Snow thread 2014

[digger]

So where's all the pics from this supposed deep snow in the N.E.???

 

[kmcconaughey]

I found one:

 

[digger]

LOL,
That's what ya call making the best of a bad situation!

 

[akleyla]

Thats what ive been waiting on too Charlie,I figured someone would have been out on their Cub cleaning snow. I would think this will give a IH some good workouts.

 

[aschumacher]

YES! Lets see some of our Cubs in action! Like with drift cutters cutting thru 5 foot drifts! Those poor people in lower Buffalo. Now they are trying to get 500 people to try to dig out their football stadeum for the weekend...good luck with that ! Someone want to hand me a hot chocolate..

 

[dschwandt]

How in the world will anyone get there to watch the game even if they get the snow out of it??

Snow shoes maybe, I guess!

 

[jlspicer]

I agree Dave! I hear they're offering $10 an hour to move snow and you get game tickets...........

Oh wait, now the game's been moved to Monday in Detroit.............No worries.

 

[dschwandt]

Maybe the wind will switch and come out of the NE.
Detroit has a lake too Ya know!! that is if it ain't empty by now!!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Still no snow removal photos?

Hope everyone that is dealing with all that snow does so safely.

 

[jlspicer]

Atleast in Detroit it's a dome so they wouldn't have to clean the stadium. Last I heard, the Bills are still trying to figure out how to get out of Buffalo.

I'm with ya on the pics Kraig. No snow here south of ya. Calling for rain all weekend and the 40's.

 

[akleyla]

Geesh,im still waiting for snow pics from the big storm....maybe everyone is just stuck inside the house and couldnt get to their cubs ?

 

[dschwandt]

Doubt if they could do much with 'em even if they could find them!!

So,you finally locate your Cub, Car or whatever.

Get it uncovered and and maybe 2 or 3' uncovered around it so you can at least get the door open & such....you are shoveling the dern snow 3-4 feet or more up over and out of the way and standing there, barely able to see over the tops of the snow banks.....

Uuhh, okay.....NOW WHAT!!!

I can't even imagine that much snow all at one time.

 

[akleyla]

I would think that as fast as it fell one would just have to keep on top of it so you wouldnt have to work so hard after it was over. At least thats what I would do. Ya can get a 2-3 hr nap in and go clean more snow,or if you have others available then you could switch off on shifts to keep working as much as possible. These IH machines were made for deep snow,so I know id have been out playing all night long. I was 8 yrs old in the 78' blizzard and I remember using the cub I have now with my grandpa who is the original owner. I would go out and clean what the wind would blow back and close his driveway and road shut again. Between cleaning home an my grandparents I was a busy one at the age of 8 and loved it as much then as I do now

 

[dschwandt]

Amy, I was in the aftermath of the big Chicago storm in '67. Wish I'd have had sense enough to have had a camera handy!!

 

[akleyla]

I need to ask mom for pictures from the blizzard of 78'. Then I need to ask who has my grandparents pictures from then as well...id like to have some for my memories as well...

67' was just 3 years before I was born,im guessing it was a bad winter then ?

 

[dschwandt]

Yes, that was a bad storm. I was driving truck for a local produce hauler and I was sent in with some of the drivers that had got caught in the storm and managed to catch a train home, abandoning their trucks where they were stuck, mostly in the south water market and Fulton market areas.

I rode with two others plus the driver in a Mack F model cabover tractor to help them dig out and get moving. It was a real mess, on a Monday morning IIRC. If you did manage to get dug out you could hardly go anywhere because the corners were all piled full of snow and a rig could hardly make the turns.

I distinctly recall getting on the EW tollway (IL rte 5, then) at Jct IL 59 and heading east, it was mosly one lane w/snow piled everywhere and cars & such buried, sticking out of the snowbanks.

 

[digger]

Amy K.
If memory serves me right, Didn't Buffalo get hammered in 1977?

 

[akleyla]

Charlie yes they did get hammered in 77' . They had a blizzard that year with lots of lake effect snow,but it wasnt as bad as this snow from what ive read.

 

[dfrisk]

DAVE S. - Chicago got hammered sometime in the 70's or early 80's too. I remember a "Snow Plow Driver" running a road grader on I-90 went BERZERK after plowing roads for 20-30 hours straight and drove over a couple cars and killed a couple people. And WHEN was the last time you saw a grader plowing snow on an Interstate?

The Q-C's got hammered pretty well in winter of '78/'79. I was peddling packages for UPS till New Years, then went back to FARMALL on 1-3-'79. By spring, the upper management of FARMALL was so happy with the fact we had NO PARTS SHORTAGES due to weather, the company took my whole department and our spouses to the Plantation for dinner one night. Table wife & I were at, total of six people, three Lobsters were ordered. Not by Me or my wife. Total party of 30 people, I suspect the total bill was over $3000 with booze and tips.

 

[fcurrier]

From Michael Horozko: