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[Debs.]

I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm 

Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.

......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.

[tunnie]

Not got a snow plough you can fit to the tractors? I had enough trouble shoveling the snow off our driveway, looking at the photos of your drive looks like a mission and a half!

[Dishevelled Den]

I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm 

Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.

......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.

Agreed 

[Martin_1962]

A few inches here

[STMO999]

I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm 

Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.

......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.

Just call the RAF. They had to rescue some silly cow out walking her dog in Wales today.


It wasn't you was it Debs

[Kevin Wood]

Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.

Alternatively, have you considered a set of skis for the Long-EZ?  8-)

Had a very "interesting" flight in the Canadian Rockies in a similarly equipped Cessna. Judgement of height during the approach and landing with nothing to use as a reference was kinda hard though. I ended up joining my imaginary circuit about 2500 feet too high! It was only when I spotted a little dot the shape of a windsock that I realised what had gone wrong.

Chap I flew with worked delivering supplies to the various parties hiking across the mountains.

Kevin

[Debs.]

Alternatively, have you considered a set of skis for the Long-EZ?  8-)

Had a very "interesting" flight in the Canadian Rockies in a similarly equipped Cessna. Judgement of height during the approach and landing with nothing to use as a reference was kinda hard though. I ended up joining my imaginary circuit about 2500 feet too high! It was only when I spotted a little dot the shape of a windsock that I realised what had gone wrong.

Chap I flew with worked delivering supplies to the various parties hiking across the mountains.

Kevin

I know my limitations!........slick li`l plane on slick li`l runways combined with marginal IMC conditions: no ta!

At least your failed-approach was terrain clear, Kevin; not subterranean!

[jereboam]

I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm 

Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.

......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.

Sorry, I don't know anything about farming - I may have lived in Deepest Suffolk for the last 15 years, and I may have lived in a Hollandse boerendorp for 18 years before that, but I really have no idea what you have to do on a farm.  I come from Hampstead.

Surely you don't have to do much to cabbages when they're under 2 feet of snow?  Likewise sheep. 

[Debs.]

Just call the RAF. They had to rescue some silly cow out walking her dog in Wales today.


It wasn't you was it Debs

Me, no-moooooo!

[Kevin Wood]

I know my limitations!........slick li`l plane on slick li`l runways combined with marginal IMC conditions: no ta!

At least your failed-approach was terrain clear, Kevin; not subterranean!

It's good to learn how much you've got left to learn sometimes, and it was carried out with "expert supervision".

Kevin

[TheBoy]

seeing as we haven't had proper snow for 30 years, people can't deal with it anymore

[TheBoy]

I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm 

Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.

......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.

We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels

[Kevin Wood]

We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels

Include some sprout Jalfrezi and a box of swan vestas and he'll clear it.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels

Include some sprout Jalfrezi and a box of swan vestas and he'll clear it.

Kevin

That could be the end of North Wales

[LJay]

We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels

Include some sprout Jalfrezi and a box of swan vestas and he'll clear it.

Kevin

That could be the end of North Wales

Don't joke, we've added wind to our snow problems due to a nice bit of stilton! No danger of us running out of gas!!!