Snowmageddon

[tkappeler]

14" or so with another 4-8 coming later tonight as part 2 of the storm.

 

[AceDeuce]

16" here by midday, then stopped for a while. Just picked up another 3-4" in the last couple hours and still coming down heavy. It took me 4.5 hours to clear my drive way and my neighbors. Looks like I'll be doing it all over again tomorrow. Then another storm tomorrow night. Only problem is where to put it all!?!

 

[Verticaltrx]

Good clean fun! That 1845 Case with chains all around will do a number on the snow!

I wish I had chains, but I haven't gotten any yet. Too late now I guess, lol. It's sitting at the other farm anyways. I did move it up next to the driveway if needed, but without chains or tracks I doubt it'd do much.

A bit of tough sledding down your way, for sure !

I hope everybody stays safe through this, and uses common sense.... I'm guessing that few people are set up properly to drive through heavy snow conditions in your neck of the woods.

Rgds, D.

We get a 20" snow here in the mountains every few years, although this is the biggest I've seen in a long time. I have a '79 F-150 that is my off-road toy and it can handle snow like this (36" swampers, double locked, plenty of HP) but I couldn't get it to start this morning, lol. Has been sitting for a couple months and the battery was toast.


Our total was right at 24". I as stated, I couldn't get my old ford started, the ATV is useless in snow like this, so I had to drive the tractor 2mi to the other farm to feed cows today. The roads were packed down enough but the 1/2mi back into our other farm was tough going. I set the bucket of the B3200 about 12" off the ground and plowed my way in. Did fine till I got down in a draw where it had drifted to about 4' deep. Had to walk my way back out using the bucket.

Couple pics:

 

[mpham]

We're working on 11or12 with ice in the middle. Still going to come down for a few more hours. I've been using the blower and plow to try and keep it clean. Will post a few pics later. Blower shoot turn is broken so will be fixing that first. Electrical connection somewhere is hosed. Another storm coming too.

 

[Thomas]

14" another 3-5" before noon weatherman saying,than winds going to kick up ..20-30 mph,least temp will be low 30's for clean up afternoon.

 

[tkappeler]

we got an extra 3" last night on top of yesterday's 14". expecting 2-4 tonight

 

[mpham]

Here is one of the snow banks. As you can see it is taller than my Toyota.

 

[mpham]

As clean as possible,with more on the way

 

[mpham]

A happy and well used tractor.

 

[gkm]

That's a good snow!! Is that WV?

Yes, we're right off the Potomac in Shepherdstown, WV.

 

[vtsnowedin]

I have about a foot here on top of the hill but it is already blowing and drifting so the low spots have a lot more. I plowed the first four inches off last night after supper and have opened it all up. I have about a half mile of private road to do with three houses on it. I've walked through the ten gallons of fuel I put in yesterday pushing the banks back to make room for drifts and have to go get more.

 

[tcartwri]

Craziness.

 

[DeereMann]

Wow are you folks getting hammered! Hang in there............

 

[dave1949]

About 11am the snow stopped like someone closed the spigot. Went from steady snow to nothing.

We got around 11-12 inches. Sticky snow, the kind that hangs on the shovel, blower and bucket. It's heavy with moisture.

I didn't dig out the car that sits outside. That PITA ain't going to be there next winter, one way or another. :laughing: We may get some flurries or an inch or two yet the next couple days.

 

[Verticaltrx]

I was able to get to our North farm on Thursday, but it had drifted so bad over the night the roads were completely impassable Friday morning. Headed North the road was drifted in 4' deep for about a 1/2mi, and 3' deep headed south for 1/4mi. I tried in vain to get a running start in my 4runner and make it out headed South:



Later that afternoon I dug out about 2' of snow through there and packed down the rest into a little 6' wide path. I made a test run in the 4runner and was able to get out. My wife and I headed out about 5:30 to go get more diesel and some food in town. We hadn't gotten as far as that blue mailbox before there was a truck coming the other way and had gotten stuck (my trail wasn't wide enough for a full size, and only went as far as my driveway anyways.) A few yanks with a tow strap and got him out and turned around. Got back from town at about 7:00 and there was another truck stuck in the same spot. This time it was our neighbor who was headed down to get one of his tractors. We gave him a ride, got his tractor, and got his truck dug/pulled out.

By this time a grader had come to try to plow the road. He was headed North and made it about 100' past my driveway before he was fully stuck in about 4' of snow. After some digging and yanking with the neighbors 4wd 5625 Deere we got the grader out. He had to back out almost 2mi to get to the main road as there was no where big enough for him to turn around. Sometime early this morning VDOT came through and dug the road out. I'm not sure what equipment they used, but the snow is piled 6-7' high along the sides of the road where it was drifted badly:

 

[Thomas]

No doubt about it Verticaltrx you folks have pay your winter dues.

 

[Verticaltrx]

No doubt about it Verticaltrx you folks have pay your winter dues.

Indeed, I feel pretty fortunate though. I've been amazed at all the folks out there with snow shovels trying to dig out their driveways. I try to stop and help anyone I can with the tractor when I have it out.

 

[Rustyiron]

Yes, we're right off the Potomac in Shepherdstown, WV.

Used to live about 15 min. across the river.

 

[Jaeger]

We got 20" dumped on us after 8" Monday. Luckily we didn't get the 5-6" they were calling for last night.

Spent 4 hrs cleaning yesterday and took a pic from the snow mountain of my handiwork.

More loader work than blade yesterday.

 

[vtsnowedin]

No doubt about it Verticaltrx you folks have pay your winter dues.

Yes he has had it worse then I have and I'm used to it. It helps if you have experience and have collected the equipment to see you through. Those people down in Georgia would muddle through just fine if they had seen it more then once or twice in a lifetime.