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Author Topic: Shoveled out my bale.  (Read 555 times)

Offline Easykeeper

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Shoveled out my bale.
« on: January 20, 2014, 04:19:00 PM »
Good thing I had a diesel tractor with a loader...   :saywhat:

 

Offline Keith Zimmerman

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2014, 04:47:00 PM »
Holy cow!  How much snow on the ground??  I will be using my John Deere tomorrow on the storm we have coming.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2014, 07:06:00 PM »
It's hard to tell, it's relatively open around me so it's waist deep in some spots and calf deep in others.  More than enough to call it a real winter...lol.

I wish I could come up with a better place for that bale, but it has to go where half the snow from the driveways gets piled.  As you know, a tractor and a loader can make short work of a job like that.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2014, 07:23:00 PM »
Thanks for reminding me why I moved south.
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Offline Todd Cook

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2014, 07:27:00 PM »
Wow! It's 54 degrees here .....

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2014, 07:29:00 PM »
Looks familiar... been a loooong winter already in Minnesota!!
Where are you located Easykeeper?
I'm near Stillwater.
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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2014, 07:33:00 PM »
I'm out in the country about 20 miles south of Lake Mille Lacs.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2014, 07:49:00 PM »
Looks like its time to build an enclosure AKA a shooting barn. All that snow has to do a number on your eyes when shooting, so much white. Do you get headaches from it
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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2014, 08:01:00 PM »
I can shoot in my pole barn or in my house (only 8yrds), but there's nothing like being out under the sky.  Unfortunately it's going down to -20deg. F. again so it's back in the house I go.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2014, 08:16:00 PM »
That is precisely why I cannot live up north!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2014, 08:57:00 PM »
Don break any arrows   :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:  

It was 80 degrees down here today without a cloud in the sky.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2014, 09:18:00 PM »
Carfeful shooting into that bale . If there is a lot of moisture from the early wet stuff  it could be like shooting into an ice block!  Could be hard on your arrows. I made that mistake last year. This year I've been keeping it covered with a tarp.
I'm a couple hrs. North of you I keep snow blowing a trail to my bale but either don't have time or its to dark or too cold.
Sometimes I question why I live here. Those southern boys get to shoot outside year round  with not much more,than a sweatshirt.  I don't even feel like bunny hunting this year the snow is too deep to be trudging through. Ahhhh whataya gonna do?   :jumper:

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2014, 09:27:00 PM »
quote:
Originally posted by Caughtandhobble:
Don break any arrows    :banghead:

Offline Easykeeper

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2014, 09:29:00 PM »
All fine with the bale fingers.  I sometimes get a little skim of frozen material on the surface but it doesn't affect the arrows.  Makes getting the wrap off kind of a pain though when I put one in for the horses.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2014, 09:31:00 PM »
It's getting a little old around here. Too many days below zero. It hurts to look at that pic.

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2014, 09:15:00 PM »
Man I'm startin to worry about the deer around here. This cold has to be getting hard on them.
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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2014, 09:21:00 PM »
Green grass and upper 40s here in WA.
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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2014, 10:19:00 PM »
Looks familar!  My targets a little smaller, and lost a new arrow in the snow drift.  Offered my son a dollar if he finds it.  Needle in a haystack!  Have to wait for spring.

Offline akbowbender

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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2014, 10:46:00 PM »
I'm seeing green grass! Thank goodness I live in the "banana belt!"
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Re: Shoveled out my bale.
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2014, 12:18:00 PM »
Looking at a high of 10 today  :banghead:    :archer:
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