How much more winter?

Philip d · Feb 20, 2019

If my memory serves me somewhat correctly I remember maybe 12 years or so ago it stayed very cold until literally the very last day of March. I mean wind chills into the -30c kinda cold. The 2 week forecast here doesn?t have an above freezing temperatures at all. It really hasn?t been a horrible winter overall here but it?s been very cold most days and lots of snow since mid November,long long winter.

37chief · Feb 20, 2019

Even tired of winter in California. It can stop raining any time now. I am going to see some mustard weeds over 6 ft tall. when I start mowing, or disking. These mustard bushes when dry are full of thousands of little brown seeds, that just to plug my radiator, no what I do. A story. Several years ago my Allis Chalmers M just started running real bad. I changed the carb, still ran bad. Changed the Mag same thing. Some how I was led to the oil bath air cleaner. The screens were plugged so bad with those seeds, it was restricting the air flow. After that I paid more attention to it. I think it says something about every 8 hrs. to clean. Another lesson learned the hard way. Stan

Donald in MN · Feb 20, 2019

last april 13 we buried dads younger brother. the next day the 14 we had 5 inches of snow.

1948jr · Feb 20, 2019

Jr. IN KY. it never gets pretty and stays pretty until after EASTER

Russ from MN · Feb 20, 2019

It sounds like you need to put some kind of pre-cleaner on the air intake.

ajl · Feb 20, 2019

Way too much winter here. (East of Edmonton AB region) Thought that last year was a bad winter but this year is competing with it. Finally a little milder with 2 weeks of -40 wind chill values. One of the longest cold snaps on record. Plenty of snow too. Been white since early November after having 3 major snow falls in Sept and Oct this year. Seems like permanent winter. Sick and tired of it. Global cooling.

Royse · Feb 20, 2019

I bought a new snow blower. It'll quit now. :roll:

SVcummins · Feb 20, 2019

I hope at least 60 days

Billy NY · Feb 21, 2019

I've seen your neck of the woods a couple of times, that kind of vegetation when dry, does not look like fun to cut due to all the chaff, seed, and so on. I've learned that I do not want to mow this place one time towards the end of the season, sure it saves me by just cutting once a year, but the vegetation is a lot tougher, harder to cut and if I wait too long, it's full of chaff, dust and just down right nasty to cut with an open station tractor. Cut earlier, twice or some fields 3 times, just a lot easier and no chaff, no radiator screen to plug and nothing getting in my eyes. Mature golden rod is the worst, after the flowers are done, the screen is plugged in less than one round of a small field. Some weeds have fuzz like cotton which is even worse. So now I keep the mower on all summer and just enjoy the seat time, vs fighting all that dry/dying vegetation.

rrlund · Feb 21, 2019

It hasn't been more than four or five years ago it was snowing here right up in to the middle of May. There was a system parked off the east coast that wouldn't let anything move. I lost several calves that spring. So much cold that they never even got up off the ground after the cow dropped them.

37chief · Feb 21, 2019

I don't like cutting green weeds. After I cut a green field the weeds in the tire track pop back up. The field looks like a bad hair cut in a couple days. Stan

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