Hey all,,,tionesta pa. here,,we got about 12 inches on the ground and still comeing down. My brother who lives east of cleveland says they have 30 on the ground and still comeing down. Who else is getting hammered?,,,bedway
Yep, we're gettin' hammered too. Just over a foot and its just supposed to start coming harder this afternoon and thru til' morning. I need to go out after lunch and do the first of a few plowings.
Well guess i better get off my butt and on my blisters and start plowing. Ive got about 600 feet of driveway, and most of it is hills :) But i do love seat time in my kubota,,bedway
Can't hold a candle to 60 miles NE of me. Oswego to Watertown, NY area has received 10 feet of snow in as many days. WM NE in Hannibal is right on the fringe area for you orange lovers.
Not sure what fell here. They say 8-12 inches but the wind is howling and the snow is blowing. Went out to the boiler and the snow depth ranges from bare ground to three foot drifts. After lunch I am going to fireup the TLB and plow snow for a while.
The Neighbors across the road had a chimney fire last night. I do not think it did any damage but the fire dept was there from 9-12midnight last night. I bet they were happy to get out of the wind and snow last night.
Farmerdoug
Yikes!! Brad, that much snow in a short time is pretty hard to deal with.
The pictures they show on the news are incredible. Sidewalks are canyons. They are out of places to put the stuff.
The problem is the wind blows across Lake Ontario and picks up moisture because the lake is still relatively warm. When that moist air gets over cold land, it dumps it as snow. Even some of the life long residents of the area have never seen a constant barrage like they're getting now.
Just before noon in southern New Hampshire we have about 7 inches of the white stuff on the ground. The forecast supposes we might get three times that amount before they think it will end on Thursday morning.
There is a kind of excitement that a storm like this brings about. You hear the forecasts and watch the snow outside accumlate with the anticipation of more to come. The world seems to take on a whole other light when it is snowing like this.
I am looking foward to getting home and sitting next to my valentine on the love seat in front of the woodstove.
I am greatful for all those out there trying to keep the roads clear and the power on.
Today I wish I had a cab for the Kubota.
Randy
We have about 6 inches here in Maine.Could get up to 2 feet maybe.Depends on alot of things.We are right on the edge of a foot or 2 feet.When this is said we get the 2 foot.
I think the weather people are a bunch of idjits. :(
We've got about five inches here and it's sleeting. I'd be amazed if we got a foot of snow, and they predicted 18-30. When that happens, we get half of the low end. Not that I'm complaining, it makes work easier.
I have a snowblower and everytime i get dressed to us it the neighbor come and plows the drive. The good thing is that i now have driveway bumpers so the wife cant drive the van off the driveway when she backs up the driveway.
Dont know how much snow we have here but it is alot. Blowing and drifting but it is to get better this afternoon.
Thanks Alot Mr Mom
They were saying 6-12" here but I think it is 6" then a pile of rain now. Nothing I hate worse than rain then a dive into temps were salt doesn't work.
I was thinking of Mark M the other day, I was blowing out a neighbours driveway with the 7 ft blower and I spotted some movement on the railing of their deck. In half a second some black thing was flapping away on one of the rotors. Sure enough all 300 ft of their hose wound up tight in there and made a few passes through the drive chain.
They had it out because their water line to the barn had frozen up. Thanks to me they were back to buckets for a bit! :o
at noon 40 west of albany we had 23inches and the radar on tv said it was snowing at a rate of 6 inches an hour.
Stonebroke
What a bust this is - We were forecast 12 - 18" here in NW Ct, so far, about 3" snow & 2" of sleet. When it's all over, i'll start cleanup. I spent a bunch of hours putting a power angle plow on the front of my IH, so far, can't even give it a decent "test run" >:(
mike_van
No pics yet of the new plow? ::)
Been plowing here for about 2 hours. Sure glad i got a front end loader on this kubota to pile this stuff up. I figure it will take me another 3/4 hours to complete one pass,,,,,,,,,and the snow just keeps comeing,,,,geez,,,,,,,,bedway
I'm not even gonna touch what we get until tomorrow - no sense doing it more than once and I don't wanna go out in this crap if I can help it.
