Snow Hours moving snow

[Dyer retired]

This is why I need a cab. The 5425 is supposed to getting built this Wednesday. I guarantee when it finally arrives, hopefully by next week, we will get no more snow

Probably this late in the season, it would be a shame to scratch up that new 5425, but I will agree with you... having it delivered now does guarantee no more snow....kind of like the guy that buys the brand new snow sled in December and then it doesn't snow until mid-January!

When I bought the BX 1800 new (2003,) I backed it out of the garage and into a fence post, tearing an amber marker light off it's bracket. I think if I ever get a new tractor, I'm going to just go out and hammer something off immediately....just to get that out of the way. At least I'll be able to choose a part that is inexpensive to replace, ha! Have fun with the new rig! John

 

[offcamber]

well I got about an hour seat time before I got it stuck lol....had to get my pickup to give it a yank out of the rut it was stuck in...the snow was still soft under the crust so I got some work done....after I extracted the tractor I was too cold to continue....I should have put on the Carharts today...that wind is COLD!

 

[slofr8]

slofr8,

Sorry to see that! Where in the Country are you and how often does it fall like that? I've attached a couple of pictures from last week, so we kind of know what it's like, but have had a bit of a reprieve the last couple of days. Dyer, retired

About 40 miles north of where you grew up. Fort Kent.
This year it seems to fall like this every week!
Dan.

 

[Dyer retired]

About 40 miles north of where you grew up. Fort Kent.
This year it seems to fall like this every week!
Dan.

I don't see Doody Michaud posing for that Calendar picture in weather like this, ha! The weatherman is saying we're getting a break for a few days now...hopefully.

I remember winters like this as a kid, but the snow was never the issue for me as much as the cold. I remember two and three week stretches where it didn't make it above 0 degrees and the wind would blow so that you couldn't see the neighbors house. I noticed when we moved down here that there is about a month difference on each end of the season....ice out is about a month sooner here, ice in is a month sooner up there, etc. You guys have gotten your share this year for sure! For some reason, I live right on some magical line here in Belgrade that gets the heavier amounts of whatever they predict. If it's between 12 and 15 inches, we get the 15. I just try to have fun with the tractor in it now. Windy here today, but the sun came out, so it felt a little warmer.

Stay warm. Dyer, retired

 

[canoetrpr]

We've finally had a real Canadian winter and I'm loving the snow. I didn't like the part when we had spring about 15 times over the winter. Snow I'm fine with - slush and mud... I only want to put up with that stuff once a year in spring.

I used to think that the guys that recommended I get cab when I was looking were lightweights. Now I know they were a heck smarter than me I'm sold on a cab after this winter. Next tractor will definitely have a cab.

Heywood, bet you can't wait for that 5425! Looking forward to your pictures when you get it.

 

[JDeerekid]

For some reason, I live right on some magical line here in Belgrade that gets the heavier amounts of whatever they predict. If it's between 12 and 15 inches, we get the 15.
Dyer, retired

Yea I live directly east of Lake Ontario, right in line with the great lakes. When they call for 6 - 12 inches of lake effect snow, we usually get double or triple that. About 3 weeks ago I started plowing at 7am with my neighbors small kubota with cab(no heat) and loader and didn't finish until 9pm, just becuase i got tired. I plow a half a dozen or so driveways. We got all of 5ft+. With in the past few years this has not been uncommon. Last year we were on the news everywhere because we got over 12 feet in a week.

Here are some pics from the snow storm from a few weeks ago.
Wish I had my new tractor for that snow, would of been done in half the time.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Heywood, bet you can't wait for that 5425! Looking forward to your pictures when you get it.

Definitely Canoetrpr! If it wasn't a JD, it would have been an M7040 for sure. Just got a better deal on the green and yellow one. But the 'bota sure was nice. Kubota seems to be the only mfg that offers a rear defroster on their cab models.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Might I add though, that my left foot is firmly planted on the diff. lock pedal!

Duh... that would be my RIGHT foot. (My other left foot!)

 

[Dyer retired]

Yea I live directly east of Lake Ontario, right in line with the great lakes. When they call for 6 - 12 inches of lake effect snow, we usually get double or triple that. About 3 weeks ago I started plowing at 7am with my neighbors small kubota with cab(no heat) and loader and didn't finish until 9pm, just becuase i got tired. I plow a half a dozen or so driveways. We got all of 5ft+. With in the past few years this has not been uncommon. Last year we were on the news everywhere because we got over 12 feet in a week.

Here are some pics from the snow storm from a few weeks ago.
Wish I had my new tractor for that snow, would of been done in half the time.

JDeerekid,

I would say that 12 feet of snow in one week would certainly qualify as Newsworthy all right! I've never had a fel unit, but like the snow blower on the front of the little rig I have. I can put the snow where I want it and it takes when the snow amounts get too big, I just go out and do it in stages. Again, my yard isn't so big that I can't clean it all up in a couple of hours and that's being pretty particular about the clean up, so I can't complain. I do an awful lot with the rear blade on the smaller storms, but this year seems to have been primarily the snow blower getting used. My yard isn't really big enough to justify a cab either, although my wife has given the thumbs up in the past, I wouldn't be able to get it in the garage with one on, so I bundle up and go at it.

I liked the pictures and thought that last the blower unit on the Montana would probably move a fair amount of snow in short order. Hope it quiets down for you in the weather department. Dyer, retired

 

[Northland]

We received another 20 cm or so of snow Monday night and Tuesday.

Fortunately it cleared up in the evening and I was able to snow blow it
out. The snow was so heavy I broke three shear bolts off on my tractor's
snow blower.

The worst part was having to shovel all that wet heavy snow off the
decks and steps. Each shovelful actually stuck hard to my plastic
ergonomic Garant shovel.

The pictures will give you an idea of how much snow we still have here
in Searchmont Ontario.

April Fool's indeed!

See attached pictures from yesterday

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