By late February the banks along the Escanaba harbor stand taller than a truck cab, and the question stops being where to push the snow and becomes where to take it. St. John Trucking & Excavating LLC handles that end of the season — plowing drives and lots, shoveling whatever needs hands, and hauling snow away from properties that have simply run out of room. When the melt finally runs off the flats near the ore dock and grass reappears, the work swings to mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups. Escanaba asks for heavy iron about half the year and a careful mower the other half. Either way the aim never changes: leave the property usable.