Thinking About Snow Pics.

I read Dave's post a few days ago about getting ready for SNOW. It seams that it's on everyones mind. Our township has two of these Walters Snow Fighters. This one is a 1950 and the other is a 53. The latter got a dupont overhaul about a month ago. Haven't got a pic since. The town guys took this one out for a drive around the loop this morning. We have two older gents in town who plowed with these trucks when they were brand new. I'm guessing that one of them was training one of the new guys how to drive it as there was a lot of starting and stoping going on and a lot of double clutching, not always sucessful. The reason I know this is the big building in the background of the one pic is the town barn. Both these Walters are powered buy Herculese gas engines with straight pipes up out of the hood. One can hear them from quite a distance, especially on a crisp 0 morning. Our town does also have a fleet of Mack and Sterling single and tandem axle trucks with one ways and wings. The Walters come out when the snow banks get too high and can't be pushed back with the other trucks. I can remember back when they had a Lynn Plow truck which had tracks, with a bigger V plow and wings than this truck.
I also noticed State DOT plow trucks out training/practicing, yesterday, So I guess winter is coming. I'll tell you how bad it will be in April

Today and tomorrow here in the Finger Lakes looks like the kind of days where you just want to park everything in the shed and brace the doors. Of course there is still quite a bit of corn out and some beans. We just put a rear blade on one of our tractors (when that time comes) but that tractor is still on fall tillage duty when the weather improves.
Things are looking pretty good for the coming week as the forecast is for sun and daytime temps in the low 50's.

I saw our town trucks getting reddy too. Plows and sanders being put on. Our town has 2 Internationals tandems, 1 IH single axle paystar 5000 and 1 freight liner single. They did have an old Army truck, and an old Oshkosh. Some kind of airport runway plow truck with a reversable plow. Lucky I never had to ride in those old ones when I was a wingman. LOL. Now they got rid of them.

Neat looking piece of equipment.

How do you get inside the cab of the truck?

And on the other side of the coin, I called my repair guy to see how he's coming along on my zero-turn mower (it caught fire when I was mowing). He said he's about done, shouldn't be more than a grand. I've been mowing with a walk behind, and feeling my age.

It was 75 degrees here Wednesday, been mid 60's many days. Haven't had a killing frost yet.

Just another boring day in paradise.

A friend has a collection of Walters. He plowed for the town years ago and I went with him one time to be his wing operator. I had to be careful to not lift the wing when he was shifting or there wouldn't be enough vacuum or pressure, I don't remember which. Two weeks ago our road agent said he was done summer work and about to put plows on, but yesterday they were back on my road finishing a ditch clean out.

The wing plows pivot in and out. In the photo the wings are up so the plow doesn't take up as much width, but I think they must put them down and out in order to get in and out of the cab.
Zach

Nice to see old glory waveing. Glad to see there are still some of us left that love our flag and our nation. Thanks for the photos

We are on the town line and the plows turn around at a gravel pad in our orchard. Both towns have regular tri-axle dumps with one way plows and wings for regular use. One town has a truck with a v plow like the one in the picture for snowbanks, but I'm not sure what make it is. It is definitely old, though. The other town has a chassis cab with a huge wing and no front plow and extremely low gearing. You'll hear the engine running really fast but the truck seems to be barely moving. Both towns send out full size payloaders to open up intersections and take the corner banks down on people's driveways.
Zach

Went to the show down in the Catskill Mts. This fall, Saw these two snowplows there. The older one I believe is a Lynn Tractor, made in Morris NY. The newer one I don't know but the plow is nice.

You got a pic. of whats in my mind. Only diff. I see is that the one in our town had a wooden wheel house built behind the cab where two guys raised and lowered the wings manually, as I recall.
Here is a couple of pics.of a Lynn that is still running. It has a Cummins 220 in it. The pics were taken at the Fonda Fair on Labor Day weekend. Every year they get it out and make a couple of exibition pulls. It's picured here pulling the "NearPull Sled " during the semi truck pulls. The old girl pulled just as far as the semis did, before spinning out. It just took a little more time to get to the 275' mark. Last year in the tractor pulls it was hooked diff. and when it really got down to hard pulling the front end came off the ground as high as the track carriges would let it and It just kept going wright out the end.