Bertils Gravel & Excavation

About Bertils Gravel & Excavation

The Red River Valley around Crookston is about as flat as land gets, laid out in mile-square sections, and in a January wind that flatness means snow travels until something finally stops it. Bertils Gravel & Excavation is out before daylight moving it — plowing driveways and yards, opening farm approaches, pushing back the ridge the county plow leaves across the end of every drive, hauling snow off when there is nowhere left to stack it. Heavy equipment is the right tool in this country; valley drifts set up hard enough to argue with a truck. Crookston is the base, with Fisher, Climax, Euclid and East Grand Forks within reach. Come sunrise the yard is open, the approach is squared off, and the day can start.