Quote from: Engineer on February 14, 2007, 12:54:34 PM
I'm not even gonna touch what we get until tomorrow - no sense doing it more than once and I don't wanna go out in this scrapple if I can help it.
I wish I had that option. The rate it is snowing I will just keep plowing until dark and hope I can keep up with it.
Stonebroke
mike,we have about 6 inches here.Put it on the back of your truck and bring it up here.I would hate for you not to be able to see how good it works. ;D Maybe that will happen here with the snow.
My big tractor is down so I have been plowing with the garden tractor >:( Must have at least 18 inches and snowing so hard that I can't keep up. If we get All of the 3o inches predicted I don't think I will be able to get out. The drive down through the woods is getting pretty narrow already. That poor little tractor just is not heavy enough.
Good luck. At least I have a four wheel drive with a cab. It snowed two more inches between the time I started plowing the drive and the finish, I think I am going backwards.
Stonebroke
How could I have missed a pic. of it? Snowplow collecting unemployment - (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11530/snowplow4x.jpg)
:D :D :D :D Somehow, I don't think some of these guys really wanted to see that.
Looks like I'll be out tomorrow to the farm if I make it to work first ;( dang snow plow came by after I cleaned up around the cars with a shovel. pushed 2' back in and better than 3' wide dang idiots anyhow, past 4 ohio state trucks loaded the other day slipping all around not a one of them had the plows down!?!?!? the one guy almost wrecked it sliding. tried to hit his brakes and went sideways. wasn't smart enough to put down his blade to clear off some of the 6" inches of snow that was on the road just spreading salt!?> morons I swear.
Well I just got out of ths shower after shoveling snow for 3 hrs today my back is killing me and am going to have to get dressed all up to go and clean out the snow again...
mark M
Central PA here. Got about 8 inches last night and today, and now it's kickin' the blower on bigtime. I went out to fill up the furnace and it is dang cold.
My Pap useta say "it's so dang hot out, the corn started poppin', the dang mule thought it was snowin', he layed down and froze to death" :D :D :D
I've seen the pics of upstate NY on the news here, sure am glad we don't live around those Dang Great Lakes. I've only had to plow snow at the house once this year and twice at the shop. :D :D We have about 12" of snow in the bush. Mind you we've been in the deep freeze for the last 5 weeks. Lots of sunshine here but bitter cold. -30C tonight with -40 windchill , been like this since New Years. Last year it snowed everyday in February, and we had about 4 ft.
Happy shovelling and plowing ;D ;D ;D
Cheers Pep
YUP!!! >:( >:( >:( And I am beginning to here ice pellets hit the window on occasion from the wind. They said as far north as Mars Hill might see freezing rain. Seems it just arrived. Just about always in February/March/April a NE'er will produce freezing rain here. The wind is keeping half the driveway cleaned out. Just looked out and can still see pavement. ;D But, what does stick is going to be dang hard packed stuff. :( :-X :-X
started plowing @ 07:30 hrs this morning. Its now 21:30 and I am in the house for the night, got between 10 - 12 inches , started drifting so now its anyone guess...... still snowing and blowing...
My Kubota M 6800 is the balls for plowing snow....... 1 yard snow bucket on front and an 8'5" Land pride high blade scraper blade on the back.... Heated cab w/ stereo makes plowing enjoyable.... I be out first thing in the morning to do the clean up and push back !!!!!!!!
Mike, we missed it all down here. About an inch before hard rain today. I actually saw 39 degrees at one point today. Already freezing on tonight, however....
Captain
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@ 10:35 pm
Well, In the southwest corner of New Hampshire the weather man was about half right. The forecast was for 16 - 25 inches of snow by 7:00 am Thursday morning. We got just under 12 inches. Don't get me wrong I am not complaining.
