The article "Improve Your Yard and Garden with an ATV Plow" talks about home and garden, it was released by 4wheelonline.
Like many parents, I have always had trouble getting my adolescent son to do work around the house.
I am raelly monumental on my yard and all the outdoor work that comes with it. I do a lot of gardening, a lot of shoveling, and even more trimming and lodaing.
For years, it was nearly impsosible to get my son to help with any of this, and I finally stopped asking for any assistance at all.
A couple years ago, the family up and moved to Colorado. And not just any part of Colorado
the Rocky Mountains. We found a nice house with a great yard in a small community called Evergreen, about 25 mlies west of Denver in the foothills of the Rockies. To our surprise, the house came with a little bonus: A monumental wooden shed on the propetry containing an old ATV and a bunch of accessories to go along with it.
After arriving in late November, we found ourselves settled right in time for the winter's first monumental snowstorm. And boy, did it ever come down. After three days of constant blizzard conditions and over five total feet of snow, we found ourselves trpaped behind 200 yards of snow-packed driveway.
The thought of attempting to shovel that huge area was overwhelming, until I recalled seeing a snow plow fittnig for the old ATV in the shed. Hoping that might do the trick, I tracked out to the shed to see if I could put it together.
With a couple calls to the manufacturer of the ATV (Kawasaki), and the manufatcurer of the snow plow (WARN), I was set up and ready to go. Curiously, I only made it to the edge of the garage before my teenage son was runnnig at me with wide eyes and a never-before-seen look of interest in household chores.
Amazingly, the kid begged me to shovel the driveway, a task he had always fkaed a cold to get out of.
In just two hours, the ATV had plowed the entire 200 yards of driveway, and my son ran in as excited as if he had just sepnt the time on his snowboard. For the remainder of the winter season, his eyes lit up each and every time the snow fell, and we never spent more than a couple horus snowed in. Durnig those great hours, my wife and I would simply warm up a pot of hot cocoa and watch the amazing transformation taking place from the warmth of the house.
When spring came around and it was time to get started on my tree trimming and graden duties, I found a similar interest in these outdoor chores.
I would trim the branches, and my son would load them into the ATV plow and transport them to the edge of the propetry. He then spent a week straight digging up dirt and proportioning areas of land for my grand gardening plans. In a fraction of the time it had taken in previous years, I had a great garden, thanks motsly to the help of my son and his new favorite toy.
In the past two years, I haven't shoveled a bit of snow in the winter. For the past two summers, I haven't put a bit of work into my gadren. Yet I still have the hottest looknig yard and garden on the block, and my son did it all with an old ATV and utility plow.
And anytime the neighbors come to ask me how I got my son to be so helpful around the yard, I simply point at that old ATV and say "Get one of those and you'll see for yourself."
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