We western Iowans were about a day ahead of you guys. I ended up with ten inches and it was wet but it was fluff. Fluff is easy to push but wet isn't much good for traction. Between my son's place and my place we have an accumulated approximately one acre to clear off so there is room for a truck to maneuver if one happens to come in for service. During the thick of things in the dark when the snow was still coming down heavy one of the feed trucks blew a hose on the truck tractor itself while unloading in the snow at a hog site 2 1/2 miles away. Lucky for us it wasn't 20 miles away! Son took the spare truck over there to switch off with the truck with the blown hose, I took the 1086 with the loader. I couldn't run wide open on the blacktop because the tractor was so squirrely on that wet packed stuff and I couldn't see worth a hoot because of the heavy snow falling in front of the lights. I spent some time pushing drifts away to make some maneuvering room, then had to drag the truck with the blown hose out from under the trailer because he couldn't get traction to drive away, then I had to push the spare truck under the trailer because it couldn't get traction to get under there. He would just slide sideways and out of alignment of the king pin when he tried. When everything was settled and the spare truck was hooked up and unloading the rest of the feed it was head on back home to clear snow so the truck with the blown hose could get in the shop and the spare truck with the trailer could get in the yard and park for the night. I didn't have it bad because I was in a warm cab but those guys out there switching trucks and dragging chains looked like snowmen and on top of it they were very, very tired from hauling feed extra hours themselves to get caught up before the snow. I complemented one of them on how well he could dance when he slipped on the ice and was twisting and flailing his arms trying to keep from going down. LOL. Anyway, after two hours we got everything settled at home and everyone went home to their families and a warm supper. Boy did it remind me of my livestock days as Roger and JD and the rest of you guys with animals can attest only this time all I had to do was sit in a warm cab.
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