niceguy71
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I live deep in the woods in Massachusetts, I lose my power for 5 to 7 days at time during our winter storms.... my area has hundreds of trees come down across the roads, deep snow everywhere..... so during these storms I'm pretty busy... I'm out on my Kubota front end loader or my Kubota with bulldozer blade trying to move the snow ...I'm out using my chainsaw to try to get the trees moved off my 350 foot long driveway....and keeping the generator clear of snow and going.
all the people on my street have snowmobiles or quads.... the snowmobiles go out and help many of the neighbors... during snow storms we can drive quads and snowmobiles on the roads.... funny to see grocery stores with 30 plus snowmobiles parked in front of them. ( if their open)
I worked for my towns Gas & Electric company and was a first responder.... so I had to get to work... for years my neighbor always took me to work on a snowmobile..... the management at the G&E would always tell me to sleep at the facility as living out in the woods would be impossible to get to work when I was needed.... but I like my own bed
I've never paid attention as I'm busting my behind from the beginning of the storm until well after it's all over.
now that I'm retired I get to sit back and watch.
well I got a call last week that a friend two miles away had a tree come down through his roof in the middle of a major snow storm... no one was able to get out to him so I took my F-150 out.. I always special order my trucks with Posi traction 4:10 gears and then have a spartan lunchbox locker installed in the front differential, I always have good BF Goodrich off road tires on it too, so I have all 4 off road tires turning when I need it.
I brought a tarp out and made it to my friends house I was pushing through 30 inch drifts and driving over huge branches and who knows what??? I could not even tell where the sides of the streets were... at my friends house there was nothing we could do.. just wait until the storm was over ... wait for daylight and they get the roads clear.... there was no way to get on the roof where the tree was to cut pieces of it off or cover the roof with the tarp. ( it wasn't that bad but in a storm, he was panicking and wanted someone to look at it)
he was calmed down after we looked everything over... mostly small holes where branches had punched through.... so I went home.
my CB is always on ... as soon as I turn the key it's on channel 19.... it was amazing to hear that CB so busy!!! I heard hundreds of plow drivers. I could hear where all the accidents were.... where vehicles had slid off the side of the road ..some on their roofs.... people on CB were trying to help others get home saying there is a tree down at the entrance of Smith street go around and try to enter from Oak street.... then someone else would say no oak street is unpassable... try to get over to Rice street and enter into the middle of Wall Street and that might get you to the back of Smith... it was insane!!!! most 4X4's were stuck and just wanted to get back to where they started from!!!..... I was REALLY wishing I hadn't left home.... but they didn't call it a state of emergency yet... when they do it's illegal to be on the roads.
the police cruisers in my area are 4X4 SUV's, they only have one tire in the front and one tire in the back that turn and they have smooth all season tires. I heard the plow drivers trying to get different cruiser unstuck and asking on the CB if any 4X4 tow trucks were available... on the way home I heard a plow driver saying a cruiser was stuck one street over from me and if anyone had a long strap... I carry 3 long straps for when I go off roading so I went over.... that street was really bad I should have just gone home... I got there and told him I had a strap so we hooked it up .... he had gone off the road and was down quite a ways... I tried to pull him up, but it was completely useless... I asked him what they heck he was doing out here and he said someone called for an ambulance on this street and he was trying to get there to see if an ambulance could make it or if he could help... I left him as he said he had one the towns frontend loaders on it's way.
I went home and listened to the CB... it was people trying to help others and tell what roads were passable..... plow drivers making lists of where the trees were down and were unpassable...... my state used to have a Massachusetts highway department... they took care of the roads... but years and years ago they decided to hire everything out..... anyone with a plow truck can sign up to plow for the state... and make fantastic money... the bigger the truck the more you make...... but all these trucks are privately owned.... and I learned they all use CB radios and work together.
and they say CB is dead.
this video was at 2AM and the snow had just stopped for about 20 minutes luckily, as soon as I stopped videoing the storm started up again. we only got about 22 inches for this storm that I made the video of my path for the little dog.
all the people on my street have snowmobiles or quads.... the snowmobiles go out and help many of the neighbors... during snow storms we can drive quads and snowmobiles on the roads.... funny to see grocery stores with 30 plus snowmobiles parked in front of them. ( if their open)
I worked for my towns Gas & Electric company and was a first responder.... so I had to get to work... for years my neighbor always took me to work on a snowmobile..... the management at the G&E would always tell me to sleep at the facility as living out in the woods would be impossible to get to work when I was needed.... but I like my own bed
I've never paid attention as I'm busting my behind from the beginning of the storm until well after it's all over.
now that I'm retired I get to sit back and watch.
well I got a call last week that a friend two miles away had a tree come down through his roof in the middle of a major snow storm... no one was able to get out to him so I took my F-150 out.. I always special order my trucks with Posi traction 4:10 gears and then have a spartan lunchbox locker installed in the front differential, I always have good BF Goodrich off road tires on it too, so I have all 4 off road tires turning when I need it.
I brought a tarp out and made it to my friends house I was pushing through 30 inch drifts and driving over huge branches and who knows what??? I could not even tell where the sides of the streets were... at my friends house there was nothing we could do.. just wait until the storm was over ... wait for daylight and they get the roads clear.... there was no way to get on the roof where the tree was to cut pieces of it off or cover the roof with the tarp. ( it wasn't that bad but in a storm, he was panicking and wanted someone to look at it)
he was calmed down after we looked everything over... mostly small holes where branches had punched through.... so I went home.
my CB is always on ... as soon as I turn the key it's on channel 19.... it was amazing to hear that CB so busy!!! I heard hundreds of plow drivers. I could hear where all the accidents were.... where vehicles had slid off the side of the road ..some on their roofs.... people on CB were trying to help others get home saying there is a tree down at the entrance of Smith street go around and try to enter from Oak street.... then someone else would say no oak street is unpassable... try to get over to Rice street and enter into the middle of Wall Street and that might get you to the back of Smith... it was insane!!!! most 4X4's were stuck and just wanted to get back to where they started from!!!..... I was REALLY wishing I hadn't left home.... but they didn't call it a state of emergency yet... when they do it's illegal to be on the roads.
the police cruisers in my area are 4X4 SUV's, they only have one tire in the front and one tire in the back that turn and they have smooth all season tires. I heard the plow drivers trying to get different cruiser unstuck and asking on the CB if any 4X4 tow trucks were available... on the way home I heard a plow driver saying a cruiser was stuck one street over from me and if anyone had a long strap... I carry 3 long straps for when I go off roading so I went over.... that street was really bad I should have just gone home... I got there and told him I had a strap so we hooked it up .... he had gone off the road and was down quite a ways... I tried to pull him up, but it was completely useless... I asked him what they heck he was doing out here and he said someone called for an ambulance on this street and he was trying to get there to see if an ambulance could make it or if he could help... I left him as he said he had one the towns frontend loaders on it's way.
I went home and listened to the CB... it was people trying to help others and tell what roads were passable..... plow drivers making lists of where the trees were down and were unpassable...... my state used to have a Massachusetts highway department... they took care of the roads... but years and years ago they decided to hire everything out..... anyone with a plow truck can sign up to plow for the state... and make fantastic money... the bigger the truck the more you make...... but all these trucks are privately owned.... and I learned they all use CB radios and work together.
and they say CB is dead.
this video was at 2AM and the snow had just stopped for about 20 minutes luckily, as soon as I stopped videoing the storm started up again. we only got about 22 inches for this storm that I made the video of my path for the little dog.
