Very nice! Thanks for the Pictures! :thThumbsU:thThumbsU:thThumbsU:thThumbsU
Got a bit of snow and I can prove it.
We had some snow here this morning. Just enough to fire up The Beast anyway.
The wife got her second lesson in snow blowing today. The first lesson back when I had the X360 didn't go so well. Evidently having snow blow back in her face wasn't as appealing to her as I thought it was. So here's a couple pics of her motoring up and down the driveway. This was after I had done all the real "work". I didn't want her stealing too much of my seat time. She says that The Beast is a lot easier to use than "that other one". (Sheesh, you would have thought I made her drive a Craftsman or something.:hide
Normally the neighbor takes care of the snow blowing when I'm gone. The wife lucked out this year. It didn't snow at all while the neighbor was gone for a month. I figured she could just as well know how to use it just in case no one else was available.
There's also a pic or two of the daughter catchin some seat time too. I hope you all are able to get your own seat time. :trink39:
The wife got her second lesson in snow blowing today. The first lesson back when I had the X360 didn't go so well. Evidently having snow blow back in her face wasn't as appealing to her as I thought it was. So here's a couple pics of her motoring up and down the driveway. This was after I had done all the real "work". I didn't want her stealing too much of my seat time. She says that The Beast is a lot easier to use than "that other one". (Sheesh, you would have thought I made her drive a Craftsman or something.:hide
Normally the neighbor takes care of the snow blowing when I'm gone. The wife lucked out this year. It didn't snow at all while the neighbor was gone for a month. I figured she could just as well know how to use it just in case no one else was available. There's also a pic or two of the daughter catchin some seat time too. I hope you all are able to get your own seat time. :trink39:
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We got four inches of snow and one inch of slush last night.
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I took the pic this morning at 6am when I started clearing the driveway while it was still coming down. The underlayment of slush made traction difficult. I have unfilled HDAP's and usually run with two suitcase weights on my flat concrete driveway. The slush made me use the diff lock pedal quite a bit. I haven't dropped air pressures yet. Somewhere along the line I broke a shear pin - my second in two weeks. Glad replacement is so easy.
Once I got into the street I kept getting hung up when backing up. If I didn't go in reverse in precisely the same path I went forward on the blower would catch the unblown snow and the weight of the snow would cause the rear of the tractor to pivot into the unblown snow. By the time the tires dug down to pavement they couldn't pull the front tires over the slush hump they had created for themselves. I hope you can follow this description. Anyway, I had to use a shovel a couple times behind the rear wheels to give them more pavement traction to pull the front out. It was frustrating but this was an unusually wet and heavy storm. A machine without diff lock wouldn't have been of any use whatsoever. So glad I stepped up to the X500 after initially considering an X320.
I helped a couple neighbors, had my wife fix bacon and eggs for me, and then waited on the city plow to clear the way out. We live on a dead-end street that requires 20 or 30 feet of uphill elevation to get to the connecting road. I keep the X500 in the back of the garage behind a minivan. I usually leave it at the end of the driveway while I work up near the garage doors. When I went to move the minivan back into the garage, the minivan got stuck behind the smallest pile of snow/slush imaginable. Eventually it torque steered sideways onto a spot I had blown clear. Given that experience there was no chance of getting up the road even with my AWD Subaru.
It took me 90 minutes to clear my 50x50 driveway and the street in front to prevent the dreaded plow pile. The falling snow soaked two hats, two coats, two pairs of gloves, and all the way through a pair of snow pants and into my jeans. I would have rather it been ten degrees colder to avoid the melt factor. If this was the kind of snow we got all the time I would move up to an X7 series with a cab.
I took the pic this morning at 6am when I started clearing the driveway while it was still coming down. The underlayment of slush made traction difficult. I have unfilled HDAP's and usually run with two suitcase weights on my flat concrete driveway. The slush made me use the diff lock pedal quite a bit. I haven't dropped air pressures yet. Somewhere along the line I broke a shear pin - my second in two weeks. Glad replacement is so easy.
Once I got into the street I kept getting hung up when backing up. If I didn't go in reverse in precisely the same path I went forward on the blower would catch the unblown snow and the weight of the snow would cause the rear of the tractor to pivot into the unblown snow. By the time the tires dug down to pavement they couldn't pull the front tires over the slush hump they had created for themselves. I hope you can follow this description. Anyway, I had to use a shovel a couple times behind the rear wheels to give them more pavement traction to pull the front out. It was frustrating but this was an unusually wet and heavy storm. A machine without diff lock wouldn't have been of any use whatsoever. So glad I stepped up to the X500 after initially considering an X320.
I helped a couple neighbors, had my wife fix bacon and eggs for me, and then waited on the city plow to clear the way out. We live on a dead-end street that requires 20 or 30 feet of uphill elevation to get to the connecting road. I keep the X500 in the back of the garage behind a minivan. I usually leave it at the end of the driveway while I work up near the garage doors. When I went to move the minivan back into the garage, the minivan got stuck behind the smallest pile of snow/slush imaginable. Eventually it torque steered sideways onto a spot I had blown clear. Given that experience there was no chance of getting up the road even with my AWD Subaru.
It took me 90 minutes to clear my 50x50 driveway and the street in front to prevent the dreaded plow pile. The falling snow soaked two hats, two coats, two pairs of gloves, and all the way through a pair of snow pants and into my jeans. I would have rather it been ten degrees colder to avoid the melt factor. If this was the kind of snow we got all the time I would move up to an X7 series with a cab.
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