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[Ravynscroft]

lol...

 

[perchie.girl]

Alaskan, we need a nice old farm tractor. One with a snow plow blade on front and a back blade behind. Loaded tires with ring chains. We would never get stuck again, plowing might be cold, but never stuck.

or a team of these

snow plow eight on the floor

 

[Beer can]

or a team of these

Deb, I think the very first time I ever saw a 'smart phone' I saw that first vid yrs ago, awesome!
I've dealt with milk drivers for about twelve yrs. Best people I've ever met, miss that job and look forward to getting back to it someday. We don't get much Amish milk up here in NY but the way the milk industry skreewls the farmer sometimes we do. One driver I was very familiar with picked Amish farms occasionally, hated it.
Typical big rig had a half dozen farms for 60-70,000lbs, small guys ten wheelers had the most, easier to get into small farms, 18+ or so farms for 39-49,000 lbs.A lot of the big rigs had one farm two three maybe a dozen for 70,000lbs.
Guy that picked Amish, 30+ farms, multiple paperwork...And he said they brought the milk from other farms, not everyone had a cooler.
He said he come up on one farm, snowed in. Boy say's 'Dads coming with the horses' he thought 'ohhh great' Said it was the Damnedest thing he ever saw, 'dad' and the horses came up the road, tripped the plow left and right, had the drive cleared out in seconds...

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, we need a nice old farm tractor. One with a snow plow blade on front and a back blade behind. Loaded tires with ring chains. We would never get stuck again, plowing might be cold, but never stuck.

We have a very old Kubota... One with baby diapers wrapped around a few of the leaking cracked hydraulic hoses. (I can't remember who decided that was better than electrical tape .. Whatever) it has a snow plow on the back, so you can sit on the seat that is no longer attached to the body (don't wiggle, or the seat will fall off), turn around and look over your shoulder, and snow blow at 3 miles and hour, a full mile of driveway that needs at least, at bare minimum, four passes to finish the job.

Dang.

Once done on that beast it takes four hours to warm back up to body temperature.

Also, the spout on the snow blower moves by hand crank.

Needless to say, we use that thing when all else has failed, and death is imminent.

Luckily, the kids are old enough, that last year when we needed to use it, I made the boys take it out.


@RavynFallen glory to God we did not hit a window! (That would have been BAD ). And actually, no biggy at all. There is a tiny dent in the corner molding of the house... Totally ignorable.

 

[Alaskan]

Deb, I love those horse vids you post

Beer can, crazy about the amish and the milk gathering.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Your house got only a tiny dent from that hitting it???? Is it Fort Knox???

I want your house now, lol...

 

[Alaskan]

It hit the house corner, it did make a really loud bang sound, the entire house shook, but the house is sided in rough cut spruce.

Spruce is a soft wood, but each piece is about an inch thick, so a good shock absorber, and yes dented, but no biggy.

 

[Alaskan]

Dang... A fly jumped into my drink.....

 

[Alaskan]

Fished it out... All good.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Poor fly... probably can't fly straight now...