Tractor Plowing First Snow of a Minnesota Winter
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2016
- My neck of the woods received what looked like around 14" of the worst heavy wet snow there is. With falling temperatures, I wanted to make certain I had access to get into my slash piles so I can burn them this winter, and so off I went.
Later I slid off my trail and got good and stuck. I spent the next twenty minutes apprehensively trying to weasel my way out. Eventually I did get free but I blow a hose in on my plow losing directional control in the process.
I was lucky to get home.
Backstory.
What really happened is that I've been busting my butt trying to get as much material together into three slash piles to burn this winter all at once like I did last year.
The 14" snow we had was nothing but super wet, sticky hard to plow, and slippery. Nobody in their right mind is traveling anywhere and it had drifted over 2' high in many places. In my tractor I fell off the road once on my way over to my slash piles and got stuck in a ditch. I tipped my plow down and used it as a lever to slowly inch my way straight back up and out of the ditch.
I plowed out several neighbor driveways along the way.
And so it got dark, but I finally got to my new property and busied myself plowing access to my slash piles.
There is a bend in my main access road and last winter I thought, gee, wouldn't it be nice if I banked that corner a little so I wouldn't slide to the outside in the winter.
So this past summer, I did just that and put a slight bank into the corner.
Tonight while plowing, my plow caught that slight bank and followed it to the low point and I slid down next to a tree that caught itself between my front and rear wheels on the left side. I was unable to back my tractor up with trees behind me and unable to travel forward and to the right because I was stuck. Differential lock. Nope, stuck. Rocking back and forth. Nope, stuck.
Once I realized I really was stuck, several thoughts ran through may mind:
I left my chains at home 'cause I don't need them because I'm plowing. D'oh!
I don't have a key to get into my container to get out my 5-ton come-along and winch myself out because the keys are back home so I won't lose them in the snow. D'oh!
I may end up leaving my tractor and walking out. Double D'oh!
So while I freaked out a little, I hit on the idea of levering up the front of the tractor with my plow, while trying to get the plow to windrow to the right. My plow has a blow-off valve to protect itself from hits and wasn't super cooperative, but eventually I was able to windrow while holding the right brake, and trying to move forward and the entire tractor levered over to the right, away from the lousy tree, and then a hose on my plow blew because the blowoff valve was never meant to try to hold up the front end of 8400 pounds while also being fed pressure to window.
Without directional control of my plow, I was done.
On the way home, a mile and a half from my home, right where I had slid off the road there was a car and a truck stuck that had apparently been following in the trail I had made on my way out and I nearly got stuck there again driving around them.
When I got home, a neighbor told me on Facebook that two of our friends had gotten stuck with their plow trucks tonight. I count myself lucky to have made it home with my gimped plow. - Фільми й анімація
Ouch!
Stuck and another word that sounds like it came to mind!
I am glad you returned safely.....!
That was one heck of a snow fall we got. Great video!!!!
I love rural life!
The getting stuck and getting out would have been a good video to share with us. That would have been the best part of thr trip.
UA-cam like drama, I know, but I was too busy trying to get unstuck and it was dark outside and I needed both hands. I still don't have the kind of camera equipment to video that sort of thing.
I must say I kind of... just kind of, miss the snow after moving half way south.. It is so.... pretty from inside the cab of an awesome tractor.. HOWEVER, you can still keep it!!! LOL! Now, watch the video I'm about to put up about what I've got to deal with down here!!! NASTY, wet and slick-as-ice clay!! :(. Good work Eric!Kapper
hello.I love Minnesota. i am from Azerbaijan..Baku sity..super video )))
Hello Azerbaijan..Baku city!
I just found your channel and love it! I'm in Rhode Island, and we don't usually see the amount of snow you guys do. Two years ago we got 108.5"!!!! A record.
My experience with my Kioti sliding sideways and backwards made me a firm believer in tire chains for the tractor. I like your videos and music. .....................................Ken from central Pa.
Great video I see this and it reminds me of when I lived in Maine, we had many storms like this storm you just had.
Very nice, wish we had this much snow here!
Please keep the snow there. Thanks for sharing the video.
up here in northern BC we're finally getting snow. I love winter.
Man i wish Southern Minnesota would get some snow
Glens Falls NY says HI ..and carry on!
Wow that is so beautiful, we never get snow here in Ireland : )!
Man I miss Minnesota at this time of year.
My favorite season is fall, but I like snow. The trouble is winter gets so cold so quick we that don't get much snow until spring.
Ya, that first storm last month caught us all by surprise I think. I got my diesel stuck out on 18 about a mile from Dorset that weekend --right smack in the middle of the road with the trans locked between gears.
Where you able to jostle the linkage from the underside and get the transfer case shifted?
such a late in the year snow!
No snow in Iowa yet, but ready for spring, once temps fall below 50 at night. Lol
Holly cow can I put a tree stand up in those woods first snow 14" yicks wish Ohio would get that much. Cool video for sure
If you do a lot of heavy plowing at an angle, keep an eye on your frame brackets for cracking with the side stress. Glad you got unstuck!
Good advice.
glad your able to get back home...Start to carry extra fuel, water, food, CB radio, etc...
I prefer the cold weather. In winter and fall you can always put layers of clothes on but in summer months, you can only strip down to few layers and still be too dang hot. Yep, cold months are preferred. Full-watch.
16 inches of snow on top of 3 inches of slush on top of mud north of Duluth. Now with the rain it's almost all gone. The mud is still there though. Good luck getting those brush likes started.
