Snow

[Phil Waterman]

Revival of old thread - It is snow time in the Northern Hemisphere or the will it go in the snow time. Over the years we have had a number of threads on MLU about playing in the snow with our military vehicles.

Well SNOW has arrived early to the North Eastern United States with a late October major storm 20+ inches. While snow this time of year is not uncommon for our northern brothers in parts of Canada a storm over the weekend resulted in shattering the a 2 inch record for New Hampshire that dated back some 140 years.

The result was a very heavy wet snow on unfrozen ground. My little 1977 plow truck (another antique with only 47000miles) could not push the snow even with the blade raised 5-6 inches. So it was bring out the big truck my BEAUTY a 1942 Pattern 13 C60S to break trail for the plow couple of trips up and down the drive to pack down the snow gave the little truck a path it could actually plow snow on. The hard back snow kept the plow from digging in.

I've posted a video and some more pictures on the bottom of my Playing in the Snow page http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.com/Snow.html