That is a lot of snow buddy. Nice to see that you were prepared to sit around the house for a couple of days with out power. Tractors are awesome. -John
I am originally from Charlottetown. I am in Vancouver now since early 70's. It's unbelievable when we get a little rain; people complain. I keep thinking and telling them to think about the rest of the country and what they are going through. People need to appreciate the rain..we live in a rain forest here; We have amazing flora and fauna and such beauty and a really amazing climate. STOP complaining about the wonderful rain we have.
I love your accent. I am from Boston, Massachusetts and we experienced that same February storm systems as you. What a nightmare trying to navigate through the city streets for a couple of weeks while everyone was trying to remove the snow, and no, we could not dump it into the ocean directly due to all of the rock salt, sand etc mixed in. There were still piled up mountains in early May! Ahhh, the good old days. 😉
I lived right outside of Boston on Hanscom Air Force Base and I remember in 2014 we got a huge blizzard that went up to about 4-6 feet, and it lasted about 2 weeks, but I loved it a lot and I do wish I can visit Massachusetts again, especially Boston.
I remember 1966, sliding down hill off the roof of the house, digging snow out away from the windows so we could get daylight in the house, we dug out a path to the barn and made a tunnel thru two snow drifts, best part was no school for 4 days. I was prayin' for more!! Oswego county, upstate new York.
I remember 66, in MB we used the IH TD-6 crawler to go get feed for the cattle. sliding off hay shed roof about 12 feet deep in that spot. BTW GOT my firetruck from Oswego IL
Wow that is so severe, but you sounded calm and took it all in your stride. I see yuo needed that equipment!! Thanks for sharing. Loved how the dogs were happy and also stayed at distance when needed. I had to put a jumper on by the end of the video :)
Yeah that winter it seemed to snow every Wednesday and there was a mime going around that said some people would call this snowmageddon but around here we call it Wednesday... Thankfully there hasn't been a winter as bad as that since...
Lorne - I’ll pony up the dissenting vote re transitions. I love ‘em! It’s 12:59 a.m. in February and I’m up watching videos of people blowing snow. I’m not looking for high art here. Your video is friendly, folksy, and inviting. (I’m not sure what it is about these snow blowing vids, but they’re sure fun!) Thanks.
This reminds me of my days living in Mayville and Charlotte, NY. I remember in '66 when I was living in Mayville how we were dumped with 54" of accumulation and the drifting on top of that made it so we had to duck to walk under the power lines because the snow was almost to the top of the utility poles. I lived in Charlotte, NY a couple decades later and quite often my kids and I would sled out our second story windows. We lived way off the road, back in the woods and the nearest town was about 19 miles away as well. If not for having a '79 F350 on 48" Firestone tractor tires I would have never been able to leave the house.
Thanks Biff, I watch your channel religiously your message was hidden away and I did not see it until today, snowblowers do help a bit... I love your new shop.
Guess why all major towns in Japan are located on the east coast? Because the west coast gets 2 metres of wet snow on a regular basis, which hampers urban development. To see it, simply search on TH-cam for this video title: 空から見たよ 八甲田雪の回廊 【MMD初音ミク】 Decolator
Got a shopping list started Lorne ? Now, no. 1. Buy more fuel cans. No. 2, Buy more fuel, for the generator AND the tractor. No. 3, buy a cab for the tractor,.....and so on. I too have a tractor like yours ( almost ) but my dear wife took pity on me and paid for the cab for it. I too, have the blower on the rear and the plow on the front. You can't beat it for when the snow does this to us, hey ? Good video, by the way.
This is why I have two snowmobiles, and trailers for both as well. I'm in Central Pennsylvania, right in the snowbelt that reaches up out of West Virginia. We don't get many big dumpers, but when we do, fetching supplies is no problem, if need be.
Al Michaels LOL! If you say so! I guess I'll try finding another explanation as to why I have snow, while 25 miles East and West of me often doesn't have any. By the way, had the sled out for several days now, and they are still mowing grass in Altoona.
Al Michaels No big! It's mostly due to the high elevation change between lower Altoona to the East, and Blairsville to the West. They call it the Allegheny Front, Allegheny Plateau, and/or The Laurel Highlands here. It's only around 1000 feet higher than surrounding topography, but it plays a big part in air uplift, temperature dropping below the dewpoint, and precipitating out over the area. Don't worry though. I know you guys up there get it way worse than we ever do. You have to be batshit crazy to live in Buffalo in the winter. :-D
Good day from Ont. Canada Boy that video was something else. Yrs. ago in middle 80's we got something like that. The real reason subbing is to see what weather is like. We live in Kitchener Waterloo area 100 klms. from Toronto. We had neighbors moving down there buying farms. They are Mennonite group & also Amish group. Thanks for now.
