Thread: How I spent my Saturday

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I hate snowmen.. unless.. I'm runnin' them over with the machine!! HAH!

Is that gate still open Dave? Got another load for Roger?

We've been getting snow here on and off all day, only a couple inches so far though. The good news is that it's very wet and heavy snow, and the ranchers and farmers out west are getting it too, and it's been so very, very dry out there for the last year! Forecast shows us getting another couple inches overnight, with the winds getting up in the 30 mph range. Doubt there'll be much drifting as wet as the snow is! I'm certainly not going to complain, as dry as it was all last summer we'll take moisture in any form it wants to come in!!!!! Only 20 steps from the back door to the garage, so it has very little effect on any of my plans!!!!! As for shoveling it, my attitude is that I didn't put it there so I'm not gonna shovel it!!!!

Yeah, we've got a steady 35-40mph wind here, but it's straight out of the south, bringing gulf warmth and moisture with it - we're at 52F right now!! It's running into the front off of the Rockies up north of here, and then pushing NE adding to the storm across the upper MW. Looks like the folks down along the SE edge, into Mississippi, Georgia, and that area are getting some thunder storms and lots of rain.

If there's any extra moisture in it Roger, send some of it our way!!!!!

thats the trouble with snow if the ground is frozen all the moisture gets blown away or runoff in streams and rivers it don't get into the ground. Need good spring rains. We haven't had enough of those for a few years

Yeah,when I saw the pictures I was going to say something about your garden tractor.That is one like they don't "build them like that anymore"!!. Bet it has the good Kohler cast iron engine on it.Peddle hydro drive?? Tough to core. Cast iron front drive case on the s/blower too. Today's money you would be spending big,big,money to equal that. Very cool!!.

That tractor is a gear drive, 3 forward + 1 reverse with a creeper drive added in for some seriously slow forward motion. And yes, it still has it's Kohler motor.

A buddy sent this pic over to me with the caption, "the more it changes, the more it stays the same!"

Thats the type tractor they use around here for tractor pulls.

Those are the yard tractors the use around here for tractor pulls.

Yep! All those little pullers get the transaxle from the early Cub Cadets 'cause they're just about bulletproof!

We missed out on the worst of the snow, only about 5" or so. Lots more north and west of us though! Saw more pics on the news from the Northeast, you guys really got hammered!!!!!

This mornings news program mentioned a snow "accumulation" likely for this weekend.....

Sigh, not again!

Finally got out to the shop and was greeted with these.. The top of one tree did land on the power line to the shop. Didn't break it but pulled it down to 6 foot from ground.

Did you have some high winds along with the snow? Those are some pretty substantial fir/pine/evergreens.

and some more! Those widow makers I'll rip down with the excavator, That huge old black walnut by the house, no ones alive who knows how old it may have been.....

Shame but mother nature wasn't foolin' around that last storm!