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Long winter with a lot of hours moving snow???

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JD Seller

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Some have been talking about how much snow they had to move this year. I just looked at the Blower tractor hour meter. I changed the oil and put the tire chains on when I hooked it to the blower. It has 96 hours on the oil change. WOW I never usually go over 30-40 hours a winter. I usually change the oil and filter in the fall an then again after spring planting in this tractor. Looks like I may have to change it before planting this year.

The really interesting thing is I put rear blade and chains on the JD 5210 this year. I thought that I would keep hours off the blower and tractor that way. The little 1-2 inch snows the blade works faster and easier than the blower. That tractor has 35 hours on it.

I will have to see how many hours the boy has put on the loader tractor and other blower tractor.

I was/am hoping for a quick warm up this spring. I want to build a new shop and garage here at the house we are in now. Would like to get them done before the summer heat. Does not look promising for that.

I also have some hay I want to seed as early as I can too. May not be until April this year.
 
JD,

I usually can do all winter on a tank of fuel for snow tractor. It is about empty, and I have to add to it.

I am Mount Vernon, so 40 miles from you.
 
The weather man here said our total to date is just a tad over 43inches for the season so far here. Unfortunately we have a good month to a month and a half left before we dare start thinking winter is over.
 
yes--quite a bit of snow here in Ma
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David, I go through Mt. Vernon on the train about 5-6 days a week enroute to Clinton. You guys out there in eastern Iowa have really got dumped on lately. All the parking lots in Clinton have mountains of snow piled up. I live near Ft. Dodge, and we have not had too much up here. Plenty of cold, cold temps though. I'm more than ready for spring. It did blow in here pretty good today. Had to spend about 45 min. on the tractor to get it all cleaned up.

Heath
 
Yep getting kinda old finding some where to put the snow. Need to split firewood tomorrow and have to plow an area first for the log splitter Supposed to warm up this week and melt a bit. Bring on spring
 
We've had over 70" here. I have shovelled my whole roof once and am starting to do it again. I have it partially done.
 
I don't even like to keep track of how many hours and miles I put on the truck and tractor moving snow all winter because I know its a lot and it would be depressing. UP to 242 inches of accumulation last I heard and winter still has at least 2 months to go....
 
Some folks have a macho/alpha male thing to annihilate every bit of snow that comes their way. (You know, the guys that are out in the driveway with a "walk behind" @ 4 AM, while the blizzard still rages and the rest of us are sleeping!)

I, on the other hand, believe that God (substitute deity of your choice, if your beliefs reside elsewhere, if "God" doesn't do it for you) put the snow in place and "He" will eventually remove it.

DARN, that being said, I STILL have to "relocate" more snow than I find "fun"!

Hail SPRING/SUMMER!
 
In Central Nebraska, I have not even fired up a tractor to move snow yet this winter. Just some hand work on the sidewalk a couple of times. We could use some moisture.
 
I know here in Central IL, our township just took delivery of a new truck with a plow and the road commissioner told me at out meeting Tuesday night that he had already put 4,000 miles on it, since mid-December.
 
Hey chevytaHOE,
According to my local weatherguesser as of Feb 6 Redfield is at about 297" I'm in Fulton NY area and they say only about 100". But like I said hasn't been updated since Feb 6.
I know I put more gas in my 2n so far this season than I did all last year.
 
Howdy1960 according to Google Fulton and Redfield are about 40 miles apart? And the snow drops off dramatically.

That seems like the big difference from there to here. At my house we are right around 250 inches, 60 miles north UP the road its 280", 60 miles further Up from there and its closer to 300". Then if I go southwest I can drive 150 miles and still be in the 200"+ range. Seems the heavy snowfall is much more widespread here.

Add to that fact its been much colder in the upper midwest than in NY this year so our lake effect snow source is 90% frozen over at the moment. We've had 70 consecutive days below freezing here as of today, and something like 60 some days so far this winter below zero.
 
That's a scenic area out west of town...we call it Mt Vernon hill. It's our biggest hill between Boone and Clinton. Some also call Smythe Road keggar crossing, as the college kids sometimes have parties in the pasture out there.
 
I'm with you Clodbuster. Swept the walk off a few times I have yet to use a loader to clean the lane. The small snows we've been getting lately melt in the afternoon and yes we could use the moisture the cracks in the ground are getting wide.
 
I have a dark grey super duty with aluminum tool box in the back. I use Irish lane a lot, honk at me if I am waiting.
 
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