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Getting ready for Snow
Joel, the "no cleaning the floor or the dog for 7 months" thing... I take it you either don't want relatives dropping by, or you're single  tehehehehe
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Do you have a loader Ann? I curl the bucket back to allow an inch or two of snow to accumulate prior to using the blower or rear blade, much like suggested by others. Works great until the thaw comes.
Speaking of winter, I was ready for some cooler weather. Boat is out now, covered the pool two weeks ago and here it is another week in the 80's with full bug infestations. Felt odd today, my shirt was soaked with sweat from "winterizing" one of my boat engines. The water is so low in Lake Ontario I dared not leave it in any longer.
Bring on the cold!
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Yeah, I was splitting and stacking firewood today with only a t-shirt on...and sweating! I just feel that we (northerners) will all pay for this good weather with wickedly cold temps. I hope I'm wrong. P.S.: bought a new wood splitter...what a labour saving device...and made in the USA (so the sticker says).
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I'm thinking about the same thing and hopefully I can find a made in the USA model! Once I get to cleaning the back acres I will have plenty of wood to split.
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If you didn't get SOME stones on the grass, you'd have nothing to do in the spring! But here are tips.
Get the way as level as possible. Set blade angles optimally. I'd go for maximum offset (angle) and exact tilt (one side raised/lowered). High RPMS and low ground speed will give more control raising if it digs in. If the surface is bumpy, push in reverse, which better keeps the blade the same height off the stones. When it's cold enough the stones should solidify and resist being moved with the snow.
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For Cutter, I bought an MTD 5.5 hp 21 ton unit that works fine even on 24" diam logs. Other models to consider are Swisher (mid-US) and Timberwolf (VT) who have a 3pt hitch PTO driven hyd pump splitter (their website has some good videos of the splitters in use and a dealer in Lima, NY).
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Thanks bloggins, I will check that three point splitter out. I don't really need another motor to maintain.
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I just picked the first tick off the dog since late spring (June 28th). The bugger was actually infected on her belly, never seen a tick bite look like this so I actually washed it off! Never did that before on a dog. Ill take a hundred tick bites over one mskeeter bite, yep, bring on winter.
Aheeem, MR. EARTHWKS, you gettin soft boy??? Gettin used to those warm cushy days down in the stanchville area?
CMon now boy, you better get back north before your skin loses that toughness to it. I hear that if you stay there long enough you actually begin to like it there? Is that true? Or is it those mushrooms your eating?
Time to let the south go and come back to gods country!
(Bring that New holland skid steer too, I have a use for it since I dont own one yet, HEE HEE)
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Broken, I've been back since early March. When I left it was 73 degrees and sunny there. However when I got home two days later it was 10 degrees and we got 4 inches of fresh snow. But that was okay though becuase I sold my sno plow since I was expecting to stay there---until the money ran out down there. People say to me, "But there's all kinds of work down there isn't there". Yes there is, if you either do it for free or don't want top get paid!
BTW, my buddy has a 1998 LX665 skid steer with steel tracks, a grapple bucket and a regular bucket for sale for $10,000. Just need your address!
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Murf, man how did it take me so long to notice what had happened to the GRITS! Wondered why all here was the yellow ones. Murf, too many here have very little idea...call me when done. O, ham or sausage please. kt
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