What did you do with your tractor today?

Well I had to brag to a friend a couple weeks ago about our lack of winter,Stupid me!As of now we have maybe 5 in on the groundBUT,Tonight on my face book account I have a weather app and it sent me an advanced winter storm warning for next weekend,It has snow totals here of up to 23 inches!:mad:,,,,I dont like winter and I really hate snow.Its supposed to be a huge storm covering many states.I hope like heck they are wrong and we dont get a flake or better yet it rains and melts off the crap we already have.If it gets serious I will have to plow several times during the storm to make sure I can move all of it,23 in is a bunch of snow!
 
Used the 81 to bring a load of wood up and then worked on the 3 point hitch platform on the 22. It needed a little welding and a set of pins lowered. Then KK and I took it to the lower field. Nice ride.
Didn't get my list checked off, but did some more important things.
 
Cvans said:
Tahoe do you let the air out of your tires before installing the chains? I haven't lost a chain since I installed them that way.
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They are 4 ply sidewalls loaded with washer fluid and I only run 5-6 psi of air, wouldn't really matter. My wheel weights kind of hamper them getting tight on the outside cause they stick out so much and I'm using chains designed for 10.5 wide tires. My tires only measure a little of 9" i.e. Deestones.
I use some wire and tightened them up on the inside of wheel the best I can.
 
I had to put the chains on the ag tires on the CC yesterday morning too. Tried to back up into the machine shed on dry ground but that didn't work so put them on out on the cleared ground. I don't run my chains to tight. Chains are the right size for the 10" wide tires so put them on over top first from the outside. Hook the inside ends together, hold the outisde chin on the front tight and ease the tractor forward onto the chain. Then hook the outside. Might have to straighten the cross links some but that is as tight as I run them. Still had a couple places I could not back up on grass with the thrower lifted. Front wheels got into the edge of the path and that was it. Only had 25 lb weights on. Going to put the 75 lb weights on before this weekend.
 
I took the MH22 with the platform down to the lower shed used that to take the New Way down.
Got the dozer started, but she wouldn't come out of gear. I think it is water in the tranny. Anyways, took the torpedo down and got the old junky Kohler genset running. Ran the torpedo for an hour under the dozer with a steel windbreak and finally got 2/R to shift. Got it up to the house and will work on it as I can. I then shifted gears to the C160h wheel horse.
Damn Kohler would fart but not fire. Heaters, cardboard enclosure, ether, no good. Pop. Pop. Fart. Pop. Fart.

Finally ran the torpedo so it was blowing In the air Intake. Got it started and in the garage. I was supposed to be putting Ryan's car in here to work on... No dice... Gotta have the snow thrower tomorrow.
I charged up the battery, ran lots of heat under her and adjusted the points (closer to 12 than 20)
Hope it starts right tomorrow. It may get put Out if it keeps this sh!t up.
 
TAHOE said:
They are 4 ply sidewalls loaded with washer fluid and I only run 5-6 psi of air, wouldn't really matter. My wheel weights kind of hamper them getting tight on the outside cause they stick out so much and I'm using chains designed for 10.5 wide tires. My tires only measure a little of 9" i.e. Deestones.
I use some wire and tightened them up on the inside of wheel the best I can.
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Do you have an appliance store near you?
Dishwasher door springs are the cats backside for this. Constant pressure. Set on the outside, set on the inside, done
 
Turned the E15 around in the garage so I can drive it straight out if we get a lot of snow. Had trouble getting it going till I figured out that I forgot to turn the main battery disconnect on, then it ran fine.
The cold doesn't affect my GE tractors, they fire up right away, and no warm up time needed, if you have the battery switch turned on.
 
used one of them to blow some snow, blew better than last week, more wind and lighter snow helped that...

went to pull out of garage with blower running, heard a noise and blower quit... somehow I lost the retainer for the snowblower drive shaft? there is a lip where the garage concrete sits a couple inches higher than driveway, had blower set all the way down so I could clean the whole driveway not just "most of it minus the length of tractor". soon as the blower dropped below garage grade, the yoke slid off the tractor end. Back it back into garage, had to drive front wheels on 2x4s to raise tractor/lower blower to get it back on.... found a cotter pin that fit the groove..... enough to prevent a repeat
 
dh1 said:
Turned the E15 around in the garage so I can drive it straight out if we get a lot of snow. Had trouble getting it going till I figured out that I forgot to turn the main battery disconnect on, then it ran fine.
The cold doesn't affect my GE tractors, they fire up right away, and no warm up time needed, if you have the battery switch turned on.
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And here I thought you were going to say stuck float or bendix wouldn’t engage.
 
Not a tractor, but just followed my snowblower around for two hours.

Wanker that runs the plow on the weekend always brings all the snow up the road, All of it.
BUT the weekday guy goes the other way and puts it where there aren't any driveways.

Guess which guy is getting a Christmas present next year?

Damn, I'm spoiled with the other guy.
 
Plowed snow/ice Sunday. Had to fight to get Sears started, then as I was doing the last 2 plows down the drive to the barn, the up function went out on the new winch, either the old switch or solenoid, I have 2 brand new wiring harnessed I can swap to.
 
I hated to do it but I had to move a couple out of my shop because of a cabinet job coming up. We had 4" yesterday but the killer was the rain we have had this winter. Every third day or so rain all day with very little sunshine. I'm definitely putting a shed or barn up this year.
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TAHOE said:
We do have an appliance junkyard type store, I'll have to check.

Hard to do anything on the outside with my wheel weights

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I have the same problem Marty on my SS15. I'm using the same weights. Sometimes when the fields are too wet I take the county road route to get to the other areas. I have to do it quick because people out here drive like their qualifying for Nascar. I have to be careful because the chains want to hit the fenders. This summer I'm taking them off & filling the tires. The weights worked great on my MTD 990.
 
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