Snow Pictures

[slowzuki]

We have a strange obsession with feet and inches! Every knows how big a cm is or a mm, but no one uses them for common everyday stuff.

I like others tend to use a mix!

mm - small stuff
cm - almost never except for small snowfalls
inches - used for everything over 1 inch
feet - used for height and building related
yards - never used
metres - almost never used
km - distance on highways
miles - never used

Almost all our building supplies are built to cater to our largest trading partner, the USA so it is all in imperial.

Imperial is great for building because of the no math triangles and ease of squaring stuff up. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[m1greg]

Here's a pic of my CK20 cleaning off the last snow ( 11.5") that fell. I am using the loader and box blade for now but will get a loader blade by next winter.

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> "Btw, keep the snow pictures coming. I love to look at the winter pics!" </font>

Me, too, but for a totally different reason. Every once in a while I get nostaligic for my years in Massachusetts or my roots in Western Pennsylvania. All it takes is a few pictures like these to remind myself once again why it was that I got out of that part of the country. But, I'm glad there are those who like it -- there isn't enough room down here for all of you!

 

[Nasty135]

m1greg, That is a good picture Greg and a nice tractor /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif


Okeedon, Where in Western Pa? If I might ask, as I too am from the Western pa. area, a place called Belle Vernon near Charleroi, But that was 42 yrs ago... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Whew I'm getting old... I always seem to have the memory that the folks up that way were Nice people.

 

[JayC]

<font color="blue"> But, I'm glad there are those who like it -- there isn't enough room down here for all of you! </font>

That's ok. I'll take a blizzard over four hurricanes any day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

Here ya go, western PA

front yard

back yard off the porch

 

[GoodGuy]

Yep, we got snow !!!

 

[GoodGuy]

Seat Time !!

 

[_RaT_]

<font color="blue"> Imperial is great for building because of the no math triangles and ease of squaring stuff up. </font>

That's interesting. I have heard the same. As much of a fan as I am of the metric system, I have seen where in construction, even folks in Europe prefer other units then the metric unit. I do prefer my metric wrenches over standard even though most of my life was based on 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16" sometimes 5/8"& 11/16" and of course 3/4". When I got my first car, a VW, that changed to 10mm, 13mm, 17mm. Those wrenches, a scredriver and a floor jack and I could have the engine out in less then 22 minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> "Okeedon, Where in Western Pa? If I might ask, as I too am from the Western pa. area, a place called Belle Vernon near Charleroi" </font>

I was raised northwest of Pittsburgh, in Bellevue, only a few miles from where Henro lives, now. We moved to Greensburg in 1961, when I was 21 years old. That's where I met my wife. My Dad's family was originally from Connesville, and my wife's Mother is from West Newton, so we have ties all around the Belle Vernon area. We moved to Boston in 1964, so it's been about 42 years since we lived in that area, also. We moved to Florida in 1972 and have been here ever since, absolutely no regrets, and do not miss anything about the weather, seasons, or any of that other malarkey.

We have 4 seasons in South Florida, they're just a little more subtle than the differences up North. We don't have to cut the grass nearly as often in the Winter as in the Summer....