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This last snow storm that we had produced about a foot of the heaviest, wettest, sloppy-gloppy, snow that I have ever encountered. Other than having some problems with the plow shedding the snow, the Yamaha didn't even grunt. That's with no chains, and 9 year old tires.

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What a beast!

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Those are some pretty big piles there!  I guess if you can get a head of steam up and have plenty of places to put it they'd work great.

 

Has it all melted yet?  I'm think I'm going to run down to Canadice tomorrow for some mental health R&R.

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I plow with one of my ATV's all winter. Only problem I had this year was the banks were getting too high and you can't raise ATV blades high enough to push them back. I've yet to see snow deep enough to give the ATV a problem.

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I plow with one of my ATV's all winter. Only problem I had this year was the banks were getting too high and you can't raise ATV blades high enough to push them back. I've yet to see snow deep enough to give the ATV a problem.

Ha-ha .... plan ahead. Where I am piling up that snow is a good 20' away from the driveway. The only problem that causes is that I will have to rake up all those stones from the gravel, off the yard.....lol. As you can see, I am able to do something that even the big boys with their pick-up trucks can't do. I am actually driving up the snow bank (very carefully) and pushing snow up and over.

 

Another advantage that I have over the pick-up trucks is that down below along the straight section of the driveway, I can actually plow wider than the driveway by driving on top of the snow. Trucks would sink down in and slide down into the ditches if they tried that. So I can actually plow back farther that the trucks.

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Those are some pretty big piles there!  I guess if you can get a head of steam up and have plenty of places to put it they'd work great.

 

Has it all melted yet?  I'm think I'm going to run down to Canadice tomorrow for some mental health R&R.

Those piles are still there, but they're going. Things should be in pretty good shape over in Canadice as long as you don't go up too high. I'll be taking a hike up our hill to see what things are like up there, later today. Canadice should be very similar. Looking across the valley here in Bristol, it looks like the top of the far hill is getting real patchy. We may have finally turned the corner. I hope so.

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I'll be up around Hayward Hill Rd.  Not as high as say Harriet Hollister so hopefully it is gone.  The spot I do my shooting at is going to be a swamp though so I doubt I'll be driving in too far.

 

I have ammo to burn and smoke to make today!

 

My buddy wants to go to the airport for breakfast, that can't be to far from you??  I don't think I'll be doing that though.  I'll see if WNYbuckhunter wants to meet for coffee in Lima in a bit.

 

I'm outa' here..........................................grins

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Doc... is that you on the ATV? That is definitely not the guy I had pictured in my head. I had you pegged for the clean cut, run a mile in the morning after some oatmeal kind of guy.. boy was I wrong!

 

Ha!  I agree.......... :biggrin:

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my parent's Yamaha Grizzly 400 4x4 has tires that aren't that old.  they're bald as heck though.  I had a difficult time getting up on the hill to do some scouting and deer related work.  didn't have that much snow that day either.

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Doc... is that you on the ATV? That is definitely not the guy I had pictured in my head. I had you pegged for the clean cut, run a mile in the morning after some oatmeal kind of guy.. boy was I wrong!

Nope, broken down old croak on the wrong side of 70 ..... lol. Oh yeah, I don't do "run", unless I'm being chased. Never did. Most of the bulk that you see there is a winter coat inside of insulated coveralls. That's not to say that my doctor wouldn't like me to drop a bunch of weight, but I'm only about 180 underneath all that stuff.....ha-ha.

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This last snow storm that we had produced about a foot of the heaviest, wettest, sloppy-gloppy, snow that I have ever encountered. Other than having some problems with the plow shedding the snow, the Yamaha didn't even grunt. That's with no chains, and 9 year old tires.

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What a beast!

 

every once in a while someone looks exactly how you pictured them. :)

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Nope, broken down old croak on the wrong side of 70 ..... lol. Oh yeah, I don't do "run", unless I'm being chased. Never did. Most of the bulk that you see there is a winter coat inside of insulated coveralls. That's not to say that my doctor wouldn't like me to drop a bunch of weight, but I'm only about 180 underneath all that stuff.....ha-ha.

I hope you didn't take that the wrong way.. I just figured you a bit more like the bookworm type, not necessarily the mans-man type.  You look more the outdoorsman type than I do... I was just surprised how "burly" you look is all. The facial hair took me totally by surprise! Only 180.. I got you by about 5 or 10 pounds (185-190)

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I hope you didn't take that the wrong way.. I just figured you a bit more like the bookworm type, not necessarily the mans-man type.  You look more the outdoorsman type than I do... I was just surprised how "burly" you look is all. The facial hair took me totally by surprise! Only 180.. I got you by about 5 or 10 pounds (185-190)

That fur went on in 1972 and stayed on there ever since. Even I can't remember what was under there .... lol. It's all part of my camouflage except it doesn't work all that well anymore now that it's turning white.

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I'll be up around Hayward Hill Rd. Not as high as say Harriet Hollister so hopefully it is gone. The spot I do my shooting at is going to be a swamp though so I doubt I'll be driving in too far.

I have ammo to burn and smoke to make today!

My buddy wants to go to the airport for breakfast, that can't be to far from you?? I don't think I'll be doing that though. I'll see if WNYbuckhunter wants to meet for coffee in Lima in a bit.

I'm outa' here..........................................grins

Thanks again for breakfast Lawdwaz! Its always good shooting the breeze! Hows the 44 shoot?

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