I made a comment one time that I was glad I had no snow...

[allen in texas]

But yesterday we had a "blizzard". Obviously I have nothing to handle snow. I had drifts across my two drives, one in front of my barn and one in front of my garage. I got my open station, ROPS L5740 out and froze my rear off but no more snow than I had to move, It was kinda fun using the FEL to shove the snow off my drives. One drift was about 30 inches deep and about 45 foot from one side to the other and the other one was a bit bigger. I made two huge piles of snow on the side of each drive. This was the only time I have ever wished for a cab on my tractor, even the summer heat is fine with me.
Now an observation...
although this is not the norm, this is the second time I have had to shove snow off my drives since I've owned a tractor. The first time I was using a GL3240 with loaded r4 tires and I had a terrible time moving anything. the tractor just wanted to spin.
This time, I was on my GL5740 with loaded R1 tires and 642 pounds of cast weight. I never spun a tire. Weight is your friend. although I wonder if the R1's didn't work better too. I never got off the concrete.



this is what I was messing with and is the smaller of the two drifts.

 

[kevin37b]

Wow , aint nothing out there to slow that wind is there ?

 

[allen in texas]

There used to be a 5 strand barbed wire fence up in the panhandle but I hear that three of the strands are broken now

 

[jerrybob]

Looks pretty darn cold out there.......we don't get much snow but lots of rain....don't have to plow rain!:thumbsup:

 

[allen in texas]

Looks pretty darn cold out there.......we don't get much snow but lots of rain....don't have to plow rain!:thumbsup:

It is very cold but this is also very abnormal for this area. We get snow about every third or 4th year.

 

[kevin37b]

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

There used to be a 5 strand barbed wire fence up in the panhandle but I hear that three of the strands are broken now

 

[sandyc]

More than happy to trade you guys....you can take all of the snow we have had and will get......Guess it's seat time, you just have to dress for it!

 

[allen in texas]

More than happy to trade you guys....you can take all of the snow we have had and will get......Guess it's seat time, you just have to dress for it!

but I don't want it. The snow I mean. We need the moisture but I don't like the snow. I guess I have to say I like it if it's on a mountain and I can slide down it. But here, I don't like it.

 

[Bird]

I've only been to Levelland once; late April, 1994, doing a little gas leakage survey. And I sure was not bothered by cold weather.:laughing: And I had to quit early, before noon in fact, on April 25 because of the dust storm that day. But otherwise, it seemed like a nice town.

 

[allen in texas]

The wind around here is caused by all the dirt flying around stirring it up.