Sure was a bit nippy last night sitting on an open tractor pushing that snow around, and the wind didn't help. Every thing is all nice and white right now. This is the second plowable storm this winter for us and the plow guys are going crazy.
Getting into the woods will be a little difficult on the first trip, but it has been real easy for the last few weeks since the ground froze.
Randy
It got up to 30 here and wind, but not much snow. Maybe 3 inches, a slight bit of freezing rain, the steps had less than a inch on them. I blew drifted snow out of half the driveway, the rest was bare. In that picture you see above was about the same I saw this morning when blowing snow. Didn't amount to a hill of marbles. Still light, fine snow coming down. I don't doubt I'll see a glimpse of sun before sundown. ;D
I will have to go to the woods and take an accurate measure of the snow depth, out of the wind. They said 25 cm on the news in NW New Brunswick, well I'm here and I don't see it. I think they like to take the measurement from an area with the highest localized accumulation and blow it up to sensationalize it. What a bunch of goofs. ::)
We got over 60 centimeters here ... for those with limited knowledge of the metric system :P... 30 centimeters = one foot .... and more is coming down ::) this is where you would see a shovelling smilly :D :D
we got three feet west of albany in a band . Got to plow some more. It will all melt in the spring
Stonebroke
40 miles east of Albany we got right at one foot. Maybe a touch more, hard to tell with all the drifting and blowing. I spent all morning pushing the stuff around.
Swampy, I got about 30 cm at my place, there was about 40cm at the top of the hill in Mactaquac, they always get more there. I was up at 5 am blowing snow in the tractor and it was still coming down. Left for Moncton at 6 am, lots of snow until Oromocto then hardly any. Moncton got about 5 cm it looked like.
Ken
Quote from: SwampDonkey on February 15, 2007, 07:55:27 AM
I will have to go to the woods and take an accurate measure of the snow depth, out of the wind. They said 25 cm on the news in NW New Brunswick, well I'm here and I don't see it. I think they like to take the measurement from an area with the highest localized accumulation and blow it up to sensationalize it. What a bunch of goofs. ::)
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@4:15 pm
I knew I'd see the sun before dark. ;D :D :D :D :D
Thw weather guys were right on this on.DanG.Got about 18 inches.Took me just about all day to get it the way I want it.That wind sure did and is blowing.Good thing we had some freezing rain to keep it from drifitng alot.
What we got [5" snow 3" sleet] was froze so bad this morning, plastic snow shovel bounced off it. Had to break it with a dirt shovel, then scoop it. The plow worked great, did 2 driveways besides mine, 10F, like a kid with a new toy. Well, I had my "fun", warmer weather next week, will be tapping trees then. The grounghog can hang & rattle for all I care - smiley_hanged
Where are you at stonebroke? We are in Sidney, got around 30 inches up here on the hill.had to call in reinforcements to move the banks back.
The breedermobile scrubed on both sides going out through the woods this morning. :o
We got around 8 inches. But, about 3-4 inches were sleet and there was some freezing rain mixed in, too. I couldn't hardly get out my lane in 4 WD low. It was like trying to drive on sand. It was too heavy to blow with the blower, so I just used the front end loader.
But, the highways are another story. I-81 is shut down today, 1 day after the storm, from Harrisburg to the NY state line. :o I-78 has a 40 mile backup. :o Some people have been in their cars for 24 hours. You would think that someone could find an exit.
I can't figure out why some truckers just can't stay off the highways. The problems started when they jackknifed their trucks and the plows couldn't get through. Then the winds started and blew things shut. And who did the truckers blame? PenDOT - the highway department. It was ALL their fault. Truckers said it was an interstate highway and the road was supposed to be bare.
I saw reports where they were saying that a plow truck normally does 1 tank of fuel in a shift. This snow was so heavy that they had to use 2 tanks. What they normally do with one pass took 3 or 4. So, things are really backed up.
