Earthworks Excavating Services

About Earthworks Excavating Services

Excavators that spend their summers pulling gravel along the East Fork Lewis River sit heavier than most trucks, and Earthworks Excavating Services keeps a couple of them fitted with plow blades for the handful of weeks each winter when that weight is worth something else. The company works the river-bottom properties out toward Hockinson, where long farm lanes cross low ground that floods in November and can ice solid by December if a cold snap follows the rain. Snow here rarely piles deep, but when it comes wet and heavy off the Cascades it can flatten a fence line before a lighter machine could get down the lane to clear it. The crew clears those lanes end to end, pushing snow into the same ditches it spent the fall digging out, and leaves the gravel showing through by the second pass. It is the same dirt, the same equipment, turned to a different job for a few cold weeks a year.