Posted by the tractor vet on January 20, 2022 at 18:40:56 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: Plowing In January posted by rusty6 on January 20, 2022 at 17:12:07:
What i learned a long time ago in snow plowing is Never roll the snow to the wind side always the down wind side , then it will sorta suck the new drifting snow up and out of the cut . I use to do some farm lanes and had some long out in the country drives . A Ford F 250 that was set up as a plow truck can only do so much with a seven and a half foot snow plow . When we got hammered with BIG snows i was the only one with a 3/4 ton moving the snow . the one winter of 74-75 we got hammered bad and the city was not able to even keep five main streets open and there i was plowing lot after lot . While i was digging out the Ford Dealership i was stopped by one of the town cops and was told they wanted to talk with me down at city hall . Told the cop i would come down when i was done and he got a little upset with me and told me that they wanted me now and again i said when i am done as i will be heading that way to the next lot on my list and NOT BEFORE . When i got there the mayor and the street Dept head told me that they needed my truck to get the streets open Since i was the only one moving . Well Mayor that ain't ah going to happen unless i am getting PAID . Well we will commandeer your truck then and that ain't happen , You have SIX 2 ton trucks f 1 ton dumps that are four wheel drive two 3/4 ton four wheel drives with plows a back hoe and a NEW Case W 18 loader . Use them . Well our trucks won't go in this , that is because your workers don't know how to plow snow and use what they have and YOU have no game plan in place as to how to use what you have . Ya have five main routes a half dozen secondary routes And a gob of streets and alleys . what i see is all the trucks chasen each other on the same roads while the others are getting snowed in to the point you can't break thru . What you should have been doing is a one ton and a two ton working together on each of the main drags and run from city limits to city limits and keeping two lanes open and the others working on the secondarys , the loader and back hoe from the street dept working on just break paths thru the side streets and get the backhoe from the water dept out working . I am going back to what i have to do BYE and walked out . I was running chains on all four and like i said my truck was set up not and off the lot buy but ordered special , larger radiator , larger heater Detroit locker in the rear and a limited slip in the ft. Heavier springs and sway bars larger alt. , It came with the std. 360 V that got pulled and a 428 S /CJ dropped in the C6 Trans was pulled and built . with a vary large trans cooler and trans temp gauge added Dual batterys and a added weigh box in the bed . That truck saw lots of big time snow removal and at times i would do work for two townships of break a hole thru on a couple problem roads only once did we have to bring a dozer in to open the road that was 77 when we got the first blizzard also did a 8 mile stretch of a state highway . If the state would have just moved the snow to the down wind side they would not have had the drifts they did . The one section i could not get thru they had to bring in two big loaders from the local strip mines as we had 988 cats , 992 cats , 400 Houghs , 560 hough's a gob of A C loaders working . Most of the mines were working thru the blizzard the only thing was to get to them to tell them to come help . We got a snow that hit here Sunday night into Monday and on how much we officially got ???? I ad anywhere between 11 and 24 inches at the house . My little junk 7 horse power 24 inch snow blower was NOT happy . My one friend as of yesterday was still digging out at his farm . His road was closed the township got two of there truck stuck just down from him and had to call in a wrecker to get them out . Me i i am stayen in where it warm . FULL GROUND HOG MODE at this time . Call Me when it warms up.
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