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6 Jan ’16 - 10:19 am
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well let's see if it fires up this morning or if I have to break out the hair dryer again

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I have a old Hair dryer in the barn for the same thing...that hair dryer is from 1982 and it's a black and decker...how cool is it that it still works.

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I think my wife is buying me my own hair dryer today, my daughter heard that and said "but he doesn't have any hair!"

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Had about 6 inches of snow on Saturday, I told my dad not to worry about plowing I would just use the tractor, pretty impressed with the job it did, but I definitely need to get that bucket extender from xpanded.

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So are you using the bucket or the back blade? I almost exclusively use the back blade, the bucket would take too long on my driveway.

I tried putting PVC on the bottom of my back blade to limit damage like this...

But it didn't scrape off enough snow. So I bought a horse mat, cut off a strip, and bolted it under the cutting edge. Works like a squeegee.

Check this out. Snow edge for the tractor bucket.

http://store.tractor.....p/rrse.htm

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Both, I angle the back blade and do a couple sweeps, then on the 3rd or 4th one I start going down the snow line picking it up while backblading behind me, seems to be the best way to get a clean sweep with how big our lot is

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Looks good. Did you previously pay somebody to plow it and have you figured out if it is helping with the tractor purchase?

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No, we have a 15 year old silverado with a plow that my dad drives, we bought it when we had apartment buildings, we do all our own plowing. I didn't want my dad coming out in the storm.

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