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Old 01-16-2011, 07:25 PM
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Rotti - Nice, I have 6000k's (well one anyway) and a new set coming this week I hope... I think when I do fogs Im gonna get the yellow 3000k ones. and the roof ones will be green 40,000k

I did my driveway, and the piles are as high as my fence - as high as I can make them. I have nowhere to put the snow from the driveway anymore, damn I wish my little trailer was a dump box... I dont want to fill it, then shovel it out somewhere else...

Here is a photo of my backyard, if you were to pick me up and drop me out in the middle, it would be up to my waist. The piles are about 5feet, its almost like walking down a tunnel home. This winter is particularily bad.
 
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Old 01-16-2011, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by blazinloud
well i might as well show you all how I ended up in the ditch.


Can you see the road? Narrow grid road leading to the acreage im renting at about 10mins from saskatoon with about 3-4 foot deep ditch on both sides, very steep.

everything is level'd out from all the snow.




The approach to the driveway where i fell in




Also, you can get lucky and have a set of tracks to follow, thats always nice, especially at night.




sorry about the quality, from my blackberry 8330.
It's pretty flat looking there. Much like the St Lawrence Seaway valley. Windchill must be really bad without much to break it up. Numerous snowdrifts across the roadway too.
 
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Old 01-16-2011, 08:16 PM
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alright heres a few
snowstorm a few years ago

and heres the snowdrifts the day after the storm at the same spot

 
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Now that's winter. They get 3 inches of snow here and everyone calls it a big storm. lol
 
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Old 01-16-2011, 08:21 PM
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Im pissed that we barley have any snow... Maybe 30cm at most...
 
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Old 01-17-2011, 11:39 AM
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Theres a shot from right out my back door looking east this morning. id say the field is at least 3 feet deep and snow drifts a plenty. i need 4wd just to make it up the driveway.

snowmobilers paradise







Thats my landlords quanzit or however you spell it. its huge! i think i counted around 4 or 5 huuuge mobile homes. at least 5 cars, 1 being an old porsche, and 70-some pink cadillac a few snow mobiles/dirt bikes/crotch rocket. and 2, yes 2 nearly identical 200x jaguar soft tops, 6L chev truck an older f-150, a volvo and apparently he just bought property in vegas. must be nice.


oh, and it is very flat, all farm land and such.
 

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Old 01-18-2011, 08:56 AM
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i dont have a picture but i woke up this morning to see -43 ! Damn i think ill stay in bed
 
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-43? Yeah screw that
 
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Old 01-18-2011, 09:49 AM
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Whoa -43 is enough wind chill to turn your coolant to slush if you dont warm the engine up...

Quanset, you were close. You could grow alot of *cough* tomatos in there, at least thats what they do in BC with those buildings.
 
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Old 01-18-2011, 10:35 AM
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what do you mean turn your coolant to slush if you dont warm the engine up? every canadian should test its strength in the fall.

-55 to -60 and its still liquid......thats as cold as ive seen
 


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