[AT] Good tractor work-out...

[Dave Merchant]

You guys are missing he point.

Mattias' post was about glogg.

All the stuff about snow plowing was just an excuse to drink more glogg.

Could stand some glogg right now!

Dave Merchant


At 10:06 AM 12/6/2012, you wrote:

>Hi Mike,
>         NO PICKUP TRUCK is made for heavy duty plowing! Having said 
> that, I plowed my drive (and a few neighbors drives) for years with 
> a F150, a F250, and then a F350. Other than being a bit hard on 
> U-joints the light plowing that I did did NOT seem to do any real 
> damage to any of them. Just don't think you are operating a vehicle 
> designed to plow a lot of snow and you will be just fine!
>         Dave
>PS, Always remember that free advice is worth EXACTLY what you pay for it!
>
>On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Mike Meulenberg wrote:
>
> > I've been thinking about installing a plow on my chevy 1500, but 
> people are telling me it's too light duty to put a plow with. This 
> would just be for my driveway and barn area, and I wouldn't drive 
> around with it attached. I think I'd be just fine, any thoughts. 
> Your Tundra is a 1/2 ton class isn't it?
> >
> > Mike M
> >
> >
> > ----- Receiving the following content -----
> > From: Mike Sloane
> > Receiver: Antique tractor email discussion group
> > Time: 2012-12-05, 07:24:40
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Good tractor work-out...
> >
> >
> > been there, done that. There is nothing quite like sitting in a puddle
> > of melted snow and having one's mustache freeze solid in the middle of
> > the night.
> >
> > And that is why I gave up pushing snow with an open tractor a LONG time
> > ago. I have been using a series of trucks with closed cabs and (some)
> > heat for the last 25 years, gradually progressing to finally buying my
> > first brand new truck. It is a Toyota Tundra with automatic
> > transmission, and it makes plowing almost a pleasure. The only thing I
> > miss is the 8' blade on the F350 mason dump - the 7' blade on this truck
> > requires an extra pass to get the snow where I like it.
> >
> > I do still use a rear blade on the Ford 860 the next day to get the snow
> > near the barn/garage doors and other tight spots. And, at age 70, I no
> > longer shovel snow. I found a very nice used Simplicity snow blower,
> > cleaned up, and put a cab on it for doing the walkways.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 12/5/2012 3:18 AM, Mattias Kess? wrote:
> >> ... 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 gl?g 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
> >> gl?g 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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