Sherrell Construction Co.

About Sherrell Construction Co.

North of Soddy-Daisy toward Sale Creek the driveways get long and turn to gravel, winding a quarter mile back through pasture and pine before a house ever comes into view. Those are the drives that go unreachable when a winter storm crosses the valley, and Sherrell Construction Co. takes them on: plowing the full run, opening the turnaround at the top, shoveling the steps and the path to the porch, and treating the shaded low spots where ice sets up hardest. Plowing gravel is its own discipline — blade set right, angle right, so the snow leaves and the roadbed stays. Snow does not come often to this part of Tennessee, which is precisely why a cleared lane feels like such a gift on the morning it does. Somebody gets to work on time, and that is the whole measure of it.