Back around that era the county road meandered through our farm here in Minnesota, and had a cut through a ridge. They used the dirt they hauled out of the cut to build road bed so that is why they didnt move over a 1000 feet.... like it is now on more level ground. My field still has the depression where they leveled in the old cut.
Anyhow, back around then that cut would drift in with snow at least that bad. Dad said they would get a dozer to open it, but often used hired men to shovel the snow up the sides and out to level ground. He said it took 3 men to shovel, bottom would throw it up 5-6 feet, next higher would scout and shovel up 5-6 feet, and the 3rd one would throw it up to the ground level. Thats how deep the cut was.
Can you imagine hiring a crew of workers on a day or 3 pay to stand out in winter and shovel snow like that? In todays world?
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