By KATIERA WINFREY
WISH-TV | wishtv.com
The heavy snow fall forced a lot of snow cleanup, and one Carmel man used his inherited 70-year-old tractor to clear his neighbors’ driveways.
Ernie Forney lives just off 116th Street in Carmel, and the first snowfall is a gift.
“I just wait for it to snow and come out here and plow people’s driveways for the heck of it,” Forney said. “It’s just fun. It’s playtime.”
He brought the tractor back to Indiana from the family farm in Pennsylvania.
“We had this as a kid,” he said. “And if we didn’t grow it, we didn’t eat it. So we got a lot of use out of this tractor.”
The tractor doesn’t just come out in winter. Each year he drives it to the Indiana State Fair, topping speeds at 10 miles per hour.
But Forney said it’s more than just fun – it’s something he has to do, sort of like his payment of good.
“The church I go to, we have a good neighbor weekend. Every weekend we go out and serve the community,” he said. “So this is part of my task of serving the community. But it’s more fun. It’s not work. Trust me, it’s fun.”