Winter should be outlawed !!!

Temp97 · Feb 28, 2008

It's killing me to view these posts and see pics of members with their outdoor projects and I haven't turned the key on my 7800 since November and probably won't until late April when I can move around the property without doing more damage. I know it's my fault for living where I do but man it is tough. Next winter I pledge not to view TBN for the sake of my sanity

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RobS · Feb 28, 2008

It's desperate times like this Temp97, that you need to take that tractor out to get the mail, paper, haul the trash cans out, inspect the street, just about anything to get a little seat time. Believe me, we've all been there. Fortunately, I've been getting enough snow to keep me satisfied but if it weren't for that I'd be making some practice laps. Hang in there, we're all pullin' for you!

Z-Michigan · Feb 28, 2008

You're in Western NY and you're not busy removing feet of snow on a daily basis? What's wrong?

For me, between snow removal and selling hay, I'm keeping the tractor busy.

jmfox · Feb 28, 2008

Z-Michigan said:
You're in Western NY and you're not busy removing feet of snow on a daily basis? What's wrong?

For me, between snow removal and selling hay, I'm keeping the tractor busy.

I also live in WNY, about 15 miles south of Buffalo, and we've seemed to have missed all the major storms. There is snow on the ground but no snow plowing activity, at least no piles to push back or major accumulation that would require real machinery.

jmf

Surewhynot · Feb 28, 2008

Robs, you make several good points, and thank you for pointing out that it is perfectly OK to drive the tractor to get the mail, take out the trash cans, and any other thing that you can do with a tractor to get seat time.

ByronBob · Feb 28, 2008

Temp97 said:
It's killing me to view these posts and see pics of members with their outdoor projects and I haven't turned the key on my 7800 since November and probably won't until late April when I can move around the property without doing more damage. I know it's my fault for living where I do but man it is tough. Next winter I pledge not to view TBN for the sake of my sanity .

If your close to Byron haul that monster over and plow my 650 ft driveway. Should take you at least 2 hours to do. That will help me and you the way I see it.

Instant therapy.

txdon · Feb 28, 2008

Haven't you heard, we are in a global cooling down year. It might be July before you can get seat time.

"Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year. California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree.
That is said to be a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. It is reportedly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded up or down.
Some scientists contend the cooling is the result of reduced solar activity which they say is a larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases." - FOXNews.com - Evidence of Global Cooling - Brit Hume | Special Report

I may have to start a winter tractor therapy retreat on the farm for the Northern TBNers.
Today - 65 and sunny.

RobS · Feb 28, 2008

txdon said:
I may have to start a winter tractor therapy retreat on the farm for the Northern TBNers.
Today - 65 and sunny.

Sure, you may have the warm weather but we have no bugs, no spiderwebs, no snakes, no crowds, no weeds...

(Years ago a buddy and I were tent-bound in a blizzard for days on a mountain. We came up with a very long list of advantages to winter camping. Yes, we were bored.)

Temp97 · Feb 28, 2008

I was just in Houston last week visiting my daughter. 78-80 degrees, I fly back to Buffalo and it's 25. It only added to my madness!!

Barneyhunts · Feb 28, 2008

Temp97,
Good post! It sure is opening my eyes to things I could have been doing with my tractors; but Brrrrrrrrrr, it was 5 degrees this morning with a 22 mph north wind. After hauling in some firewood all I wanted to do was sit and watch it burn.

txdon · Feb 28, 2008

RobS said:
Sure, you may have the warm weather but we have no bugs, no spiderwebs, no snakes, no crowds, no weeds...

Replace crowds with AHBs and you got it.

SPYDERLK · Feb 29, 2008

Temp97 said:
Winter should be outlawed.

Weve done that here in Virginia. The ground barely froze this and last year. Grass has been green all "winter". Ice on the lake reached 1/4" thick once or twice. Melted in the daytime. No fruit on the trees because they blossom early and get nipped. Geese colliding in migration. Scary.
larry

bx23barry · Feb 29, 2008

You guys just stay where ya are! Calif. really sucks, pass it on.

weldingisfun · Mar 2, 2008

Temp97 said:
Winter should be outlawed !!!

It was outlawed in Central Texas. Last week we saw a high of 95. Average daily temp, all week, was mid-70s.

bluetc30 · Mar 2, 2008

there is a lot of snow here in nh we could send you some and you can just move the piles around

EddieWalker · Mar 2, 2008

We get two months of winter here in East Texas. Temps in the teens a few times with most days just below freezing and then up to the 40s or 50s. Now that it's March, the weather will get really nice with highs in the 70's!!!

I've been in shorts and a T shirt all week and loving it!!!

Of course, the bee's and wasps are back too, and I'm waiting for my first snake sighting of the year. With the temps warming up, the bugs will start making a comeback. I went out yesterday morning, first thing, to climb through my woods and mark the trees I want to take out this year for some roads. Doing this in the summer months is almost suicide with what will bite or sting you!!!

My wife and I both talk about moving to the Mountains when we retire, but dealing with the snow is somethng neither of us have any experience with. I have a fear that I'll last one winter. I honestly don't know how you guys deal with it. Give me the heat and humidity!!!!!

Eddie

Eddie

HappyCPE · Mar 2, 2008

txdon} Replace crowds with AHBs and you got it.[/QUOTE said:
Uh, what's an AHB?
I think I know what an AH is - been called one pretty often - but the B?

Surewhynot · Mar 2, 2008

Winter? Oh like here in Iowa where it is now 50 outside - this afternoon we are getting rain and then, early evening, the 2 to 4 inches of snow come! You got to love the winter weather! BTW Is it okay to use the FEL to move 90% mud and 10% snow or should I box blade that out of the driveway?

Kendrick · Mar 2, 2008

Barneyhunts said:
Temp97,
Good post! It sure is opening my eyes to things I could have been doing with my tractors; but Brrrrrrrrrr, it was 5 degrees this morning with a 22 mph north wind. After hauling in some firewood all I wanted to do was sit and watch it burn.

BWHAHAHAHAHAH [cranks up his cabs heater]

its been a bit of snow here usually bursts of 4 inches... just enough to make one clear the snow and then wait for the next weeks storm. put about 20 hrs in snow removle so far and i got 1500' of drive way.

Eddie snow and cold are nothing. heat isnt bad either its all a matter of how you look at it. every one round here is a blody chicken little. oh the roads are horible theres black ice... bla bla bla. the only 2 times to worry about cold weather is either in a blizzard or if somthing breaks in -deg temps with huge windchill.

if you do go and move to the mountains get a beater car find a large pasture make some road width trails that match city roads and just keep driving it till you know exactly how the car runs in it. then ice it and repete the lesson

and dont forget the snow tires! not all season snow. aslong as you dont have engaging conversations on the cell phone while driving you wont have any problems... tobad 20% or less of the drivers are like that.