Craig's Dozer Services

About Craig's Dozer Services

Cow Creek cuts a low, brushy line through Sterling, and the farm lanes that cross it fill with drift fastest of anywhere in Rice County when a north wind gets behind a storm. Craig's Dozer Services runs the same blades through winter that clear building pads and terraces the rest of the year, pushing a lane's worth of snow off to the shoulder in one clean pass. There's a particular skill in reading a drift's shape well enough to move it without gouging the gravel underneath it, judgment that comes from working this ground in every kind of weather. The work covers the farm roads around Sterling and in past the college and the grain elevator on the edge of town, wherever a lane needs opening before the school bus or the milk truck comes through. A cleared lane out here isn't decoration — it's the only way anyone gets to town at all.