[Jason67]

Originally Posted by 72projectbird

Beautiful round eye!

Thank you!

[Chief of the 60's]

I like to stay warm 'n toasty as well as move as much as I want, where I want and do it in a Super Duty.

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by Mr Anonymous

I've not yet heard someone say "When I retire, I'm moving NORTH!!!"

I've got a friend on a Camaro board that moved to the Daytona FL area for retirement from a small town in upper NY because his wife (now ex-wife) wanted to move there. Hated Florida.

After the divorce, he moved back to NY and is much happier living there.

He has the same opinion of FL that I do. It's too hot and humid most of the year. You can always put another layer of clothing on, but they arrest you when you take too many clothes off.

[dataway]

Just a few days ago when we got a quick 8" of snow on the mountain, it was getting to be around 4pm and still no plows had come by. Neighbor stopped and told me it ran off the road or something. Other neighbor is under the weather so I did his drive, mine and another neighbor while I was waiting for the plow to go by so I could finish ... still no plow ... ended up running up and down the road with the tractor clearing our 1/4 mile ... parked in the drive waiting for the plows again.

Along comes a brand new looking 3/4 ton truck with a split plow on the front down the middle of the road and a dozen cars behind him. So some private truck owner took it upon himself to clear a path all the way up the mountain for these people to get home.

So yeah, sometimes a nice comfy big truck is the way to go. Probably used 2 gallons of fuel on the five mile trip up pushing about 8" of snow.

[Simple Man]

This is Alice, a 1972 Allis Chalmers 416Hydro. Bought the tractor several years ago for $300.00, from my friends book keeper. Ended up buying an A/C 410 in Wisconsin, to get the snowblower. Alice has the original 16HP Kohler under the hood.
Behind it is a 1973 Simplicity Landlord 3410, the first Simplicity I ever owned. Bought it from the original owner in 1987. Been repowered with an 11HP Briggs.

[dmorg1]

Transmission line failed during the first plow of the season





but I have backup







Dave

[dataway]

Had to make that same repair in the parking lot of a grocery store at night many years ago on a 72 Chevy PU. Crawled under and spliced the line with a piece of fuel line and two clamps that I scavenged off some other part of the truck. Store had a small auto section with some trans fluid. I was not happy that night.

I've called an end to winter up here. I'm fed up with the snow, not going to snow throw again. Still about two feet deep on the ground but it's going to be sunny and 49 next week with no snow in the forecast, so I'm done till next year no matter what happens, I just don't care anymore ( I reach this point about now every winter )

[Sirrotica]

I had the cooling lines fail on my 93 K3500 about 3 years ago from rust and corrosion while towing my fifth wheel camper. I did the splice and repair with high pressure hose one time only to have another portion fail. Nicopp replacements were the answer, as were all the brake lines a few years earlier. The lines will still be solid and operational when I'm gone, or the truck will be sitting in the junkyard with pristine tubing lines on it.........

Dataway, I know the feeling well late in the winter after living in Erie PA for 47 years, you get "snow fatigue" after fighting it for 3-4 months in a row.......not fun at all, especially living up on a mountain as you do. Since getting out of the lake effect zone I don't seem to get that "snow fatigue syndrome" any longer. Average of 40 inches a year is like the mildest winter I've ever seen in Erie back in the mid 80s. It was like 20 inches of snow in one season, probably a once in a lifetime phenomenon. I never even put the plow on my truck that year. Other years I was stacking snow up as high as I could with my truck as there was no longer any place to put it. The X wife took a picture of my daughter sled riding on the snow pile in the front yard, probably 10 feet high and 20 feet at the base. that was from just clearing the driveway for the season.

I notice that every plow operator down here never plans for more snow to fall after they first clear a lot or driveway. They never stack it, or move it past the edge of the pavement. That's because most times it's all melted before we get another significant snowfall. Big difference in the planning and techniques of plowing snow from what I'm used to.

[dataway]

I'm good till about 75-80" then the fatigue starts to set in, specially when it's 3 degrees out like it was last night. Getting kind of late for temps like that.

I'll recover when it hits 40 degrees the first time ... then let it snow all it wants, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

[Tellyshavilli]

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

I had the cooling lines fail on my 93 K3500 about 3 years ago from rust and corrosion while towing my fifth wheel camper. I did the splice and repair with high pressure hose one time only to have another portion fail. Nicopp replacements were the answer, as were all the brake lines a few years earlier. The lines will still be solid and operational when I'm gone, or the truck will be sitting in the junkyard with pristine tubing lines on it.........