Whelp! I'll never complain about getting 5 inches of snow ever again. Nor complain about having to remove it. Nope!!! Never again will I complain..nope nope nope.
You’re located just south of us. We’ve had a few difficult winters in the past although nowadays it’s a walk in the park. Oh yeah this is coming from Alaska USA baby.
I got snowed in at my place in south central Montana last year, February of 2019. My Ford 3000 diesel tractor with a rear blade could not deal with it. The hydraulics froze up and could not raise the blade to dump the snow load, a real show stopper, could not go forward or reverse over the pile in front of the blade. Lucky for me I have good neighbors and two of them showed up, one with a small cat skid steer and another with a plow on the front of his truck and got me cleared out after two weeks. Lucky I had a stash of wood by the front door because I was not able to get to my wood pile. Lesson learned. I sold my 2011 Camaro SS with 14,000 miles on the clock last summer and bought my own John Deere 318D skid steer so now I am ready hopefully. Plenty of fuel for both the Ford and the John Deere on hand. I have a plow blade and a bucket for the John Deere. I don’t miss the Camaro one bit because I was afraid to drive it due to 4 miles of rock and dirt road just to get to the highway from my house. My driveway is 1/8th of a mile long from the dirt road to the house which is also dirt and gravel. That was the first time I had been snowed in here and I hope that will be the last time.
Friendly suggestion, when I grew up in the country on North Central Illinios we would push the snow aways pass were we needed to just incase the winds pick up and blow it back in... Even now in Michigan we blow farther out then need be... we can only blow so high until the snowblower is worthless as a blade..
It's not too often, where we get those kind of snows here in Pennsylvania. We do once in a while, but not too often. When we do, traffic doesn't move at all.
Wow, quite a lil storm there. Did I hear you say you are in P.E.I.?...loved my visit there years ago..in JULY! 👍 Kudos to you for having all your own resources. Makes one think ahead a bit more for future storms if that’s becoming the norm there..?? I have noticed the coast hast really had their share of rough weather the last couple years. FYI, I’m in Northwestern Ontario on top of Lake Superior...we get ours from time to time but not that common. All the best to you, the wife and fur family.👍👋👋👋..gettin ready for the season now.
+CourtnRob Yup the snow was packed up tight, they had a plow and the electric crew following the blower, but the plow could not get up our hill behind the blower and they had to bring out a bigger one..... For most storms the speedplows work well, this storm was big...
is the wood heat your backup? i have oil heat, and a fireplace, fireplace i use for backup and / or if i just want a little extra warmth. i do have my furnace so i can run it off a gen.
I lived that CRAP in Vt, right on the Canadian Border ... Move to NC and love it. ABSOLUTELY HATE SNOW ... yeah yeah yeah ... real pretty I know ... try living in it ! I well remember those "white caps" in the snow banks and packed down so hard that our town 6 wheel drive Cat Grader got STUCK right in front of our house ..... SCREW THAT NOISE ... and then we can talk about COLD >>>>>> OHHHHHH HELLLLLL NO !! If you like -40 with high winds, my brother has a nice house to sell you on Lake Champlain !! Enjoy !!! LOL !!
damn thats a lot of snow. we dont get that much hehe, and im not too far from the north pole haha. but did upgrade the snow clearing equipment this year with a 4x4 tractor with a blower. 77 mod international harvester 633 :)
When you ran out of fuel I'm just curious why you didn't use the generator in your motorhome doesn't it have a generator in it you could of used for power or was it not wired up so you could use it?
+mrtowmonster When I set up the electrics, I thought "this is great I can use the motor-home gen set..." Sadly it does not supply 220v that I need for the pump at the bottom of the 250ft well.
We had a 1/4 mile long snowdrift up past the school bus windows in places. Drifts so hard a full size 60's Chevy wagon could drive on them. We got 7 days off school before the snow blower made it out that far.
I started to count the number of times the word Yaaa was said, I lost count cuz I was just laughing so hard. There is nothing like the great Canadian winters, about 15 years ago we were hit with 14.6 feet of snow for the season, funny thing is the heat bill dropped that year. Whod have known the snow was natures way of insulating. PEI really looks gorgouse, Im in eastern Ontario.
