Check Your Grill

[MikePA]

It took me 1.7 tractor hours to use the FEL to clear the driveways at our house and barn of the 8" of snow we got today.

For those in the east who have yet to do this, as well as others, keep an eye on the grill of your tractors. After I completed the driveway at the house, and before heading to the barn, I walked around the front of the tractor in order to clear some snow off the FEL. I happened to glance at the outside grill and it was covered with snow. The temp gauge never moved from Normal, but checking the grill when clearing snow was something that had not occurred to me before today. It'll be on my list from now on. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

Thanks for the tip

 

[TerryinMD]

Oh yeah Mike... got's lots of snow on the ground and everywhere on the tractor. I'm hoping that the sun comes out tomorrow to help melt some of the crud off both my tractor and the driveway.

OBTW, we got about 10 inches at our place. I think that we're gonna pay for having some very mild winters... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Terry

 

[GarageSmoker]

Had some brats on the grill and I thought you knew something I didn't so I rushed on out and checked when I saw your post subject. They were doing fine.

Hope you guys are enjoying all that cold wet stuff. We do miss it a bit a Christmas time but the pictures on the news get us through it.

GS

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Yea, we got the same 8" here at our house in SE PA...well, maybe not the same snow, but it looks similar to yours I bet! Thanks for the tip on checking the grill...

 

[hazmat]

Non issue for me, only takes 20 minutes to plow, after that the tractor is back in the attached garage (not heated, but pretty warm) where the snow will melt off/w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

 

[BigDave]

Mike,

I played for 5 hours with 7" of the white stuff...my grill managed to stay clean. I can't say this was true when I was blowing leaves around a few weeks ago.

 

[cpicton1]

jbecker

You don't need to get off your tractor to check your grill. It's under your steering wheel, same as mine. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Oh, THAT grill...yea, the dandylion flyers like to clog that one up big-time in the summer. <G>

Of course, I've convinced myself that I need to install some lights on the ROPS now. Another day...another excuse to buy a present for the tractor. Sheesh!

 

[MikePA]

After getting my mind off the 'brats (that's bratwurst to you non-PA types /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif) cooking on the grill...I think my radiator grill got covered because, in some areas of the driveway, I had to lift FEL bucket loads of snow up and over a 5 foot fence so I could dump the snow on the other side. In some cases, the snow sprinkled down the back of the FEL bucket and was drawn towards the radiator grill.

 

[edt]

Now MIKE that is not nice dumping the snow in the neighbor's yard ha ha
EDT

 

[MikePA]

If their leaves can come into my yard, then my snow can go into theirs! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Actually, I was dumping snow from our paddock area, over a fence, and into the pasture.

 

[hazmat]

<font color=blue>Now MIKE that is not nice dumping the snow in the neighbor's yard ha ha</font color=blue>

Much more effiecient to blow it into the neighbor's yard/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[GarageSmoker]

To rejoin this on a more serious note...if the truckers cover their grills in the winter presumably to keep their engines warmer, why wouldn't we (generic we, not us Florida we) want to cover ours as well?

GS

 

[MikePA]

If my tractor didn't get up to operating temp, I'd start covering part of the radiator.

 

[Egon]

Many of the large truck radiators are covered with thermostat controlled louvers to maintain proper engine temperature.

Egon

 

[njrqs]

Had some brats on the grill

Huh ??

More US Lingo for me??

Brat = Sausage??

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Brat = Sausage?? </font color=blue>

Yep, if you're a Yankee./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Down south a "brat" is a spoiled and/or misbehaving child, so anyone talking about bratwurst uses the whole word./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif And they do have them in the grocery stores around here, but I never knew anyone who ate them./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif However, when I was in Pennsylvania I ate some and they're not bad.

Incidentally, from what I was reading on the news this morning, it sounds like the fires around Sydney are really bad; hope they're getting everything under control.

 

[GarageSmoker]

It is all in how you say the word. The "Brats" you eat have an "A" that is like the "A" when the Doctor says open wide and say "AAAAAAAAAAAAA".

The Brats you spank have an "A" as in Bat, the flying type.

Bird, I liked in Southlake until June of this year and I know darn well a lot of Brats are sold and eaten there in the metroplex. Heck, we even let the brats have one if they were behaven good.

Try them. Much better than hot dogs IMO.

GS

 

[ByuBill]

<font color=blue>Incidentally, from what I was reading on the news this morning, it sounds like the fires around Sydney are really bad; hope they're getting everything under control.</font color=blue>

Speaking of the wild fires around Sidney. I think that they have figured out how to get a little rain sometime in March. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

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