Dataway, I know the feeling well late in the winter after living in Erie PA for 47 years, you get "snow fatigue" after fighting it for 3-4 months in a row.......not fun at all, especially living up on a mountain as you do. Since getting out of the lake effect zone I don't seem to get that "snow fatigue syndrome" any longer. Average of 40 inches a year is like the mildest winter I've ever seen in Erie back in the mid 80s. It was like 20 inches of snow in one season, probably a once in a lifetime phenomenon. I never even put the plow on my truck that year. Other years I was stacking snow up as high as I could with my truck as there was no longer any place to put it. The X wife took a picture of my daughter sled riding on the snow pile in the front yard, probably 10 feet high and 20 feet at the base. that was from just clearing the driveway for the season.

I notice that every plow operator down here never plans for more snow to fall after they first clear a lot or driveway. They never stack it, or move it past the edge of the pavement. That's because most times it's all melted before we get another significant snowfall. Big difference in the planning and techniques of plowing snow from what I'm used to.

We’re running right there next to you in Elma south of Buffalo

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by Tellyshavilli

We’re running right there next to you in Elma south of Buffalo

I'm no longer in Erie, moved from Erie in 1999, now reside about dead center between Columbus and Dayton just south of I 70, Springfield Ohio area. Much less snow here, to me just a slight annoyance compared to 4-8 inches nearly every day in Erie. Down here 2 inches of snow closes all the schools..........

[Tellyshavilli]

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

I'm no longer in Erie, moved from Erie in 1999, now reside about dead center between Columbus and Dayton just south of I 70, Springfield Ohio area. Much less snow here, to me just a slight annoyance compared to 4-8 inches nearly every day in Erie. Down here 2 inches of snow closes all the schools..........

We know how to deal with it but it does get tiring . Blizzard of 77 my dad on the HD5 with me and my brothers, 500’ of driveway 6’ deep

[Tellyshavilli]

Originally Posted by dataway

I'm good till about 75-80" then the fatigue starts to set in, specially when it's 3 degrees out like it was last night. Getting kind of late for temps like that.

I'll recover when it hits 40 degrees the first time ... then let it snow all it wants, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

Over here in Elma just east of Buffalo we’re over 80 inches this year and yes I know the fatigue . But I have been keeping about 1-1/2 miles of trails open for hiking.

[Tellyshavilli]

Here’s a picture of what showed up on one of our trail cameras last night

[dataway]

Looking forward to checking our cam, it's been out there since Christmas, neighbors had some coyotes on theirs, and one bear (late last year).

We seem to have paused at 76", typically we can expect another 12-24" in March, and often 6" or so in April ... but I'm feeling an early spring coming on.

So far it's been an absolutely unremarkable winter up here, temps and snow pretty much completely average, no surprises.

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by Tellyshavilli

We know how to deal with it but it does get tiring . Blizzard of 77 my dad on the HD5 with me and my brothers, 500’ of driveway 6’ deep

77/78, that was a helluva year, we had 144 inches that year. First year I owned the garage/service station you can see in the background in the first picture I posted, with the Jeep truck with a 455 in it. I was glad to see spring come that year.......LOL

I had customers that did commercial snow removal and they broke about every part you can break on a plow truck. I was welding a plow up on a customers truck on Christmas eve, and was supposed to be at my X inlaws house that evening. So we were late, X wife was pissed off beyond belief.........Oh well, that's why she's an X wife......

[Tellyshavilli]

I’m thinking Buffalo got just over 170 inches of snow that winter Here’s a picture about a mile up the road from my house in Elma January 77 ,my brother and his future wife this is the main road under all the snow. AP picked up this picture and it went cross the country on newspapers

[Tellyshavilli]

It was almost 3 weeks before most of the area was dug out From the blizzard of 77! Here’s another picture from the front of our house yes that’s a 73 pinto wagon and our Doberman.

[ErikW]

This

[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by Tellyshavilli

I’m thinking Buffalo got just over 170 inches of snow that winter Here’s a picture about a mile up the road from my house in Elma January 77 ,my brother and his future wife this is the main road under all the snow. AP picked up this picture and it went cross the country on newspapers

You forgot about Snowvember 2014 when Buffalo got 7 to 8 feet of snow in one shot.

I went to a Sabres game and the streets were like driving through tunnels. Most of the time you either saw no stop signs or just the top of them.