Hillmann Backhoe & Tiling, Inc.

About Hillmann Backhoe & Tiling, Inc.

Beneath the cropland surrounding Gibbon run long lines of drainage tile, the hidden plumbing that turned wet prairie into dark, workable ground. Hillmann Backhoe & Tiling knows that ground from the inside, and when a late-season storm drops heavy, wet snow on town, a backhoe-and-tiling outfit is well suited to digging out. March snow here is the dense kind, packing into a waist-high wall at the end of the drive, and moving it takes reach and lift. The goal is a driveway opened broad and square, with slush scraped away from the low spots so meltwater has a path to drain. Drainage people think about where water will go even while it is still frozen, and by dusk the drive shines wet and black between the banks.