Winter is finally here.

[DFB]

Well we had the first plowable snowfall of the season only just last week here in southern VT. A wet and heavy sleet mix that's all iced up now as it dropped into low single digit temperatures overnight. A tragic tractor/suv collision resulting from those weather conditions I read about further north in the state happened too.


+14 degrees is the high so far today

Pretty much we eased thru the months of Nov. and Dec. so maybe only another 100 days or so to go...if there's an early spring!

 

[davesl708]

I vote to skip right to spring.:thumbsup:

We are headed to a month below normal temps here.
Our weather forecasters are right about 30% of the time so hopefully a mild winter like El Nino is supposed to give us.
Way to much flooding in this part of the country.

Stay warm.

 

[kcflhrc]

Yep, I'm ready for spring already. Just bought a new motorcycle so bring on the warm weather. Been pretty lucky here in Eastern Kansas so far, quite mild. I'm a telephone man and work outside so I welcome the mild winters.

 

[Looking4new]

I have blown about 3 lots of 4" each time and now the temps are in the double digits below zero F. This morning we were looking at the thermometer at -26F. Winter is here!

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

DFB, is anyone arround you worried about their septic field freezing up yet?
It's never happened to me (Im a relative rookie) but I've heard some horror stories. Thinking of spreading some straw. Am I overly concerned?

 

[jack707]

Wednesday and Thursday more snow!

 

[DFB]

Wednesday and Thursday more snow!

Hehehe!

 

[oosik]

Well, there has been snow here for over a month now. We just broke out of about ten days of really cold wx and it up around 25F to 35F. I have about 14" of snow but with these sunshiny, warm days its melting.

I got a new bike and am looking for another early spring also.

 

[DFB]

DFB, is anyone arround you worried about their septic field freezing up yet?
It's never happened to me (Im a relative rookie) but I've heard some horror stories. Thinking of spreading some straw. Am I overly concerned?

I personally have never heard of that happening around here ever before (not that it in theory couldn't) but some one here TBN I believe had issues like that. My camp in Maine never froze up and it was a very shallow in ground system. I have a mound design with pumps here in VT. and have been operating it more than 12 years now without any incident.

I did work with a fella that came into work one winter day complaining his sewer line froze up with ice and caused a blockage...we suggested he shower and do his laundry a little more often.

 

[tcreeley]

I was clearing snow with the last 8" storm, but quit as the ground was too soft - not frozen. By the next storm it should be harder and I will get to the barn. I use my tractor bucket.

 

[DFB]

I took a few divots out of the sod with my loader bucket the first time plowing this year.

 

[Coyote machine]

Septic systems shouldn't freeze up if the pitch to the tank is right and the tank is pumped on a regular basis.
I had to install a mound system when we added our barn and a house addition. That DID freeze the first Christmas holiday after install because the site tech, who claimed he was an engineer, was actually an idiot. I had to redesign the tank(s) layout and move the in line pump closer to the mound at huge extra expense, and the state put a 3 year restriction on my land until I could prove the system was working per specs. It was an expensive nightmare, but also a very unusual glitch/worse case scenario.

BTW, I tried plowing the recent dump of snow, it was like concrete. Three died on Killington access road last week due to the storm and bad driving conditions.

 

[Looking4new]

I was clearing snow with the last 8" storm, but quit as the ground was too soft - not frozen. By the next storm it should be harder and I will get to the barn. I use my tractor bucket.

If you back blade with the bucket, that will help.

 

[Thomas]

Plow only once so far this winter,fingers cross that well be all for this season....got a feeling it won't be tho.

 

[Looking4new]

Plow only once so far this winter,fingers cross that well be all for this season....got a feeling it won't be tho.

I've been 'out' 4 or 5 times (I don't keep track) so far this winter. I am expecting one of these days that the 60% chance of snow will turn into 100% chance of 2' of snow instead of these little PITA 2-3" dribbling s we are getting.

 

[Thomas]

I am expecting one of these days that the 60% chance of snow will turn into 100% chance of 2' of snow instead of these little PITA 2-3" dribbling s we are getting.

I can see your point long as there was weeks in between such snow dumpings.

 

[davesl708]

I miss Summer.:cold:

 

[MossRoad]

I've plowed twice this year, and only because I wanted to make sure the tractor still worked after sitting for a month. I mowed leaves in December, for cryin out loud! I used to go ice fishing in early December. I'll be lucky if we get walkable ice by mid January. Still open water today, January 7th.

 

[Looking4new]

I used to go ice fishing in early December. I'll be lucky if we get walkable ice by mid January. Still open water today, January 7th.

I guess you are just going have to launch your boat and cut a hole in the bottom to go fishing.

 

[MossRoad]

I guess you are just going have to launch your boat and cut a hole in the bottom to go fishing.

Hmmmm..... gotta think about that one. :laughing: