Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Snow Is Coming!!!

[shaley]

10" in Smithfield. Stopped plowing for about an hour and the tractor was covered. Weatherman says it will be 60 deg by Fri. I gues it will be floods next.

 

[NHbotanut]

12 -18" for me. Spent the day getting the tractor ready for play...er work....

Snowplow is on, as is the rear blower. The winter cab has been installed, and the cord is laid out so I can plug her in in the morning. About time the white stuff got here!

 

[pitt_md]

I can't help but feel responsible for this mess. Back in the fall we were all talking about our "snow weapons" or something like that and I said "Bring it". :laughing: Here we sit in MN with close to three feet on the ground and it's supposed to snow Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I would raise a white flag but no one could see it with all this snow.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

I can't help but feel responsible for this mess. Back in the fall we were all talking about our "snow weapons" or something like that and I said "Bring it". :laughing: Here we sit in MN with close to three feet on the ground and it's supposed to snow Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I would raise a white flag but no one could see it with all this snow.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

It's getting really windy now.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Looks like the forecast is now 4" to 8"...

 

[ditzel]

It's Here! Just got done clearing my driveway, about a 1' on the ground now.

 

[RoyJackson]

We got about 7" here.

Very pretty picture...

 

[jake98]

The wind has been relentless.

 

[irvingj]

Boy, it's here now!

Snow map early this AM said 8-14", looks like we'll get that anyway, maybe more.... Still very windy, not exactly prime snowblower weather!

 

[Ductape]

Boy, it's here now!

Snow map early this AM said 8-14", looks like we'll get that anyway, maybe more.... Still very windy, not exactly prime snowblower weather!

Yep....... same down here. We gotta have the better part of a foot already, and its supposed to go till 6 pm. I'm not really sure what you mean by 'not prime snowblower weather' though.

 

[Steve_Miller]

Here it is 9:00am and raining like h^&* on the 6 or 7" of snow we had through the night, it's got it beat down to almost nothing now. What am I going to do now? :confused2:

Steve

 

[irvingj]

Well, Ductape, the way my property sits, most of my snow is blown off the lower areas --to the north! Doesn't look like it would get very far today. (Sorta like "spitting into the wind"....:laughing

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll try to wait for the wind to die down a bit....

 

[CompactTractorFan]

It's Here! Just got done clearing my driveway, about a 1' on the ground now.

Looks like you guys over in jersey got the worst of it.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

The wind has been relentless.

It sure has.

 

[NSBound]

Here it is 9:00am and raining like h^&* on the 6 or 7" of snow we had through the night, it's got it beat down to almost nothing now. What am I going to do now? :confused2:

Steve

Same up here, Steve - 6-8" of snow is now 5-6" of slush everywhere. Power was out for 9 hours from 5 am today, no plows on my dirt road, but it's passable - as you drive over the slush you get down to the road surface. Another 10-20 cm predicted for overnight. We're lucky not to have received the wind too.

 

[IXLR8]

Sounds like your going to have a real mess there in NS when that slush freezes.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

OK everybody the driveway is done!!! :drink:
Here is a video of me: YouTube - Plowing Snow With Kubota BX25

 

[fdmars]

14" in CT, did the driveway this AM, Pulled a triple....picked up a rock in the snowblower and broke all 3 shear pins:confused2: Glad I had extra, better get some more. Still blowing like crazy, can only throw snow w/ the wind or else get a facefull. Gotta love it

 

[CompactTractorFan]

So, the snow is over. Here are some lessons learned:

#1: Don't plow until the snow stops falling. I went out twice yesterday and it just made a big icy mess.

#2: Don't let Dad operate equipment...