[AT] Got Woodchuck Pills? Snow

[carl gogol]

And the downside of buying more and bigger antique snow removal equipment 
is??  Sorry if I offended any list members from the snow challenged areas of 
the country.
Merry Christmas
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at loganrec.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [AT] Got Woodchuck Pills? Snow


>    Yes, the 23 inches of snow we got yesterday was a one day
> record for this part of Ohio. The 10 degree temperature and 30
> MPH winds assured that it drifted constantly all night and
> today. I had 6 foot drifts between the house and barn that I
> leveled with the Case Dozer before I could even get the
> snowblower tractor out.
>    Snow removal equipment is like any other machinery purchase.
> You have what you normally need. The exceptional circumstances
> you just use what you have and do the best you can. I am sure
> some of the folks in Colorado laugh at a 30 inch snowstorm in
> New York. It is all relative to your local area.
>    After our blizzard in January, 1978, A fellow from
> Marysville bought a 5 ton military truck with a 300 HP mounted
> snowblower, Just sure he would make a lot of money with it every
> year. The thing sat in his barnyard for the next ten years and
> was never used.
>    I could put a 9 foot blade on one of my tractors and spend
> an hour clearing out all of the snow in the nighborhood then
> park it in the barn till the next big event, maybe next week or
> next generation, but that does not make economical sense. Better
> to miss a day or 2 of work than to invest in something seldom
> used.
>
>                    Gene
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [AT] Got Woodchuck Pills? Snow
>
>
> : I, and all the other list members from the Central New York
> area are truly
> : amazed that a 15" snow fall can be an area record!  Gosh if we
> had to spend
> : 5 hours every time it snowed 10 or 15" in a winter, we
> wouldn't have time to
> : sleep, eat or tell tall stories from December  through April!
> : Bottom line, invest in some real snow removal equipment, the
> world doesn't
> : have to stop just because it snowed 20 or 30 inches overnight!
> :-)
> : We are off to Ohio (Akron / Wadsworth) early tomorrow morning.
> I hope they
> : can handle a few inches of snow better than Roanoke VA could
> a couple of
> : years ago.  I got such of kick out of their Big DOT trucks
> running around in
> : packs of 5 - 8 vehicles, using plows that we would have on
> full size pickup
> : trucks,  its an image I will have for the rest of my life
> : Merry Christmas and Peace to the whole list.
> :  Carl Gogol
> : Manlius, NY
> : (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> : Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> : Kubota F-2400 - I can't wait to try it on a foot or more snow
> with the blade
> : I got on ebay.
> :
> :
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