Drifter wrote:

record snow falls. i know you guys get more where your at, but,
people get crazy around here when it snows. it was too deep and too
wet to use my tractor,

Full sized tractor or lawn tractor?
Couldn't you have done it in "layers", just skimming off a little and
making multiple passes?

so, i had to use to use my back. prob hurt for
a week.

Drifter...

As a Vietnam vet, presumably you are, like many of us here, not a spring
chicken g. Not only is the snow bad for your back, it's bad for your
heart -- a double whammy, the weight of the snow PLUS the cold air. Be
careful, take it easy. Hire it done if you can't use the tractor. Even
paying one or two hundred bucks is way cheaper than a visit to the
ER...or funeral home.