Living in an area subject to conditions like that, one would think you'd be better prepared. 55 gal drums of fuel and or a vehicle capable of traversing deep snow. You can, if necessary patch you RVs genny into your house power. your RV has much larger fuel tanks so you can run longer. you can also disconnect your RV gennys fuel line and run it to your portable genny if your RVs genny isn't powerful enough. That wouldn't be my first choice though. I've been thorough several snowy winters so I bought a genny capable of running two homes and I always keep gas and diesel on hand in the winter as town is 10 miles on a one lane multi directional road that crosses a one lane bridge built in 1867. Yes 1867, the county rebuilds it every Sommer. Needs to say I believe in being prepared.
Yup, the gen set is now hooked up to the house electrics, so no more extension cords and I have more fuel on hand....if needed the RV is full with 300 liters of fuel on board. The RV genset does not put out the 220v that is required for the water well and the Heat pumps. The champion generator does. Thanks...
You are welcome Lorne, if you have any thoughts of upgrades and have questions feel free to ask. If I can't assist there are plenty of us out here with opinions. good luck
Thanks for your concern, the Gen set is in the shop (unheated) and not attached to the house. While the gen set is running I leave the main door open so there is lots of fresh air. No humans or animals live in the shop.
So far so good, we had a power outage last summer that was perhaps 3 hours and then this one was 29 hours. Our water well draws 240v so we have a 240v line that feeds the water well and the 120v line keeps the fridge TV and computers going with enough left over for the toaster...the wood stove keeps us warm.
vetterfellow thats sounds good an i bet with the open fire cooking tasted good as well with the smoke taste, and back in 2005 here in upstate South Carolina we had a bad ice storm an the whole entire area was out of power but we ended up being without power for several weeks so we have cooked on a kerosene heater an that year we had a black Christmas it was wild.. thats something that I dont want to repeat anytime soon nor hopefully never
That little tractor and snowblower did get the job done. I am sure you'd love to have a cab on your tractor and a front mount snow blower after that storm.
Maybe invest in a set of mattrax for one of your 4wd vehicles maybe some kind of solar or wind power generation kinda scary that it took over 2 days to get power back while you are snowed in
That is just a crazy amount of snow. Id love to get blasted like that one time here. Last winter we had 4 inches of snow and schools shut down for a full week here. They are afraid of getting sued because if somebody slips and falls.
Wow... I can't understand why people continue to live on PEI, these storms seem to get bigger every year! To get all that snow and wind, be trapped by impassable roads and then have the power go out is no joke in extreme weather.
No gas, no snowmobile, don't seem very prepared for much of anything ..... when I lived in Vt we had our stuff HIGH AND TIGHT, ready for anything because we KNEW it was coming !! I live in NC now .... screw all that "pretty" snow !! LOL ! they can HAVE it !!
Here is a link to the official news for that day. 48cm = 20in I think I mentioned 70cm in the last week or 28 in. 463 or 15ft so far that winter...then there was more through April... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/p-e-i-snowfall-breaks-record-1.2997067
OMG Lorne. I live in NE Minnesota and we used to have a few winters like yours. Nothing major since the Halloween storm of 1991. YIKES! 48 inches we got then. I had to use a step ladder to pile snow!!!
They need to use huge graders, in the boonies where I live we depend on a township that has a tax base of less than 600 peoole. Never seen big multi engine snowblowers like this unless they are on rail road duti or in town moving drifts to big for the full size loader. They ain't cheap to run
Thanks Christopher, they usually stay in the city to load trucks, I did not see your comment until today.... they tried to get up the road with all the other equipment and finally sent out the big guns...
Louis Holland I’ve noticed that the past couple of storm systems even last winter it starts out as rain and goes to snow showers in the tail end. I don’t have to worry about that I live in the Adirondacks
Do you? You had TWO inches of snow a few years ago and it "paralyzed the country". Heathrow was shut down for THREE DAYS. You get snow like that - and you'll need American convoys again.
if u take a small hose put it into the tank and then ur other hose put a rag around the hoses and opening blow into small hose and then ones flowing take small hose and rag away and there u go no gas in mouth
That's a tremendous blower you have but isn't it bass akwards? A grown man and you didn't stock up on gas? You should purchase some LED lights for the house and barn. They are extremely bright but consume far less energy than any other light source so the generator will run much longer on a tank of gas. If you spray your blowers with Pam the snow will barely stick. And if the equipment gets hot you can fry some eggs on the go. Beautiful home and property. I pray you four have many years enjoyment there.
Yup, you will be happy to know that every light in the house is now LED and we have the Gen set hard wired so the days oh extension cords are gone...we even installed 4 racks of solar panels on the shop...although they are grid tied and no help in a power outage......and we have lots of gas on hand....
that's funny, must of gave you a little scare. it scared me watching your video. dam that could happen to me, but I don't live on a high way. it might take a week to get me plowed out. 8 years ago we had 37inches come down in 24 hours but no blowing snow, so it wasn't as bad. just imagine if it would of been windy. winter is no joking matter. I bought a generator this fall but never hooked it up to the house yet.
