Plowed snow all afternoon.

The PLAN was to go out and check the oil pressure on the combine with the new mechanical gauge BUT the driveway on the farm house needed to be plowed and the lane back to the barn from the service gates also. Snow really deep and really wet. This snow was completely unplanned for so I had to get the log splitter off the 300U and put the fast hitch blade on. Of course the 300U battery was a little weak, so when it fired up and stalled it was not willing to start again. The two Chebbie trucks have side mount batteries and are hard to jump from so I niggled these out of the way to get the other utility out. It has 3 pt and my 3 pt blade was 20 miles away at the other house SOOOO I used the one tractor to jump the other. The 300U had flooded but I managed to play with it a bit and FINALLY got to plowing.

The fun part in all this was the ominous rumble coming from the roof of the shed as the snow moved. If you ran around to the side and watched it looked like a glacier slowly crawling over the edge of the roof. When it got over about 18" it broke and about a ton of snow fell. By the time I got done plowing I had had enough. Darn snow is so deep I can't pick the corn anyway. I'll check the pressure tomorrow.

Sounds like it would have been quicker and easier to just wait for it to melt. I'm not much on those make work jobs anymore myself.

I was out plowing at 8 am. Then some snow blowing and shoveling. Then off to my wife's shop for the same. Finally finished about 2:30 this afternoon. I think I need the ibuprofen tonight.

I don't have enough here to bother with plowing. That's why there is a button on the dash labeled 4x4. Last night, son dtopped a button buck in the back field. Jumped the old JD B with a manure loader, drove it half a mile in the dark to retreive it.
Forecast is for warmer so I'm going to let nature take care of it. Try not to plow before ground freezes up. Saves a lot of gouges in the driveway and grass

That was my plan too......but we ended up with 12 to 16 inches down here in Livingston county.....so I ended up plowing a little snow.

We got 8" of snow . I cleaned in front of shop and walkway to house. Not doing a thing to driveway. Temperatures are going back up to the upper 40s or low 50s it will melt off.

I would say we got somewhat over 12" here a little south and west of you, Dave. The weather guessers had said 1"-3" and with warmer weather forecast this week, I did not remove the mower deck from the garden tractor and put the 42" snowblower on. Has to hire my neighbor to push my driveway out to the street. Worth $10. Spent Sat AM installing the Bosch dishwasher I drove to Toledo to get Fri night. SWMBO is not happy when her dishwasher dies.

You got that right!!! My arms ache from turning the wheel and my back from looking over my shoulder. Thursday is wifeys B-Day so we are heading over to Troy for lobster tonight. Maybe a good stiff drink will loosen things up!

Dave,
What maturity corn are you growing this year? I wonder if next year a shorter season may help? Short season corn has gotten pretty good, and can yield well. Good luck,
Josh

(quoted from post at 15:12:44 11/22/15) You got that right!!! My arms ache from turning the wheel and my back from looking over my shoulder. Thursday is wifeys B-Day so we are heading over to Troy for lobster tonight. Maybe a good stiff drink will loosen things up!

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I do my place, and 2 neighbor's. I used to do a couple more, but the old ladies moved out, the folks are younger and able to do for themselves. My neighbor's are pretty good, one helps us out with stuff, the other is a older lady who cannot afford much.

We western Iowans were about a day ahead of you guys. I ended up with ten inches and it was wet but it was fluff. Fluff is easy to push but wet isn't much good for traction. Between my son's place and my place we have an accumulated approximately one acre to clear off so there is room for a truck to maneuver if one happens to come in for service. During the thick of things in the dark when the snow was still coming down heavy one of the feed trucks blew a hose on the truck tractor itself while unloading in the snow at a hog site 2 1/2 miles away. Lucky for us it wasn't 20 miles away! Son took the spare truck over there to switch off with the truck with the blown hose, I took the 1086 with the loader. I couldn't run wide open on the blacktop because the tractor was so squirrely on that wet packed stuff and I couldn't see worth a hoot because of the heavy snow falling in front of the lights. I spent some time pushing drifts away to make some maneuvering room, then had to drag the truck with the blown hose out from under the trailer because he couldn't get traction to drive away, then I had to push the spare truck under the trailer because it couldn't get traction to get under there. He would just slide sideways and out of alignment of the king pin when he tried. When everything was settled and the spare truck was hooked up and unloading the rest of the feed it was head on back home to clear snow so the truck with the blown hose could get in the shop and the spare truck with the trailer could get in the yard and park for the night. I didn't have it bad because I was in a warm cab but those guys out there switching trucks and dragging chains looked like snowmen and on top of it they were very, very tired from hauling feed extra hours themselves to get caught up before the snow. I complemented one of them on how well he could dance when he slipped on the ice and was twisting and flailing his arms trying to keep from going down. LOL. Anyway, after two hours we got everything settled at home and everyone went home to their families and a warm supper. Boy did it remind me of my livestock days as Roger and JD and the rest of you guys with animals can attest only this time all I had to do was sit in a warm cab.

I cleaned up the snow around here. I doubt a couple of warm days would remove 12+". It would only melt enough to leave a layer of ice on the driveway. Better to clean it down to the gravel now than deal with a layer of ice. It's too late it the year to hope for warm enough weather to melt all the snow. Once the ground gets covered with snow we won't see consecutive warm days until spring.

i didn,t plow any only got 1" here 25 miles north of Souix Falls and 20 miles west was a good day

(quoted from post at 15:12:31 11/22/15) I would say we got somewhat over 12" here a little south and west of you, Dave. The weather guessers had said 1"-3" and with warmer weather forecast this week, I did not remove the mower deck from the garden tractor and put the 42" snowblower on. Has to hire my neighbor to push my driveway out to the street. Worth $10. Spent Sat AM installing the Bosch dishwasher I drove to Toledo to get Fri night. SWMBO is not happy when her dishwasher dies.

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That's sad when a dishwasher dies. Really hard to get a new one trained in just right. I load my dishwasher by getting her drunk :twisted: :twisted:

Rick

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(quoted from post at 15:12:31 11/22/15) I would say we got somewhat over 12" here a little south and west of you, Dave. The weather guessers had said 1"-3" and with warmer weather forecast this week, I did not remove the mower deck from the garden tractor and put the 42" snowblower on. Has to hire my neighbor to push my driveway out to the street. Worth $10. Spent Sat AM installing the Bosch dishwasher I drove to Toledo to get Fri night. SWMBO is not happy when her dishwasher dies.

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That's sad when a dishwasher dies. Really hard to get a new one trained in just right. I load my dishwasher by getting her drunk :twisted: :twisted:

Rick

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You old dog. Does your children know what you've been doing to their mother? :?

We got about 8-9" here in Branch County, but I was driving to Grosse Pointe for sons birthday, lousy 30 mph, 4 wd drive until I got to Clinton. I'm waiting for 55F on Thursday to fix it.

12" in SE MI. Son came home from Chicago to play with his toys.