On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:29:39 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> brooklyn1 > wrote:
>
>> >> Big snow supposed to be coming, I'm ready!
>> >> http://i49.tinypic.com/2uo57k5.jpg
>> >
>> >Put it under cover?
>>
>> During winter I keep it right up close to my house... my barn is too
>> far to trudge through a heavy snow, and no electric there... and
>> anyway tractors are designed to get dirty. Whenever there's news of
>> an impending snow storm I put the tractor up on the driveway and
>> backed right up close to the house, at the ready for the first big
>> push. I've learned that the less I drive over the snow and compact it
>> the easier to plow. It's snowing here now but not anything like the
>> news forcasted. It's been snowing for three hours now and still less
>> than a 1/2" fell... unless this picks up soon we won't be getting much
>> snow in the Catskills.
>
>I'm surprised you don't at least have a tent cover over it. Must be a
>bear to dig all the snow off of it before you can drive it?

Maybe you never lived in snow country. A tent would be a disaster,
snow is *heavy*... many car ports around here collapse from snow...
what do you think happens to the vehicle??? I thought about building
another utility shed but one large enough would be pricey. And those
plastic quansets are short lived and for what they are they're pricey
too, and any kind of shed right next to the house is ugly. Takes me
no more than five minutes with a soft broom to sweep the snow off the
tractor... snow is all cleaned off long before the tractor warms up...
has to idle like 15 minutes before the motor and all the hydraulics
are warmed... while I wait I go back inside for one last pee before I
plow. LOL