here ye here ye-- It's time again........

[Ductape]

Joel, when I was a younger man my friends and I would jetski till Thanksgiving up in Bow just below the powerplant where the water is warm. I'd call you a mad man if I saw you out on a lake now though.

 

[LBrown59]

down here we're not buying.
i don't even know what a snow plow does or how to hook it up to my tractor.

The same thing A dirt plow does.

 

[LBrown59]

ok--- did I get your attention..

Can you believe it? NC/TN line to get up to 3 inches of snow tonight...
WOW!!
I think it's time to get ready for a tough winter in the SE....

Got 5 gallons of fuel in my spare can and a full tank on the tractor...
Put my last winter treatment in the the tank and can...

So looks like I'll be making a run for some more treatment soon.

Just dropped the box blade off and loaded the scrape blade onto the 3 pt..

so for me-- that is about all we do around here....
Well, guess I should count packing the foul weather bag for the truck.
solar blanket, first aid kit, change of clothes (winter clothes), pocket warmers, spare winter gloves, watch cap, etc....


*So how is everyone else getting ready?


J

*
*This one stays set up like this year round so it's always ready.

25 gallon of fuel ready in this.

 

[Big Bri]

Thanks L.B. i was just joking i do know what a snow plow is we just don't have use for them down here. . . but i really wouldn't know how to put one on my tractor

 

[kenstrac]

The same thing A dirt plow does.

Only 5 more post and you will have 100 for a 1 week period Go LB

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Thanks L.B. i was just joking i do know what a snow plow is we just don't have use for them down here. . . but i really wouldn't know how to put one on my tractor

Speaking from experience, getting it on the tractor is not the hard part. There is definately a better way to use a snow plow, and it takes some practice.

 

[smfcpacfp]

I would like to get mine ready for winter, but I have too many trees to cut up, split and move, and to finish getting my site completed for a pole building that I am having built next week, so I need my front end loader for that work.

I will probably just wait until the day I need my blower to get it ready.

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[mjncad]

Only 5 more post and you will have 100 for a 1 week period Go LB

He's trying to catch up with Bird for the number of posts.

 

[mbohuntr]

If the economic situation doesn't improve in New York, We're gonna start looking around the mid-south. I'm sick of 4' snowfalls(24 hrs) and 6 mos of winter. We were in the middle of that record snowfall a couple of years ago, 11' in 3 weeks was a bit much. A friend used his BIG log skidder to push back my banks so we had room to park.

 

[radioman]

Perhaps I can drive down to texas again with a straight truck and car on flat bed. My freind that I drove the stuff for him jokingly said I brought the wrath of the snow to texas from NYS. It was snowing when I left, drove through a ice storm in arkansa and it snowed just north of dallas in beginning of december and there were cars all over the road in ditches in texas just from couple inches of snow!. I was like huh?! 2 inches send everybody in the ditches in texas .

Anyway- this morning we had a really good frost on the ground around here and it won't be long before I get to test my newly rebuilt truck plow for my tractor .

 

[LBrown59]

Only 5 more post and you will have 100 for a 1 week period Go LB

Did I make it?
Yous counting not me!

 

[tugboat-2]

In Canada,...we have an annual Census taking day to locate all the "Freekin-Idiots". What we do is hold it all over the country on the days that brings one half inch of good quality snow.

Then all the "Freekin-Idiots" come out for Census and without being asked or directed, they simply go ahead and do all the stupid driving they can possibly think of.

Then they all try to park backwards or sideways in the ditches. If they can't find an empty ditch, they are allowed to get up some speed, then close their eyes, scream loudly and slam on the brakes just as hard and long as it takes to spin out and slam into anything at all.

Not sure but I think the prize goes to the one that does the most damage and kills and/or maims the most people.

Now of course the idea is to locate and register all the actual "Freekin-Idiots",at the beginning of winter...but you know our people in charge are usually too excited and involved in the idea of the Census, (try to be first in ditch) to think of recording the Census as planned, consequently not many records are kept. (probably because they'd have to list themselves first!)

I seriously think we should have winter driving licenses. Learn to drive in winter conditions, pass the test and get a winter license.

If you get in a winter accident and you "don't" have a winter license,...you "LOSE" your vehicle and license for the winter!!! Come back in spring to claim your vehicle and license, pay a fine and pay all costs for the accident and towing etc. That might slowly eliminate "some" of our "Freekin-Idiots" ????

