On Jan 1, 12:13*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

Just came in from doing the driveway. *Got a little over a foot this
time. Wind is just blowing it all back to where I've plowed, so I quit.

The pictures you see of our driveway are a bit deceiving. *There is quite
a steep hill coming up from the horse barn to the house. *If it's not
plowed, the snow packs down into ice and it becomes very slippery.

Here's the driveway section I was referring to:

http://www.eisboch.com/Jan1snow3.jpg

When that freezes, it's slide-on-your-ass-down-to-the-barn-time. *Also,
notice that I even plowed Mrs.E's horse riding track in the paddock. *The
little Gator does pretty good for having a little 20 hp engine. It was
pushing snow about 16 inches deep:

http://www.eisboch.com/Jan1snow2.jpg

This morning was the first time in 7 years that the tractor (diesel)
wouldn't start. * It was 5 degrees and it just couldn't turn over fast
enough to fire. *Needs a new battery.

Eisboch

I got cold looking at those!