#Snow scoop crack

We are in the snow belt east of Lake Huron and if we push up banks they drift in and then we are pushing up even higher banks. It has the advantage over a V-plow in that you can remove the snow from the lane without pushing up banks. We figured sharing the plans with everyone through the pages of the Small Farmer’s Journal would be better than asking people to write for plans. Sherk, RR #1, Wroxeter, ON, N0G 2X0, in appreciation for his drawings and sharing the design. If you decide to use the plans to build one could you please send $20 to Abraham M. A picture is worth a thousand words so I’ll include some photos and also the plans he drew up. We’ve now been using it for over 10 years and it works well. Sherk, who takes orders each fall and then sets up his shop to make them for delivery before winter. The snow scoop is designed and fabricated by a local Mennonite, Abraham M. HM was certainly helping us make win/win/win decisions. The horse powered snow scoop ended up the choice that best fit with our Holistic Goal and we were able to purchase one with a savings over a replacement snow blower that was more than the cost of the HM course we’d taken. We took all the options through the testing questions. We borrowed a neighbours snow scoop and tried it with our horses. We called the neighbor but they weren’t keen on adding our lane (which is long and hilly) to their list of lanes they were already custom blowing. Could we hire a neighbor to blow the lane, could we leave the car and truck at the end of the lane and just hand shovel space for them (we’d done this for 9 years before we had the tractor and blower), could we use a horse powered snow scoop to clear the lane, should we replace the snow blower? We started exploring the options. But with HM training we defined the problem and it wasn’t lack of a snow blower. Before HM training I would have bit the bullet and rushed out to buy a new blower from a dealer at the height of the season – no chance to wait for a summer auction sale. I’d already done some repairs during the first snow that year and decided it was beyond repair. But we wanted to keep the lane clear and snow blowing was my option.įortunately we had taken a Holistic Management course before the old snow blower had the main bearing seize during the second snow of the season.

#Snow scoop crack

With no cab I usually got thoroughly covered with snow dust blown into every crack in my clothing, visibility was lousy and wearing a snow mobile helmet just made it worse as the snow would build up on the visor.

Our tractor is not 4 wheel drive so blowing worked best going down hill. Our lane sloped down to the west which is where our winds tend to come from. In the winter we used the tractor and an old snow blower I’d got cheap at a summer auction sale to keep our long and hilly lane open. We’d been farming with horses and a small tractor for PTO and front end loader work for a number of years.