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gab

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I got my tractor started again, 8 or 10 year old champion spark plugs, cap- rotor and points too. 6 volt battery, haven't cleaned the sediment bowl in years or turned it off either. If that ain't bad enough it's got an inline gas filter about ten years old and it was painted in 91 or 92 without epoxy primer. It does have new oil/ filter and a 2 year old clutch job though. Soon as I backed it in the shed it started snowing again, can't win.
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I learned years ago to not bother trying to plow the snow till you have the next just bright sunny day other wise it will snow all over your fresh plowed areas
 
Well, it's a balmy 14 degrees today with 3 inches of fluffy snow from last night. Tonight the wind is going to wind up with about 4 more inches tonight and tomorrow with a high of about 6 below tomorrow with excruciating wind chill. I'd rather do what I can today like push back the snow banks along the drive way and so on. You got to make hay when the sun shines, how many bales of 3rd or 4th crop did you get this year?
 
Never get a 3rd or 4th cutting here in Missouri where I am. I do most years get a 2nd cutting and got my hay barn full plus a good number of square bales. Cannot say this was a real good year for hay but not a bad one either. Got around 50 or so big rounds and 200 or so squares which is pretty good for 13.5 acres of hay/pasture.

Last time I had to p[low snow was a few years back and we got around 24 inch of snow so if I had not waited I would have had to plow it and then plow it again 3 or 4 times to boot so I waited
 
Was 3 this morning and the old David Brown jumped at the touch of the key. Spent 3 hrs. moving our 6" present from last night on top of the 2" present from Thursday night. The drifts were getting hard and the snot froze on the whiskers heading into that wind from the north. Heading to -20 tonight. Glad I don't have to lock any Moose.
 
30 T per acre is pretty good Rich. How much fert are you applying. Light N, heavy P&K. Is it all grass? I remember you had some nice clover in there for you second cut. You never need to reseed that do you?
I have o lot of it, volunteer in a CRP acreage and there's more of it every year. The WT deer love to bed in it.
 
Waiting here can lead to trouble this time of year when it may not melt much. If it turns to rain which it often does and you have wet snow or slush and it freezes now you have a mess that may last for weeks. Especially if someone drives through it before it freezes. I try and plow as soon as the snow stops. When March comes, ore even the last of February, different matter, the sun is out longer and it is more intense, things can melt and are more likely to and if the don't melt right away they will in a week or two tops. I am in western R.I., far enough away from the coast that we can have 6' of new snow and it rained at the coast because the water keeps it warmer.
 
Oh my gosh you are committing a lot of sins! LOL I run Champions too because I found some for cheap once and thought if they fail me I haven't lost much. I bought them from a guy who swore they were the worst plug ever made and he will never have another Champion in anything he owns. They have served me very well. I have an inline filter on one of my tractors and it too has done well. A small tractor like that starts just fine on 6v if the terminals are good and clean like they are supposed to be anyway. 6V lights are a little on the dim order though.

You can't out guess the weather. I start cleaning my yard before the snow stops because one of the trucks might need to get to the shop. If I have to clean the yard again, well so be it. I will admit to having a warm cab on the loader tractor for the past four or five years.
 

Yeah, me too, Champion plugs, Fram oil filter, E10 gas and I shop at Walmart.

Been that way for years and too old to change.
 
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