Blizzard pics

[Doug Thorson]

http://happyherefordhome.blogspot.com/

sorry about the off-site link but I don't have time right now to upload to photo bucket.

Near as I can tell it took just under 40 gallons of diesel to dig out somewhat. The bad part is I still have grass that is iced under. Hopefully a couple warm days and the cattle will be able to graze again. I wasn't feeling sorry for them until I saw that the deer are having trouble getting through.

 

[gcreekrch]

Glad you all came through safe and sound. A ranch south of here had similar snow conditions to you a few years back. They got out a light finishing disk and scuffed up the snow so the cattle could get at the grass. Worked well, a week or so later it warmed up and took the snow away.

 

[rustynail]

wow that was one heck of a snow drift. thanks for sharing the pics, you have a very beautiful family. that looks to me to be a good place to live with no neighors in site. take care.
G3

 

[Denny]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.


Nice buck the young fella got..

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Nice blog Doug,that was a heck of a storm,i know i'll be spending many hours on the tractor moving snow soon myself.Good thing you guys found that cat in the mixer,thanks for sharing.

 

[CattleArmy]

My parents were out of electric during the storm and so they hooked up the generator. Usually an old sweep tractor runs it but it was having issues so they hooked it up to the big tractor. With how much diesel it went through my Mom commented they could have stayed at the Hilton.

 

[John SD]

Doug, I can't get your site to come up right now so I'll try later.

The grass is iced in here too. I have plenty of hay so I won't short the gals.

I weaned the calves I kept a week ago. Kinda bad timing but they came through OK, a few with snotty noses.

As soon as I get the cows out of sight I can turn the calves out of their cramped quarters in the corral, but it was a good place to be in a storm.

I can usually pick alternate routes to get where I want to go without moving a lot of snow. Going to clean out a few gates today though because this snow might get harder before it gets softer.

I have a 9' dozer on a 130hp 2wd tractor. If this weather looks like it's gonna hang on I'll probably break down and put the chains on. On wheels or legs it's pretty darn slick out there! :roll:

 

[Frank in West Dakota]

My parents were out of electric during the storm and so they hooked up the generator. Usually an old sweep tractor runs it but it was having issues so they hooked it up to the big tractor. With how much diesel it went through my Mom commented they could have stayed at the Hilton.

You should get a 1000/540 converter. Put the converter on a 1000 rpm shaft, hook the 540 rpm pto off the generator, then you only have to run the tractor a little above idle.

 

[Frank in West Dakota]

This is what happened in our area.

Looks like someone hosed this tree.

All that resulted in this, the main transmission line along US 12.

We were lucky, without power for only about 35 hrs. Some people lost power early Thursday morning, and are still without electricity. Lots of extra repair crews in the area, one all the way from Iowa, 500 miles away.

 

[Sundancer]

In March of 2007 and Dec of 2007 as well as the spring of 2008, we endured 2 powerful ice storms and a severe tornado outbreak. Iowa had major power transmission line failure. There were power crews around from all over the country working round the clock to get customers back on line. (some remote areas were down 3 weeks). Hopefully Iowa was returning the favor to South Dakota (and I hope we don't have need for outside help any time soon!)