SPRING here soon???

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I went to move some dirt yesterday, had to drive across lawn. Walking on it, it seemed fine and dry. NOT, I got about 20ft and sank to the front axle. I had to use the bucket, 4wd, locked rear axle to get the tractor out!!! SWMBO was not happy when she saw the deep ruts in the lawn. :( Looks like it will be several more weeks before I am moving any dirt. In the mean time... I will be looking for a source of good topsoil to fill in my OOPs.
Look at it this way you just collected some more future seat time.
I did the same thing in my yard 2 er 3 weeks ago.
I will fix it with dirt from this dirt pile i keep inside
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and these 3 tractors.
 
   / SPRING here soon???
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#12  
Someone said a blizzard was due here, but then I remembered today is April 1st.

In either case Gary, you need to remember that snowblower is a virtual plug keeping out bad weather. Now you've torn it!

Sorry JonKioti and everyone else I hope I haven't jinxed things by taking my blower off but the test holes were a paying job, maybe when I came home I should have put it back on, today it's 51f and raining but the weather people are talking about the possibility of snow at the first of the week, hope they are so wrong. Gary
 
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Just got 8" of wet heavy snow, spring is delayed:(

KC
 
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ya it starting snowing today about 4:00 am it's still at it now and they say it's going to snow tonight and into wednesday also, possible up to 10 cm.The only good thing is I got to go do some scraping and salting on the highway and likely tonight again. Gary
 
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AN UPDATE
Yes I did jinx things taking the blower off. Mon and Tues we got snow and wind, at least I got a couple days work on the highways out of it, but now the yard looks like winter again, got home last night took the hoe off and put the blower on, had about a foot of heavy snow in the driveway with some packed tracks got it cleaned not too bad and today it;s melting again, so here's to hoping for the last kick of the cat. Happy Easter everyone. Gary
P.S. maybe I'll leave the blower on for awhile now.
 

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   / SPRING here soon??? #16  
Man. We got almost a foot of snow over the last 2 days. It sucks. It's melting now and will be gone by Sunday but everything is soggy as can be and mud season is right back into full swing.

Oh well, on the bright side the water table is the highest I've seen in 10 years.

Hey LB59, that's a really nice drive in shed you have there!
 
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jimmyj that snow did suck I plowed and salted (sanded) up # 12 those days and the drifting was a #$@*%#, you are right about the water level, we live on the island slightly southeast of you and the lake level is about a foot higher than one week ago. Gary
 
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Well, snow is almost all gone again and spring flowers are up! We have snowdrops and crocus's blooming.

On the flips side, plowing that last storm tore up the lawn along the edge of the lane worse than the whole prior winter.

Spring is almost here!!
 

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