How's everyone doing with the SNOW

[RaydaKub]

We've had so much snow that I'm beginning to think some of us around here may lose our dogs in the snow.

https://www.thedodo.com/dogs-in-deep-snow-1021626946.html?utm_source=HuffPo

My favorites are #8 and #11.

 

[oosik]

SNOW - again, you must be jesting. I live up here in NE WA state - this winter I call it the banana belt. Its just about noon here and the outside temps are 57 F and probably will peak around 2pm at 62 to 64F. We have had less than 1/3 our normal snow fall and its too late now to hope for much more.

 

[Mendonsy]

SNOW - again, you must be jesting. I live up here in NE WA state - this winter I call it the banana belt. Its just about noon here and the outside temps are 57 F and probably will peak around 2pm at 62 to 64F. We have had less than 1/3 our normal snow fall and its too late now to hope for much more.

I'm sure that there are a lot of members here in the Northeast that would be more than willing to load your truck up with free snow!! It's only about 2500 miles one way, how expensive could that be??

 

[ecbaatz]

Gotta say, hope he doesn't have a dog! :laughing:

That is why my dog stays in the house when I am blowing snow. He would get eaten in a heartbeat as he thinks the tractor is a big chew toy.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Thanks for all the nice comments. For those of you concerned for my pets safety, I have two dogs an old slow lab and a psychotic husky/golden mix whoç—´ scared of her own shadow. Theyæ±*e safe they must remember my adventures learning to drive a zero-turn mower. When they see me get on my Kubota they head for the hills. Smart dogs....
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I知 beginning to worry about my house: I知 not sure it痴 going to survive the Kubota experience.

-Mark

Glad to hear they have been no injuries so far. Keep us posted as your fun to watch and make the rest of us look a lot better in our wives eyes. Mine got quite a chuckle out of your snowblower eating the garage and I can't wait to show her the story about the propane tank. Makes my swatting the icicles off the house with a misdirected tree top seem like I planned it.

 

[MaineMark]

George (Gcorron); I hear you on the speed thing. But that hasn't been my problem. My problem is laziness. The closer I can get to something, the less I’ll have to shovel, or worse, break out the hated walk behind blower. Normally I’m OK with some shoveling – after all it is Maine and we expect crap for weather 7 months out of the year. But this year with all the snow, I’m sick to death of shoveling. So I eaaaase up to the object ever so slooooow. Then hit the **** thing with the auger or bucket because I've lost track of where it’s at under all the snow.

Here’s a perfect example that just happened a few days ago: I’m backing up blowing my driveway near my deck steps. I’m going real slow, twisted all the way around in the seat, watching the blower like a hawk – I know now how destructive ‘big red’ can be. As I maneuver around something, I feel a funny vibration in the tractor and hear some strange thumping noise at the front. I stop, turn towards the front and discover I've taken out a whole row of balusters on my deck stair rail with the bucket. When I turned the rear to the right, the front went left and because I was too close to the stairs to begin with, the bucket swiped the balusters. I thought they were connected better than that!

I guess a few wood screws can’t compete with the sheer destructive power of a Kubota in the hands of a rooky.

-Mark

 

[vtsnowedin]

die:die:

George (Gcorron); I hear you on the speed thing. But that hasn't been my problem. My problem is laziness. The closer I can get to something, the less I’ll have to shovel, or worse, break out the hated walk behind blower. Normally I’m OK with some shoveling – after all it is Maine and we expect crap for weather 7 months out of the year. But this year with all the snow, I’m sick to death of shoveling. So I eaaaase up to the object ever so slooooow. Then hit the **** thing with the auger or bucket because I've lost track of where it’s at under all the snow.

Here’s a perfect example that just happened a few days ago: I’m backing up blowing my driveway near my deck steps. I’m going real slow, twisted all the way around in the seat, watching the blower like a hawk – I know now how destructive ‘big red’ can be. As I maneuver around something, I feel a funny vibration in the tractor and hear some strange thumping noise at the front. I stop, turn towards the front and discover I've taken out a whole row of balusters on my deck stair rail with the bucket. When I turned the rear to the right, the front went left and because I was too close to the stairs to begin with, the bucket swiped the balusters. I thought they were connected better than that!

I guess a few wood screws can’t compete with the sheer destructive power of a Kubota in the hands of a rooky.

-Mark

:laughing: Come on man post some after pictures!!

 

[Gcorron]

You've just got to know the sign around his neck will read "Homeless, have tractor, will work for insurance!"

Mark, I know better, but it had been 10 years since I had operated a piece of equipment when I first got the little Kubota. Backing up in the yard one day I looked JUST in time to keep from wiping out my carport with the front bucket.:cool2:
Scared the heck out of me though, and luckily, the wife, nor children were around to witness! The Lord watches out for drunks and fools. I don't drink so I know where that places me!

Good luck my friend, but I'll have to issue another vote for PICTURES!

George AF4JH

 

[MaineMark]

I know what you guys want. You want pictures of the damage! No way! Not till we get a thaw and I'm busted by my wife anyway. Besides, I've fixed the propane tank, deck rail balusters and dryer vent. But there is a partly digested bird feeder I can get a picture of.


Psycho dog acting like a husky for once. For scale, she's big at 75 pounds. I'm guessing she's about 6 feet off the ground.


Little Mount Washington. I've spent hours chipping away at the base of it with my walk behind so I can get cars into my 3rd stall.


First pass at my woodshed. Not finished, because 'big red' hasn't eaten the center roof beam yet.


The little mountain peak has been removed but there's a long way to go.



Little mountain is all gone. Note the garage corner - snow covered so the wife doesn't see it's partially eaten.


B2620


A tough little beast.


She doesn't do so well in the mud and snow, but a lot of fun to drive.

I'll get some pictures of the interstate circling my house tomorrow.

-Mark
Homeless, have tractor, will work for insurance

 

[vtsnowedin]

Be careful now. If you hit the garage one more time and Momma will take the keys to your Vette. away.
Lets see the damage to the woodshed. You'll get a whole nother thread out of us on how to repair it.