LouNY
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- Joined
- Jul 4, 2015
- Messages
- 10,732
- Location
- Greenwich, NY
- Tractor
- Branson 8050, IH 574, Oliver 1550 Diesel Utility (traded in on Branson) NH 8160. Kioti CK2620SECH
Fun day today in the driveway we had gotten about 3-5" of snow then it rained trees and everything picked up about a 1/4" of ice then it warmed up enough to just rain,
so I waited for it to quit then went to start scraping the slush of the driveway.
It was cold enough that the driveway is still froze hard and it froze the slush about 2" thick.
Actually spun the tires with the studded euro chains a couple of times.
Then after I had scrapped the whole thing 3 or 4 times wasn't getting much more to peel up so loaded the sander and started sanding,
almost went back and put the front chains on but with the diff lock in she walked right up with a half load in the sander,
used half going down then the second half coming back up as the sander favors the left side as its sanding. So I go down on the right
side of the driveway and back up on the left and it gets it a good coat. Put it down a bit heavy today so used almost a yard of sand.
If I just give it a light coat I can get by with a good half a yard.
These nuisance storms (1-3") are as much work as a moderate storm (6-12") I have to clean my driveway for all of them or then pack down to ice
which is not nice on a hill.
so I waited for it to quit then went to start scraping the slush of the driveway.
It was cold enough that the driveway is still froze hard and it froze the slush about 2" thick.
Actually spun the tires with the studded euro chains a couple of times.
Then after I had scrapped the whole thing 3 or 4 times wasn't getting much more to peel up so loaded the sander and started sanding,
almost went back and put the front chains on but with the diff lock in she walked right up with a half load in the sander,
used half going down then the second half coming back up as the sander favors the left side as its sanding. So I go down on the right
side of the driveway and back up on the left and it gets it a good coat. Put it down a bit heavy today so used almost a yard of sand.
If I just give it a light coat I can get by with a good half a yard.
These nuisance storms (1-3") are as much work as a moderate storm (6-12") I have to clean my driveway for all of them or then pack down to ice
which is not nice on a hill.