Sutherland Excavating Inc

About Sutherland Excavating Inc

Snow falls at night more often than not, and the plowing follows it — headlights swinging into a driveway at eleven, and again at four if the band sets up and won't quit. Sutherland Excavating Inc works those hours around Grand Rapids, opening driveways and yard approaches, hauling back the banks once they've grown too tall to push through, and treating the ice that forms where a slope drains. By February the piles at the end of a drive can stand taller than a truck, and moving snow becomes as much about where it goes as how quickly it's lifted. Out toward Warba and Deer River the wind gets a long run at the open fields, so a road that was fine at dusk can be a different animal by midnight. Whatever the night leaves behind, the drive is open in the morning.