How's everyone doing with the SNOW

[Garandman]

Went sking at Steamboat Springs and the moisture content of the snow is much lower - skiers love that "Champagne Powder."

Here we are at sea level, so we get higher moisture content snow that is often wind-packed, to boot. We have a place in NH and removing snow is a lot easier.

This was at our old house in Boston. The plow would plow the snow up against your car. Along with being comppressed they'd often laid down salt to make it even denser. I progressed from a 1970 Ariens 5hp to an ST824 and neither would cope with it. Finally we got this 2004 1124, which had a 24" bucket and a Tecumseh OHV rated at 11.5hp and about 15 ft lbs of torque. We would clear a space and the neighbors would pull forward to do the next: saved hours of shoveling.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Hope you folks out west get some good spring snows to refill you reservoirs with. No new snow here for a while and getting sunny enough for sanded roads to melt through their ice layer. I went and got a 70 shovel load from the town sand pile and we sanded the road I plow up to my daughters house as it being in the shade and having no salted sand on it had turned into a perfect Olympic bobsled run.

 

[jix]

It Stood up to an unreasonable load of snow. I do not fault the structure, besides it is covered by my insurance, plus the contents. I will be putting up another one soon,. A real garage would be 12 thousand plus annual taxes. I think, given the outrageous winter we have had, it makes better sense to spend 3,000 on another one. Be a little more diligent with a roof rake in future.
The inspector said that there were over 12 tons of snow on it when it collapsed.
We have had 4000 houses collapse nearby this winter. Insurance companies are going nuts.
Now we wait for the floods which are a virtual certainty this spring.
I hope this winter will have thinned out the forest infestations as well. The infamous Spruce Bud worm and the Japanese longhorn beetle.
A winter for the record books for at least a hundred years.

We just roll with the punches here in the Canadian Maritimes, as usual.

 

[Paul Thornton]

Garandman, your video is private.

 

[jix]

Boys, the tractor pictures are still in larry's camera He has been so busy that I am still waiting for them, but they ARE coming
The pics of my collapsed shed are soon to be posted as well, But now I am busy..and sorta lazy, too. Tired out from fighting the snow before it crushes my house too.

jix

 

[k0ua]

Alright, I am officially "tired" of snow. It just keeps on coming down. We don't get a lot of snow here in southwest Missouri, and I don't like it! We don't deal all that well with the stuff down here.

I wish I had a cab on my tractor. Waaa.. somebody call the Wambulance.:hissyfit: :laughing:

 

[AStanton]

I think cabin fever is beginning to set in around here. Some guy in the next town put this up for a winter decoration.

 

[Garandman]

Garandman, your video is private.

B'lieve that's fixed.

 

[RoyJackson]

Ok I got to ask all of you who have 3pt snow blowers a few questions. What brands do you own and are there any clunkers to avoid? And how hard is it to hook one up? I have the back hoe on from day one and have never removed it. This winter is driving me to buy one:

Woods SB74...older used unit with manual chute rotation. Since I have a cab now, I'll be adding hydraulics for the chute before next winter

 

[RickB]

I have a Blizzard 74 made by RAD (formerly Bervac) Similar to a Pronovost of the same size and of comparable quality. Hydraulic chute rotation and manual spout adjustment which I never move. I use it when the banks get high, not every year. used it more this year than probably the last 5 combined. I'm sure I'll never wear it out.

Snowing again here at 9:30AM.