Nor'easter

Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: PC 12-47E On: Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:12 pm

Blowing hard out of the Nor-East...About 30-32" on the ground. Still snowing but not as hard at the moment.

15*F outside--73*F inside. 550# through the Heatrola this week.

Stay warm,
Eddie
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: SteveZee On: Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:56 pm

PC 12-47E wrote:Blowing hard out of the Nor-East...About 30-32" on the ground. Still snowing but not as hard at the moment.

15*F outside--73*F inside. 550# through the Heatrola this week.

Stay warm,
Eddie


Hey Eddie Where ya been hiding! My 116 is heatin the heck out this old place! Still blowing up here too. Not gonna bother trying to clear the drive today. Got spots with bare ground then 4-5 foot drifts sculpted in.
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: SMITTY On: Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:14 pm

Yep - we got POUNDED. I feel like I got hit by a bus. Been shoveling, plowing, and shoveling out the stuck ATV for 6 hours non-stop. Gonna be REAL sore tomorrow. Must've shoveled out the Polaris 12 times ... :x ... AND yanked it out with the Blazer at least 4 times ...

Snowed until about noon. Never got above 20°all day. Was 18° most of the day. Very light powder, but LOTS of it. Still a ballbuster when it's this deep. All of 2', with 4' - 6' drifts. I'd say 2' MINIMUM.
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: SteveZee On: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:46 pm

Still pretty good Smitty for a quad plowing that much snow! I used my old Gilson late 70's vintage tank of a snowblower on my drive. Probably a good 60 yrds or better. The first cut I had to go on 1st gear slow but after that, I could take a good 2/3 cut in 2nd gear and walk along side like a rear tine tiller. Took me about an hour and a bit. The snow was good throwing snow. Nice and powdery.
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: CapeCoaler On: Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:40 pm

Snowcrete on the cape...
topped with a good wind wipped powder...
Have some pics just too tired to postem...
need some sleep...
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: dcrane On: Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:48 am

IM ALIVE! Power is back, road is finally open after 2 days of hibernation :shock: photos of my house and the first blockages to either side of my house (their was a total of 6 blockages that had to be cleared to get to civilization...
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: SteveZee On: Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:58 am

I've had a few of those blowdowns myself. Real pain to clear in deep snow. Had one that I could just drive under because it was hung up on a tree the other side of the drive. Did that for a week till I had a delivery coming and was forced to cut it. One cut and the root ball stood the trunk right back up. :lol: It's still like that, about a 15 foot telephone pole lookin tree.
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Re: Nor'easter

PostBy: dcrane On: Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:04 pm

SteveZee wrote:I've had a few of those blowdowns myself. Real pain to clear in deep snow. Had one that I could just drive under because it was hung up on a tree the other side of the drive. Did that for a week till I had a delivery coming and was forced to cut it. One cut and the root ball stood the trunk right back up. :lol: It's still like that, about a 15 foot telephone pole lookin tree.


Ya, I just wish the damb thing was an Oak (wouldn't mind dicing up a cord or two), but NOOOOO....mine had to be a BIG USELESS PINE :mad:
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