Snow Dozing

Post by **Lavoy** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:08 am

Hey, I always tell people they are just a big snowmobile, but slower.
Lavoy

Paul Buhler · Post by **Paul Buhler** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:44 am

Earlier in the year we had a big wind storm that brought down a large pine which took out a powerline and made a mess. Yesterday, I fired up the dozer and dragged it out in three pieces, making one load and decked it out of the way.

Pulling out wood when the ground is frozen and snow covered tears up the lawn a lot less. The winch, which I rebuilt earlier in the year worked nicely - pulled strongly, and held well as the dozer drove off to the decking area. Sorry too busy yesterday to get a picture. Paul

DukeofDeere · Post by **DukeofDeere** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:40 pm

hydrogeo wrote:Got started on firewood for next year and twitched out a couple of blowdowns over the weekend. My boy actually prefers the 40c over the snowmobile:

Good for him!
I am looking forward to getting in the woods soon.
Burned more wood so far this year than in the last 2 yrs combined!
We have received 120" so far this winter

Duke

gus · Post by **gus** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:18 pm

Looks like the fun is over... 41 degrees and rain for the next week. Snow will be gone in a few days. Oh well

hydrogeo · Post by **hydrogeo** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:19 pm

That is a lot of snow! We have about 2' where we are in NH, which is a little under normal of us. We are usually about even with the top rail on the split rail fence in the yard by now. Just over the bottom rail at this point.

Paul, we are a little over an hour east of the town formerly known as Sherburne (I think you guys sold out with the name change thing, lol). I suspect your snow situation is similar.

As a reformed snowmobile addict I am glad my boy has not been bitten by the bug. I feel Lavoy's pain, I remember stressing over the weather forecast and putting mega miles on my pickup and trailer chasing snow over the entire northeast.

Paul Buhler · Post by **Paul Buhler** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:29 pm

I actually live in North Sherburne, a section of town that remains loyal to the old name. You may remember that a few years ago Killington wanted to secede from VT and petitioned to join NH over Act 60, a tax dispute with the State. Made for some good political posturing.
As for snow, we have about 18" at the house; well below normal. The ski area has a bit more and the skiing, due to snowmaking, is good. We could use a bit of that pile I saw Duke stacked.

gus · Post by **gus** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:09 am

I must have been dreaming... what snow?? It's 50 degrees and it's almost gone!!

north country dozer · Post by **north country dozer** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:19 am

Some areas along the eastern edge of lake Ontario have received 300" of snow so far... despite the warm up it should still be around for a while around here .. hear ya on the firewood too... went through 7 face cord in a month and a half... its sure been brutal

DukeofDeere · Post by **DukeofDeere** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:34 am

300"! That's way too much snow!
Dragged out 2 cord of dry ready to burn hardwood this week.
Mostly Ash.
Dozer is the only way in this winter.

Duke

Stan Disbrow · Post by **Stan Disbrow** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:35 am

Hi,

We had 2-3 inches on Tuesday, followed by 4-5 on Wednesday. It was hard to tell as it was melting from underneath all the while. It was freezing rain on Thursday, but I used a backblade on my 5103 (has a canopy, the M doesn't) and plowed slush. Heck, it was more liquid water than snow!

Yesterday it was sunny and warm, so most of it was gone by sundown. Last night it rained 2" so now I have mud everywhere.....

So, still no need to fire up the crawler.

Maybe someone will get stuck in the mud!

Stan

Paul Buhler · Post by **Paul Buhler** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:08 pm

This thread seems to have been hijacked as a winter weather info center. That said, we got about 18" of denser snow yesterday requiring me to fire up the 420 to push back some berms and dress up around the house. One oops however; started to slide sideways into a gully, stopped and tried to backed up, slid deeper. Drove forward, slid deeper. Got off dragged cable and hooked up the winch cable to a nearby tree - it dragged the machine out nicely even before I could get into reverse. I usually plow in 6" lifts. This storm dumped on us over night to a nice morning surprise.
It's fun and handy to have one of these crawlers around.

BTW, The skiing is really good now.

DukeofDeere · Post by **DukeofDeere** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:52 pm

Awesome pictures!
Picture this 5-7" in the next 4 hours here...
25mph wind @ 18 F I'm going to wait it out.

Duke

Paul Buhler · Post by **Paul Buhler** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:11 pm

Good luck Duke. I usually start tapping Maples for sap later this week, but it's been quite cold, maybe next week. We're going from single digits to 40 degrees and rain on Friday.

Bret4207 · Post by **Bret4207** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 7:33 pm

I'm late to the party, but we've been using the 40C steady all winter long. Clutch is slipping bad and 2nd gear is about all she'll take and that's on the flat. Spend a lot of time in 1st gear but she pulls fine. Hauled out the largest Black Cherry I've ever seen this past weekend too. Over 32" at the stump! The old 40 earned it's keep!

Ray III · Post by **Ray III** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:36 pm

We got enough snow dumped on us Valentine's Day to make a dozer actually useful! When it came time to shove the snow bank over a couple days later to clean the driveway better, it was so heavy I had to climb on top and knock the upper half over (blade angled), then go back and push the rest.

I got plenty of wood stockpiled but haven't yet been able to put in a stove. Which is greatly annoying me in this weather and the so called "propane shortage."

This pic is from facebook so I am not sure it will work

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