Had to go back and check the date, it would have been the morning of Feb 20th 1979. (Glad we dont have winters like some I read about - being able to walk across the Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis, and ice on the rivers into March)
We had almost 30 inches of snow here over the previous two days, when the phone rang, there had been a neighbor who had a seizure of some sort and the best the Police, National Guard and volunteer Fire Dept could do was get within two miles due to the roads. My dad had a suggestion from his days in World War 2 about making a sliding gurney out of metal roofing - which they used.
About a hour later I heard a noise, and looked up from trying to shovel snow and there was this bright red Farmall M crawling down the road in low gear like it was springtime - no problem. Had a towline hooked to a piece of economy steel roofing and the injured man and about 10 others walking behind with shovels and grubbing hoes.
The man got to the hospital and recovered - but I will never forget the tractor, which I never saw again anywhere moving thru the "impassable" snow that day.
We had almost 30 inches of snow here over the previous two days, when the phone rang, there had been a neighbor who had a seizure of some sort and the best the Police, National Guard and volunteer Fire Dept could do was get within two miles due to the roads. My dad had a suggestion from his days in World War 2 about making a sliding gurney out of metal roofing - which they used.
About a hour later I heard a noise, and looked up from trying to shovel snow and there was this bright red Farmall M crawling down the road in low gear like it was springtime - no problem. Had a towline hooked to a piece of economy steel roofing and the injured man and about 10 others walking behind with shovels and grubbing hoes.
The man got to the hospital and recovered - but I will never forget the tractor, which I never saw again anywhere moving thru the "impassable" snow that day.
