before they invented snow plows, they packed it down with big rollers made of wood planks.

and they called that a snow pank.  https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs9126/HS9126?auth=world;lasttype=boolean;lastview=thumbfull;resnum=4296;size=20;sort=bhl_yyyy;start=4281;view=entry;rgn1=ic_all;q1=bhl