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Looks like I picked the wrong month to quit amphetamines.......

Actually quit chewing yesterday.


Might should start amphetamines....


Nice dog Sam.

Love the vids you fellers put up. Hard work, but if it was easy, there’d be lots of competition!

Was minus 8 when I left the house this morning. On a business trip, picked up the rental car and drove 450 miles south 40 degrees. By the way the rental was a Hemi Charger, the trip went real smooth

This gets old....

Yep.

What Jim ... you takin drivin lessons from Richard Boy?
LOL

Ahhh yes, the old snowbank....

So much fun!

I'll tell you what, about 8PM the wind started blowing like a sonuvabitch!

Thank God we didn't get any snow, some chit still blew around and the drifts are hard.


I saw the state headed out this morning with the big snow blower loaded up and I guess there were bad roads all over.



Evidently I got a bad load of fuel. Spent 2 hours this afternoon blowing out an iced up fuel line. Tractor ran fine at -30 a few days ago, filled it up with fuel and wouldn't even hold an idle.

A heated shop would be cheating.....

Sam there's a chance i might be in North Dakota later this year. if i am i'll look you and Jim up on days off.

Do you treat your fuel?

Would this help?
https://powerservice.com/psp_product/diesel-911/

I feel for you guys, Sam, Ben, and Jim. I’m fairly certain I’ve shoveled my last flake of the white stuff after the move south a while back. Schitty winter weather is exactly what it sounds like and I ain’t missing it much.

Been cold for us down here lately, 5deg the other morning and highs in tbe teens a few days last couple weeks. But yesterday it came a chinook and it was 72, today it was 84. Tomorrow the high is 40 or so, who knows what it’ll do. Got the little fella out fishing today, let him play hooky from daycare and he landed 19 bass and one huge bluegill.

This is getting out of hand....











When you're stuck at home and can't get to town for 14 days, you get creative... Got about 4 miles passable today, only maybe 8 or 10 to go... Dig a hundred yards, plow through til you can't anymore, then dig another hundred..


I will have a snowmobile next winter...laffin


Ben

You’re going to look like the Incredible Hulk after shoveling 15 miles of snow! You guys need to hit a county auction for an old worn out grader or backhoe or something. Holy schit man.

Oh we are going over options like that...grin

crap like that is the reason folks living in the country in this neck of the woods have a good sized tractor mounted blower

those nice piles alongside your road will only get worse everytime the wind blows......

sdgunslinger, you are so correct about those piles on both sides making it worse. They are the result of a new county road boss being turned loose with the grader. Our whole county is screwed like this this year. we been trapped here for 14 days because of this. County says they hope to plow us out net Tuesday with the Vplow to knock that berm down. Hope tht will give us a bit of relief.

Planted all the tomato, squash, and pepper plant seeds.

Roger, lemme know what happens. I'll warn my wife.....grin



IB, that's what I used to trickle in the fuel line, pour in a little until the line was full and then hit it with a little air. Repeat about a dozen times, finally we had fuel flowing. Didn't want to douche my gloves with that chit and my hands still smell. It was weird though, initially we hit the line with air and had easy air flow but fuel would not not flow back. The bottom of the tank has a sump clean-out and that was clean so WTF?




Kid, things are easy here on the river bottom(knock on wood....). The guys out in the hills are having all the real fun!




Ben, if you want it to never snow again, buy a snowmobile.....


Seriously though, wish we were closer I'd drive over in a tractor. That is an insane amount of digging and as SD mentioned it'll blow right back in during the next windy day.


Downstream, I hope they get to you guys sooner than later. This coming weekend looks to be another windy/snowy blast so I guess it's good that they show up afterwards.




Hanco, speaking of yard work, I might snow blow a new trail for my couch hounds in the backyard. One of the little bastards has taken to pissin' on the patio!

Don't forget the warm socks today Sam.

Ben, this went by the cake bin as I was loading up this morning, wish it was headed your way.....

I got out to load up and heard a 'noise' motoring down the highway.









And I don't recommend driving through town like this...