It will be interesting to see what the fallout from this storm will be. I feel if the truckers don't like our highways, chose another state.
Quote from: breederman on February 15, 2007, 05:36:20 PM
Where are you at stonebroke? We are in Sidney, got around 30 inches up here on the hill.had to call in reinforcements to move the banks back.
The breedermobile scrubed on both sides going out through the woods this morning. :o
stonebroke lives right out side cobleskill . I heard a guy in the store today say he lives outside oneonta and he got 41 inches. Central Bridge got 38.5 inches and stratford up in the mohawk valley got 42 inches. The roads are getting very narrow but there is little traffic. I think we were in a band going north that got the worse of it. Very windy today with ground blizzard.
Stonebroke
The wind picked up again here mid morning. At dawn it was almost calm for awhile. Last night was really windy. The wind blew all day and picked the snow way up into the sky like clouds moving fast across the fields. Think desert dust storms here. Going to be the same tomorrow for wind.
Well I made it out to the farm today and plowed drive & parking area. put in about 2 hrs working my little tractor hard, ran through 1/2 tank of fuel usually that last 7 hrs per tank not this one ... I had 12~24" in drifts every where. shallowest spot I found was maybe 6" where wind blew between house & 50' white pines where drive turns 90 degrees. the trailer is buried so that you can only see the top front brace/bar which sets 30+" off the ground. I could see the tires on it too but only top edges. I pushed as much snow as possible using my old (NEW TO ME) 50 buck 6' blade. I managed to get my low riding crown vic car off the street but only to where the back bumper was even with the road. which was almost dry after all the sun. Snow Plow tore off my mail box, NEW post put in back in September/November time. Broke it pretty good, >:( I'll have to fix it early Saturday morning. Nearly ran out of space to put snow, had to chain pull the crown vic out of the plowed up snow bank, spun all 4 tractor tires pulling on it to get it to move and then it rolled out and almost into the yard where I piled snow 3+ feet deep (drive drops off about 5' there.) had good time except for wet shoes/feet from getting into cabin/barn after having to walk 600 of so feet back from the road where crown vic got stuck.
all in all I'm still cold even after comming home to find some really good slow cooked pork chops and gravy mix with mashed taters & green beans for dinner :D :p now I'm warmer fuller and ready for nap time lol...
mark M 8) :D
spiker
A trick when you replace your mailbox post, Put in at least a 10 or 12 foot post so it sticks up way past your mailbox. I don't know if this forces them to drive around instead of just picking up the wing or if they see it better but since I did this I have not lost one. I have a friend who put a cement filled well casing in the ground 6 feet, That one only got hit once. It tore the wing plow right off.
Stonebroke
spiker
Another thing I almost forgot, Put the mailbox on the side of the post away from where the plow approaches.
Stonebroke
Around here if the county knocks off a postal box they have to fix it as the post office has the right to have boxes along the road. The concrete and steel post are illegal here also because of the damaged that can be done in an accident. Some people will put the post on the over side of the ditch and put a swinging arm across to the road for the box. That way if it is hit it will just swing out of the way but that does not work so good if it is buried in the snow drift the begin with. ::)
Farmerdoug
It looks like my mailbox has been whacked pretty good. Real heavy snow. I'll just bend it back into shape until spring.
My uncle knocked off my dad's mailbox when moving snow. He probably did it on purpose. So, my dad put in a piece of well casing and filled it with concrete. Still standing after 45 years.
Between Carthage and Beaver Falls New York about a mile off 126.
I plowed every day for 8 days never less than 6 inches nor more than a foot.
Poor little 1950 8N Ford worked pretty hard for an old timer. Piled as high as I can with the loader. If it keeps up I'll have to get the neighbors big 4 wheel drive John Deer it will pile about 5 feet higher than my litte Ford. I don't think it was as bad as the blizzard of 77 when I worked for the Township Worked 90 some hours that week.
