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I love winter
I think I grew up too long ago.
My winter memories are tempered with a pile of snow and a snow shovel. A typical snow fall was 12-24 inches or more of wet heavy stuff. We would slog our way to school trying not to loose a boot. After school I would come home to find a mountain in front of the drive way. Naturally the artic front would have shifted by then and it was beginning to freeze or was frozen at -15 or 20 F. On the command;"Get that drive way cleared so you father can get in off the road when he gets home!!" I would spend the the next couple of hours trying to hack my way through the cement like 3-4-5' pile with my snow shovel. Most of the time I would bearly have enough space for my Dad to squeeze in with the truck. Naturally this only happened every 3-4 days with more than 40' of the white stuff over the winter and it lasted only 5 months of the year. With the cutting of the banks etc. you worked the piles almost every day in between. Snow blowers were out of the question with gravel roads and heavy wet sticky snow.
What I would not have given to have a little 4 wheel drive CUT and FEL. Talk about turning agony to joy!!
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When I was a kid I remember the "Blizzard 0f 1958". We were out of school for a week. No snowplows could get through. A neighbor had a bulldozer and came up the road and plowed us all out. I forget how much snow there was but it was substantial. I have never seen anything like that again.
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Hey Iowafun, better than in the attic at 120deg in the summer huh.
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Peters/ ncrunch; You guys are making me feel old now. Most of the rural roads in the county we lived in when I was a kid were just mud roads, most of the road ditches were higher than the road it self, and a lot of the way brush was grown up along each side making the road a snow trap. Most any amount of snow and some wind had us snowed in. The county had some crawler tractors with "V" plows that would get us out in a day or two. I remember waking up in the night hearing the "clank clank" of those old cats going past. In the mid 50's the county got a lot of roads graded with nice deep wide ditches, high grades, and most of the brush cleared out, that was a great improvment. Being snowed in wasn't a real panic situation then as everyone in the country was prepared with a big wood pile lots of canned goods in the cellar, Amos and Andy or the Great Gildersleve on the radio. I used to like snow too when I was a kid but have mostly gotten over that by now. Great memories. Frank.
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Peters - my parents never got a snowblower until after my brother and I moved out of the house. We always shoveled the drive when we got home. A good workout for sure! But that front where the plow went by always did suck. That stuff freezes and is compacted hard. I don't miss that.
I shoveled my front walk last week and I wasn't thrilled with that. Ok, it sucked and my back was sore afterwards. The CUT really spoils me, but because of the CUT, I don't groan at the thought of snow.
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Frank I recall the small trucks back then. Our town had Brockways gassers. 200hp tops it was no wonder they could not keep the country roads open.
Its amazin what a big Walter or OsKosh can do with out straining.
I enjoy winter, not as much now cause I work year round. I've lost a lot of my play time in the snow. BUT snow is still for playing.
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Well we had large graders and one 6x6 with a plow when I was a kid. It snowed so hard a few times,(with no wind) that we had to go probing for the cars. The residential blowers did not have enough power to blow the heavy wet stuff. I is a bit hard to blow when the piles are 12-15-20 ft high.
I can recall them sending a D9 down the road to get it clear after a particularly bad dump.
We often had sticky wet snow that would plug even the tunnel on the snow mobile. Just a little difficult to blow.
On the brighter side it was a beautiful sunny day in Alabama, it was the mid 60's and I was out working on the lawn this afternoon.
Cheers friends.
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