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White Gold – A million dollars is what Nothern Michigan is now losing because we have none of this white gold you see in the bucket of my Waldon loader. Motels, gas stations, ski resorts , repair shops, etc. continue to struggle with little to no tourist traffic over Christmas and now no snow for New Years. The Gaylord Herald Times says were close to 50 inches behind on snowfall now for this winter. It isn’t bad enough the slow economy is causing millions to lose their homes and thousands to lose their businesses now something so common as snow is making things even worse.
It is very common for people to go buy new plow trucks for $50,000 thinking they can pay the $600. to $900 monthly payments from snowplowing. The average snowplow guy can make over $1,000.00 a day plowing so two times a week is 8 times a month or $8,000.00 . That is easy to pay a new truck payment . I am very lucky i have no equipment payments to pay but several of my friends do.
Mack Truck Progress- I worked on the small parts today and primed about 20 of them.
Waldon Loaders- I went out to fire up the two Waldon’s this morning and neither one would start. Once I jumped them they fired right up. So now I am removing the batteries and keeping them in the shop so next time they will be able to start the loaders with no problem.
Have a great Monday !!