Knocked it out right away. ua-cam.com/video/zE-3KBmQ2GE/v-deo.html
But now we're all concerned about our septic systems freezing up because of all the ground water that soaked into the ground.
Wish it was like this in England...:-))
here in northwestern Ontario lots of guys take an old skidded and replace the blade with a one way snowplow blade. Lots of power and if you get stuck you have the winch at the back
no snow in northern wisco yet. funny how its working out considering Mn and Mi got hit pretty good already
this is why everyone moves to Florida in the winter
There is a reason more snowbirds head south in the fall than there are people from the south heading north in the spring. July fourth through mid-September can be a real bear but not like this. Advantages and disadvantages everywhere.
It doesn't look like the plow is sliding snow off to the sides,was it sticking to the Plow? Would slicone sprayed on the plow helped.Really nice tractor and cab.
There is a big rubber snow guard that runs along the top of my plow. Plowing this much snow and that snow guard makes a shelf where snow can just sit there making it look like snow isn't rolling. However in several places this wet snow didn't want to roll all that well but for the most part, the snow rolled way better than I expected.
You must be north and/or west of the Twin Cities. St.Paul got about 4" of heavy wet snow which is now gone. I have about 2000 feet of driveway to plow and blow with two big Toro garden tractors. 1000 feet of it we give up if the winter gets nasty as a flat field is west of it with nothing to stop the wind.
I'm just south of Bemidji, west of Walker.
Who makes your plow? I need one just like that
It is a Hiniker Big Ox 2008 plow that I got out of Big Rig Truck Accessories 402-332-4833 in Nebraska. It is a great plow, but I hate the skid steer quick attach plate.
You sure could use a Bandwagen.
Same but now in Texas so no snow for me😭
In CT, of course, we don't get nearly as cold, but we get our share of snow due to the proximity of the Atlantic. I've gone to chains on all four corners, mostly because of the hills. I was surprised how successful you are plowing without them. Is that cab video a factory option?
Yes, the cab is a factory option. All four of my tires are loaded with Rim Guard as ballast.
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With that much snow, I would have used the snowblower to clear the majority of it. I would suck backing up, but it sure make it easier clearing that much snow at once.
With this kind of set-up with a plow in front, and a blower in back, when ever possible to use, the plow is way, way faster. The blower gets used to push back banks, or in places where there isn't any room to push snow, but the snow can by blown out of the way. This tractor has a backup camera in it for long periods of blowing.
Has a lot of that snow melted? We didn't really get any south of the Twin Cities.
None of it. Thus far it has turned to ice.
what manufacturer for the plow?? any special hook up requirement??
Thank you...looks like I need this setup myself
This an 8' Hiniker plow with a Skid Steer Quick Attach (SSQA) plate so as to mount on any SSQA compatible loader, track or skid steer. www.hiniker.com/snow_products/skid-steer-conventional.html
Thanks Eric. Very useful info. keep more videos coming throughout the winter.
Dude you need a snowblower on that thing... I just put one on my front loader and a ten foot high drift can't stop me now.... sure it's slow but I just set the throttle and sit back and enjoy the not getting stuck and not having any damn windrows to deal with....
I have a snowblower mounted on this tractor. The blower is a McKee Snowlander 720, a twin auger, 30" high, 84" wide, Cat 1 & 2, with a 27" impeller mounted in a 8" drum. ua-cam.com/video/907FXKmzqO0/v-deo.html
now take a pic theres not much if any here in MN it was raining all day today
Got snow in Ontario
How is that Korean tractor working out?
Ram-n_dodge kimbo slice
lol
im from central europa and we still dont haw snow it is -5c
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hello from the united kingdom, was the five miles on your own property?
Hello from Minnesota, where we have another whiteout storm happening right now. I wanna say that it is just over five-and-a-half miles of county roads between my house and the slash pile property.
Cool, that's a lot of ploughing! Don't forget your keys this time, perhaps prepare an emergency box
Doesn't look anywhere near 14" of snow, probably closer to 6-8 inches though at 0:44 it doesn't even look 6 inches deep.
That is the thing about snow: it blows around. There where places where I was going through a little snow and other places where I was going through over two feet of snow. Winter storm Argos dumped 12" 20 miles to my west, 25" 20 miles to my south, and 18" 20 miles to my north.
EricTheOracle Those are called drifts.
What the preferred liquor in Minnesota?
Snowshoe Grog which is 50% peppermint schnapps and 50% brandy.
Egads!! LOL!.
EricTheOracle hahahahah ha funny hmm
DesertDigger1
Lil Yachty brought me here lmao
that is illegal to travel on public roads with those
It is legal. I cannot exceed 6,000 pounds per tire or travel over 25 mph. www.extension.umn.edu/food/small-farms/safety/implements-of-husbandry-safety/
Music junked video
I always wondered the kinda person that would keep the wood they heat there house with away from the house, you have all summer to do something with it but wait till it snows? Now I know why " up north " is considered the meth capital of Minnesota
I heat with propane, not with wood. A slash pile is a mess of unwanted wood. In this case, I'm cleaning up a property that was logged off 15-20 years ago. The slash piles will be burned in the winter so as to prevent a forest fire from lighting up when 8' high 100 foot wide piles of combustable miscellany are set on fire. The snow and cold keep the fire from spreading which is why we prefer to burn slash piles in the winter.
Touché
This would have been great without the music
I've got plenty of snow clearing videos without music in my snow plowing playlist. Try this video. ua-cam.com/video/63QwYLzTfF8/v-deo.html
WTF....You need to move! I hope you work from home.
boring