Dan Krueger I can't say that I have that problem I live in the tropics it's still 80f most days but a little bit of snow would be much welcomed for a day
Dan Krueger I can't say that I have that problem I live in the tropics it's still 80f most days but a little bit of snow would be much welcomed for a day
Yup,its all about the 3pt hitch and the access to a PTO, the drive and mounting system is much more expensive and complicated to put on the front of the machine. You can get blowers that drag behind.
OK. I do get that part. But regardless, I would never spend huge money on a rear mounted snowblower. They have hydraulic driven attachments for the front of machines, so why not go that way?
This tractor does not have all the hookups or the hydraulic power to run one of those systems, and the rear mount system is inexpensive.I did consider putting two sidewalk blowers in the bucket and call it a diesel tractor with dual blowers....
Yup, just hit the rewind button on this one, March 15th 2015 and we get it all again, luckily the power is on ....so far....
That is a lot of snow buddy. Nice to see that you were prepared to sit around the house for a couple of days with out power. Tractors are awesome. -John
I am originally from Charlottetown. I am in Vancouver now since early 70's. It's unbelievable when we get a little rain; people complain. I keep thinking and telling them to think about the rest of the country and what they are going through. People need to appreciate the rain..we live in a rain forest here; We have amazing flora and fauna and such beauty and a really amazing climate. STOP complaining about the wonderful rain we have.
I love your accent. I am from Boston, Massachusetts and we experienced that same February storm systems as you. What a nightmare trying to navigate through the city streets for a couple of weeks while everyone was trying to remove the snow, and no, we could not dump it into the ocean directly due to all of the rock salt, sand etc mixed in. There were still piled up mountains in early May!
Ahhh, the good old days. 😉
I lived right outside of Boston on Hanscom Air Force Base and I remember in 2014 we got a huge blizzard that went up to about 4-6 feet, and it lasted about 2 weeks, but I loved it a lot and I do wish I can visit Massachusetts again, especially Boston.
I had never heard of PEI until now. I may have to add it to my bucket list. What a beautiful looking place!
In the summer...... of course. We have enough to deal with during MN winters, but nothing like this!
I remember 1966, sliding down hill off the roof of the house, digging snow out away from the windows so we could get daylight in the house, we dug out a path to the barn and made a tunnel thru two snow drifts, best part was no school for 4 days. I was prayin' for more!! Oswego county, upstate new York.
I remember 66, in MB we used the IH TD-6 crawler to go get feed for the cattle. sliding off hay shed roof about 12 feet deep in that spot. BTW GOT my firetruck from Oswego IL
Wow that is so severe, but you sounded calm and took it all in your stride. I see yuo needed that equipment!! Thanks for sharing. Loved how the dogs were happy and also stayed at distance when needed. I had to put a jumper on by the end of the video :)
Yeah that winter it seemed to snow every Wednesday and there was a mime going around that said some people would call this snowmageddon but around here we call it Wednesday... Thankfully there hasn't been a winter as bad as that since...
Lorne - I’ll pony up the dissenting vote re transitions. I love ‘em! It’s 12:59 a.m. in February and I’m up watching videos of people blowing snow. I’m not looking for high art here. Your video is friendly, folksy, and inviting. (I’m not sure what it is about these snow blowing vids, but they’re sure fun!) Thanks.
This reminds me of my days living in Mayville and Charlotte, NY. I remember in '66 when I was living in Mayville how we were dumped with 54" of accumulation and the drifting on top of that made it so we had to duck to walk under the power lines because the snow was almost to the top of the utility poles. I lived in Charlotte, NY a couple decades later and quite often my kids and I would sled out our second story windows. We lived way off the road, back in the woods and the nearest town was about 19 miles away as well. If not for having a '79 F350 on 48" Firestone tractor tires I would have never been able to leave the house.
This is the type of snow storms I dream of getting. Looks like an absolute blast.. no pun intended 😂
Thanks Biff, I watch your channel religiously your message was hidden away and I did not see it until today, snowblowers do help a bit... I love your new shop.
Guess why all major towns in Japan are located on the east coast? Because the west coast gets 2 metres of wet snow on a regular basis, which hampers urban development. To see it, simply search on TH-cam for this video title:
空から見たよ 八甲田雪の回廊 【MMD初音ミク】 Decolator
Thanks for a good video. And I enjoyed seeing something of PEI.
