toxic
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- Joined
- Mar 28, 2007
- Messages
- 134
- Location
- PEI, Canada
- Tractor
- Kubota m7060 , John Deere 4200, Kubota ZD 326 & ZD 21
Thavil, Nice pics! After doing my drive and 6 others, multiple passes, I was too pooped to take any
Think tomorrow is a "work from home" day. I did my 40 mile commute today, just for the manly adventure of it - wasn't worth it. Tomorrow evening will be worse I suspect....
It's easy enough to have that happen. I dug out about 300 feet of a neighbors drive and he has a horse corral fence along one side of it. I couldn't just FEL to load, turn and dump, as that would have swung the back blade into his fencing. So for all 300 feet, I had to FEL load, then backup down down down to where his fence ends and then dump, and then return. So it took about twice as long.
When it came to his parking area, I did some of it far from his vehicles, but then told him I would loan him my tractor for him to do the rest, as I was not comfortable operating around other peoples vehicles. He borrowed my small Kubota the next day and spent about 2 hours doing his parking area. He was very appreciative after working his own space the drive that I had opened up for him.
And he loved operating the Kubota.
Gotta beat Todd! These storms have cured me of any itch to play in more snow. I took the B for a ride over two days and clocked 12 hours (9-5) one day,4 the next just clearing.
Since the JD's are somewhere else no cab for me.
How are the horse doing? I was thinking about putting ours to work.
Well that's your problem, right there. I imagine it would add incalculable hours to your job having to stop, shift, reverse, stop, shift, forward slow, forward fast, stop, shift, reverse, etc...
I clear ~1/2 miles worth of driveway (8 different houses, so add 8 garage areas, 8 street ends, 8 mailboxes, etc.) with my BX each storm. I run turf tires, no chains, and nothing but the FEL.
This snow, we got 16 inches on the ground, but the first 12 inches of snow were reduced to 4 inches by sleet, creating a very hard, heavy, wet, crusty, and otherwise impossible to shovel sandwich of junk. Took me an hour just to shovel the walkway from my driveway to my front door. Thankless work.
All that said, I didn't have much problem dispatching of it with my little BX. The whole thing took maybe 6 hours. But I couldn't fathom doing that with a geared tractor...painful.
And, of course, I'd never miss an opportunity to share pictures of my family...tractor included...
Or if the snow gets really, really, really deep, I got the equipment for that to.
If you slide one of those snowcats off the trail and down a mountain side is it hard to get it back on the trail?
Thank you to everyone who passed along this sentiment. I'm quite proud.Cute family there Keith.
Don't disagree one bit that the FEL is inefficient. Normally, I would say, the FEL is plenty sufficient for the amount of snow we get. After getting over 50 inches in a single season, I'm secretly wishing I'd have gotten a blower or a blade at the beginning of this year. Secret wish, mind you, since I didn't/don't have 2 pennies to rub together...Considering the FEL is essentially free-to-me at this point, I think it does a spectacular job!!!I could not imaging doing it with just a FEL.
Ummmm...ya. Little different animal than my cute little 2,400# BX. I'd love to have a rig like that, but it'd look a little funny mowing my front lawn with it...I do adore the front mount blade. If I could spend 6 weeks locked in my garage with beer, welder, and metal, I'd have a great many modifications come out the other side...a blade like that on my BX among them....with my 5,200# 28HP Jinma.