Junkyard
One of my wifes co-workers husband plows for the state and he sometimes takes out mail boxes of people that pi$$ him off. Doesnt do it all the time just every now and then.
Thanks alot Mr mom
Must hate quite a few people. ::) ;D
In NYS you have no legal right to put a mail box on the road rightaway, So says the road superintendent. They can knock down all the mailboxes they want. The only thing that saves us is most of the superintendent are elected.
Stonebroke
The road cleaning crews here are not liable for mailbox damage. They are not even liable if they back up over your car if you get in the way.
Keep Back 50 m
In NYS road crews can intentional hit you car and nothing happens to them. They have the right of way and it is up to you to get out of the way.
Stonebroke
I wanted tons of snow and we got it !!!!
Snow is amazing. It is so variable. This looks like nice innocent powder that should just slide off to the sides but it builds up in front of the plow.
A wider road would help. It was only 5 feet wide when i started to reclaim it.
There is about 2 feet of snow on the ground in this pic. I could only go about 10 feet and then back up and clean up and hit it again. Needed more weight on the truck ::)
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Looks like you need a tractor and front end loader.
stonebroke
Where's the snow mobile and sled? ;D
Get that J5 of yours finished and just use that. Tramp yourself a trail down and you're good to go. Mother nature put that snow there and she'll take it all away eventually. ;D
int the picture your plow look straight ...... that not going to get you thru that stuff...... a straight push just..... piles the white stuff..... strong angle and small bites
Get out the welder and make up a "V" Plow................... nothing fancy just somthing to open that road up.............. split and oil drum and weld a couple tags on the outside edge of your plow and bolt it on... you only need a skid plate on the first foot of the V not cutting edge, you can clean up later !!!!! good luck
Think you got snow - this is my driveway - :D :D - Just kidding - Found this pic online, upstate NY - The last 7 day lake effect snow - (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11530/lotta%20snow.jpg)
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:o I think somebody is jerkin yer chain. Those look more like rock walls, snow walls that high would slump.
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I stand corrected. Holy C%^P :o :o :o :o
I've seen that here in the 70's. But the snow depth was 4 feet, the roads where plugged with very hard wind driven snow. The snow plow was useless. They had to use escavators and snow blowers on graders. The banks were not far from the hydro lines. ::)
In 1969 we had a storm here [nw ct.] - where you could find level snow, it was over 3' deep, drifts were 10 - 15 ft, up on buildings, closed some roads for a week. I remember the wind, 50 - 60 mph, bitter cold. A lot of roads got dug out with payloaders, there were cuts close to these, the drifted snow packs like cement. My cousin & I drove a JD 350 dozer right up US Rt. 7 that morning, there was about 1 lane left open. My '61 Impala had become stuck at the farm the night before, had to leave it. Next day, not a bit of snow for 2 -3 ' around it, under the hood though was packed with snow. Worst storm I remember here, I was a senior then, school was closed a week. The garage I worked at was next to the RR, a few days after, the train came through with a V-plow on it - What a sight that was - If you'd been standing there, you'd have been burried.
And those were the days when the "scientists" were hyping the coming ice age. How fast they can fergit, and switch to our new global warming 'trend'... Sorry, I'm a bit skeptical. ;D
I got hit by a plow and totally screwed me over. Nothing you can do even if it is totally the plows fault. That guy got an earful when he got out of the plow and he got right back in - good thing, cuz I keep a tire iron down next to my seat. No credit or money to get a new car at the time, I had to drive a total piece of *#(@ til I could save enough to get a new one. Karma got them, their town garage burned to the ground the followin summer :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Managed to find my mail box, it was broken off the post (twisted both sides of deck screws off almost 1 broke I got the others out and put the somewhat un-damaged box back onto the NEW post that I put in back in November when it was still warm.) anyhow I forgot to take the camera out there where we had more snow but took a few pics here in mansfield ohio. where I cleaned up a bit.
mostly drifts but are hard to see with the digital pics. not a lot of definition in a all white seine.
