[member=19511]Scott B[/member]
Found it
[attachimg=2] After about the 99th time, I give up on the pic of my sno toys
Just take my word, they are as stated below
Way over in the left, you can see the type of truck i learned to to drive way back when i was 10 or11 and living on the farm in Clayton. The fist time i tried, i loaded too full. i was cleaning to the cow barn and wheeling out to dump the s--- on the manure pile outside. I wheeled up the plank to top of pile, tipped the "truck" to dump on pile. If anybody her has ever tried to dump a wheelbarrow and forgotten to let go of the handles, you know exactly where I ended up. No further explanation other than to let y'all know, that is where a farm boy starts to learn to have a sense of humor.
The 4x4 in the middle of the lineup is what i use to clear my own driveway when I am finished plowing and sanding my route. In the earlier days, back when I was 38, i was plowing 120 driveways and sanding about half of them by myself. We, my son and I, now do about 55. My son is older than I, so we have had to slow down a little :
When i got that kabota, I designed (in my head) a plow for the back. My equipment guru, who is a magician with equipment fabricating, embellished my idea and I now have a tractor that can plow in both directions. Bucket on front and plow on back. I sometimes take it to some of my driveways to open up the banks that have been closing in on those drives.
The MitsuBishi I bought in 1997. We put a sander on it the next year. It sure made sanding a lot easier, but I'm not so sure we saved any money. The winter of 2010/2011 was a record snowfall winter around here. By then the truck had been thru so much salt that the frame rotted out. In the old days, when i ordered undercoating on a truck frame the undercoating material was thicker than the truck frame. I had never had rust underneath my trucks before I got the Mitsubishi. I had ordered undercoating on the brand-new truck. When i picked it up from dealr, snow was already falling and that evening, i was plowing about a foot of snow. At the dealer, as i was picking up the truck, I noticed the "undercoating' was only wat appeared to be a very thin coat of black paint. My complaint was not very effective, since the dealer knew I needed the truck right away. After a couple more problems over the next three yars, i threatened him with a lawsuit, he threatened me wit legal action. Needless to say, the two of us are not now very friendly towards each other. After the winter of 2010/11, the tranny blew. And the the frame >>> well, i ended up with two halves meaning i had two two axle drive pieces of truck. My son traded the two pieces for a 2x4 utility truck, so all was to lost. the truck had paid for itself long before that. It was a great plow truck. A real workhorse that could get me thru the deepest drifts. I just put it into low gear and roared thru.
That little red Chevy 1/2 T 4x4 is one of my favorites all time for plowing. With the shortest wheelbase, it can get into the tightest situations. the only problem is, it is too light for the deepest snows. But my son has bigger trucks. as long as our cell phones don't break down, i am never stuck.
Just got a call a custom need oil and we need to widen driveway and sand. our sand truck blew tranny last storm so my son is going to widen with his pickup Much bigger than mine w/more power. I will go get his flatbed and the two of us will sand the old fashioned way.
Gotta go
Tinker
