Hawk's Transport Grading and Forestry Mulching

About Hawk's Transport Grading and Forestry Mulching

Quaker Gap is a notch in the Sauratown ridges, and winter arrives here sideways — funneled through the gap and laid down on gravel drives long before the ridgeline has any color in it. Hawk's Transport Grading and Forestry Mulching works those early hours, plowing farm lanes and long driveways so a truck can reach the hardtop while the frost still holds. Snow in Stokes County is a short, serious visitor: it comes with ice on its shoulders and it is often gone by noon once the sun swings clear of Moore's Knob. The craft is in the details — blade set right to gravel, the crown of the drive left intact, salt worked into the pitch where a vehicle would otherwise slide back toward the creek. By the time the tobacco barns are catching light, the way out is open and the day belongs to whoever needs it.