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Message: <blockquote data-quote="500K_773" data-source="post: 584" data-attributes="member: 33">My wife called an told me she was using my loader to clear the driveway.  She has not really ran the machine before so I have to worry a little bit.  She probably would do more damage to the house or vehicles in the driveway than to the loader.  I told her to be careful because I had not put on the tire chains yet.  I would hate for her to slide off into a ditch and be stuck.  If the rear end slides into the ditch and your front end is pointing toward the roadway, there is little you can do to free yourself.  The bucket is pretty much worthless at that point, unless you can spin yourself around and push yourself out of the ditch with the bucket.  I feel that tire chains, especially when plowing remote driveways in the hills, are invaluable insurance.I heard this is an El Nino year and we should expect a warmer winter.  Maybe the jetstream will bring more moisture with it and we'll have tons of snow.  My friend works for the fire service and said historically when we have a bad fire year (like this past summer) we usually have a big snow year.  Remeber the 149" of snow we received in 1990?  1989 was a bad fire year.  In fact, my friend is gearing up for a big snow year and just bought a new plow for his truck.</blockquote>