That should be cause to elliminate the stupid excuses that generally start with: "Oh goodness, I had no idea it was so slippery till I tried to turn with my brakes applied,...and then,..er,..ah

Same everywhere I guess. I learned to drive by "instincts" by doing spin-outs and trying to correct on frozen plazas in the middle of the night or on frozen lakes after checking for air pockets etc. Also learned to get UNstuck by trial and error when all alone and either get out or freeze!!

Anyway, a safe and happy winter "drive" to all!!!

CHEERS!
. . tug

PS: Absolutely NO offense to the Texas Highway Dept. because how else do you learn certain things? MANY years ago driving across Texas, we hit a freak storm and the roads and especially the bridges froze to sheer ice. Cars all over. As we waited for them to clear the road of cars, a sand truck showed up at last and as instructed (I guess) spread sand on the icy bridge. Except these guys were new at the job, (no offense) and dumped the entire load on the bridge and spread it two feet thick before waving the first cars through. Naturally the cars sunk into the sand and we were finally detoured down some side roads out of the area.
I must admit we had a bit of a chuckle. I was tempted to run up and tell the guys how to do it but didn't. They learned the hard way. I admit we were shocked to run into such weather there!
My best wishes to the Texas Highway Dept guys if you happen to read this,...especially if you were the ones involved!

 

[Big Bri]

PS: Absolutely NO offense to the Texas Highway Dept. because how else do you learn certain things? MANY years ago driving across Texas, we hit a freak storm and the roads and especially the bridges froze to sheer ice. Cars all over. As we waited for them to clear the road of cars, a sand truck showed up at last and as instructed (I guess) spread sand on the icy bridge. Except these guys were new at the job, (no offense) and dumped the entire load on the bridge and spread it two feet thick before waving the first cars through. Naturally the cars sunk into the sand and we were finally detoured down some side roads out of the area.
I must admit we had a bit of a chuckle. I was tempted to run up and tell the guys how to do it but didn't. They learned the hard way. I admit we were shocked to run into such weather there!
My best wishes to the Texas Highway Dept guys if you happen to read this,...especially if you were the ones involved!

They were not new at the job they just never had to do that before. a few years ago here in LA we had a snow storm they closed the interstate from baton rouge to New Orleans. why. . . because we don't know how to drive and because we don't have the equip. to deal with it.

 

[Johndeere3720]

I want it to snow so I can have seat time on my Yanmar. I dont have to worry about putting the snow blade on, it is already on to grade the driveway.

 

[RadarTech]

uuugg it's warm out there..

hmmm.. well we shall see....

I will never catch up with LB on posts.. heck I am lucky to have 400 in over a year...


I did meet this guy thru work recently.. We all laughed after the meeting..
We think he got paid by the word.. 3 hours-- and we think it was in the thousands... JFK-- you talk slow...

J

 

[PA hayseed]

Central PA - we got snow earlier than usual. I haven't even tilled up the garden yet. Couple of days where it didn't break 37, and overnights in the 20's. We normally get that about a month from now. I shouldn't have to shovel my sidewalks and porches before halloween.

I know at least one dealer on this Board mentioning he made some sales for snowplows already.

 

['Bota Fan]

as we've had rain in the past severel weeks, we B in store for a big blizzard,

Hush up! We're not that far from you. The Blizzard of '93 was plenty and then some, thank you very kindly.

Truth be told, you may be on to something. If these precip patterns continue, we better be loaded for bear.

 

[MikesTractor]

Hush up! We're not that far from you. The Blizzard of '93 was plenty and then some, thank you very kindly.

Truth be told, you may be on to something. If these precip patterns continue, we better be loaded for bear.

Yeah, I remember that well. We had about 2 feet at my house. Power was out for 6 days. No phone, no TV. My girls just about went stir crazy. I told them to pretend we were on vacation at a ski resort.

We couldn't get out of our yard for 3 days (uphill to road). Only ones on the road were tugboat-2's "Freekin-Idiots".

I enjoyed the week off, though. I had my own vacation, cause I could still walk to my shop and hide...err...work.

Mike

 

[wildwillie]

Last year our first snow fall was 30 inches in nov. a real freak happening. Stayed all winter. Just ordered a new snow blower for the tractor last week so it wont snow.

 

[Thomas]

"Just ordered a new snow blower for the tractor last week so it wont snow."

Not sure I'd take those odds WW.