Willie B
Senior Member
It is the typical modern winter in Vermont, nothing extraordinary, snows a bit, then it melts. The ground has only frozen shallow, then it thaws. Friday we got rain changing to snow late in the day. By Saturday morning, 7" of snow.
It didn't need doing, but giving the Dresser TD7G (7 tons) a bit of exercise seemed like a good idea. I plowed the road to the "land". Other times I've done it I've had better luck. This was dry snow mostly, with a thin layer of wet sticky stuff at ground level. It was plain miserable to plow! I couldn't adjust the height of the blade fast enough to make a flat layer of snow without making moguls! Tried raising the blade a few inches, leaving it steady, that made it worse. Tracks seemed to ride up on something, then tip forward as it came down. I couldn't raise the blade fast enough to avoid digging into the gravel. Nothing seemed to work well. Am I doing something wrong, or is this an impossible thing I'm trying to do?
It didn't need doing, but giving the Dresser TD7G (7 tons) a bit of exercise seemed like a good idea. I plowed the road to the "land". Other times I've done it I've had better luck. This was dry snow mostly, with a thin layer of wet sticky stuff at ground level. It was plain miserable to plow! I couldn't adjust the height of the blade fast enough to make a flat layer of snow without making moguls! Tried raising the blade a few inches, leaving it steady, that made it worse. Tracks seemed to ride up on something, then tip forward as it came down. I couldn't raise the blade fast enough to avoid digging into the gravel. Nothing seemed to work well. Am I doing something wrong, or is this an impossible thing I'm trying to do?