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Yeah, I'm ready for spring all right. Oliver:
I basically put the B up for the winter. It's not big enough or heavy enough to deal with serious snow on a half-mile driveway. My primary plow vehicle is a Chev one ton dump with 8ft Fischer blade but for pushing the banks back or dealing with a foot of fresh wet snow, nothing beats the V-plow on the Oliver. I was at a local show last summer and ran into a guy who had lots of pictures or "restored" Bs and Cs. They all had silver rear rims. He seemed to know quite a bit about Bs so I asked him about orange rears. He told me empatically that ALL Bs were supplied from the factory with galvanized rears and none had orange ones. Well, that and a buck will get you a cup of coffee - maybe. I've seen far to much evidence to the contrary to believe there were no original orange ones. Besides, I happen to prefer the look of orange rears to silver (or galv) anyway. I thought Oregon had lots of snow. You must not be in the mountain areas. I remember driving through Oregon about 35 years ago. South to North on I5. Visited Crater Lake Nat'l Pk. Nice area. My neighbor has just started the maple syrup season. It's about two or three weeks later than it has been in recent years. He has about 500 taps, a few of which are on my property. They are all tied together with plastic tubing, with the sap flowing by gravity to several "pick-up" points. This year there is enough snow in the woods that prevented access to all his normal pick-up points. He is therefore about 100 taps shy of "normal". I helped him boil down a couple hundred gallons of sap yesterday - feeding wood to "big bertha" firebox:
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