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The Winter that just keeps on giving
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Cub Cadet 123
Cub Cadet 149 - Circle of Safety: Y
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
I was happy to see only a few inches. I guess we dodged a bullet. Hope that is all for winter weather. They showing a warm up late week.
Dad called me from Florida rubbing it in today that it was 80 there. That only got me dreaming?
Dad called me from Florida rubbing it in today that it was 80 there. That only got me dreaming?
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
So how cold is it? Negative 20 degrees wind chill. The local TV stations use a lot of journalism students for on the spot reporting, reporting road conditions. All you see of the reporter is eyes and a microphone, everything else is covered by parkas and wraps.
I have an excuse. CRS.
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48 Cub
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54 Cub
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2-56 Cub
55 LOBOY SN 876
57 LOBOY
58 French Cub
2- 60 LOBOY
69 Cub
54 Super M
42 H
48 H
57 300LP
57 450
Cub Cadet 123
Cub Cadet 149 - Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: Gibson City, IL
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
Negative 20 degrees is a biter. The more coving the better, the will chill here this more is -20.
Got the call at 6am, do to a power outage, schools are closed for today. Most of the town here is out but me.
Stay warm
Got the call at 6am, do to a power outage, schools are closed for today. Most of the town here is out but me.
Stay warm
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
The "BIG" storm, forecast all week, turned out to be a light dusting, overnight. 24 degrees. We have too many weather forecasters, who "cry wolf" all week, way too often. In their defense, they got a few, right, this winter.
Ed
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
Same here, Ed. They were predicting over a foot. We got about 4 inches. I'm not complaining, though. I'm ready for Spring.
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
We only got about an inch but there's a half inch of sleet and ice frozen under it.
David Dee Mock-Leonard
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Some days it's not worth chewing through the restraints
- John *.?-!.* cub owner
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
Yesterday we got about .1 freezing rain, followed by .25 sleet and freezing rain mix. topped by a little snow. Last night we got another couple inches of sleet followed by blowing snow. Not too bad all told. Yesterday, however, I needed some tools from my shed, and having two artificial hips and a bad back I did not relish walking down there on the ice, so I hopped on my handicap scooter for the trip. It is a large outdoor scooter with 13 inch knobby tires and is great till the snow gets over 3 or 4 inches, and it just zipped along on the frozen sleet. 90% of the weight is on the rear wheels though, so you sometimes have to lean forward to be able to steer.
If you are not part of the solution,
you are part of the problem!!!
you are part of the problem!!!
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
Some wheel weights and tire chains and maybe a blade for the front and you could get a job plowing sidewalks!!
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1935 John Deere B
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1935 John Deere B
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1953 Farmall Cub
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
With or without the driver?John *.?-!.* cub owner wrote:....... 90% of the weight is on the rear wheels though...........
- John *.?-!.* cub owner
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
depends on whether I lean forward or backward. with batteries that thing weighs 300 pounds by on it's own.Scrivet wrote:With or without the driver?John *.?-!.* cub owner wrote:....... 90% of the weight is on the rear wheels though...........
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you are part of the problem!!!
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
John *.?-!.* cub owner wrote:Yesterday we got about .1 freezing rain, followed by .25 sleet and freezing rain mix. topped by a little snow. Last night we got another couple inches of sleet followed by blowing snow. Not too bad all told. Yesterday, however, I needed some tools from my shed, and having two artificial hips and a bad back I did not relish walking down there on the ice, so I hopped on my handicap scooter for the trip. It is a large outdoor scooter with 13 inch knobby tires and is great till the snow gets over 3 or 4 inches, and it just zipped along on the frozen sleet. 90% of the weight is on the rear wheels though, so you sometimes have to lean forward to be able to steer.
The power scooter fitted with a blade would be a nice up-grade from your current snow removal system!!
I can't help it John, you left the door wide open....
1929 Farmall Regular
1935 John Deere B
1937 John Deere A
1941 John Deere H
1952 John Deere B
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1935 John Deere B
1937 John Deere A
1941 John Deere H
1952 John Deere B
1953 Farmall Cub
- John *.?-!.* cub owner
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
The younger generation just does not have any respect for their elders.ricky racer wrote:.......
I can't help it John, you left the door wide open....
We had about 1/10 inch of freezing rain, followed by about 1/4 or more freezing rain and sleet mix that fell and froze into a solid mass, then a couple inches of snow, but the ice mix was so slick that with the wind all the snow blew into the next county unless it could find a valley to settle in out of the wind. I went out to blade what I could off the road, and got about an inch off, but there was nearly half an inch of frozen rain/sleet under it i could not move. The cub has wheel weights and chains, and when I looked at my tracks, I could barely see the chain marks it was frozen so hard. Where I drove across the yard, there were places I could not see the chain marks at all, just a scuff here and there.
Our drive makes a turn onto another road part way up a pretty steep hill that faces the northwest, and gets pretty slick, so I spread about 15 gallons of wood ash on the tracks of the hill about 2 pm yesterday and even though the temp never got above 24F, by the time the sun went behind the hill about 5:30 the wood ash had really eaten into the ice. By the time my daughter went to work last nigh she could drive her Focus, but without the ashes it would have been stuck at home for 3 or 4 more days.
If you are not part of the solution,
you are part of the problem!!!
you are part of the problem!!!
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
What is that green haze on your snow?
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IH 3160a Mower
IH Model 15 Tiller
IH-54 Blade
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Re: The Winter that just keeps on giving
An indication somebody might want to adjust their monitor. My snow looks white, both outside and on my monitor. Now if you had asked about the yellow snow............outdoors4evr wrote:What is that green haze on your snow?
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