Since this is a farm things get used, things get worn out, and equipment gets broken. Enter the machinery committee. For those of you who are not basking in the snow adorning the Iowa ground, we've had some snow recently, a lot of snow actually. Thanks to the evening news the other night I was informed that we have now set the record for number of consecutive days with 4+ inches of snow on the ground, we're at 58 days and counting. (The old record was 55 days in case you were wondering.) Anyway, with all this snow it has to be moved with the tractor and blade. The blade got in a fight with a rock and lost, fixing it is not a problem unless the old metal is "froze up" with rust.
The machinery committee uses a torch to try to heat up the backside of the blade so they can bend it back straight.
