Snow so many of you are blowing snow...

[allen in texas]

and it's going to be 78 degrees here in the south plains of Texas today
Last night my dad and I hooked an old 4 row cultivator with 13 shanks up to my tractor and plowed the garden,. We had it set up kinda like a chisel or something, just to till it up a bit.
Pulled it 8' deep and it's was all the tractor wanted but it did ok. Traction was really the only problem.
The garden looks really good and now maybe it won't blow the rest of the winter.

I wish I had a video.
It was pretty fun and the fresh dirt sure smelled good.

 

[rpoage]

Ha Ha. First it is beautiful up here with a fresh coat of snow covering the landscape.
Second I have been in Texas in the middle of summer and it ain't pretty. While we are out doing yard work and playing around you guys are hanging on your swamp coolers for relieve.

I was in Dallas for a week when it was 110 in the morning and got up to 117 in the afternoon. I was also in Houston when it was 95 degrees with 90% humidity.

 

[smfcpacfp]

I really enjoy the snow we get. We are able to ski, snowshoe and some like to snowmobile for three month's a year. In the summer we get to do the thinngs you are doing now. I guess I enjoy the extreme seasons we have here. I know personally I would not be happy in a climate like Texas.

 

[allen in texas]

Well, where I live, it's a dry heat. LOL

BTW, it's going to be 32 with snow tomorrow.

 

[rpoage]

BTW, it's going to be 32 with snow tomorrow.

Stay home! We know how well your fellow Texans' drive in the snow. Kind of a real life lesson in applied physics.

 

[allen in texas]

Well, I'm one of the few Texans that can drive in the snow but I agree with your point.
Shoot it don't have to be snow, just let it sprinkle a little bit and half of these idiots are in the ditch.
That's ok with me tho', I usually made a couple of hundred bucks pulling people out when it snows. I just cruise the highway between my house and Lubbock and look for folks in the ditch. My 2003 2500HD Duramax 4x4 works pretty well for that.
Dang! I'm all excited now. Let 'er snow.

 

[ccsial]

I really enjoy the snow we get. We are able to ski, snowshoe and some like to snowmobile for three month's a year. In the summer we get to do the thinngs you are doing now. I guess I enjoy the extreme seasons we have here. I know personally I would not be happy in a climate like Texas.

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I hate hot weather and I like snow too and love the seasons, but I have to say I draw the line at shoveling off the roof. I had to do that in 1979. I'm too old for that now.​

 

[smfcpacfp]

I was up on my roof today checking out my woodstove chimney and I shoveled a little bit. I forgot exactly how much I hated to do that as I was slipping and sliding around, crawling up to the chimney on my knees in about 2 feet of snow.

 

[ccsial]

I was up on my roof today checking out my woodstove chimney and I shoveled a little bit. I forgot exactly how much I hated to do that as I was slipping and sliding around, crawling up to the chimney on my knees in about 2 feet of snow.

I can understand that. If we get enough snow where I feel the roof needs clearing I'll be hiring it done. I've got a big roof and old bones.

 

[allen in texas]

sure are beautiful pictures.
I think I'll move there.

or not

 

[ccsial]

sure are beautiful pictures.
I think I'll move there.

or not

That is one of the great benefits of living in the USA. You can live wherever you want to. I love our free country.

Allen (I'm an Allen too)

 

[escavader]

I love winter!!!
Die hard snowmobiler-climbing a mountain,that only can be hiked,because now all the rocks are covered-what a rush.Going places in the back country only accessable in the winter.Carving a hard packed groomed trail at speeds autos travel on interstates.seeing wintering deer and moose yarded up for the deep snow season.
We all love seat time,you get alot of tractor time in winters in MAINE.pushing or blowing snow,pushing back bankings,scraping the drive down
Also winter means garage time .winter repairs,projects one winter i built a back hoe thumb,this winter im building a steel cab,and a quick hitch for my front end loader.Repairing and maintaining all the atvs,lawn mowers and all the toys of summer.Afresh coat of paint on this and that.Auto body work etc
Most of these things i have no time for in the summer.
Winter in MAINE means internet or for me TRACTOR BY NET,and talking to all my friends here.I would rather be here then in front of the tv!!
So if you think we are suffering with the cold and snow we are not.We are playing ,regrouping ,and planning for next summer.
ALAN
PS It was -4 f this morning and a foot of snow on the ground,but my garden is still going.Ever heard of parsnips in TEXAS?Makes my mouth water just thinking of them out there.

 

[Zick]

I hate the cold but I love playing in the snow!

 

[bx24]

Somewhere I saw an attachment for a FEL to clean the roof. Basically like the hand ones but mounted to a hinge on the FEL instead along with a chain or rope midway up the pole and attached to the top of the FEL so you could lift the pole but only gravity would push it down on the roof.

Seemed like a slick idea, but you would have to snow blow part of the yard to get some working room.

I am just glad to see you get'n some white stuff. I know Door Co WI and other Northern areas are way below average over the past several years. Without the snow on the ice, too much sea weed to water ski through in the summers ....

 

[smfcpacfp]

I snow blowed 5 days in a row last week (Saturday thru Wednesday) - 3 feet in total.

The last five days have been sunny and cold, much colder than it has been for many years -8 this morning. I miss snowblowing in my new tractor.

 

[WBWI]

This may look like a gimmick but it works. Avalanche Snow - Snow Removal Equipment for better Roof Maintenance
We had 50" of snow in the month of Dec a few years ago. My neighbor bought one of these and let me borrow it. I couldn't reach the peak of my roof but this cleaned off every inch I could reach.

 

[Zick]

This may look like a gimmick but it works. Avalanche Snow - Snow Removal Equipment for better Roof Maintenance
We had 50" of snow in the month of Dec a few years ago. My neighbor bought one of these and let me borrow it. I couldn't reach the peak of my roof but this cleaned off every inch I could reach.

Nice, that looks like a neat design.

 

[claridon]

I just bought an Avalanche Drift Buster with the extension pole kit so I could reach to the peak of my roof. Time will tell how well it works but I did have a chance to try it out a couple of days ago and it seems like it will perform as advertised. It's a simple but effective approach to getting the snow down by using gravity instead of muscle (which I don't have much of anymore).
-Len

 

[Harry c]

Well, we're looking at the mid-70s tomorrow around Charlotte. Can't say I like the cold weather but it's been so dry here we'd even take snow.

 

[thatguy]

We had a lot of black ice here on friday and today (Mon) we had 70 degree weather.. It was pushing 60's here on Sat/Sun

I wish we could get some snow

Brian