Searles Excavation Inc.

About Searles Excavation Inc.

Down at Bolsters Mills the Crooked River keeps sliding along under its lid of ice while the rest of Harrison sleeps, and that is usually when the heavy iron rolls out. Big lots ask for a different kind of thinking than a single driveway does — where the piles will live in March, which corner ices first, how a delivery truck will want to swing in at seven. Searles Excavation Inc. plows and clears at that scale, then sands the slick spots so the first arrivals of the morning never think about it at all. There is a particular pride in coming back at daylight to a yard laid out clean, edges square, drifts pushed to the far side where they belong. Winter here is long, and the answer to it is showing up early.