How's everyone doing with the SNOW

[radair]

I know a lot of folks have had enough of this winter but if you're a skier or snowmobiler it has been a banner year. I went to CO for a ski vacation while we were getting dumped here in the east. I abandoned my long & steep driveway for 2 weeks, confident that with a bit of time and diesel fuel I could get it cleared. To my surprise there was only about 8" of dry fluffy snow, which was dispatched in short order.

I bought 150 Tire Studs | Grip Studs earlier this winter when the driveway was a glacier. A couple of hours with a drill and they were all in - what a difference on that ice! I like them better than chains.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Good for you! Now to figure out why.....
On a new car it could have been that the car had some circuit turned on that drained the battery overnight, or it could be that the battery itself can't hold a charge in cold weather. Cold weather performance is the first thing to suffer when a battery gets near the end of its useful life.
Luck, rScotty

Well of course we had the discussion and "I didn't leave anything on" was repeated as usual. In her defense the car is parked with a full view of Killington mountain 35 miles away which means that the wind has it's way with whatever sticks up. At twenty below and a twenty mile an hour wind only the best of the best will turn over much less start. Went over to help a buddy this afternoon start his rigs. Two $115 batteries later he is all set. I think that was a bit of overkill but he didn't ask my advise before springing for them.

 

[Garandman]

I bought 150 Tire Studs | Grip Studs earlier this winter when the driveway was a glacier. A couple of hours with a drill and they were all in - what a difference on that ice! I like them better than chains.

Great idea, my tractor would need spacers for chains so the total cost is $$$.

Which model did you get? They list #1910 and #1911.

 

[vtsnowedin]

I bought 150 Tire Studs | Grip Studs earlier this winter when the driveway was a glacier. A couple of hours with a drill and they were all in - what a difference on that ice! I like them better than chains.

I'd like to see a side by side comparison, same tractor, same tire load etc. with ice chains on one and studs in the other. And I want a hill with a ten percent grade and a two inch layer of ice on it and a mist of water wetting down the surface.
Show me.

 

[TomSeller]

Sure glad we have been in the fifties for some time now. With about 25 calves on the ground so far, 100% survival.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Sure glad we have been in the fifties for some time now. With about 25 calves on the ground so far, 100% survival.

No fair talking about your nice weather without telling us where you are at. I can get 100% survival as long as every pregnant head is inside a nice warm barn.

 

[rbarker]

Ayup -17F this morning and still easing down a bit ahead of dawn. It is long cold winters like this that freeze out those invasive species that keep trying to move up from the south. May every emerald ash borer in Vermont freeze to death tonight.

I thought you were talking about Bostonians there for a minute.... LOL

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[vtsnowedin]

I thought you were talking about Bostonians there for a minute.... LOL

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What makes you think otherwise?

 

[tk tom]

I hope I never need chains...... This tractor running the 60" bucket or 78" plow hasn't given me cause to worry about traction so far. Driving into a pile or trying to stack snow (likely higher than I'm supposed to) will give some wheel spin but I expect it with that kind of resistance. I'd like to think some wheel spin in my case is saving some excess loader strain.

If I had to clear my sister's driveway, that might be a different story. What a hill at her place!

 

[Garandman]

I thought you were talking about Bostonians there for a minute.... LOL

Bostonians aren't a big problem in North New York.

While Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean are from New York, and Governor Douglas was from Springfield, MA, the current Governor was actually born in VT, the first VT native since the early 70's.