Atnip Excavating

About Atnip Excavating

Dairy farms hold the ridgelines around Seymour, pastures rolling down into cedar-choked hollows where the morning cold lingers well past the point the open ground has started to warm. A dairy operation doesn't get to wait out a storm, the milking schedule runs on its own clock regardless of what the sky is doing, so Atnip Excavating pushes the high pasture lanes clear early, before the first truck needs to move. Gravel section roads out here freeze into ruts fast if traffic packs them down before a plow gets to them, so timing the pass counts for as much as the pass itself. Down in the hollows, cedars hold a heavier snow load than the open ridge above them, and a lane through the trees can stay shaded and slick long after the pastures have dried in the sun. Having a farm lane open before the first milking truck needs it is the plain measure of the job most winter mornings.