Ramberg Excavating

About Ramberg Excavating

When a February northwester packs the snow into drifts hard enough to walk on, Pine City finds out which outfits have real machines. Ramberg Excavating is one of them. An excavating company spends the warm months moving earth, and the cold months moving what winter dumps in its place — the deep accumulations, the wind-set banks, the lots where a pickup blade would just polish the surface. Heavy equipment and an operator who knows it can open a buried driveway in minutes and stack the season's snow where it will not come back to haunt anyone at melt. There is a blunt beauty in that kind of work: the storm does its worst, and by morning the way is simply open.