zyewdall Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Okay. Got some serious snow this weekend -- the first one all winter here. 34" on the flat, though about 48 inches fell (compacted the lower layers before it finished snowing). Heavy wet stuff too.... Pics... (not completely off topic... my Justy is in one of them) Saturday morning. Hmmm.... where's the house? The Sasquatch only has about a foot on it from friday night -- I had it all plowed out at dark on Friday. Took 4 hours with the tractor to get out to the highway (about 50 feet) and get a parking area cleared a bit. Hey, look, I found a subaru. There's actually two more subarus and another pickup truck in this photo.... somewhere.... Parking spot all shoveled out Sun came out Saturday afternoon and the snow started sliding off the solar panels ... the power was out for about three days, so I tapped into my battery bank (I'd never actually hooked up backup power, even though I have all the equipment....) Look... I found the D-50 And a VW rabbit -- I had to put a new starter motor in it, but then it started, first time since about a year ago when I took it apart for some maintenance. Pulled right out of the snowbank even being 2wd... cast iron diesel engine right above the drive wheels is nice sometimes Tried to drive up a friend's road in the D-50 Sunday afternoon -- with the warm temps it's sunk about a foot from the highest, but still no go... slushy slime above the bumper.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bheinen74 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 man do i miss that. I remember living in Denver, getting 36" snow in one night, and when i got ot work the next day, my pager was going off. I forgot to check the back fence, and my dog had jumped over the 6ft tall fence. Had to go home, pick up the dog from said neighbor, and shovel out around the fence so he wouldn't jump out. fun times. thanks for the awesome pictures. has it all melted by now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Nah.. not melted yet Down to about 18" of superslop now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik litchy Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 thats some serious snow. i see your tractor is a 2wd how well does that work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 thats some serious snow. i see your tractor is a 2wd how well does that work? Well -- depends on what direction you're going. going and facing uphill, it's pretty good. It will bash through deep snow better than the 4wd truck with studded tires. If you are trying to back uphill though, forget about it -- weight isn't on the drive wheels. Also, if you pick up a big load of snow in the scoop, it moves the weight forwards off the drive wheels, so you better be facing uphill, because it won't back up otherwise. I keep thinking about how to stick the front axle from a jeep under it and drive it somehow... course, then, I'd have a front differential to drag -- right now, it's got about 14" of clearance all the way under it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurrel Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Hey those are some nice looking Solar panels..how much where those to put up and how much power did you get off of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durania Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Nice solar setup, Les Stroud would be proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 (edited) Hey those are some nice looking Solar panels..how much where those to put up and how much power did you get off of them? They're 3.4kW (DC rating). They're currently producing more energy than the house needs, but I'm also working on an electric car, which will take at least as much as the house likely. The price, I can't remember exactly -- I design solar arrays for a living, so I got all the parts wholesale and did it in my spare time. The utility rebates usually pay for about half the cost, but I think they were more like 3/4 in my case. Street value of that array before rebates is about $25k. Edited April 21, 2009 by zyewdall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_B Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 The more I sse of that Sasquatch the more and more I like it, and that D-50 aint half bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowmastered87GL Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 NOT Jealous of the snow AM Jealous of the solar setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the sucker king Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Hey Zeke! Down here in Lyons we got about......0". It rained for three days! Carol and I drove up to Estes on Sunday and there was a solid 24" still at Allenspark and Meeker Park. We got nothing. I bet I don't live 15 miles from you as the crow flies. Elevation is everything! The river sure did get high here today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opelsuby Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 (edited) From my neck of the woods. this is why we have major flooding going on this year North Dakota Edited April 23, 2009 by opelsuby forgot line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 From my neck of the woods. this is why we have major flooding going on this year North Dakota Wow. That's a deep drift there. I've only seen stuff like that in the northern cascades when they open highway 20 with the rotary in the spring. Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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