Snow report, Eastern Ontario

The Lucknow doesn't seem much bothered by blowing sod instead of snow and gravel. It's a smooth-operating, heavy duty machine. The pile of slush the plough left at the end of the driveway ceased to be a problem after I straddled the row with the tractor, lowered the blower and backed down the hill. No hesitation at all: it all landed downwind somewhere in a field. That's a whole lot different from picking at a similar pile with my 5 hp Toro in town.

Around the houses I had to blow snow back into about a 30 mph wind. Glad I had my full-face snowmobile helmet and suit on. The tractor became fully covered with the white stuff, but it's a diesel and doesn't have plug wires to short out.

Weather report? It's soggy, snowing, and blowing quite hard. Not a good evening for front-wheel drive cars: they plane on slush way too easily for safety.