[AT] Good tractor work-out...

[charlie hill]

Thanks Mattias,  I didn't know exactly what Glogg is but had a fair idea
that it was potent stuff.  From what I can tell most Northern Europeans
could easily drink most Americans under the table.  As for me, I barely
touch the stuff other than a beer or glass of wine once in a while.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mattias Kessén
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:56 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Good tractor work-out...

Charlie,
Glögg is a hot drink containing wine, spices,sugar and vodka/rum/cognac.
Old people, the good old kind that are almost all dead by now like the
neighbors at our old place usually buy the 15% (softer than that is really
pointless to drink) and mix it with vodka fifty-fifty. A few of those after
a few ours of snow shoveling makes yoy sleep like a little baby.

Mattias

2012/12/6 Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
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> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:58 AM
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>
>  If the tires start
> > to slip or you run out of power, drop back and take a lesser cut. Don't
> > use the truck/tractor and blade as a ram to push hardened drifts or
> > chunks of ice.
>
> I guess I have broken this rule more than once and it was really the only
> way to get through. When confronted with a wall of snow, trees on either
> side and nowhere to push the snow but straight ahead, the battering ram
> approach was all that would work. Many is the time my dad would wind up 
> the
> old Cockshutt 50 in road gear (all of 10.5 mph) and ram the v plow into a
> snow drift and gain a few feet. Backing up could then be a problem but
> nothing a little shoveling wouldn't cure.
> I've done the same with the 2090 Case and 8 foot dozer blade. A lot 
> heavier
> tractor  with a light duty Cancade blade moving 14 mph will really send 
> the
> snow flying. The rear mount snowblower is a different story. Slow and
> steady
> chewing into the deep snow will always get through unless it is deeper 
> than
> the rear wheels of a Cockshutt 40.
> I have never plowed snow with a pickup of any kind so can't comment on
> that.
> I'd assume we are talking 4wd trucks here as a 2 wd won't hardly move
> itself
> in snow, let alone hanging a blade on the front .
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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