Batchalakuri Rama Swamy Dozer Works

Our spot is at H No: 3-27 in the SC Colony of Gathikallu village. It’s out in the Athmakur S Mandal. Dozer work is heavy, dirty business. When the machines are running, you can feel the ground shaking all the way to the house. The dozers are usually parked out front when they aren't on a job site somewhere in the district. They are old machines, covered in mud and grease, but they get the job done when it comes to clearing land or moving earth. Gathikallu is a quiet village for the most part, except for the sound of our engines starting up early in the morning. We spend a lot of time out in the sun, fixing tracks or greasing the joints of the equipment. It’s a family-run kind of thing, not a big company with a hundred employees. We handle the calls and do the repairs ourselves right here in the colony. The dust gets into everything—your clothes, your hair, even the food sometimes. People in Athmakur know if they need some heavy digging done, they can find us here. We don't have a website or any of that. We just rely on our machines and the work we’ve done before. It’s a hard way to earn a living but it’s what we’ve always done. The dozers are sitting there now, waiting for the next call to come in. We just keep going.