Michigan has been almost devoid of snow this year but today we made up for it with about 12" of wet heavy snow. I took my Cub out and plowed both of my driveways out and also the neighbor who was recently widowed earlier in the day. Again, as always my Cub worked flawlessly even though it was snowing so hard it was difficult to see at times. Normally I'd wait until the snow subsided before venturing out to plow but as wet and heavy as the snow was and another possible 6" in the forecast, I figured I'd try to get ahead of it a bit.
Tonight I went out to give the driveways another round to get rid of the newest snow accumulation but decided I would use my mounted snow blower in a couple of spots that the Cub just doesn't fit into. My snow blowing tractor is a 1974 John Deere 112 which is a dedicated snow blowing tractor. I unhooked the battery maintainer on it, checked the oil and attempted to fire it up. That was a no-go. I was surprised but the battery was dead I started it up and moved it just about a month ago. Disappointed I figured I pull a good battery from another tractor tomorrow and finish things up in the daylight. It occurred to me it's been a long time since I've needed to purchase batteries for any of my equipment so I took a look at the date on the dead battery. It was November of 07!
That's pretty unbelievable for a typical garden tractor battery!
