Winter chat and bs thread...
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It depends how much wider the quad is. It is best to be inside the width of the blade, but just a shade wide can be worked with. Or loader tractor is actually currently set too wide, and is wider than the bucket. It makes a little more work, as the wheels run on the edges of the area cleared, so you have to go over that again, and it takes a bit more to get it all pushed, but really not much worse than a proper width setup would do. Now if it is considerably different, then it will be an issue. I need to lay a tape across it to be sure what the dim's are, and there are ways to add to it...
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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
Howdy, everybody... the sun shined nicely today, doncha think? I actually got a few things done outside and did'nt freeze doing it.
51 days til spring? Hell, I can do that pushing a rock uphill.
51 days til spring? Hell, I can do that pushing a rock uphill.
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had a little excitment here in town this morning
Train Derails In Chariton - Des Moines News Story - KCCI Des Moines
Train Derails In Chariton - Des Moines News Story - KCCI Des Moines
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50 Today...LOL
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And the question was asked...LOL
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Off to work. I really can't complain a lot about the weather, sure, a bit cool, but lack of wind makes it tolerable. It is winter in the Midwest, gotten adjusted to it enough that 40's will feel like t-shirt weather...
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well, it quit snowing 
but that is probably a good thing....this isnt the fun snow for driving, and I saw three accidents along the interstate yesterday all in a 45 time frame....one poor little girl lost the whole front of her car to a semi.....she was standing outside waiting for the guys to put her on the stretcher to get her checked out....sad little thing was a very lucky lady.......when I say she lost the front end to a semi.....I seriously mean the front of her car was shaved off all the way to the windshield, engine compartment GONE!
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but that is probably a good thing....this isnt the fun snow for driving, and I saw three accidents along the interstate yesterday all in a 45 time frame....one poor little girl lost the whole front of her car to a semi.....she was standing outside waiting for the guys to put her on the stretcher to get her checked out....sad little thing was a very lucky lady.......when I say she lost the front end to a semi.....I seriously mean the front of her car was shaved off all the way to the windshield, engine compartment GONE! G
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It isn't sometimes as much the snow as the poor driving skills, especially in areas not used to getting much of it. I deal with plenty around here that can't figure out how to handle the less than perfect roads. Must have had an accident one morning when I was headed to class a week or so ago, and they re-routed us onto some gravel roads that were completely ice covered, and these idiots were hitting their brakes on the downhill slopes, I guess they WANTED a rear end tag.... we were already going 35 mph, and the ice had sleet in it, which gives a decent texture to keep traction on. Had it been smooth ice, they either would have lost it, or the car behind them would have through trying to avoid their stupid *****... we were all in a line behind these people, so you can imagine hove quickly that would have gone bad...