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Nice morning rip yesterday with a couple good buds. Happy to get out before the rain. About 2-3’ of setup snow in grey highlands. Deeper in drifts and loaded areas.

I have a front mount blower and weight box for the winter. Summer is a loader and back hoe.

It was quite good, we put on 75 miles for the day

As Capster pointed out, lots of snow in Huntsville.

Some Sault Ste. Marie Reality Jokes...Enjoy "In Sault Ste. Marie, you snow-blow a path to the garage.....so the burglars can break in" "In Sault Ste. Marie, you have a 50/50 chance of getting your snow-blower stuck going downhill" "In Sault Ste. Marie, my sled is stylish, sexy, comfortable and elegantly maintained....the house on the other hand"

theres mine, I just leave the loader & bucket on for counter balance. These blowers are HEAVY!

She asks for help when she needs it. My son and I are only 1/2 mile away. And every year she says she's not going to put up as much and every year it all goes up.....lol "Well I like it all and I had the time" is all she says. Just yesterday I talked to her and she said wasn't going to take anything down until it got warmer and some of the snow went away. Well... I have a camera I monitor on her front porch and she is out there right now taking down lights....lol Yes, she has her heated gloves on.

lmao, Haliburton Forest, put on 20 miles yesterday doing trail work for Snowcrest though.

My 86 years old mother has a pair of these gloves. She used them while putting up her Christmas lights, going for walks and various outdoor chores. She has arthritis in her hands and needs the heat. She says they work great and are flexible enough for here to get things done.

I have a Triton TC 167, it is a great trailer, easy to pull (had a F150, now have a Ranger), both tow it well. Easy to load/unload the sleds. The trailer height is the only real drawback as you will crack your head more than once, and with a helmet on, you have to be fully bent over. Any inline trailer should work fine.

Nice! Hows the boy liking the sled? And your prayer was answered to get some snow over the holidays when hockey was on hold to get some smiles in!

Covid shut down the economy. Had the government not flooded it with new money we would have gone into a major recession. However they way over did it from all sides, closed too much and printed too much. Then pretended the printing had no effect on inflation and insisted it was transitory. Clearly we have seen a depreciation of currency value close to 25% over a period of 3 years and being the liberals are financing their idiotic spending with new money it, currency, will continue to decrease in value for the next 2 years. This, combined with the overnight rate moving ever higher will cause a real issue, a slow economy with high inflation still persisting. Those that carry debt will hurt the most, the liberals will raise taxes and print money to support the poor while stripping net worth from the middle income earners. Make no mistake, this was planned. A short grade ten class studying macro economics would be enough understanding to see this. Those that implemented it hold MBAs.

Just came up to spend the week in huntsville at our cabin. Most snow at one time in my history here(2003) glad I brought my kubota blower up...still took forever as there was is a solid 4 ft...twice as high as the blower auger. Got the generator going as cabin was a nice 2 deg inside. We were lucky as all our roads were plowed for the first time an hour before our arrival...felt like a lottery win.. Then even better power comes back on...woo hoo..

Willie from the Bristol Motel (recently sold) in Wawa has one or two rear blowers on his tractors that [I think] will work going either direction. Seems like there is a hydro actuated gate that flips over from front to back somehow? Keep in mind that it's been 3 years since I've been to Wawa in the winter now, so I'm a bit fuzzy. I doo recall that it will suck up a log chain tho. THAT I'm sure of... For whatever reason - it seems that he was not overly excited about that revelation at the time? .

Never mind the gloves - 86 year old ma putting her own lights up!

Not sure why so long. It fits in a tilting shoe that gets pinned to the subframe. It does not angle.

He is really enjoying it, naturally more power would be nice! Santa came through big time with the white stuff. We had a lot of fun today,

I was thinking he would be out beating the forest roads with this new snow. Strange we haven't heard from him. I hope he's OK.

John Deere 1025r with loader is $31,000 plus hst

Yes, it does.....I do not recall seeing any posts from him yet this season, usually do, especially when the season starts.

Looks like Blakes sleds inside look like his too hoping all is well I got mine the same day he got his trailer

We got enough snow in Stoney Keppel land that we had to help out our local ski club. Their new groomer can handle deep snow, so we got to do laps of their trails all morning. Some of our guys brought their vintage machines, this one was so fun! https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFvjrHUE/

Did covid cause inflation, or the printing press? I guess both. when you print trillions (40% more) of dollars overnight, this is what happens. More money in circulation now. it’s theft to say the least…. next year won’t be good for many, but as people slowly stop spending, prices will come back down. we backed out of our spring check this year because there’s too much uncertainty right now in the economy.

I guess so, but it is what you need to do if you do not want to sell the house to retire and actually e joy being retired. Maybe that description is upper middle class. I am just guessing here. By the sounds of it 90% are in huge debt both secured and in Cc debt. When I was a kid many paid cash for the house, most paid cash for cars and nobody had any cc debt.

Yes debt will kill you eventually, unless the debt has been used to obtain an asset that grows faster than interest and inflation. I think a lot of Canadians are in over their heads right now.

Pretty much need that income to buy a house in any urban center. I guess it depends on how we define middle class. I define it as owning a home 2 vehicles and saving 20% of gross income for retirement.

Last time I heard of the middle class target, it was a rather large one with lots of doubts surrounding it, so I imagine it is the same now.....if there is an actual target that is that makes sense. Personally I think the debt load ones carries is a bigger factor vs. what a family makes......of course the more you make, the more you tend to spend.

Cant do that - optics looks bad to those waiting to ride and wondering why the hell not. Secondly, a packed trail will survive the rain and plus temps a lot better than non packed. Third, I don't trust the forecast, see what the outcome really is, and hope for the best .

Sask Battery. Free delivery and way less money for yousa.

D12 is starting packing tomorrow, Tuesday

Hopefully some of that survives the week. .

We did well in Sault Ste. Marie. The local radio station has us at 97cms for 3 days and the local news station has us at 107cms.

My girls went to work Friday night at 7pm and finally got home this am. 1x24hr shift and 2x12hr shifts. Stayed 2 "days" at hotels to get some sleep and shower.

im just south of port sydney . more squalls this aft

Nowadays anything you buy can be a lemon. I’m just over 250k on my 5.3 with engine management and it runs like the day I bought it.

The dollar has lost 96% of its total value since 1907 when it was introduced. It’s basically worthless right now. 100% this was planned. Technically, we’ve been in a recession for the last 2 quarters. 2023 won’t be a good year. Technology is about to change everything like nobody has ever seen. Greg Foss said it best “it’s just grade 11 math!”

Power has been off at our place since Christmas eve. Got a nice bill coming up for frozen pumphouse when i get back. Oh well