Brad Long Excavating

About Brad Long Excavating

The Cass River runs west out of Millington through flat Tuscola County farmland, and in January that whole open country turns into one long snow fetch. Brad Long Excavating is out with plows once the fields freeze: farm lanes, shop yards, village drives, the wide gravel approaches a car cannot manage on its own. Wind is the real adversary here — a drive cleared at midnight can be closed again by four, so the work is measured in returns rather than in one heroic push. Salt and scraping go down where the traffic is, and the banks get stacked well back off the shoulder so the next storm has somewhere to land. Come daylight the trucks are out on the road and the mail runs, which is all anyone was asking for.