Altman Excavating Inc

About Altman Excavating Inc

Winter arrives in Mercer with intent — Highway 51 goes white between the pines and Iron County counts its snowfall in feet rather than inches. Altman Excavating Inc works the dark end of those nights, running plow to gravel on drives that wind back through birch and balsam before anyone upstairs has stirred. There is a real satisfaction in a clean pass: the ridge thrown wide, the turnaround opened, the mailbox still standing. Storms here stack one on the next, so the work is as much about where the snow goes in February as where it lands tonight. By the time the sky lightens over the tamarack, the way out is simply there, waiting.