profdant139 wrote:
Taking, I do have a snow shovel and a winch and a backup camera. But based on what I am hearing from folks with more snow experience than I have, anything up to a foot should be manageable without a plow. Anything over a foot and I am going home!
Good planning.
Keep in mind that snow behaves differently based on temperature and moisture content. Yesterday I barely made it through 3 inches of very heavy crusted snow unhitched. If I had tried to run over it and pack it down it would been a very slick mess. If I had stopped moving the crust would have trapped me, the wheels would start spinning and I would be stuck. If that 3 inch snow was dry and not crusted I would have simply hitched up and gone without a problem.
When I plow with my 4x4 tractor the front bucket of wet snow might weigh 700-800 lbs while dry snow might weigh less than 150 lbs. With my well-equipped tractor I might push dry snow about 200 feet on blacktop while wet snow might not push beyond 30-50 feet. It is much easier to lose traction in wet snow.
So 12 inches of snow can act quite differently based on it's water content an on subsequent weather conditions. Snow can also turn to slush and it can turn to ice.
