Anyone get much snow?

[shtferbrains]

We had about 6in + since Christmas eve.
Not blown much about 18 in in fields.

Good going for snowmobiles.

Using FWA on bale tractor.

Normal here is -14 day -24 night

We made -25 today forecasting -35 tonight

[fjlip]

Had about 6” here. I can’t believe that it would snow so much at these temps. I don’t ever remember that happening before!

Careful you are falling into the "climate change" rabbit hole. Happened 1/3 of my life here....

[seldomseen]

Remember years ago when guys would ridge fields to trap snow. PFR had guy over by Tisdale with that setup on his tractor to do just that. Lot of stuff on PFR looked innovative and well thought out in the day but now watched looks dated and pointless.

Yes I remember that guy and he is still farming. Dry years of the 80’s he mounted kind of like plow shers on the shanks of a cultivater. Pulled that around the fields making ridges. It might have been on the front of a bi directional. Can’t quite remember. He always got lots of snow piled up and he told me it payed good returns. I will have to drive over that way one day and see if he has had it out.

[seldomseen]

As for snow it’s starting to pile up. Likely 8-10 inches in the past weeks. Very fine light snow during this past week with really cold temps. If the wind picks up it will really blow.
I remember when I was a kid a listening to friend of my Dad whose family had moved up here after losing there farm in the south, He said some of the winters during the 30’s drought had piles of snow but still could not grow anything during the summers.
Snow here would get the crop started but we will need rain shortly after the crop gets going. No sub soil moisture.

[redleaf]

Had the opportunity to sit and have a cup of coffee with an old gent south and west of Coronach back in the early eighties. He told me they had snow up to the eaves of the house in the thirties but it wouldn’t grow a crop. It all ran down the coulies.

[Sheepwheat]

Of course the snow was up to the eaves and windows. There was no stubble to catch it!

[sumdumguy]

I think it was 1974 that we had snow right to the top of second floor eaves of farm house.

White-tails are gonna find it difficult to find food. Those lentil regrowths that were so tasty and nutritious may be pretty far down now.

Milder weather wouldn’t hurt.

[shtferbrains]

My dad contracted to blow snow for the local snowplow club in the early 50's with a JD R and a blower.
No high roads or wings on the big graders.
Some used V plows that basicly worked as snow traps.
Nobody was set up to move snow even to get out of yards in those days.
Snow and cold weather was a lot more than inconvenient.

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[fjlip]

My dad contracted to blow snow for the local snowplow club in the early 50's with a JD R and a blower.
No high roads or wings on the big graders.
Some used V plows that basicly worked as snow traps.
Nobody was set up to move snow even to get out of yards in those days.
Snow and cold weather was a lot more than inconvenient.

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Yes Dad and uncles had a snow plow "club" in 50's. Shitty narrow roads, made with a Cat, steep ditches, brush/willows to catch snow ON THE ROAD, V plow made a great catch too. RM did some apparently, just graders. Cat + Sc****r done in 60's, brush gone, last rebuild past our yard in drought of 1988.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

In 1986 we had a snow storm in May(I'm almost certain about the timing, but it seems ubelievable now).
No school for a week. County brought in a big cat to plow our road. To a kid like me, it seems that the drifts were 8 feet tall almost the length of our road. The cat couldn't just drive, he had to back up and push at a slight angle until stalling out, then go the other way, for a full mile of road. Next year the county took all the trees out along our road, so it couldn't drift in like that.

It was a winter wonderland to kid my age. Dad wasn't nearly as impressed though.

[blackpowder]

No clubs here, county did it all back then I believe, and contractors with Cats.
73-74 epic here too. People getting to town on snow machines if they had the money for them.
A lot of roads were brushed and landscaped after that year. A lot of culverts redone.

4-6" of light snow here too.
Feels wetter when ground white.
Shows us it "can".

[bobofthenorth]

Wisdom from my grandfather:

Can't grow a crop on snow.
Never had a crop failure in March

We were gone for a week - got home (Buchanan) late last night. Probably 10" of new fluffy snow but we only ran into it when we got north of Melville. #1 highway was bare all the way from Banff to Regina. Gotta love the new bypass around Regina. I hate that place.