Cullum Excavating & Landscaping LLC

About Cullum Excavating & Landscaping LLC

West of Custer the ground climbs fast into ponderosa pine and granite outcrop, the Black Hills folding into steep drives that switch back up a hillside rather than running flat the way prairie roads do farther east. Cullum Excavating & Landscaping LLC clears those grades with equipment built for the pitch, since a light plow blade loses its grip on the same slope where a summer driveway barely needed a second gear. Snow up here holds longer in the shade of the pines than it does out on open ground, so a cleared drive can ice back over in the shadow of a ridge long after the sun has cleared the flats near town. Custer State Park's elk and bison move down off the higher ground as the season deepens, and the same cold that pushes them lower settles into these hillside drives overnight. Down in the valley the same storm might already be melting by noon; up here, the shaded switchbacks can hold onto it for days.