Saying thanks for all the help I got here

[muttbarker]

So, I live in Northern Utah. I have about ¾ mile worth of road. Last winter was a disaster for me as I was new to snow, new to tractoring, new to using implements like a snowblower and blades. This site was my go to for advice on everything and anything about all these topics. The winter was brutal and included events like pulling my ATV of a snow drift with an excavator, learning that I should buy shear bolts by the pound as you can't really snow blow large mounds of ice and other fun things. Oh yeah, and you should start blowing snow when it first falls, not in late January. Though in my defense that was when the tractor and implements finally arrived.

This year I am off to a great start and just had to post a couple of pictures of good results.

Again, thanks to everyone who answered all of my dumb questions. I really appreciated all the help I got.

Kevin

 

[jimh406]

Thanks for posting an update!

 

[ctfjr]

WOW! that's a long way to blow snow!

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

That's not snow, that's a dusting! HAHAHA

Yea it pays to get ahead of the snow game.

 

[Donystoy]

Finally, someone else with over 4000 feet of driveway to clear. Not sure who has the most amount of snow though. Thank goodness we are not east of Lake Erie like Buffalo is.

 

[jimh406]

Finally, someone else with over 4000 feet of driveway to clear.

My driveway isn’t that long only about 1/4 mile, but I do about a mile of the county road that isn’t maintained by the “county”.

 

[GeoHorn]

My driveway isn’t that long only about 1/4 mile, but I do about a mile of the county road that isn’t maintained by the “county”.

Make an acquaintance out of your county commissioner.
I was given a history lesson by an old friend before he went-on to the Great Beyond… The North side of his property was bordered on a dirt road which had a curious dog-leg or “jog” in it for about 100 yds.…when it clearly had no reason for two 90-degree turns… It should have been a straight road, as no obstacle or ravine or anything at all required the abrupt change in the road direction.

In earlier times (newly settling Texas) each landowner was tasked with maintaining the road adjacent to his property …or which served only his property. The rural laws were that the landowner had to give one day a year to the county for road maintenance in addition to maintaining that road to or adjacent to his property.
There was in Coke County a man who owned land along a county road and for a long time had refused to do the work and the county commissioner instructed the sherriff to arrest the man and a gun battle broke out, lasting for several days, eventually turning into a running-gun battle. The wanted-man escaped into the night toward the next county to the North, Nolan County, where he was friends with the Nolan Co. Judge.
The road which was the dividing line between the two counties was where the sherriff finally caught-up to the wanted man and in the ensuing struggle the sherriff shot and killed the man in the road.
The sherriff suggested that Coke and Nolan counties should share the cost of the pursuit and burial since the man was killed on the county line…. but the Coke County Judge was out of touch on a cattle-drive so the Nolan Co. Judge had the county-line re-surveyed …which is why it is (no longer) a straight road…but actually makes two, short 90-degree turns… a short “jog” in the road…which placed the actual point-of-death inside Nolan County…. making the Nolan Co Judge the final authority as to the determination of death of his deceased friend….to whom he gave a respectable funeral paid for by the county….and…. the Sherriff of Coke Co. was charged with murder in Nolan Co.

And the road has a no-reason-to-exist double-90-degree turn in it.

Texas. A place of its’ own.

 

[Bugzilla46310]

Only 1200 foot driveway and it gets this deep about evert 7 years or so. NW IN just on the edge of our lake affect snow belt. Use a 54” 4 way blade. Can‘t see in the photo but about every 50 paces I put an orange fiberglass marker rod on the left side of the driveway.