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Every good storm has drifts.

To bad you can just duck down and let the snow keep going. We are pretty lucky on most of our land base that there are lots of trees. There are a lot of trees disappearing with $12 canola that might come back to haunt us.
Too bad you can't just get your cows to duck and have the wind and snow go right over. Slowing it down is a make work project. :lol: :lol:
Good luck with cleanup.
 
Looks like you're getting dug out again, snowed and blew through the night here but only about 2 inches accumulation. Still -20.

On the bright side, we could be in Northern Australia, that is a horrible mess.
 
gcreekrch said:
Looks like you're getting dug out again, snowed and blew through the night here but only about 2 inches accumulation. Still -20.

On the bright side, we could be in Northern Australia, that is a horrible mess.
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I spent some time in Brisbane, I just can't imagine all that water and then the moldy mess it will leave behind. Plus they have spiders and snakes and crocs.
 
Per Mauri says the coffee is on if you get too cold and are ever up there way. Straw bales set on end work not bad in a bad storn they can burrow in on the downwind side. It's calm and cold here right now.
 
per said:
gcreekrch said:
Looks like you're getting dug out again, snowed and blew through the night here but only about 2 inches accumulation. Still -20.

On the bright side, we could be in Northern Australia, that is a horrible mess.
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I spent some time in Brisbane, I just can't imagine all that water and then the moldy mess it will leave behind. Plus they have spiders and snakes and crocs.
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Its sure not nice there at the moment, the area I was at, Theodore, was evacuated over Xmas, and a Canadian friend lives between Ipswich and Brisbane, he said they are safe for the moment, but won't be going anywhere for awhile.
 
If you were just a little closer I would help - - -- The gravel pit does little business from about Dec till April so I have 3 980 Cats sitting in the shop with 6 yard buckets and rotate battery chargers among them to keep the batteries good. One of them was purchased new by a county hi way dept and has special gearing to run 40 mph - - - way to fast unless you are pushing snow. The other 2 run about 20 mph and that is really all you need! I only get called out if we have more than a foot in 24 hours or if the drifts are to big for the county equipment.

I bought a 2005 277 Cat skid steer on rubber tracks this fall ( traded both bobcats and I don't miss the foot controls at all) that I have been using on the snow we have and I'm having more fun than should be allowed. This is a power house with 82 hp and heat and air - - - rabbit mode will move it at 15mph with a 7' bucket thru about 12 to 18 inches with no problem and good visibility to get right up to the doors and gates.
 
Per and I were talking about your 40 MPH loader a couple days ago George. I doubt there is much room for error with the steering at top speed. :lol:

How are you doing, it has been quiet from your locale also.
 
That loader is great as I put it in high (4th) gear at a little above idle and run about 25mph - - - but my son has run it off the road three times because you can't steer quick enough if you hit a bump much faster than that.

Weather here has been staying in the mid 20f range for a daytime high but snow is coming about 3" to 5" at a time so no big deal.
 
gcreekrch said:
Per and I were talking about your 40 MPH loader a couple days ago George. I doubt there is much room for error with the steering at top speed. :lol:

How are you doing, it has been quiet from your locale also.
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The problem here is everything looks the same...Can't tell where the roads/trails end and the ditch/prairie begins..... Besides snow waist deep, every day has been fog and/or more snow- with no sun....

I was talking with a heavy equipment operator today that has spent the winter clearing snow- and told him I thought my eyes/cataracts were causing the problem.... He informed me that it isn't just my eyes as he's had to stop several times and just sit until the sun/shadows allow him to see too.......
 

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