[AT] Good tractor work-out...

[Paul Waugh]

Charlie will disagree, but I’ll take snow ANY day over mud. Some of my most 
miserable weather experiences have been in mud.
Paul

-----Original Message----- 
From: Grant Brians
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 1:39 PM
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It is posts like this that make me glad to live in California.... But
working farmers markets in the rain and wind, picking vegetables in the rain
and mud, fixing machinery in those conditions is no picnic either. The
bottom line is that every place and life has pluses and minuses. Also,
wherever you live it is necessary to have appropraite protections and
practices to deal with the conditions there. Personally I would not want to
live in the tropics without our seasons nor in extreme Northern conditions
and that is why this is a good place for me.
       Grant Brians
       Hollister,California vegetables, nuts and fruit farmer
p.s. 5 inches of rain out of our normal 13-16 inches in three days this past
week. At one ranch the total rainfall so far for the season is about 1.25
inches  and our normal at that location is about 6 inches - needless to say
we irrigate that Sandy Loam a LOT.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Paul Waugh
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 4:31 AM
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Sounds like the good old days of our fore fathers telling of their
adventures. :)
Paul

-----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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www.rodjagard.n.nu
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