Ace In the Hole Construction

About Ace In the Hole Construction

The clay buttes east of Watford City turn slick with ice long before the first real snow reaches the draws below them, and this crew knows which grades hold moisture and which shed it fast. Ace In the Hole turns that same instinct for ground — the slope of a driveway apron, the give of a gravel pad — toward the plow blade once winter sets its teeth into McKenzie County. A gravel lot behind a shop can look flat until the freeze-thaw starts working the low spots into ice sheets, and this crew pushes those spots clean, then comes back after the wind refills them. Cherry Creek's cottonwood bottoms catch drifts that spill onto the roads nearby, and clearing them means anticipating where the wind will pile snow tomorrow, not just where it sits today. By the time McKenzie County's mail carriers and delivery trucks are out, the lots this crew handles are already down to pavement.