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Posted: **Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:44 pm**

This is the garden at 9.40 pm.

And a view from the back door into the yard.

My mother always used to say "If it hangs around there will be more coming to clear it up" and its been hanging around for some days now even when it has been raining.

Posted: **Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:37 am**

Hey that's only a teaser for me.

) That's just enough for me to want to scrape it off with the old SMD!!
When you get 7ft let me know

) Then even the Major wont move! ;((

Now for my experience with GB snow. I was in London in Jan 1982 for the international model exposition. It was so cold then, that the drain pipes in the Hotel I stayed froze in the bath. The water would not drain I called the desk they said there was little they could do, it was happening in many rooms.

Then there was so much snow on the roads at Wembly hall, that when I left the hall, there it was, an old steam road engine outside pulling stuck cars out. I couldn't believe it. I went and talked to the driver who had the engine on display, he said he was leaving the show a day early because he was afraid the snow may get to deep. He told me he had about 20 miles or so to get the engine back home. As I stood watching in the dark he took off down the street. What amazed me the most that he drove it there in the first place!

)

I had always thought London was kind of snow free zone! As amazingly hot as it gets there in July I thought it was sub-tropical;((

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:00 pm**

We got 25cm snow today and more is on the way.

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:24 pm**

We had about 10 -15 cm.

Does anybody has any nice "Fordson in the snow"-pictures?
I planned to take some pictures of my tractor today, but I had a flat battery...

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:25 pm**

As it was -8C and thick snow, I got 7 litres of antifreeze into the Major. Two days later and it's now chucking it down and +5C. Nearly time to go back into shorts and flip-flops !

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:53 pm**

We got 8 inches on the ground right now, and with more coming this weekend.

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:46 pm**

We have some snow here in Finland.

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:33 pm**

Grani,
I reckon you do have some snow, looks like the Major is doing a good job too, and your having some fun. Here it's colder than blue whiz, but no snow.

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:27 pm**

Great picture, Grani!
Do you have some more?

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:23 pm**

We had -29,7 C last night.

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:40 pm**

BRRRRRRRRR!

Great pictures.

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:36 pm**

Hi guys,

We only had a little snow in the Netherlands. Temperature is about 0 till -/- 5 degrees Celsius.

I took some pictures this weekend.

a little artistic

Posted: **Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:50 pm**

We have had over 6 inches in the last 2 days, the temperature is 2F with wind chills down to -5 and -10 below zeroF. This is what I call "colder than blue whiz."

Posted: **Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:50 pm**

It was -32 degrees Celsius here the other day. Now it is much warmer, about -18 C. I haven't been able to take pictures of my Major because I don't want to start her. She lives in a cold shed right now unfortunately. I did try to start her a little while ago when it was only about -16 or -17 C. It took a lot of grindind with the starter (probably about 20 seconds) and when she finally started the air was thick with white smoke. The engine sounded quite harsh so I shut her off quickly. It was too cold to be driving anyway with the steel pan seat and everything.

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:03 am**

Pascal,

How much snow did you have the last week and yesterday?
We had non at all. Now it's snowing very light.

Emiel,

From the media is sounds like you cant come out of the houses because of the snow.

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:31 pm**

Hi Henk,

This weekend we only had a few centimeters of snow.
But wednesday around 16.00h we had about 5 - 10 centimeters. That doesn't sounds to much, but (due to the traffic hour) it was enough to cause a
traffic jam till 02.00h

around Amsterdam

Luckily for me the subway had no trouble driving.

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:23 pm**

More snow.

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:31 pm**

And my first testing to upload to the tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZmodaxRSk

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:33 pm**

Hey Grani,
That's pretty cool! We had 8 inches last weekend, I sure could've used a roadless.

What's the video about with the hydrualic lift? It was to dark to tell what you were doing.

I've got a 4 wheel drive kubota with a bucket, but it's a small one. It does pretty good though.

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:58 pm**

Nice video and Roadless

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:51 pm**

Mark wrote:
What's the video about with the hydrualic lift? It was to dark to tell what you were doing.

It is a lift that i made on the stern of the boat. It is for hight adustment of the swimplatform.

(I hate the possibility for everyone to look at other videos and pictures than the selected one. It makes the threads

)

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:38 pm**

Nice video Grani,
and great sound.

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:06 pm**

Hi Grani,

I totally agree with Henk. Great to hear that "six men orchestra" again.

What kind of battery (how many Amperes?) you have in your tractor to get it started in the cold?

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:23 pm**

Pascal wrote: What kind of battery (how many Amperes?) you have in your tractor to get it started in the cold?

I have 2*110Ah but it is not nessesary to have so big batteries, i just happen to have a lot of them, thats why. The 590E engine starts easy with a single 60Ah battery if it is in good condition. I have a hoseheater so it´s warm when i start normally.

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:45 am**

Hi Grani,

Two times 110Ah? I'm impressed!!

What do you prefer: an 70Ah battery with extra starterpower or a regular 90 - 100Ah battery?
I have trouble choosing which will be best for mine.

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