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My Car '93 crown vic.
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Womans car & neighbors 1993 T-Bird
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Looking down street a bit.
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Hope ya enjoy those warm days of summer as I think this will be here a while!
I have high res pics on phot bucket under user name "wpspiker" and the 2007 blizzard if these can't post them links here though
markM
Ya got spoiled, I can still see the shrubs and the hood of the car. :D :D :D
I'm going to get a true reading tomorrow in the woodlot. Was nice today, about 30 F here. ;D
Bull, I don't think I'll need any oil barrels.
Chains, maybe ;D
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Those pictures of near Buffalo look like one of the mountain passes in Colorado !!!
nice plow !!! load the truck bed w/ that nice heavy snow..... or a half cord of wood, maybe that will help..... You do have plenty of toys don't you !!!!! Girls rule Guys drool !!!! :-X
I remember that storm of '69,but I was only 8 years old.I did not realize how bad it was at the time.There are pictures of my brothers and me jumping off from the shed roof.The snow was up to the 20 foot high eves.The worst storm that I can recall around here.Those poor people in parts of NY.
Had to snow rake a 4' drift off my mom's polebarn this afternoon. Almost got snow in my pants pockets walkin to it :o
Well if we get that snow now, maybe it will be drier this summer instead of raining or showering every day.
Suppose to be another storm this week by Thursday'ish. Might pass to my south though. ;D
Those weather people say it is supposed to warm up this week and maybe melt some of the snow with rain on top! Might just get some more winter flooding like 2 years back where our road was closed by 3~4' of water & ice flows which took better half of a month to get cleared out after the bitter cold turned it all into solid ice dams... Wish I had taken some pics of that I'd sure ly post them.
I had to clear all that snow in the above pics by hand using snow shovel. no blower or tractor here in town. The farm was/is worse with drifts thigh high that I had to wade into/through to get out the tractor my purple crown vic was stuck at the end of the drive. the tractor cleaned up pretty well, but left the car setting 14" in the air where I tried to get it far enough onto property to be off the road, I knew I would have to pull it off, (have to most snowy years) when I hooked up this year to it to pull it off the dang thing melted into snow & re-froze. Spun all 4 tractor tires and only managed to string the 3/8" chain tight enough to play a tune on it. had to get shovel and dig out a bunch of frozen snow & ice from under car then re-pull which still took a bunch of yanking. :o ::) Well it came out the yard is now good & full of my drive gravel and next spring I'll have to re-sharpen the blades 30 times ::)
MarkM
Quote from: stonebroke on February 16, 2007, 08:10:55 PM
Looks like you need a tractor and front end loader.
stonebroke
Moving snow with a loader is painfully slow.
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My plow vehicle remains in the shop. But the loader does move the banks back real nice and allows me to put the snow on the sides of the drive that will do the least damage when it hits 40 degres on Wednesday.
Actually when you get three feet I think a tractor is just as quick because you have to back up so much with the plow to get a running start and a plow will only push so much.
Stonebroke
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This loader has a top speed of about 3.5mph. But I can't imagine you'd want to go much faster.
Took me 5 hours to clear out 1/8th mile of driveway and my whole sawmill area. I guess that includes the 20 minutes it took to drive it 1.5 miles between my house and my construction lot.
There's no way a plow truck would clean out the sawmill like the loader without a lot more hand work.
Only got the loader stuck once - hubby got it stuck and while he trudged for chain, I grabbed a shovel and had it out and working before he got back. Then he took pictures while I worked the snow. Its not so deep here because the wind had swept through here.
Ok, I took the snow depth in the woods today. Total accumulation without the influence of wind is 22 inches. The last storm dumped 8 inches according to my snow shoe trail.
been clearing roofs all morning. :( -10 this morning and may rain tomorrow afternoon. I bet three feet of snow will hold more water than some of my sheds can hold up.
I didn't measure,but the goat house must have had near four feet on it, made some niose when i raked it off!