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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Persons, Seasons, Winter |
Tractor with V plow pushing through very deep snow. [The plow fights its way through a tunnel like snow road.] Scanned: September 2, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Persons, Seasons, Winter |
The tractor may be stuck in the mud. [A plow seems to be at a standstill on a muddy country road. Several men are gathered around the disabled plow, one in a top coat and hat seems out of place.] Scanned: September 2, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, |
Beautiful drifts. The snow blower blew the snow out through an open hole. Scanned: September 4, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, Persons |
Snow blower busting through a drift. [The snow blower makes a clean sweep of the banks.] Scanned: September 4, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, |
V Plow pioneering the road. [The plow is nearly engulfed by the snow it is trying to push.] Scanned: September 4, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, |
V Plow. The lines on the blade show how the curvature was made with a chisel in the shop, to improve the snow throwing characteristics. [This piece of equipment seems to be all blades.] Scanned: September 4, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Buildings, Seasons, Winter, |
Snow plows in some county yard (Ripley?). The snow plow in foreground has the sideways impellers. In background, a Wausau plow frame. [Various pieces of snow removal equipment are shown. Mining houses ? are in the background, nestled against the hill.] Scanned: September 4, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, Persons |
"Rotary Co-Op Wisconsin" This truck had a separate motor for the two fans to operate it. You would back it into the snow bank. Must have been an early version. The discs had solid impellers, with metal deflectors above them. [The plow driver prepares to enter the truck. The menacing blades are located at the back of the machine.] Scanned: September 4, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, Persons |
Tractor pulling a mainliner and one shovel. Man in front may be Johnny Welton, former county engineer. [Several men gather around the tractor that looks like it may be of 1930s/1940s vintage.] Scanned: September 8, 2009 |
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Snow Removal |
Street Cleaning, Snow Removal, Seasons, Winter, |
In Ripley yard, probably pre WWII. [A plow is parked next to a billboard advertising the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty?"] Scanned: September 4, 2009 |