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Old 01-04-2013, 08:30 AM   #16
Keith True
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Default Re: Incredible snowing plowing films from upstate NY in the 1930s

I've plowed with a Water before.It's not as much fun as it looks.I was used to plowing with a B model Mack,and I would start to drag after about 30 hours.In the Walters I would start to run down at 15 or 20 hours.The later one I ran was all wheel drive,but there wasn't all that much difference from the early 30's machines.Noisy,cold,like running a bulldozer over ledge for hours.It was only used for breaking open roads that had been lost when the snow piled up faster than the trucks could get to it and to open up some of the roads to get the milk out of the farms.That was always a priority,get the milk out.That was more important than the mail.Lots of times in a blizzard I would get confused,lose all sense of direction,not know which way was up,down,right,left,and while I might be a mile from home I would feel like I was the only person left in the world.We had no cell phones then so the only way anybody would know I had a problem was if I didn't show up in a half day or so.
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