Snowmagedon 2015 in Nova Scotia

[Rustyiron]

Thanks for your story NS. I do enjoy the "big ones" for some strange reason. I've watched all of our storms on the tv weather really blossom as they headed northeast up your way! You might not see your lawn until June!

 

[murph1]

Here I thought 110 inches was a lot of snow.

 

[RockyNY]

We are extremely fortunate to only have gotten 130" this year. The absence of warmups means that there was no melting going on until a couple weeks ago. If we had cold like this year coupled with record snow I would have had to go out and buy a PTO blower. Winter of 2009 we had almost double this amount of snow at 230" which is not record breaking for us. But no at least there was no extreme cold.

 

[NS Gearhead]

We got another 3" of heavy wet snow last night. I used my neighbor's walk behind snowblower because the banks are just too high for the fourwheeler to push it anywhere.

No, this is one of two record snowfalls we've had in the last... probably 20 years.

Yeah, you get to know who your real buddies are when something like this happens. Our entire neighborhood came together and everyone made sure everyone else was ok. Lots of work, but it a nice feeling to know others have your back.

Right of the house


I guess I'm not getting anything big out of the shed for a while




Yup, it's come to this


This is our local sportsplex

 

[NativeSon]

Amazing story and incredible life you live dealing with all that snow. When we get a couple inches, everything shuts down. Schools close, people are encouraged to stay home and wait it out. Is this a record year or does this happen every year?

Eddie

Eddie-- We're lucky. As you know here in Texas, Snow is a spectator sport, look quick and it will be gone in a day or so. Now if the mud will dry out.

Charlie

 

[Garandman]

This is our local sportsplex

So, what kinda sled you got?

 

[NS Gearhead]

LOL, honestly they say an ATV on tracks does better then a sled on non-groomed trails... but I'm scared to go over a 6' snow bank and sink right after. LOL I think the snow has packed down alot. It did warm up enough to start melting yesterday, and turned quite cold today. I'm on night shifts now... so I may try tomorrow.

 

[BlueBerry Farmer]

Nappan NS...I purchased a front mounted blower (2360) for my new MF 1720, was the perfect winter to purchase one.

 

[NS Gearhead]

Very nice rig BlueBerry Farmer! I bet it got lots of use this winter!

 

[BlueBerry Farmer]

Yes I'm VERY pleased with it except for what I paid for it. The two pic are taken in mid February, the TIR (gov.) gave up plowing our rd in full so I had to blow out a lane for mail delivery. A week latter they brought in a large front in loader and cleared it out. The second pic (also mid Feb) is the result of my MF 1720 and the 2360 snow blower taking on a large drift, I need to get very tall drift cutters for next year lol.
Dave Nappan Nova Scotia

 

[Looking4new]

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I need to get very tall drift cutters for next year lol.
Dave Nappan Nova Scotia

If you have them you wont need them. It is when you don't have them that you need them.

 

[Avondale]

Dave, is your blower driven from fwd or mid mount PTO?

 

[BlueBerry Farmer]

Mid mount PTO...which turns up up 2,000 rpm. Ones has to make sure the shafts are attached and secured correctly, heard its not a nice experience if one lets go.

Dave

 

[Avondale]

Thanks, Dave.

 

[BlueBerry Farmer]

The pics on post #30 are a little deceiving (pics don't lie but can stretch things). The mail box pic is the result of me blowing out the box after two or three storms, for the drift pic, the drift actually dropped off to the driveway just to the other side of the tractor, you will see a snow scope in the back ground that I used to cut the drift off after the blower under cut it then I blew it away. I don't want folks thinking that this set up will destroy 6-8ft drifts though high drift cutters might of allowed me to do such. The other day I decided to make more parking room for a local church (pancake supper), the snow was previously piled up high by a much larger tractor and bucket and frozen up pretty good. The backhoe of my MF1720 allowed me to tear up the 7ft frozen and compacted snow thus allowing me to blow it away, to my surprise the blower was eating up bowling ball size (king pin) chunks of ice, I didn't know this at first.

dave

 

[NS Gearhead]

View attachment 419900 The backhoe of my MF1720 allowed me to tear up the 7ft frozen and compacted snow thus allowing me to blow it away

Wow, that sounds like a great setup!

I've been debating on a snowblower for the atv or a plow for a truck (that I plan to get in the fall anyway)... I've decided on a plow... but surely it won't snow next winter. LOL I'm sure alot of people are going to upgrade their setup this year here in NS.

 

[Ralph Copp]

I know what you mean, same here in New Brunswick. On this day I had to blow the main road just to get to my driveway.