Up on the ridge roads outside Cuba a lane can run a quarter mile before it reaches a house, and the wind has firm opinions about where the snow belongs. Tatham Excavating takes on that longer kind of property — plowing lanes and turnarounds, keeping ice off the spots where a loaded truck has to stop, then mowing and trimming the same ground once mud season lets go. April up here stays brown for a while and then, in about a week, decidedly isn't. Fall cleanups strip the yards down before the ground hardens for good. Wide-open land asks for equipment that can cover it, and the pleasure is standing at the end of a cleared lane and looking back down its whole length.