[AT] Actual tractor content - New Holland TC33D

[Herb Metz]

Ralphs post reminds me of trying to walk on snows that were wind driven. To
step forward you raise your foot enough to clear the snow, then advance it a 
foot length or so, then you step down on that foot; and the crust on that 
hard snow will support your foot. Good.  Now you shift your weight to that 
foot so you can raise the other foot so you can continue your advance. 
Sometime during that process the hardened snow under your advanced foot 
gives way.  You are lucky if you can keep your balance; also time consuming, 
and considerable more work involved than walking is soft snow of similar 
depth.
And one can't even make snowballs/snowmen out of such snow.  Herb(GA)


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 2:48 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Actual tractor content - New Holland TC33D

On 3/5/2015 12:08 PM, Mike wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind if you have a long driveway, and use the "just
> let it melt" method; you may be able to make it out if you have 4 WD,
> but could emergency vehicles make it in?
>
> Mike M
Not on my half mile driveway. In fact I could not even get out with 4 wd
and winter tires the
past day or so. Parts of the driveway are swept clean down to ice but
where it caught, the
drifts are so hard that the front wheels of the Super 90 barely broke
through so I did not
drive far into it . It keeps the traveling salesmen and undesirables out
though. ":-)
It has warmed up to just above zero so I might venture out with the
Cockshutt 40 and
snow blower this afternoon to see if it will make a clearing.

Ralph in Sask.
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