Snow blower

[BIGNASTY]

Has Possibilities when it gets to deep but just dont know about 2 kinds of HP :-laf

 

[mwilson]

Has Possibilities when it gets to deep but just dont know about 2 kinds of HP :-laf

Just don't aim the chute at the livestock... ... ...



Mike.

 

[GCroyle]

No clue if that is store bought or home built, but sure hope it has an instant dead man saftey switch or a cage to keep him on the cart and not feeding the auger if he slipped or something and the team keeps pulling.



BIG, we had almost an inch of snow this weekend, melted before all the beer got bought up (blue laws still in effect) fed several pounds of sunflower seed to a mess of hungry finches and the like. At one point the flakes were so big, you heard them hit the ground! Later got out the solar snow dissipator and that was that.

 

[Axtell3]

That looks Amish. Maybe have some exposed belts just for thrills. I can't imagine what a slip would do to a guy.

 

[BIGNASTY]

That looks Amish. Maybe have some exposed belts just for thrills. I can't imagine what a slip would do to a guy.

Yes it is Amish Mr Axtell another site I belong to had this, I believe the Gentleman is from WI snow looks about right for WI :-laf, Ya I dont think that I would want to fall into the auger of that, My team really dont like motors and noise so if I fired that up BEHIND them we would for sure get the plowing done IN ONE HELL OF A HURRY!!!! :-laf



BIG

 

[mwilson]

Has Possibilities when it gets to deep but just dont know about 2 kinds of HP :-laf

I wonder just how far that will throw the inevitable horse turd???? At the least they would be fresh... ...



Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I wonder just how far that will throw the inevitable horse turd???? At the least they would be fresh... ...



Mike.

:-laf:-laf:-laf:-laf :You and the wife think alike :-laf:-laf:-laf

She said that Earl would stop it dead with one of his landmines

He's healthy!!!!!:-laf



BIG

 

[BIGNASTY]

From up nearer to you Mike,



Morgan Vermont

 

[GCroyle]

Must be the city slicker coming out in me today, fall off of that and you're a snowman in a bad way. Why not have the cockpit on the backside of the wheel and sorta stand over the wheel to drive? Whoa Nellliiee! Never mind.

 

[GCroyle]

Yes it is Amish Mr Axtell another site I belong to had this, I believe the Gentleman is from WI snow looks about right for WI :-laf, Ya I dont think that I would want to fall into the auger of that, My team really dont like motors and noise so if I fired that up BEHIND them we would for sure get the plowing done IN ONE HELL OF A HURRY!!!! :-laf

BIG

I think this gets a bit regional perhaps, but the Amish communities that we saw in OH didn't use air tires. Steel wheels with rubber treads fastened on, seen that a lot. But me thinks very regional and interpreted. No expert here.

 

[BigPapa]

Not Amish.

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[BIGNASTY]

This is NOT me but have and use one just like it, I MUCH PREFER the more quiet, more gentle way to watch the sun come up and plow at the same time


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp93rtNLKY4


BIG PAPA

Why the Pope hat I wonder??? if those things get away from ya not even the Pope is going to save his A**

 

[BigPapa]

See a resemblance?

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[Axtell3]

Yes it is Amish Mr Axtell another site I belong to had this, I believe the Gentleman is from WI snow looks about right for WI :-laf, Ya I dont think that I would want to fall into the auger of that, My team really dont like motors and noise so if I fired that up BEHIND them we would for sure get the plowing done IN ONE HELL OF A HURRY!!!! :-laf



BIG

Our horses would be trying to get as far as they could from that man eater.

I'd say it's generally a horse thing.

 

[Axtell3]

I think this gets a bit regional perhaps, but the Amish communities that we saw in OH didn't use air tires. Steel wheels with rubber treads fastened on, seen that a lot. But me thinks very regional and interpreted. No expert here.

The steel wheel group I believe are Menonites. They can use tractors etc. as long as the steel wheels are in place. I guess I don't understand the nuances here. Amish I think can use gas powered tools, but not powerd vehicles, tractors etc.

 

[JR]

The Amish in our area primarily use steel wheels for everything. Occasionally you will see something with a rubber tire but not very often. Up until 3 years ago we used to live across the road from an Amish family. They have a small farm just enough to sustain themselves and all their equipment is old school all mechanical. They put up a windmill 4 or 5 years ago to pump water from their pond up to the barn and their house. Until then they had an old well they had to pump everything they needed for themselves and their livestock and haul it to the barn or the house. They have a saw mill with a dt466 engine powering 2 saw blades. One for ripping and one for cutting to length. They would get contracts with a few different companies that would drop loads of timber off and they would rough cut them down to whatever size boards were requested. The trucks would unload the logs on a big hill and the Amish would roll them down hill with picks one at a time to a large table with rollers where they could push the logs into the saw mill. Occasionally I would help them out with loads of rough cut boards they would need hauled to their fellow Amish communities. They were a hard working family kept themselves clean and representable, and always offered to pay me nicely every time they asked for a favor. I got along with them very well and everyone they ever introduced me too. I admire their work ethics and discipline they were always up bopping around the farm in the dark with their miners lights when I would leave for work at 5 am and would often see them out until late in the evening.

 

[BIGNASTY]

The steel wheel group I believe are Menonites. They can use tractors etc. as long as the steel wheels are in place. I guess I don't understand the nuances here. Amish I think can use gas powered tools, but not powerd vehicles, tractors etc.

We talk to a Guy that is Amish in Lancaster Pa he said that he is going to come to the horse Progress day in IL. to meet with the wife and I, his wife and mine talk also. I asked how are you going to get there? in their branch, parish, group or what ever they call it they can use a car but CANT OWN IT!!! so they will rent a car to go the the Horse Progress days and then come up to MT to see Glacier Nat Park and visit with us. They contact us by computer and Phone but they go to the library in town to use them because they cant own them either.

The wife and I have talked about it I dont think it would be a VERY BIG JUMP for us to live their life style, I dont know anything about their beliefs but the plain,simple life is appealing to us.

BIG

 

[Wygate]

From up nearer to you Mike,



Morgan Vermont

That is a Finnish tactic, Panking the Hinky Lunta (Finn for Mr snow), vice moving it. Very big during the 1900s in the UP of MI. In the Keweenaw peninsula some of the home's had a second story door just because they got so much snow, 34' the record winter, man do I miss living there.