Top Hand Snow and Ice Removal

About Top Hand Snow and Ice Removal

At three in the morning on the county roads the sky looks bottomless and the thermometer keeps on dropping. Top Hand Snow and Ice Removal is out in it, running the long ranch driveways and the lanes out of town, stacking snow into banks and cutting a clean lane for whoever has to be at work by seven. Plowing, shoveling walks and gate aprons, and treating the ice that forms where the sun never reaches all winter — that is the whole list, and on a bad night it is plenty. Cold can hang on for days after a storm, so nothing softens and every pass has to be right the first time. Then the eastern sky goes pale and the shift is finished.