Don White wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:32:19 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Boater" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"John H" wrote in message
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We've not had any snow which covered the ground, yet. Lots of wind
yesterday, buy only about four flakes of snow.

BTW, have you tried adding chains and weight to the Gator for snow
removal?

Traction isn't a problem with the Gator. It has four wheel drive, a
high and low gear range, plus you can lock the rear differential.
With
the wide, soft tires, it actually has much better traction in snow and
on ice than the bigger tractor.

The limitation is the size, particularly the height of the plow.
When
the snow gets over 12 inches, it starts to pile up and over the plow
instead of being pushed to the left or right, depending on how you set
it's angle.

Eisboch

You need a full size dump truck with chains and a vee-plow...

Last night I downloaded the newest version of Google Earth. It's
pretty
cool. It even has a Flight Simulator mode that I was fooling around
with
for hours.

Turns out I was a bit off on my earlier estimate of the length of our
driveway(s) that I plow.
Google Earth has a "ruler" function where you can fairly accurately
measure distances in miles, meters, yards, feet, inches, etc. I used
the
"path" mode (sums a bunch of cumulative measurements) and measured the
total length of the driveways. They total 815 feet long by an average
of
15 feet wide. That's a lot of snow to move with a Gator.

Eisboch
If you don't want to buy a heavy duty plowing vehicle, build a small 12' x
20' garage right at the foot of your driveway to store one of your
vehicles
for the winter.

Damn Don, you think out of the box.

--Vic

Thank you..thank you very much!
When I lived outside the city , on the fringe of the snowbelt area, I would
keep my car at the bottom of my driveway about 80 feet below the house.
A lot easier on me during the heavy snowfalls when 3 foot drifts were
common.
I also had a pair of snowshoes for 'breaking a trail' around the house.



I don't think it was a compliment, dummy.