Casper grew up around the river crossing that wagon trains once queued for on the way west, and later around the refinery works that gave the town its old nickname, and the ground on both sides of that history still carries a mix of industrial yards and open lots that need more than a light touch in winter. Dean's Earthworks & Skidsteer Services runs the same equipment through both seasons — grading in summer, pushing snow in winter — across commercial properties where a car-sized blade would take all day and a skid steer clears in an hour. Storms here tend to arrive on a wind that has crossed a hundred miles of open plain with nothing to slow it, packing snow hard against loading docks and fence lines on one side of a lot while leaving the other bare. The crew reads a property the way it reads a grading job, working the low spots and drainage lines first since that's where meltwater causes trouble whether the ground was graded in July or plowed in January. Dean's clears commercial lots, industrial yards, and access roads around Casper with skid steer equipment built for exactly that kind of ground.