Got a shopping list started Lorne ? Now, no. 1. Buy more fuel cans. No. 2, Buy more fuel, for the generator AND the tractor. No. 3, buy a cab for the tractor,.....and so on.
I too have a tractor like yours ( almost ) but my dear wife took pity on me and paid for the cab for it. I too, have the blower on the rear and the plow on the front. You can't beat it for when the snow does this to us, hey ?
Good video, by the way.
This is why I have two snowmobiles, and trailers for both as well.
I'm in Central Pennsylvania, right in the snowbelt that reaches up out of West Virginia. We don't get many big dumpers, but when we do, fetching supplies is no problem, if need be.
There ya go...I was wondering where his snowmobile might be
Element of Kindness central PA is not snowbelt.
Al Michaels
LOL! If you say so! I guess I'll try finding another explanation as to why I have snow, while 25 miles East and West of me often doesn't have any. By the way, had the sled out for several days now, and they are still mowing grass in Altoona.
Element of Kindness I forgot that PA gets lake effect. my bad bud. greetings from central NY (snowbelt as well).
Al Michaels
No big! It's mostly due to the high elevation change between lower Altoona to the East, and Blairsville to the West. They call it the Allegheny Front, Allegheny Plateau, and/or The Laurel Highlands here. It's only around 1000 feet higher than surrounding topography, but it plays a big part in air uplift, temperature dropping below the dewpoint, and precipitating out over the area.
Don't worry though. I know you guys up there get it way worse than we ever do. You have to be batshit crazy to live in Buffalo in the winter. :-D
Good day from Ont. Canada Boy that video was something else. Yrs. ago in middle 80's we got something like that. The real reason subbing is to see what weather is like. We live in Kitchener Waterloo area 100 klms. from Toronto. We had neighbors moving down there buying farms. They are Mennonite group & also Amish group. Thanks for now.
You are so well prepared. Beautiful to look at but a pain to dig yourself out I imagine.
I enjoyed this video.
Thanks for posting!
Whelp! I'll never complain about getting 5 inches of snow ever again. Nor complain about having to remove it. Nope!!! Never again will I complain..nope nope nope.
A neve faz uma paisagem linda. Eu não sabia que dá tanto trabalho(The snow makes a beautiful landscape. I did not know it's so much work
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You’re located just south of us. We’ve had a few difficult winters in the past although nowadays it’s a walk in the park. Oh yeah this is coming from Alaska USA baby.
Canadians are such nice people. very chilled
I agree with you Canadians will help you when no one else will. GOD BLESS canada
@Dick Head. well I guess your name is pretty self explanatory lol but I still gotta ask why/how are Canadians stupid?
Dick Head. = Dick Head
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I freaking love the way he says out
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Canadians are so chill. People here in northern Indiana would be complaining. Even though it's normal lol
"Didn't get the newspaper today, probably won't get mail...." Lol awesome!
I got snowed in at my place in south central Montana last year, February of 2019. My Ford 3000 diesel tractor with a rear blade could not deal with it. The hydraulics froze up and could not raise the blade to dump the snow load, a real show stopper, could not go forward or reverse over the pile in front of the blade. Lucky for me I have good neighbors and two of them showed up, one with a small cat skid steer and another with a plow on the front of his truck and got me cleared out after two weeks. Lucky I had a stash of wood by the front door because I was not able to get to my wood pile. Lesson learned.
I sold my 2011 Camaro SS with 14,000 miles on the clock last summer and bought my own John Deere 318D skid steer so now I am ready hopefully. Plenty of fuel for both the Ford and the John Deere on hand. I have a plow blade and a bucket for the John Deere. I don’t miss the Camaro one bit because I was afraid to drive it due to 4 miles of rock and dirt road just to get to the highway from my house. My driveway is 1/8th of a mile long from the dirt road to the house which is also dirt and gravel.
That was the first time I had been snowed in here and I hope that will be the last time.
Yup that's a good story. Good Neighbors make a big difference.It can get cold in your area I spent a few winters in ND.
I'm sorry couldn't hear you because of the WIND!
Friendly suggestion, when I grew up in the country on North Central Illinios we would push the snow aways pass were we needed to just incase the winds pick up and blow it back in... Even now in Michigan we blow farther out then need be... we can only blow so high until the snowblower is worthless as a blade..
Thats a digout for sure.... you can get some good snow over there!!
i wish we got snow like that, id love it
Trav yeah me too lol but here in the upstate South Carolina people here would be very stupid an cause chaos lol
After 1 or 2 years of that, you'd change your mind real quick.
