment in winter as much as summer — long blocks, wide commercial lots, driveways poured deep enough for a truck the size the crew runs. The passes start near the river bends where cold pools first, then work outward through the neighborhood grid toward the edges of town. A loader clears in one pass what a shovel takes an hour to manage, and on the mornings after a real Grant County storm, that speed is the difference between Marion opening on time and Marion staying shut. By the time the sun clears the river, the lots sit banked clean at the edges, as if they were never buried at all.