winter is over

[kingoflawns]

Heavy rain her'e today. i think the pennies from heaven are over. I will remove the snowblower next week and mount the lawn care attachments. It's time to start farming!

 

[MadReferee]

Not so fast. I am just over the MA border in NH and we are getting dumped on right now. Heavy wet snow at over an inch per hour. I will be snowblowing later this afternoon for sure. You might be too unless you are on the Cape.

 

[bczoom]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I will remove the snowblower next week and mount the lawn care attachments.)</font>

Isn't that like washing a car? If you do, the weather will take a turn for the worse.

Snowing here as well.

 

[jim_wilson]

I am in the same general area as MadReferee - but in MA a couple of town down from the NH border. And it is still snowing like crazy here. I wanted to get some welding done today to get the snowblower hooked up to the tractor but it looks like I will be clearing this storm with the FEL and rear blade. I never trust that snow is over in New England until we hit May.

 

[LarryRB]

where in mass are you that it is raining? we have 6+ and it's still coming down

 

[DanR67]

Snowing buckets here too! Whenever the local weather stations report of heavy snow "North and West of Rt. 495" - welcome to my world!

Probably 6" of new snow since yesterday - @ 4" just this morning. We have probably over a foot laying all over - I think the piles I have pushed up with my FEL won't be gone until well into April...

This is the latest, consistently cold & snowy March weather that I can remember - sure we can get freak snow in May - but it has just stayed cold & the snow keeps coming!

I won't be mounting my MMM for some time yet!

Dan

 

[NIXON]

You work at the weather channel ,don't You ? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Either that or My part of Pa. hasn't gotten the news yet /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif John

 

[DannyD]

I am a little south west of you folks but spring has sprung here. NO kidding, saw the first robin of spring..........standing on 2 " of snow that fell last nite...................

 

[Junkman]

Spring has come to my little part of the woods in Northeast CT on the MA border. The crocus have starting to push toward the sky.....

 

[Ken_CT]

Got 9" of snow last night, just finished plowing it.

 

[sandyc]

If winter is over then I wonder what the white stuff is pilled up on my lawn? I am planning in leaving my snow blower on until June!

 

[jhagerty]

Well, I'm in Middleboro, MA about 20 min. from the Cape Cod and we received about 6" of heavy wet snow. Had to use the FEL, the snow blower just kept clogging. That puts us right around 95" of snow so far this season in Middleboro.

 

[radair]

We picked up a foot from this last storm and it's still dumping. Waist deep powder shots skiing today, more to come tomorrow.

I'm so happy to have a tractor to keep the driveway cleared for quick getaways.

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> winter is over </font>

Well...to echo what others from Western PA have said...after waking up to new snow every morning this week...

Yea, right... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[teach]

It is??? Funny, I plowed another 4" inches of the white stuff today! How about sending some of that rain this way?
teach

 

[DanR67]

I wouldn't start hooking up the MMM quite yet - this IS New England after all...don't like the weather - wait 5 minutes, right?

I'm on the MA-NH border - we got @ 1 foot of snow today - probably 2 feet now stacked up all over the lawns etc. I spent two hours snowblowing (walk behind - I am SERIOUSLY considering getting one for my CUT!) after dinner - enough already! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

'Course it does mean I have a couple hours of seat time tomorrow to push back / clean up all those snow piles that the plow guy leaves behind... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I'm not expecting to do any mowing for quite some time yet! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dan

 

[GaryE]

Yep, I think you are right... winter is over..... The attached picture was taken today as I was getting ready for summer!


Gary

 

[bczoom]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( 'Course it does mean I have a couple hours of seat time tomorrow to push back / clean up all those snow piles that the plow guy leaves behind... )</font>

Dan,

You have a "plow guy"??? Do you mean for your driveway or the roads?

Around my area, CUT's with 6' blades are the plow guys.

Brian

 

[DanR67]

bczoom -

Between buying a new Toro snowblower a year BEFORE getting the CUT (so no CUT snowblower purchsed) - and the fact that I sometimes have to travel - we have a guy plow our driveway. It's not super long or anything - maybe 200' or so in total - just more than my wife feels comfortable doing herself.

She has figured out how to start & use snowblower on her own recently - but Saturdays' dumping was fairly heavy & wet - so I don't know how a plow / blade on my CUT would handle it.

So I need to go out Sunday and clean up the snow piles the plow guy left around our driveway. While I can "eventually" clean things up with the FEL - I certainly realize that it is NOT the best "tool" for the job!

I'm going to continue watching ebay for any used 3PH snowblowers....that would really make my life a bit easier... mostly it will save me a bunch of time!

Cheers,

Dan

 

[MadReferee]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Well, I'm in Middleboro, MA about 20 min. from the Cape Cod and we received about 6" of heavy wet snow. Had to use the FEL, the snow blower just kept clogging. That puts us right around 95" of snow so far this season in Middleboro. )</font>

If your snowblower is clogging then you are not using it right. My 64" Puma had no problem whatsoever with 12" of heavy wet snow. It doesn't throw it as far but it did throw it with no clogs or broken shear pins. Run at PTO rpms in low gear and take it a little slower than normal.