Yes, the council contacted us yesterday about it as we have contracts with the council for ploughing/gritting with our tractors. They think it is going to get fairly bad up here in the dales, with the snow and wind drifting.
Even though we are only in the yellow warning area, we have the ploughs on and salt spreaders loaded on the Fendt 742 and the two New Hollands. Plus we have the Snowcat if it gets really bad up here.
The council have us on standby from 1400hrs tomorrow for the following 72 hours for ploughing and gritting the local roads in the Dales (our ‘patch’ is Swaledale/ Wensleydale and over Buttertubs, which can be a bit hairy. Plus anywhere else they send us).
All our hill sheep are on low pasture and the cattle herds are all in, so our stock will be okay and we won’t have to dig any out of snow holes hopefully.