Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Snow is melting

[NewToy]

After a long winter the 60+ degrees we're enjoying today is devine. Along with that comes the mud, and I mean mud! My tires were so beautiful, the snow really cleans them up nice. I guess I'll trade the muddy tires for the spring weather anyday.
John

 

[frank_f15]

same here, about 6o and sunny, but i would not think on taking the tracor off pavement too muddy and no point. also it show me how many branches and twigs came down this fall and winter from all the winds we had. but not to worry supposed get cold again.

 

[RobS]

We're almost down to just piles but it's getting colder by the minute with more snow coming tonight. Will it ever end?

 

[asylum575]

I still have about 6-8 inches on my lawn, but it definitely has the smell of mild weather coming. I was out this morning running my snowblower dry. Felt good out there. The machine won't move forward, probably the friction wheel. Have to tear it apart and better to do so with no fuel in it. Crapped out last week with 6 inches on the ground. Bx24 came in handy.

 

[Barneyhunts]

It reached 56 F here today and the snow that I packed down on the gravel drive to support the snowblower is melted. There are many runoff streams of water in the area, and the lawn is much too wet to cross with the ag tires on the B7800. But, Spring is in the air and I love it! I got a new telescopic pruning tool today, so I'll work on some old apple trees while the weather is nice.

 

[Z-Michigan]

We're almost down to just piles but it's getting colder by the minute with more snow coming tonight. Will it ever end?

Ditto. All the farm fields have lakes, and one road near my house got washed out by meltwater off a field that's big but very nearly flat (not flat enough, I guess). And I'm expecting a 10 square mile hockey rink by morning. Fun. I guess I could get a cheap house in AZ/NV/FL right now?

 

[Bob_Young]

Not melting fast enough, I'd say.

Thought it'd be a fine day to go fetch some locust the neighbor had ripped out at the end of a hilltop cornfield. Loaded saws, oil, gas, cant hook and broom in the F150 and took off. Successfully negotiated the mud and slush at the bottom of the hill and the long, steep, rutted, sloppy drive that traverses the side of the hill. Slithered, slid and bounced to the top of the drive and thought I had it made.

WRONG! Kerflumpf into a drift that stretched for a quarter mile on the just-east-of-the-hilltop drive. First time the old Ford had ever been truly stuck....and I forgot to bring a shovel.

Hiked back to an old barn and found a bent and broken shovel in a corner. It was enough. Dug the truck out, got it to the bare crest of the hill, turned around and headed back toward the hillside section of the drive. To get back on the hillside drive, I slid down the hill from the crest in the snow, mostly sideways, until I hit the drive. Kind of a heartstopper but it stayed on the drive and didn't roll. Good old truck.

Kept repeating the bad judgment-experience-good judgment line to myself the whole time. Maybe next time there will be enough experience to support some good judgment for a change.

I can always hope.
Bob

 

[NewToy]

It reached 56 F here today and the snow that I packed down on the gravel drive to support the snowblower is melted. There are many runoff streams of water in the area, and the lawn is much too wet to cross with the ag tires on the B7800. But, Spring is in the air and I love it! I got a new telescopic pruning tool today, so I'll work on some old apple trees while the weather is nice.

I have been tossing around the notion of buying one of those Stihl chainsaws on a stick. They stretch out 10' or so and are real handy. I have a bunch of pruning to do and tons of sticks and limbs to round up. That hand extendo pruner sure makes for a workout!

John

 

[NewToy]

Not melting fast enough, I'd say.

Thought it'd be a fine day to go fetch some locust the neighbor had ripped out at the end of a hilltop cornfield. Loaded saws, oil, gas, cant hook and broom in the F150 and took off. Successfully negotiated the mud and slush at the bottom of the hill and the long, steep, rutted, sloppy drive that traverses the side of the hill. Slithered, slid and bounced to the top of the drive and thought I had it made.

WRONG! Kerflumpf into a drift that stretched for a quarter mile on the just-east-of-the-hilltop drive. First time the old Ford had ever been truly stuck....and I forgot to bring a shovel.

Hiked back to an old barn and found a bent and broken shovel in a corner. It was enough. Dug the truck out, got it to the bare crest of the hill, turned around and headed back toward the hillside section of the drive. To get back on the hillside drive, I slid down the hill from the crest in the snow, mostly sideways, until I hit the drive. Kind of a heartstopper but it stayed on the drive and didn't roll. Good old truck.

Kept repeating the bad judgment-experience-good judgment line to myself the whole time. Maybe next time there will be enough experience to support some good judgment for a change.

I can always hope.
Bob

Sounds like you put on a "Joey Chitwood" show out there in snow country. It's all gone here in Ohio for now until this weekend, I believe we have another dose coming. That stupid groundhog!!

John