Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Pictures of your snow weapons

[deezler]

My favorite ski resort in lower Michigan is reporting 55" so far on the season. Pretty good lake-effect contributions, but the temps have swung up and down enough to melt much of it and require strong snowmaking to open all the trails.

Sorry this is off topic. My snow weapon is just the FEL and a janky old 7' rear blade. Rare to get deep enough snow down here in lower MI to require anything more serious. But chance for 6-12" on Friday with this blizzard.... could do without the sub-zero windchills, but oh well.

 

[grsthegreat]

Wind chills are when i treasure my cabbed tractor with heater

 

[sd455dan]

Here is our local ski report Schweitzer has plenty of snow so far


season snowfall 128 inches
but it is Cold at 1* and a -20* in todays forecast for the low

Cold enough they limited Operations to the front side of the mountain

Don't think that includes the wind chill and there IS generally a breeze at the top

A Cabbed tractor would be NICE to move snow today

Book Your Family Ski Vacation to Schweitzer Mountain - ID.

With 300" of annual snowfall, 2900 skiable acres and 92 trails plus open bowl skiing, Schweitzer offer up a wintry mountain playground worth exploring!

www.schweitzer.com

 

[SGreene]

Upgraded from the NX6010 to an RX7320 cab.

Before

After

 

[aeblank]

I live about 30min away from caberfae.....
Happy skiing.

 

[grsthegreat]

Yeiks. Woke up to -18°F this morning……
without wind chill

 

[SGreene]

Yeiks. Woke up to -18°F this morning……
without wind chill

Same here in western WY. Locals are reporting -25, -30 with wind chill factor.

 

[Hilbilly]

-35*C (-31*F) here the last 2 mornings. Yesterday the feels like temp was 12* colder, making it -47*C (-52*F). Too cold to be outside.

 

[TractorTYMe]

 

[SARG]

A cab would be nice.

 

[SGreene]

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Buggers, that's cold for Kalispell. For years I got away with just a heavy flannel when I lived there.
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[TractorTYMe]

Buggers, that's cold for Kalispell. For years I got away with just a heavy flannel when I lived there.
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Meh, we've had this 2-3 times before in the 25 years I've lived here.

 

[Hilbilly]

Changed my snow plow wings from bolt on, to swing away. I'm thinking this will be much better than having to remove them every time I want to go from pusher to plow and back again. Now I just need some snow to try it out.

It's pretty simple but took me a bit of sitting and thinking to figure out how it would come together plus it took a while since I did not have the some of the materials I needed. So I had to make them from scrap steel in my junk pile.

 

[SGreene]

Meh, we've had this 2-3 times before in the 25 years I've lived here.

We miss it there. Lived there from 1996 to 2017.

 

[TractorTYMe]

We miss it there. Lived there from 1996 to 2017.

Tho you're certainly not in a BAD area now.

 

[SGreene]

Tho you're certainly not in a BAD area now.

Star Valley is nice. Winter is a full 6months here and it's fairly windy. The winds come out of the S, SW and my road runs east/west so there are some days I have to plow 3 times to get in and out. Summers however, are wonderful. Usually average around mid 80's with a 5-10mph breeze with maybe a week of 90's degree weather.

 

[grsthegreat]

Changed my snow plow wings from bolt on, to swing away. I'm thinking this will be much better than having to remove them every time I want to go from pusher to plow and back again. Now I just need some snow to try it out.

It's pretty simple but took me a bit of sitting and thinking to figure out how it would come together plus it took a while since I did not have the some of the materials I needed. So I had to make them from scrap steel in my junk pile.

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Thats like the ones i have on mine, but dont use them much

 

[Hilbilly]

Thats like the ones i have on mine, but dont use them much

I don't think I have seen your plow. Just the blower you have mounted on the FEL.

I got the basic idea from some pics another one of our members posted a few years ago.

edit: I only use the plow without the side plates in the last few hundred feet of our driveway that is on the neighbors property. He built that part and made a terrible mess of it. It is very rough and I refuse to use my blower on it since he won't remove rocks from it before the snow flies and he does not want me to remove them. I don't even like using my plow there because of how rough it is.

 

[WinterDeere]

I only use the plow without the side plates in the last few hundred feet of our driveway that is on the neighbors property. He built that part and made a terrible mess of it. It is very rough and I refuse to use my blower on it since he won't remove rocks from it before the snow flies and he does not want me to remove them. I don't even like using my plow there because of how rough it is.

I used to have a shared drive, never again! This one was only 150 feet long, but tapered from 20 feet wide at the top to 60 feet wide at the bottom, and had houses on both sides. Neighbor never did a lick of shoveling, choosing to just park on my half and block me in after I'd cleared it, so I spent those 13 years clearing both my side AND his, every time it snowed.

 

[airbiscuit]

Does the neighbor think the rocks serve a purpose?