Grandpa preferred to keep a load of ground corn in bags in the back of the '65 F-100, backed into the barn, so he could just ram forward and make tracks 600 feet to the road. Then he might follow with the car on Sundays to get to church. IF we had a storm they might be snowed in for a week or two, always had enough provisions.
Until that Blizzard of 77-78. The drift between the house and barn was over five feet high and a hundred feet across. My Uncle came over with a friend's Jeep with a plow, but could make no headway (it had a JC Whitney add-on dual rear wheel kit, so little traction)
The neighbor drove over and plowed out the farm yard with his little JD MI. He had rebuilt the tractor and had chains and could out-plow our 1010, which was as useless as it's reputation would have you believe. The next winter we had a set of chains for it, upgraded the plow lift to hydraulic instead of a cable and could at least keep up. By 81 I had my license and drove a soft-top Toyota LandCruiser that could make tracks through any drift. I'll start digging for some pictures...
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