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mikoyan31

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Hey @Brent H stumbled across this thread here. Guess we're gonna be "neighbors" for values of neighbor being about an hour drive up river from you.

If you want help unloading or unpacking or shoot the sh*t with someone relatively local, let me know. Full disclosure: hoping to finally meet somoene ELSE interested in this hobby in meat space and possibly gain some knowledge via osmosis!
 
Brent H

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@mikoyan31 - that is great you are super close!!! 1 hour is nothing like the 16 plus hours I have been driving - LOL!

New shop going in hopeful on May/June - gonna be a beauty!!!

Just drove another load here yesterday- 8 ton dump trailer with my tractor, bush hog, grading blade and a bunch of steel and other shop stuff. Crazy poor weather. About 17 hours - ugh!! Unloaded today and spent 5 hours plowing the driveway.

It is encouraging to have a 6 to 7 beer drive though ;)
 
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Hey @Brent H ! Being wrapped up in my own reno's, I missed this whole thread, but I just caught up. Great updates. You are a working machine and making great progress! Congratulations on it all coming together. Looking forward to further updates!

Cheers,
Shawno
 
Brent H

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Well, that last drive was crazy shite! No plows for 200 km and it added 2 hours of white nuckling trying to stay on a whited out highway!! Arrived to about 1.5 feet of heavy snow and unpacking the tractor was necessary!!

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Got another dump last night. So the tractor was in use most of today!

Departing for the other house early tomorrow morning. Will be a quick turn around as I will load another trailer full and head back Christmas Eve. That should be the last big trailer load until spring and the full out home transition.
 
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Brent H said:
Well, that last drive was crazy shite! No plows for 200 km and it added 2 hours of white nuckling trying to stay on a whited out highway!! Arrived to about 1.5 feet of heavy snow and unpacking the tractor was necessary!!

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Got another dump last night. So the tractor was in use most of today!

Departing for the other house early tomorrow morning. Will be a quick turn around as I will load another trailer full and head back Christmas Eve. That should be the last big trailer load until spring and the full out home transition.
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Mein gott! What is all that white stuff??? :D
 
Susquatch

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Brent H said:
Got another dump last night. So the tractor was in use most of today!
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You are scaring our BC members you know....

I bought a 7ft snow blower for my loader tractor. I've never regretted it. WAAAAY better than a blade. It will put snow the snow 100 ft downwind and packs it in enough that it doesn't come back even if the wind reverses.
 
DavidR8

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Susquatch said:
You are scaring our BC members you know....

I bought a 7ft snow blower for my loader tractor. I've never regretted it. WAAAAY better than a blade. It will put snow the snow 100 ft downwind and packs it in enough that it doesn't come back even if the wind reverses.
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Strictly speaking only scaring those BC'ers in non-snow country. Inland they get mucho snow.
Back when I lived in AB I had a John Deere 828D walkbehind snowblower. Thing was amazing. If I lived in snow country I'd only have a snowblower.
 
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Brent H said:
Well, that last drive was crazy shite! No plows for 200 km and it added 2 hours of white nuckling trying to stay on a whited out highway!! Arrived to about 1.5 feet of heavy snow and unpacking the tractor was necessary!!

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Got another dump last night. So the tractor was in use most of today!

Departing for the other house early tomorrow morning. Will be a quick turn around as I will load another trailer full and head back Christmas Eve. That should be the last big trailer load until spring and the full out home transition.
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Things could be worse Brent , you could have spent $5000 on a Hawaiian winter holiday only to have it Blizzard as it is on the big Island today...bikini's with parka cover-ups.
 
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historicalarms

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I have owned snow blowers & dozers and you couldnt give me a snow blower...They are a man killer to handle unless you get at the snow the minute it quits falling (Susquatch's tractor mounted blower excuded from this rant), My 4x4 Kubota with a 4 way dozer is a breeze to run even for an old fool.
 
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