[AT] Plowing snow

[Bo Hinch]

Had a 440 about 15 years ago and gave it away because we didn`t have any
snow to move . It was in real good shape for a 1956 year model . Don`t know
why I never ask anyone on the list if they wanted it .Oh well ??
Bo Hinch in s/w louisiana

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> You're way too kind, Brad, but thanks!  I do not think they're "great"; I
> am sort of embarrased by how rudimentary they are.  Shot with my iPhone,
> handheld (except the 3-minute one; I wedged it in the crook of a tree
> branch); they are shaky and unprofessional.  But I am glad you like them!
>
> SO
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Gunnells, Bradley R <
> brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu
> > wrote:
>
> > Great videos Steve!
> >
> > My grandfather had one of those old JD crawlers and I played on it many
> > times sitting in the barn when I was a kid. So they have a special place
> in
> > my heart. I've always wanted one but $$ always seems to come into play.
> > Maybe some day....but darn...those videos fueled that passion again.  ;-)
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dean, yes, you need a crawler!
> > >
> > > Here's a very brief 10-second video of my wife acting silly on it:
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c6w8k_nODs
> > >
> > > Here's a 45-second video shot after our big blizzard at the end of
> > January
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVJtdiCLhvE
> > >
> > > Here's a 3-minute video of me fooling around in the snow when I first
> got
> > > the machine up and running about 2 years ago.  It's not tuned perfectly
> > > here yet, and you may notice I haven't even had time to re-install the
> > > sheetmetal yet.
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guv4Q7Kv4IE
> > >
> > > SO
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Seems there's lots of us getting lots of practice this year.  I'm
> > hoping to
> > >> be just about done for the season, but we'll see.  Folks a little bit
> > >> farther south than me just got another big wallop of snow (although
> > none of
> > >> us here in Ohio are approaching the prodigious snowfalls that Ralph
> and
> > >> Steve and others have had to contend with).
> > >>
> > >> I owned this place last winter but didn't yet live here, only visited
> > every
> > >> couple of days, and my biggest piece of snowplowing equipment was my
> > trusty
> > >> feed scoop shovel.  450-foot one-lane gravel driveway, lots of snow,
> > not so
> > >> much fun.   This year has been cold but I don't think quite as snowy,
> > and
> > >> I've got the green tractor and a rear blade which makes it way more
> fun
> > >> anyway.   No new snow today so after work I got the tractor out to
> move
> > old
> > >> accumulated snow away from the west doors of my shop building; the
> floor
> > >> slab is right at grade level and actually slopes down into the
> building
> > an
> > >> inch or two, and the snowmelt and runoff from our brief warm (45
> > degrees)
> > >> and rainy day this past Tuesday ran in and flooded the shop and the
> > >> adjacent
> > >> garage.  No fun sloshing through nearly-frozen water when I'm trying
> to
> > get
> > >> in the car to go to work in the morning.
> > >>
> > >> Like Mike M and Spencer wrote, I typically pull the snow driving
> > forward.
> > >> I
> > >> usually throw to the left since it's convenient for the route I've
> > >> developed--north out the driveway and then back in, then hard left
> turn
> > >> just
> > >> in front of the north face of the shop/garage, plowing away from the
> > >> building.   If it was a heavy snow I make another round or two on the
> > >> driveway, either widening the plowed area or getting a little closer
> to
> > the
> > >> gravel (hopefully without plowing too much of it into the grass); if
> > it's a
> > >> light snow or if I don't have much time just the single out-and-back
> > trip
> > >> will do.
> > >>
> > >> At first I tried always throwing to the east side of the driveway,
> since
> > >> the
> > >> wind is almost always from the west and throwing to the west just
> > builds up
> > >> a bank for the wind to drift back over the driveway, but I soon tired
> of
> > >> having to get down and change the angle of the blade at the end of
> every
> > >> pass and I wanted to keep plowing on both the out and back trips.   I
> > was
> > >> also ending up with a mighty big windrow on the east side, which as
> > others
> > >> have noted becomes difficult to move.   So lately I've just been
> > throwing
> > >> to
> > >> the west side on the trip out, and the east side on the trip back in,
> > and
> > >> then going back periodically to clear up any drifting.  Only once has
> > the
> > >> drifting caught me unawares, on an early morning drive to work when I
> > >> hadn't
> > >> expected it to be cold enough or windy enough to drift much overnight,
> > but
> > >> even then it wasn't bad enough to high-center the car.  (Been there,
> > done
> > >> that, last winter and was glad to avoid it this time).
> > >>
> > >> To really clear the area in front of the garage and the other barns,
> > I've
> > >> taken to making a quick pass over the whole area throwing snow to one
> > side,
> > >> and then going back for a second pass over everything in reverse with
> > the
> > >> blade turned around backwards and perpendicular to the direction of
> > travel,
> > >> pushing the snow straight like a bulldozer.   The area is of course
> way
> > >> shorter than the driveway, and way wider, and it's okay to just let
> snow
> > >> pile up at the far end.  I've been impressed by how much the blade
> will
> > >> push, the snow rolling up and over itself, and the green tractor
> sounds
> > >> good
> > >> working.   Steve O's post about his 440C makes me want to get a
> crawler,
> > >> though... :)
> > >>
> > >> Dean Vinson
> > >> Saint Paris, Ohio
> > >>
> > >>
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