We do and I did when I was a young man now it’s nothing but work
It's not too often, where we get those kind of snows here in Pennsylvania. We do once in a while, but not too often. When we do, traffic doesn't move at all.
heck I'd be happy to get outside and be able to turn on that tractor
Wow, quite a lil storm there. Did I hear you say you are in P.E.I.?...loved my visit there years ago..in JULY! 👍 Kudos to you for having all your own resources. Makes one think ahead a bit more for future storms if that’s becoming the norm there..?? I have noticed the coast hast really had their share of rough weather the last couple years. FYI, I’m in Northwestern Ontario on top of Lake Superior...we get ours from time to time but not that common. All the best to you, the wife and fur family.👍👋👋👋..gettin ready for the season now.
Great video! I was hoping they would have a snowblower for the highway. The giant v plow seems very inefficient.
+CourtnRob Yup the snow was packed up tight, they had a plow and the electric crew following the blower, but the plow could not get up our hill behind the blower and they had to bring out a bigger one..... For most storms the speedplows work well, this storm was big...
is the wood heat your backup? i have oil heat, and a fireplace, fireplace i use for backup and / or if i just want a little extra warmth. i do have my furnace so i can run it off a gen.
Yup, we use a Heat pump as our main heat, the woodstove is very nice for the winter...I do burn lots of wood. No furnace at all.
have you gotten a snowmobile yet?
I feel bad for you, we would kill for some snow down here in Georgia USA , we have a constant weather of 60 degrees right now, u got it hard
Tortoise ShellGaming I feel you man. Sunny 70 degree weather on Christmas! I've been in shorts and a T-shirt for days now
I lived that CRAP in Vt, right on the Canadian Border ... Move to NC and love it. ABSOLUTELY HATE SNOW ... yeah yeah yeah ... real pretty I know ... try living in it ! I well remember those "white caps" in the snow banks and packed down so hard that our town 6 wheel drive Cat Grader got STUCK right in front of our house ..... SCREW THAT NOISE ... and then we can talk about COLD >>>>>> OHHHHHH HELLLLLL NO !! If you like -40 with high winds, my brother has a nice house to sell you on Lake Champlain !! Enjoy !!! LOL !!
The transitions are making me crazy
damn thats a lot of snow. we dont get that much hehe, and im not too far from the north pole haha. but did upgrade the snow clearing equipment this year with a 4x4 tractor with a blower. 77 mod international harvester 633 :)
Beautiful property and video.
When you ran out of fuel I'm just curious why you didn't use the generator in your motorhome doesn't it have a generator in it you could of used for power or was it not wired up so you could use it?
+mrtowmonster When I set up the electrics, I thought "this is great I can use the motor-home gen set..." Sadly it does not supply 220v that I need for the pump at the bottom of the 250ft well.
Enjoy it!!!!! Thanks!
We had a 1/4 mile long snowdrift up past the school bus windows in places. Drifts so hard a full size 60's Chevy wagon could drive on them. We got 7 days off school before the snow blower made it out that far.
Beautiful. Just beautiful
I started to count the number of times the word Yaaa was said, I lost count cuz I was just laughing so hard. There is nothing like the great Canadian winters, about 15 years ago we were hit with 14.6 feet of snow for the season, funny thing is the heat bill dropped that year. Whod have known the snow was natures way of insulating. PEI really looks gorgouse, Im in eastern Ontario.
Living in an area subject to conditions like that, one would think you'd be better prepared. 55 gal drums of fuel and or a vehicle capable of traversing deep snow. You can, if necessary patch you RVs genny into your house power. your RV has much larger fuel tanks so you can run longer. you can also disconnect your RV gennys fuel line and run it to your portable genny if your RVs genny isn't powerful enough. That wouldn't be my first choice though. I've been thorough several snowy winters so I bought a genny capable of running two homes and I always keep gas and diesel on hand in the winter as town is 10 miles on a one lane multi directional road that crosses a one lane bridge built in 1867. Yes 1867, the county rebuilds it every Sommer. Needs to say I believe in being prepared.
Yup, the gen set is now hooked up to the house electrics, so no more extension cords and I have more fuel on hand....if needed the RV is full with 300 liters of fuel on board. The RV genset does not put out the 220v that is required for the water well and the Heat pumps. The champion generator does. Thanks...
You are welcome Lorne, if you have any thoughts of upgrades and have questions feel free to ask. If I can't assist there are plenty of us out here with opinions. good luck
Kevin Cousins Yup its no problem to find an opinion,,,,I am happy that lots of people seem to enjoy it all, it is lots of fun making the videos.
