Murdock Excavation and Tree Service

About Murdock Excavation and Tree Service

The interstate cuts across flat bootheel ground outside Sikeston, fields that grow cotton and rice come summer and show nothing but stubble and open sky by the time real winter arrives. A shelterbelt row breaking up those fields carries ice unevenly, heavier on the shaded side, and a limb overloaded there can let go without much warning, dropping into whatever lane happens to run beneath it. Murdock Excavation and Tree Service handles both sides of that problem, hauling off what the ice brings down, then plowing the long straight drives that lead back from the county road to each farmhouse. Open-field wind near the interstate can shut a cleared lane again faster than the original snowfall would suggest, so a driveway opened at dawn sometimes needs checking again by midafternoon. A lane plowed clean against that flat winter horizon, cotton stubble still dark through the snow on either side, is a plain kind of finished.