Schmitt Excavating

About Schmitt Excavating

A Pawling driveway can be a quarter mile of hill, and Hammersley Ridge has never once cared what the forecast said. Schmitt Excavating plows that kind of ground — the steep climbs, the switchback turns, the gravel aprons where wind loads a drift overnight and then loads it again by noon. There is a particular satisfaction in a hill done right: shoulders pushed back wide, the turnaround opened up, sand laid where the grade bites hardest. Snow removal in these hills is less about the storm than about the hour after it, when a house on a ridge is only as connected to the world as its driveway is open. That is the hour the trucks are out, and that is the reason they exist.