The topic of snowplowing came up a few days ago in a work meeting with a client in southern California, where they were getting snow for the first time in about three or more decades. I jokingly offered to put my “snow rig” on a trailer and send it out to him. As I told that story later to some friends, they asked about my “snow rig”. Here it is. My tractor is a 40 horsepower John Deere 4044R, a …
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The roads to our house is 1.7 miles long, from pavement to our dooryard. My neighbor and I are basically the only two humans that perform any sort of maintenance on it. Another young fellow helps out with some repairs when it gets bad but his job prevents him from doing much of anything in terms of snow removal and related tasks, so that leaves it to two old geezers. We split the cost of what we thought was a …