Just for Brad.

Rally

NC Minnesota
Must have been Kevin left the door open, he’s closer! Got close to zero today, might have to get my shorts out soon.
 

fiver

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if I leave the door open you get snow..
speaking of which come Tuesday or so you might just be getting some.
 

Paul Gauthier

Active Member
Had a couple of days last week when the temps got down to 0 at night, and 10-14 during the day. Then the warm up started and today it made 60, quite nice.
 

Kevin Stenberg

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Paul we may see 60 in 3 or 4 months.
If you guys want i could send you some more -0 temps. All you have to do is ask!
 

KHornet

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Am sort of having to blow snow at least twice a week, and looks like it will be 3 times this week.

Paul
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Don't feel too bad Paul,my driveway has piles between the trees as high as the skid steer with a snow bucket on it can reach. I cut wood off my stacked firewood piles yesterday AFTER shoveling about 2' of snow off the logs. I've been snow blowing trails to get to the woodstove. My dogs think I made them a race track and run laps around the shop and driveway. My old female yellow lab won't leave the paths, she just flounders in the snow. Young dogs are having a ball playing king of the hill. We need a couple days of some sun to settle the snow. The deer are taking a beating in the woods. Pretty easy picking for the wolves when the deer yard up.
 

fiver

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even easier when it freezes up all the snow like it has here.
I don't think I'm going to see a deer other than the ones in town for a few years.
 

Pistolero

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Out at the cabin this morning we were getting in some firewood. Had to dig down to the top of the
wood pile, then whack a log with the back of the monster maul a couple of times to knock it loose.
Then put it on top of the anvil log to split it up, and put it into the toboggan to take to the house, then
carry in and stack behind the stove. Fun stuff. Wood heats you twice, or sometimes three times. It was
sunny and 15F, so pretty nice, with no wind.

9600 MSL in southern Colorado. Heading home, now.

Bill
 

Ian

Notorious member
my driveway has piles between the trees as high as the skid steer with a snow bucket on it can reach. I

AH-HA!!! Finally, someone who has the right idea about moving snow! No blowers to walk behind, no tractor that won't turn sharply, no lightweight Jeep. The man has a skid-steer loader, probably with a heated, enclosed cab, can scrape up snow and ice and put it anywhere he wants. By golly.

Brad, you paying attention?
 

fiver

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the city has had a couple of guys cruising around the last few days in back hoes helping people out piling up snow.
a skid steer would really be working itself trying to get it up that high, the back hoe was having to cut a ramp and drive up on many of the piles to dump his bucket.
 

Ian

Notorious member
They use 955 CAT articulating loaders in Ouray, about six of them. Snow is hauled out of town to a dump site in 14-yard trucks.
 

fiver

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ours goes in the river, or around the lake edge.
they reserve that privilege for the main street and city property snow only though.
our household snow isn't good enough to go into the river until it has melted and run down the hill into the feeder creek.
 

Pistolero

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That 'self transporting' part of the snow season is my favorite part, fiver. Fish gotta swim and
the farmers need the water.

This is how they handle it in Moscow. HUGE amounts of snow, and people walk a LOT so the sidewalks
have to be kept clear, so they have to transport it to the river. Fascinating machines to watch. Reminds
me of a lobster eating.


Bill
 
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fiver

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that's kind of like what some of the farmers here use to empty the potato cellars.
many of them still use the conveyor belt and shovels, then out to a sorting table manned by 4-5 people which goes into the trucks and out to the field for planting.
the sorted stuff gets mixed with the run off dirt and run out to the edges of the field to rot into replacement dirt.