Anyone out plowin?

[Hay Dude]

We have 7"+ here now, did one round of plowing at around 5" .
Next round now so I don;t miss the SB.

Where in SEPA did you get 7”?
We got like 6” but only 2-3” on pavement (little too warm)

 

[kenmbz]

I am in New Hope in the hills.

 

[Bendboater]

Snow! What's that? Saw folks wearing shorts here in Central Oregon today. Did I jinx it?????? Sure hope so or we are gona have a worse fire season than last year.

Yippee. Finally getting some snow and cold weather here in Central Oregon. Come on baby, let it snow, let it snow......:cool2:

 

[Hay Dude]

I am in New Hope in the hills.

You are north of the Turnpike. Whole nother weather pattern up there.

 

[Reb954]

We had 3" of new snow this morning, not enough to bother with. It snowed most of the day here but didn't lay much down do to being so warm, low 30's. Suppose to get another 4" to 7" by tomorrow night so there may be enough to push.

Last Friday I cleared 12" of new snow, took right at an hour. A few days before that I cleared 3" which also took right at an hour. Snowblowing is done in M and 1st, bucket work is done in M and 3rd. I would like to get 1-1/2 ft. to 2 ft., see if that makes a difference in time to clear the snow.

 

[Reb954]

Cleared 12 of new snow this morning. Took 2 hrs due to it being wet and heavy. Part of the time was also clearing the neighbors approach and while doing that I noticed a semi trailer across the road about 1/4 mile away.

I drove up to see what was going on. It seems he was pulling out of a side road, turned a bit tight, ended up with the trailer in the snow bank. My little tractor pulled him out. Amazing what can be done with a tow strap.

 

[Hay Dude]

Got about 6 of sand-like snow. Really heavy to plow.

 

[killingitcountry]

We got just over a foot here in Ontario Canada. It was a bit too much for the 60" plow on the loader arms of my Kubota BX - I eventually caved and put the blower on.

 

[Thomas]

Once stop snowing later today about easy fluffy snow to plow.

 

[kenmbz]

6" yesterday-heavy stuff, 1.5 hours to clear with the plow.
Snowing again this morning calling for another 1", but looks like more already, may do another cleanup run today if it ever stops.

 

[Reb954]

Spent about an hour this morning at work clearing about 6" of fluffy stuff. The guy that normally does it is off for a week.

That sure is a nice machine to run.

 

[PILOON]

Anyone out plowin?

NO, LOL, I'm sitting at my computer posting/reading.

 

[metalbender]

Sunshine, -10, and the wind is blowing like stupid. Ground drifting from the south blocks my road in short order. Did the half mile, had to touch up the lee side on the way back, started to block the road again. Loving the loader mounted blower.

 

[SylvainG]

We got 8-10" earlier this week. First time using the tractor/blower to clear my 1000' private road. With that amount of snow, my ATV/Plow wouldn't have been able to handle it so I would have had to use my 26" snow blower. Would have taken me over 2 hours, making 4 back&forth passes (so eight passes), fighting with the snow blower to go where I want it to go (many curves) and then fight again to remove the harden snowbank.

With the tractor, just stay seated, driving in lowest gear, did one back&forth pass and, done. Took 35 minutes and chew through the snowbank. May be I could have been using my second gear but didn't want to overload it on my first try

 

[senecak19]

We got 8-10" earlier this week. First time using the tractor/blower to clear my 1000' private road. With that amount of snow, my ATV/Plow wouldn't have been able to handle it so I would have had to use my 26" snow blower. Would have taken me over 2 hours, making 4 back&forth passes (so eight passes), fighting with the snow blower to go where I want it to go (many curves) and then fight again to remove the harden snowbank.

With the tractor, just stay seated, driving in lowest gear, did one back&forth pass and, done. Took 35 minutes and chew through the snowbank. May be I could have been using my second gear but didn't want to overload it on my first try

2 hours to 35 minutes. That's a win!

 

[SylvainG]

Not in the bank account though lol but it will see more use than snow removal once spring comes.

 

[grsthegreat]

we have now had 8" of snow over about 1.5 days. im heading out to plow

 

[Hay Dude]

I just finished. One round of plowing and another round of salting. My helper had a med emergency so I did it all myself.:confused2:

 

[Rustyiron]

I'm going out after supper for another nuisance snow, 2". Half the customers will bit ch if you don't plow trying to save them a few bucks, and the other half will if you do plow, and this is Maine! :confused3:

 

[Hay Dude]

I'm going out after supper for another nuisance snow, 2". Half the customers will bit ch if you don't plow trying to save them a few bucks, and the other half will if you do plow, and this is Maine! :confused3:

that sounds all too familiar
Most of my customer base I have known for decades and they treat me pretty good. Out of my 20 or so, theres 2 that pay me in like May despite my invoices saying “ pay upon receipt “. :laughing: