Kubota B2650

Chains look great Well Seasoned! I bet you will appreciate those this evening and going forward. Plow on!

 

About the same here but we might mix with rain a little and it’s already really wet.

 

Just rain here so far but they are calling for some wet snow mixed in. I am about an hour and half from the Maine border at Houlton.

 

How much do you have on the ground now Hammy? Our relatives in Caribou have had over 24” so far without much melting yet. How far from the coast are you? I know a lot of the nor’easters we get really hammer you guys even worse at times.

 

We have about a foot on the ground with no melting until today. We are about 45 minutes to the ocean at Saint John, NB. Closer to Fredericton but we get less snow than Fredericton. Not by a lot but it is noticeable for sure. Saint John would get a lot less than we do. Seems there are very tight snow zones in NB. Last year we had none left at all in March then we visited friends about an hour an here
And they still hade over 3 feet.

 

Sounds just like Maine. I’m 30 minutes from the ocean now and about the same to the foothills. It’s raining less than 10 miles from here as it often does, and we typically get almost twice the snow that Portland does, and it only increases as you head further inland and north. We were used to twice what we get now and twice as cold when we lived in the Caribou area. In Caribou it doesn’t melt much all winter, just piles up, but here we usually get a few warm stretches, and in Portland it disappears pretty fast after a storm typically by comparison.
My wife works in Portland and on days like this she would drive from snow through freezing rain and sleet to rain, never knowing exactly where it was doing what. Very dangerous and we’re glad she can work from home now on storm days.
Personally I prefer straight snow all winter and I’d move back up north but my wife never would. She’s always cold as it is. And she’s the one that didn’t want to move south...
It’s amazing how much weather difference there can be in 10 miles or 20 or 100 as the crow flies. Those coastal blizzards can be something though. They equal anything I’ve seen up north but the difference up there is it keeps piling up

 

Here’s a neat pic stolen from the web, from Nov 23 this year that illustrates the distance from coast (Scarborough) to Mt Washington. Well Seasoned and his Kubota are further north.

 

Haha, yeah just a bit I can drive to Whitefield in a couple hours but Caribou is 5 1/2 northeast instead of northwest just to give everyone the perspective we’re talking about.

 

The Gorham water tower is on the right side of the pic. I grew up halfway back to the beach from there. Often raining at home and snowing in Gorham.

That drive north in Maine reminds me of the 55mph days. Loooooong drive.

 

Tell me about it! We do it at least once a year, often twice. It’s brutal after Bangor and that’s over half the trip

 

Those Chains do look nice very aggressive! Glad they are working out well for you.

 

Chains in North are good

 

I’m not surprised with those skidder chains! If you get stuck now you’re really screwed!

 

Well Seasoned .. a trick I learned is to leave it in 2 wheel drive until I have a problem and then pop it into four to get out or you can always use the bucket on the front end loader to push yourself back.. and when all else fails you go to the farmer and get the 135 horsepower John Deere.. but that would never happen to me!!