[AT] OT: Weather ramble

[Mike Sloane]

About 30 miles east of you, Rob, we got about 16-18" overnight. This is 
too much for my Ford 860 to handle, as I have 2 miles of private lane 
and half a dozen driveways to take care of. I used the F350 dump with 8' 
Western blade with no problems. This morning, I used the 860 with its 
canvas weather cab and did the driveways. Yesterday, before the storm 
began, I tried to start the Farmall 560 diesel that was attached to the 
PTO generator. I found out that the fuel had gelled in the trap and in 
both fuel filters. It was too cold (8 F degrees) at that point to mess 
with, so I pulled it out of the way with the 860 and went to the shed to 
get another tractor in case of a power outage. Well, the Farmall 340 is 
parked in front of the Super M, so I tried to start it, but the 
relatively new 6 volt battery just didn't have enough juice to turn it 
over more than once. I left it on the charger and moved on to the Super 
M. Well that tractor's battery is completely dead (which I pretty much 
knew but had hoped it wasn't), so that one is sitting with a charger on 
it too. If worst comes to worst, I will use the 860, but then I have to 
rig up some piping to divert the underneath exhaust fumes away from the 
house.

As you can imagine, my wife was pretty much disgusted that we have four 
tractors capable of running the generator, and only one works. I guess I 
will have some "projects" ahead of me when the weather warms up...

Mike

Rob Gray wrote:
> Here in NE PA the high yesterday was about 5 degrees and it snowed most 
> all day. We ended up with around 10 inches or more with a lot of 
> drifting overnight. As usual the 8N plowed everything great, but darn it 
> was cold plowing with strong winds and zero temps with no cab.. ;) . 
> Plowing with a blade behind the tractor takes a little practice to make 
> it work right but once you get your method down it works great.I had 
> originally planned to get a snow plow mounted on my F150 but I've come 
> to the conclusion that I can plow all but maybe the very rare 
> multiple-foot snows with the 8N setup I have.....
> 
> Go Eagles!
They were looking for 1000 folks to shovel the stadium clear for this 
evening's game. I wonder how many they got.
> 
> Rob
> Northampton County, PA
> 

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