Crystal Excavating, LLC

About Crystal Excavating, LLC

Owensville sits in a flat stretch of Gibson County, ground that once held a scatter of oil derricks before it went back to corn and beans, and the roads out from town run straight for miles without so much as a rise. This excavating crew brings its heavier equipment to bear on winter mornings, pushing snow off long farm lanes and larger lots the same way it moves dirt the rest of the year. Wind has an easy run at this flat ground, and a driveway cleared at first light can start drifting back in before noon if the storm hasn't let up. The crew works in wide, deliberate passes, banking the snow well back off the edges so a second pass isn't fighting the first one's leftovers. It's unglamorous work on ground this flat and this open, but Owensville's farms depend on those lanes staying passable all winter long.