What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[RCW]

This came up in my wife’s memories from 12/17/2020. Was about 0500 in the morning.

I remember I had quite a bit of seat time on the Kubota that morning….. had blown 4-6” before I went to bed.

Forecast was 12-18” as I recall…..

Oliie wasn't going out to go potty through that.....

 

[DustyRusty]

5" of snow and my wife's dog doesn't want anything to do with it. He is a 5-pound Yorkie.

 

[g_man]

^^^^Poor little guy

 

[Old_Paint]

5" of snow and my wife's dog doesn't want anything to do with it. He is a 5-pound Yorkie.

Can’t say I blame him. More than 1” around here makes the stoopid start oozing out of folks who have never driven in snow before. I don’t claim to be an expert on the matter, but I am smart enough to know that A) we rarely get snow without a sheet of frozen rain under it and B) a good/safe driver becomes insignificant pretty quickly on ice that is mistaken for snow.

I live in the South for a reason, and annual snowfall was not part of the equation. I just stay home any morning that I can’t see dry pavement with any sighting of the white stuff since the last time the temperature dropped below 40F. No point in adding to or becoming part of the chaos and calamity that comes from being in a place that has never seen a snow plow while all the experts are finding out what snow actually is in Alabama.

 

[S-G-R]

Blew some snow and managed to suck one of my wife's metal yard decorations into the blower fan and stalled the tractor. Got it out with minimal effort and continued on.

 

[DustyRusty]

That little dog is tough and doesn't mind the cold. It is just the snow that bothers him if it is higher than his underbelly.
As for driving in snow, I used to be a tow truck driver and had to go out no matter what the weather. I am also a retired EMT (we weren't called that when I started) and once again, we had to go out no matter what the weather. The ambulances were equipped with studded snow tires and we put chains on if the roads weren't plowed or it was still snowing when the call came in. I clearly remember one Easter Sunday that came late that year and an unexpected blizzard also blew in (winter of 1968-1969). All the town trucks had removed the snowplows and the roads were heavily covered. Our 2 ambulances were the only thing moving that day, and more than once we had to take calls one after the other. One dual call was a slip and fall that came in first and the other was a heart attack. We explained to the person who had an arm fracture that the heart attack patient took priority and while they were already onboard, we had to make the second stop for that patient. It turned out that the suspected heart attack was very mild and both were in the ER at the same time. Back then we didn't have an unlimited number of available ambulances like there are today.