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Plowing Snow Keeps Many of New England’s Contractors in Business
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In frigid New England, they call snow plowing “heart attack work.” Don’t tell that to David R. Casey. Casey, 79, the owner of David R. Casey Contracting of Hanover, Mass., has already had a heart transplant, but keeps driving his trucks. “I complained that they gave me a ‘lazy’ one, the new heart,” laughed Casey. “It finally kicked in. Casey — despite replaced heart and engine valves — keeps plowing snow, something he has done for 65 years, since he was 14 years old. “I love it!” he said. “I started plowing when they Photo courtesy of Al Hashem, ADH Contracting, Middleboro Mass. were still using horses to do everything. My father Plowing snow may keep these guys employed year ’round, but it’s no easy payowned horses in Rockland check, particularly when it’s so bad that in order to start plowing, you must first [Mass.]. I plowed sidewalks find your truck. A plow truck in a harsh Massachusetts storm. and just kept going.” His bread and butter are repeat contracts with area stores Hard-working contractors like David Casey love snow because it isn’t white to them; it is various shades of green. and their adjacent parking lots, which must be cleaned up for Snow plowing all winter has saved many a construction shopping before, during and after every winter storm. “In my first year of business, July 1987, I was working business from being plowed under when the ground has got[with] machine rental and things started slowing down,” said ten too frozen to do any real digging or building. “These days, with a good snowstorm, I can go three to Hashem. “I was looking for a snow plowing contract. A local department store in Lakeville, Mass., was looking to sign four days straight,” said Casey of his new heart. “If it weren’t for plowing snow, I wouldn’t generate someone up for a contract. I was the only guy who showed enough revenue to get through the winter,” said Al Hashem, up. It was too late in the season for other contractors. They owner/operator of ADH Contracting, Middleboro, Mass. “I had already signed up for their [set] jobs in August and September.” would be out of business.” He went out and bought an “Old Ford one-ton flatbed Hashem has plowed with an ever-growing array of trucks for a quarter century. He started in his first year with a back- truck with sander. It was a pretty rough truck,” he rememhoe, a six-wheel dump truck and a four-wheel pick-up truck bered. “I had to fix the cab up, just so I could take it on the with sander. Now, he will send a half- dozen trucks, a small road. I didn’t have a garage to work in. I lay on the ground fleet, on the road. see sNoW page 8