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why do you not have a snowmobile?
Kubota never fails to deliver enough horsepower, good engines.
Drifts are crazy high satisfied with video
Thanks Dana we haven't had that kind of snow since 2015...but we are getting more wind and rain during the winter...
why is the generator running inside where tractor is?? It is to be running OUTSIDE because of dangerous fumes
Thanks for your concern, the Gen set is in the shop (unheated) and not attached to the house. While the gen set is running I leave the main door open so there is lots of fresh air.
No humans or animals live in the shop.
Crazy. We had a good snow year I believe in 2015 in central Ontario
Nice setup. How is that generator working for you? I bought the same one last year but only have around 5 hours on it with very little load.
So far so good, we had a power outage last summer that was perhaps 3 hours and then this one was 29 hours. Our water well draws 240v so we have a 240v line that feeds the water well and the 120v line keeps the fridge TV and computers going with enough left over for the toaster...the wood stove keeps us warm.
Something tells me you had a little late start to remove the snow!
WOW I thought we just had a Blizzard until I watched this video... Blizzard of 2018 Delaware USA
all you can hear is the fucking wind.
That is some serious snow . Beautiful if you are playing in it
Don't your wife help you,I did with my husband
Simple fix for the wind, put a sponge rubber cover over the mike and kill the wind noise. Most of what you said was lost.
Snowmobiles look like a ton of fun
All do respect, you sound like The Friendly Giant 👍🇨🇦
Yup, I'll set out a chair for two of you to curl up in, then I'll call Rusty....
Lorne Kelly For sure, great videos. 👍🇨🇦
PS. What did Debbie make for dinner on the wood stove?. Just curious. TTFN again.
Yup....I think it was Clam Chowder that we had in the freezer....it did take a while to cook up...
Thanks for getting back to me. I cooked on an open camp fire a few times and that takes for ever. Pet the pups for me.
vetterfellow thats sounds good an i bet with the open fire cooking tasted good as well with the smoke taste, and back in 2005 here in upstate South Carolina we had a bad ice storm an the whole entire area was out of power but we ended up being without power for several weeks so we have cooked on a kerosene heater an that year we had a black Christmas it was wild.. thats something that I dont want to repeat anytime soon nor hopefully never
Didn't sound fun either. Peace be with you and Merry Christmas everyone !!.
this video was made on my birthday
Any grouse in those woods back there? There is !?! I'll be there.
Not one complaint from you
You get people crying over 3" of snow where I live
i like to keep 10 gallons of gas around at all times. i rotate it every 6 months so it doesn't go bad
patrick evans is
That little tractor and snowblower did get the job done. I am sure you'd love to have a cab on your tractor and a front mount snow blower after that storm.
Yup I am still wishing for a cab....
I envy, snowing at your place!
Hey i just live up the road from you towards Glen Afton Golf Course. It was a nasty Storm.
+BJ MacDonald yup we will see how things go this year...
We have the first Nor'Easter of the season blowing right now.....
it seems as though you've gone and built yourself a beautiful prison. I think I'd love to live there "in the summertime."
Maybe invest in a set of mattrax for one of your 4wd vehicles maybe some kind of solar or wind power generation kinda scary that it took over 2 days to get power back while you are snowed in
...? What is the grow light 4.?
This is Canada it could be for anything....I grow Tomatoes from seed...
It's so satisfying
To bad the wind was a bit breeze. Could not understand or hear what the two guys were saying.
That is just a crazy amount of snow. Id love to get blasted like that one time here. Last winter we had 4 inches of snow and schools shut down for a full week here. They are afraid of getting sued because if somebody slips and falls.
Lands sakes, Anne Shirley! What ARE you doing?
Wow... I can't understand why people continue to live on PEI, these storms seem to get bigger every year! To get all that snow and wind, be trapped by impassable roads and then have the power go out is no joke in extreme weather.
@Derek Charette People like you are annoying also. Going around YT arguing with common sense is just plain moronic.
Where is this! I wanna live where there is a lot of snow. But I'm sure it gets very tiring
AMDWrecklessgaming Prince Edward island, Canada
Never wish for that. It gets old very quickly
Trans am county old and cold
big garage and the motorhome is left outside??
No gas, no snowmobile, don't seem very prepared for much of anything ..... when I lived in Vt we had our stuff HIGH AND TIGHT, ready for anything because we KNEW it was coming !! I live in NC now .... screw all that "pretty" snow !! LOL ! they can HAVE it !!
How many inches of snow did you get??? I thought I heard you say "70 inches?"
