Winter gets the best of town equipment

The recent snowfalls have done a number on Pine Bluffs’ front end loader and now repairs are costing more than the piece of equipment is worth.

“We’re having severe issues with the loader,” said public works director Jerry Lamb to Pine Bluffs Town Council on January 4. “The differentials, the right front differential and the left back differential are out. We’ve noticed it a lot with moving snow. You can drive down the road and not notice it, but when you put a load, it’s clunking and banging turning a corner, and it’s leaking oil really bad, so I think we need to come up with a plan of what w...