I love my tractors but.......
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Topic: I love my tractors but.......
Posted By: RLBPA1
Subject: I love my tractors but.......
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 5:05pm
This thing makes snow plowing more fun that it ought to be
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Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 5:45pm
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The novelty will wear off!! Just like mowing the grass for the first time! Sorry enjoy! ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 6:29pm
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Wait till a heavier snowfall, when you are plowing away when you suddenly hit an object frozen solid in the ice. Before you even blink, your nose is flat against the windshield, and suddenly starting to hurt. For some unknown reason it takes some of the fun away. Gary |
Posted By: RLBPA1
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 6:39pm
Been dealing with snow for 40+ years. This is my solution for heavy accumulations 
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Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 6:40pm
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Pickup has a wider plow, more power, and better creature comforts. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 7:10pm
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Yea almost froze out there today clearing the drive on the antique Ford Jubliee. Great tractor but has limits and it is wide open and cold. Way better than shoveling! Plow on the F250 is sounding better all the time! Your IH is ready for about anything! The side by side with the cab is a very nice unit too!
Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: RLBPA1
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 7:23pm
I hear what your saying about pickup trucks but my truck's most important job is hauling Allis and her sisters to shows on nice summer days
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Posted By: RLBPA1
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 7:28pm
And coal too. Which is appreciated today when the high temp was 8 degrees
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Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2018 at 8:50pm
| Nice truck. Nice tractors too |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2018 at 10:06am
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I put a Hiniker plow on my GMC after a back surgery a few years ago. (Always wear the seat belt) Climbing into the 7045 wasn't fun that winter. Heated seats and heat that comes out at your feet is a great way to go. I could not and would not believe that snow can be piled as high with it as the WD45 and a Stan-Hoist trip bucket can do. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: HoughMade
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2018 at 10:14am
8 degrees? Pfft, summerlike. This is what the temp was on my drive to work this morning: ------------- 1951 B |
Posted By: Dan Hauter
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2018 at 7:27pm
| I was whining to my sister just south of Rockford, IL. about it being 10 below here. She said it's been close to 35 below there the last 2 nights. Guess I'd better stop whining! |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2018 at 7:50pm
Hough you just admitted to breaking the law PUBLICLY. Using you're phone while driving  ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
HoughMade wrote:Posted By: HoughMade
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2018 at 8:30pm
Not in Indiana. No such law here. When I'm not wrenching on tractors, I practice law. ...and Rockford -35? Wind chill, maybe. ------------- 1951 B |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Jan 2018 at 11:15pm
| check out the UTV on big iron sale coming up |
Posted By: DennisA (IL)
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2018 at 10:39am
Must be wind chill. I live just West of Rockford and the lowest we've seen was -20. It really doesn't matter, -20 or -35 it's cold! ------------- Thanks & God Bless Dennis |
Posted By: Play Farmer
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 2:10pm
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Living in the Tug Hill area of NY we get a fair amount of snow. This place isn't too far from us. I rode my snowmobile through there on Saturday. http://www.newyorkupstate.com/weather/2018/02/the_snowiest_populated_place_in_america_this_winter_is_in_upstate_new_york.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.newyorkupstate.com/weather/2018/02/the_snowiest_populated_place_in_america_this_winter_is_in_upstate_new_york.html
With that said, I like comfort when I'm plowing too. This is for the day-to-day stuff;  and this is for when we run out of room to plow;  And this is when playtime gets serious - doing a little early season last November;  |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 4:02pm
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My snow removal tool these past few years has been a push broom, but I haven't needed it this year It's 42 here right now. Supposed to be 75 on Thursday. Not sure if I could stand living up there with all y'all. I don't know what a cold winter is. Snowmobiling does sound fun though. Hope the ol' Super 100 up in MN still has an intact engine block when I see it again
 Never really worried much about blocks busting down here. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 7:15pm
This is what I use when the snow got to deep... Vplow on the loader of 170 and a bale on back for traction... and if I had to, the chains get put on And when it gots worse, then started up an old FORTY DIESEL Cat or a D7 and pushed. Haven't needed them for several years, just used bucket on 170, or a 610 Bobcat... or the 974 that does have an enclosed cab. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 7:32pm
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Hey CrestonM my wife and I were riding our atv's on Sun. The weather a balmy 9 degrees. The snow was too deep to get to our cabin. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 7:48pm
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No.....Getting old or getting soft. If you really NEED the snow gone you gotta be in a old fricking tractor in the open, 10 degrees out and a north wind about 15-20. Got so many clothes on you can hardly move and be out there for 4-5 hours. When you can't feel your nose or your toes and snot is froze to your face you know you are done and question whether your fingers are still there because you have to pee. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2018 at 12:34am
| X2 what Fixer says |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2018 at 12:49pm
| Me too! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2018 at 3:06pm
| Kind of the reason I deal with the Fruits and Nuts around here. Only 30 F and that is low enough to send me back in with more good oak fire wood. |