Whacking it off AND getting it blown...

[tmcalavy]

Yep, I think all this snow blower tech talk is code for below-zero sex of some kind...otherwise they wouldn't keep the thread going...people are strange up there in the Great White North.

 

[Mark_88]

OK, OK...now I have to admit it was innuendo...not in your end though...manly kind of code...with womanly kind of endo parts...

Now that it's been discovered, you have to join the "Frozen Knuts" club and I will send you the complete decoder kit including the ring, manual, a nifty warm electric knut bag to rejuvenate your gonads after to and fro~licking in the snow...and as a bonus I will throw in the "PHUCK, IT'S COLD" embroidered touque...

All for just $19.99 plus S&M, er, shipping and handling...as the necrophiliacs say "get em while they're hot"...

 

[Ozwynn]

I thought the Canadians had V8-powered blowers -

I thought Canadian blowers could suck start a 15 litre diesel through a 6" dia. 20' long exhaust.

 

[Rowdy Fitzgerald]

OK, OK...now I have to admit it was innuendo...not in your end though...manly kind of code...with womanly kind of endo parts...

Now that it's been discovered, you have to join the "Frozen Knuts" club and I will send you the complete decoder kit including the ring, manual, a nifty warm electric knut bag to rejuvenate your gonads after to and fro~licking in the snow...and as a bonus I will throw in the "PHUCK, IT'S COLD" embroidered touque...

All for just $19.99 plus S&M, er, shipping and handling...as the necrophiliacs say "get em while they're hot"...

Sign me up!!!! Ba ha ha ha!

 

[a31ford]

I thought the Canadians had V8-powered blowers -

we do !!! (but we only use those ones once the snow gets over 14 feet deep)...

Greg

 

[fyre82]

I used to shovel my drive just for fun, but it got to be too much, some winters, not this one.
So I bought a 36", 10 Hp gas powered snow shovel.
My drive is only 20'x40', but the plow birm at the street can be a brutal, frozen, compressed mountain. Add 12" or more of Sierra Cement that you would have to chop out by hand to get to said frozen wall = at least a sore back and a day lost doing it.
This one has tires, is slow and will beat you up, but it beats manual.
A little light snow I will use my pusher shovel and go after it just for fun.

Someone can send me some snow, only used the shovel once so far . . .

Rich

 

[Mark_88]

we do !!! (but we only use those ones once the snow gets over 14 feet deep)...

Greg

WOW~ now those are snow blowers...could probably use them in a conventional war if anyone is stupid enough to attack Canada in the winter...

"Run away...it's a trap...there's TWO of them..."

 

[Chris_North]

Yea, I thought about a blower for the tractor too until I saw the prices.

I think one thing with a lot of plow guys now is that places want to hire someone "cheaper" and cheaper usually results in "we'll just push it here because it's easy."

I do mostly residential and always try to push things as far out as I can get away with so that I have room to work the next time. But I've also run into people (especially this year) that wait waaayy too long to want their driveway plowed. Two nights ago we got a heavy snowfall, then freezing rain and then rain. The 8" of fluff with a crust on top became slopping wet and super heavy and now is dried out a little but it's like 5" of concrete now. And now I'm getting calls to plow out something that would be better suited for bucketing out with a machine (and nobody wants to hear those prices!).

I could even understand that where there are outside contractors clearing things in a hurry or in an unfamiliar area but we do all our storm clean up in house. Some of these guys have been with the company for 20+ years and I wonder what the hell they are thinking sometimes. You know whenever you pile snow there it melts across the road in the day then freezes at night, so why wouldn't you just push it into the other pile? Or backdrag the snow away from rather than pushing it into the loading dock? And for the love of all that is holy stop piling it around the dumpsters, storm drains, and work vans! I understand sometimes these things are unavoidable but it seems every storm the short-sightedness of people that have been doing this stuff for almost as long as I've been alive and should know better has no end.

Yeah this last storm where it was freezing drizzle on 8+ inches of snow I thought it best to wait until after the rain had all but stopped before moving any snow, but I knew the next day anything that wasn't cleared would be a nightmare. I guess people think plow trucks are unstoppable or something. TBH now that I think of it around here the vast majority driveways that look like they have been plowed are ones with a truck sitting in the driveway. I think I've only seen two driveways where it looks like a contractor did it, but then again I could just not be paying attention.


I've been really considering buying one of the junk blowers at the scrapyard for $50 and adapting it for my lawn tractor. Of course with the amount of money and time I invest in doing that I probably could just get the blower working again but that's not as much fun...

 

[Mark_88]

I lived on a farm, so to speak, with a 150' driveway that the landlord said he would blow it out using his Kuboda ride on with a snow blower on the front. He did that most of the time and only left me to do it a few times...

Those times were when the F^&^%% stupid paper delivery person would toss the F*^&ing paper (his words) right on the middle of the driveway where it would sink into the snow so as to make it invisible...then the paper, upon entering the snow blower would jam the blade and would snap the pin on the power take-off if you didn't stop it right away...

Apparently this is a common problem in rural areas...

But that Kubota was an amazing machine that took quite a bit of testing on my part to actually get it stuck to the point where I had to get off my ass and do something physical...and the time I got it stuck was while cutting grass (not in the winter, mind you) and got a little too close to a marshy section by the drainage ditch...

However, upon trying to realize my dream of actually owning one of them, I found out they are quite expensive...to the tune of $4,000 to $5,000 with all the power take-off attachments like the snow blower and grass cutting blades...and that was the base model with no cab...

 

[det107]

we do !!! (but we only use those ones once the snow gets over 14 feet deep)...

14 feet deep ?!?! Isn't that the time to work like an animal ??
*Hint Hint* A hibernating bear _