Dan Risner & Son Excavating

About Dan Risner & Son Excavating

The plowable storms around Pound tend to arrive after dark, which suits Dan Risner & Son Excavating fine — night is when the routes get run. Headlights sweep the snow-slick county roads, the blade throws a white wing into the ditch, and by the time the sky goes gray in the east another driveway stands open. This is northeastern Wisconsin at its most stubborn, where a northwest wind can refill a lane an hour after it was cleared, so the trucks simply come back and clear it again. There is no drama in it, just repetition done well: approaches widened, mailboxes dug out, turnarounds kept generous from the village out into the surrounding townships. Come daybreak the proof is everywhere — square banks and tire tracks leading to the road as if the storm had never happened.