Here is a link to the official news for that day. 48cm = 20in I think I mentioned 70cm in the last week or 28 in. 463 or 15ft so far that winter...then there was more through April...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/p-e-i-snowfall-breaks-record-1.2997067
OMG Lorne. I live in NE Minnesota and we used to have a few winters like yours. Nothing major since the Halloween storm of 1991. YIKES! 48 inches we got then. I had to use a step ladder to pile snow!!!
shamrock1961 ob
We don't appreciate electricity until we hit that switch and nothing happens.
Most people don't, I sure as hell do.
thats crazy never got that much here in capebreton
They need to use huge graders, in the boonies where I live we depend on a township that has a tax base of less than 600 peoole. Never seen big multi engine snowblowers like this unless they are on rail road duti or in town moving drifts to big for the full size loader. They ain't cheap to run
Thanks Christopher, they usually stay in the city to load trucks, I did not see your comment until today.... they tried to get up the road with all the other equipment and finally sent out the big guns...
Came for the snowblowing video... stayed for the grow light....
Yup, that's the best comment ever....
That's Canada. in Rochester ny we yave ben Getting less Snoww And warmer weather and its Dec/15/2019.
Louis Holland I’ve noticed that the past couple of storm systems even last winter it starts out as rain and goes to snow showers in the tail end. I don’t have to worry about that I live in the Adirondacks
I live in NS and we got quite a bit of snow also then
Your in snow country without a sled? Lol.
Good show.
I LIKE DEBBIE'S REAR.!
Some people have all the fun.
got to have winter to have a nice summer!
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Looks like we have a nor'easter coming in this week....
Lucky
I love the winters
were do you live to get this much snow The Great Digout February 2015
Prince Edward Island, Canada. (east Coast of Canada in the Gulf of St Lawrence)
i wish we had snow like that in the UK
Do you? You had TWO inches of snow a few years ago and it "paralyzed the country". Heathrow was shut down for THREE DAYS. You get snow like that - and you'll need American convoys again.
Why not get a whole house generator?
Yup, we have made that change..
Nice place!
if u take a small hose put it into the tank and then ur other hose put a rag around the hoses and opening blow into small hose and then ones flowing take small hose and rag away and there u go no gas in mouth
Where abouts in Canada do you live? That's alot of snow you get
East Coast, Prince Edward Island. 2015 was an exceptional year for snow, every Wednesday some sort of a blizzard blew through.
Major blizzard but did we get a newspaper delivery 😆
wow that's a lot of snow I'm moving back to the island next year and I'm not looking forward to that
Most years its not that bad.....
How is it
Looks like a good dusting of 3 inches to me
Holy smokes! Been quite awhile since I've seen snow like that.
That's a tremendous blower you have but isn't it bass akwards? A grown man and you didn't stock up on gas?
You should purchase some LED lights for the house and barn. They are extremely bright but consume far less energy than
any other light source so the generator will run much longer on a tank of gas. If you spray your blowers with Pam the snow will barely stick.
And if the equipment gets hot you can fry some eggs on the go. Beautiful home and property. I pray you four have many years enjoyment there.
Yup, you will be happy to know that every light in the house is now LED and we have the Gen set hard wired so the days oh extension cords are gone...we even installed 4 racks of solar panels on the shop...although they are grid tied and no help in a power outage......and we have lots of gas on hand....
that's funny, must of gave you a little scare. it scared me watching your video. dam that could happen to me, but I don't live on a high way. it might take a week to get me plowed out. 8 years ago we had 37inches come down in 24 hours but no blowing snow, so it wasn't as bad. just imagine if it would of been windy. winter is no joking matter. I bought a generator this fall but never hooked it up to the house yet.
Dan Krueger I can't say that I have that problem I live in the tropics it's still 80f most days but a little bit of snow would be much welcomed for a day
Dan Krueger I can't say that I have that problem I live in the tropics it's still 80f most days but a little bit of snow would be much welcomed for a day
I don't understand the point of a rear mounted snowblower. It requires you to drive backwards, which is harder to do, and makes your neck hurt.
Yup,its all about the 3pt hitch and the access to a PTO, the drive and mounting system is much more expensive and complicated to put on the front of the machine. You can get blowers that drag behind.
OK. I do get that part. But regardless, I would never spend huge money on a rear mounted snowblower. They have hydraulic driven attachments for the front of machines, so why not go that way?
This tractor does not have all the hookups or the hydraulic power to run one of those systems, and the rear mount system is inexpensive.I did consider putting two sidewalk blowers in the bucket and call it a diesel tractor with dual blowers....
Did he say grow light! Canada is sweet