ionbeam
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What's the Weather like where YOU are today?
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wheatonFJR
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Yeah, BD, jes try and fix dat!
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beemerdons
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bigjohnsd
2021 BMW R1250GSA
In Boulder Colorado today, 70f and beautiful!
Mr Bill
Old Dog
Don't get sunburn!
33" of snow here in Worcester. May get a few to five more but that won't matter much. Two hours and two tanks of gas to clean my drive and walk ways with my bright orange Husqvarna snowthrower.
rushes
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Perfect! Beautiful! Just what I love. Upper 60's maybe 70. Should hit 70 again tomorrow.
I shut the shop early to have a meeting with my therapist....
I shut the shop early to have a meeting with my therapist....
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Uncle Hud
Just another blob of protoplasm using up your oxyg
Sooooo .... I'm ignorant of snowblowing procedures (despite 2 winters in Boston) ..... do you throw the stuff onto your neighbor's yard? Into your (chuckle, chuckle) swimming pool? Into the street for the plows to throw back into your yard? Or just into a giant pile in the middle of your yard?
Enquiring minds want to know. (The Charlestown apartment complex where I lived piled it under our adjacent I-93 viaduct.)
Enquiring minds want to know. (The Charlestown apartment complex where I lived piled it under our adjacent I-93 viaduct.)
Bungie
FrostBack #2 - IBA # 44620
Giant pile in the middle of your yard, as far away from your house as possible.
We haven't had much snow this year, I've only had the snowblower out about once a week.
Today is a crisp and clear minus 25C without the windchill. I think the girls and myself will go skating tonight on Ramsey Lake Skate Path.
But this guy is giving me ideas...
We haven't had much snow this year, I've only had the snowblower out about once a week.
Today is a crisp and clear minus 25C without the windchill. I think the girls and myself will go skating tonight on Ramsey Lake Skate Path.
But this guy is giving me ideas...
Mr Bill
Old Dog
Blow it where the melt will go into your neighbors yard and not your own basement. Illegal and stupid to put into street that was just plowed and you want to keep it away from the end of the road because the snow pile is allready high enough from the street plows to cause problems seeing around the corner when you pull out.
There will be a lot of dump trucks hauling this stuff out of the city for a week. The city has a monster snow blower that fills up dump trucks as it moves along.
We only got about 18-20" yesterday. Didn't make it to 2' except in the drifts, of which there were many. Of course the town's plow set up a nice 3-4' berm out at the end of the driveway. News reports were for upwards of 30" in my town, but I think they went looking for a deep spot to measure.
I have plenty of yard to blow the snow into, but throwing snow onto a neighbors yard is not a crime around here. The guy across the street has a plow guy do his (steep) driveway and he pushes the snow down into my front yard every time. No biggee, it's just snow. It melts eventually. But we are in Cow Hampshire. People are a bit more uptight about these things in the southern NE states. I saw on the news that some woman (in CT I think) attacked her neighbor with her snowblower. I can just imagine what that was about.
When it snows a good amount like that I like to clear a path around the side of the house, to the back porch, the basement bulkhead and the shed out back I keep the generator in. Plus our driveway is about 120' long. Even with all of that it only took an hour and half to clean up this morning. I'll take that over the slush and ice they get further south any day.
I have plenty of yard to blow the snow into, but throwing snow onto a neighbors yard is not a crime around here. The guy across the street has a plow guy do his (steep) driveway and he pushes the snow down into my front yard every time. No biggee, it's just snow. It melts eventually. But we are in Cow Hampshire. People are a bit more uptight about these things in the southern NE states. I saw on the news that some woman (in CT I think) attacked her neighbor with her snowblower. I can just imagine what that was about.
When it snows a good amount like that I like to clear a path around the side of the house, to the back porch, the basement bulkhead and the shed out back I keep the generator in. Plus our driveway is about 120' long. Even with all of that it only took an hour and half to clean up this morning. I'll take that over the slush and ice they get further south any day.
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ionbeam
2 FUN
My garage driveway was 100% higher than my snow blower chute, I had to tunnel under the snow, back up then run over it again. The snow was pretty uniform around 30" deep. I will tackle the front driveway and sidewalk tonight, it is uniformly waist deep and about the same height as the handlebars of the blower. Slush and ice really, really sucks.
wheatonFJR
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I agree. It sucks down south.
No no, Mark. When Alan and I are saying "slush and ice down south sucks" we're talking about southern New England, NY, NJ, etc.
Not way down south in Dixie where it doesn't really snow except once in a blue moon. I think we can all agree, that would not suck in the least.
For Alan, I have your solution. And it's even environmentally friendly.
But if that's still not quite big enough, you might go with this one
Not way down south in Dixie where it doesn't really snow except once in a blue moon. I think we can all agree, that would not suck in the least.
For Alan, I have your solution. And it's even environmentally friendly.
But if that's still not quite big enough, you might go with this one
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Uncle Hud
Just another blob of protoplasm using up your oxyg
Thanks for the education, y'all. We do get slush down here -- in paper cones with colored sugar water.
About 2' along the coast out heyah in Glosta', MA. I cleared my 150', steep driveway @ 6 am Tues. so my nurse wife could get to work with the 8.5 HP Craftsman thrower, went out for round 2 around 4 pm, fired up the thrower and noticed that it sounded like it was over revving, 15 seconds later.... BANG! and it died. Gave the pull cord a few tugs and nuthin', no compression. Must have broken a valve, or the rod, or something. Dang it all!!
ionbeam
2 FUN
Finished round 2 with my front driveway. I never expected to be able to get the job done. It was more like a mining operation than snow blowing, my snow blower only had the tip of the chute sticking out of the snowl
Dang 900gc, that's bad news at a real bad time. Do you think it was the CCT?
Sorry, 'bout that 'joke'. It sounds like the governor was stuck (ice? snow?) and allowed the engine to over rev. If you have a heated garage and enough mechanical skills to swap in a new engine, it is an economically sound option. If it absolutely has to be done now, you are hiring a plow service or buying a new 'blower. If there was anyway for a plow to do my front driveway I would have (tired) to hire a plow, but they all seem to be booked right now. Good luck getting your driveway cleared before tonight and tomorrow's snow and next Monday's snow.
RossKean
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My 20-year-old blower is in desperate need of some TLC. The left auger is detached on one end (need a weld or replacement), the belts and drive wheel are about a year past needing to be replaced (for the second time in 20 years), the sheet metal is getting rusty, it now only runs with about 3/4 choke, control cables and linkages are "iffy" and it struggles to throw snow much more than about 8'. Other than that its pretty good - beats the crap out of shoveling! We also have a couple of significant snow events forecast for the next week or so. I just hope the blower holds out for the remaining season. Nothing I hate more than trying to do critical mechanical maintenance (repair) in a cold wet garage!
I heard (on the news, so it must be true) that snowblower sales have gone through the roof this week. Unlikely to get a good deal right now if you can even find one. But as much as the robber barons plow drivers around here get for doing a 150' driveway you can pay full retail on a nice new blower and be money ahead in about a year.
Abercrombie FJR
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Ouch. I had the same thing happen to my old snow blower many years ago. Ionbeam nailed it, my governor froze, the motor was over reving, and the crank shaft end of the rod elongated causing a horrible noise. It was another expensive life lesson to replace the rod and rebuild the engine. I knew it was running too fast and the governor was probable stuck, but I thought it would warm up and free is self. Besides, that old snow blower never threw snow so far. I was making it all the way over to the neighbors driveway.
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