[AT] Good tractor work-out...

[Herb Metz]

Mattias,
Your situation was approaching near blizzard conditions; and that can become 
dangerous in a hurry.  Hope you have some reliable method of communications 
for such situations?
Have we seen pix of your tractor-snowplow?
Many of us enjoy an occasional few inches of snow (without wind).  Decades 
ago a cousin moved from central KS to Boulder, CO.  A year or two later when 
they were back visiting, the weather soon became the conversation.   I 
remember his saying that CO had as much snow as central KS, the main 
difference was after a 4" snow in CO there was still 4" of snow on top of 
the fence posts.   Not so in most of KS.
In checking  google for blizzard, one of the paragraphs mentioned the 
February 1972 Iran blizzard; almost beyond belief.
Herb

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mattias Kessén
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:18 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] Good tractor work-out...

... but I really hate snow.
Yesterday we got the first snow maybe 8" so I plowed and shoveled for two
hours yesterday evening when done at nine there were 4 new inches were I
begun. Some defrosting wit a little glögg and some time in the sauna helped
to deal with the continuing snowing and wind drifts.
Then this morning at 4:45 the guy that takes care of our road it's about
two miles of a shared road and he said that he had broken his tractor. So
he wondered if I could at least open the road. OK the block heater was
plugged in so I was ready to go. Yeah 12-16" with winddrifted parts with
more than two foot of snow nice since the blade is something like 1' 8".
But the boxer managed really good but the driver could have need some more
glögg afterwards. Temperature was 19 F and wind between 25-30 mph at the
open parts so a cab would have been appreciated. But the Boxer endured
really good in it's heaviest workout for the last 40 years or something
like that.
And no I don't have any fancy clips or pictures, It was dark, no
powersteering and frozen fingers.

Mattias
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