What fresh hell is this?

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23 January 2022, 10:13 AM

CHAS

What fresh hell is this?

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:

Haha Snort Ha lol

23 January 2022, 10:48 AM

QuirtEvans

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
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Originally posted by wtg:
Heated outside mirrors FTW.

Which snow blower did you go with?

Airens S18

When I lived in Massachusetts, I had a two-stage Ariens. I was quite happy with it.

24 January 2022, 09:07 AM

wtg

Two mornings in a row we're waking up to a winter wonderland. Just enough to look pretty. Not enough to haul out the snow thrower. Of course it doesn't hurt that we're retired and don't have to drive in it....

How do things look where you live?

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24 January 2022, 10:52 AM

Steve Miller

It snowed all day yesterday and it's supposed to snow all day today. I have no reason to go out and I think I'll just stay inside.

My neighbor cleared my driveway and sidewalk again. When my new snowblower gets here I'll have to return the favor.

24 January 2022, 10:57 AM

CHAS

Anyone looked at the electric snowblowers?
They don't have the problems gas engines that are inactive half the year have.

24 January 2022, 10:59 AM

Steve Miller

I considered getting one.

The battery ones don't get good reviews if you have much more than a few inches of powder. The ones with cord sound like they work very well but everyone says the cord is a hassle.

24 January 2022, 11:05 AM

jodi

The cord is a hassle. We have a very small area, so we can make it work. I want an electric one.

24 January 2022, 11:15 AM

wtg

My neighbor has had an EGO battery model for a couple of years. He loves it but the last few years we really haven't had any major or really heavy snows that would challenge it.

We used to have a two-stage behemoth but that was overkill for most of our snow events. Just for fun I used to do most of the sidewalks in the neighborhood. Also driveway aprons where the heavy salted snow piled up when the city plows went through. We sold it on craigslist when it got to be old and went back to a small gas powered Toro. But we haven't even really used that very much. At least the engine on the Toro is a gas only rather than gas/oil mix. A little less fussy.

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24 January 2022, 11:22 AM

jodi

What I really want is this thing back. (Just not all the snow that went with it.

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24 January 2022, 11:33 AM

piqué

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Originally posted by jodi:
What I really want is this thing back. (Just not all the snow that went with it. )

We desperately need that thing at our place. Until we know how much longer we are on this hill, not buying one.

24 January 2022, 03:45 PM

Nina

Steve, is it a temporary arrangement that your truck needs to be parked in the driveway? Or does it not fit into your garage? I can't imagine having to de-snow/ice that if I needed to go somewhere. Just having to shovel the driveway is bad enough!

Also around here, you have to clear the snow off your car. It's illegal to drive around with a snowpack on it, because it will eventually fly off and whack another driver's car while you're whipping down the freeway or whatever. I only bring it up because that's something I had never, ever heard of and I would have definitely been one of those people who thought, "I'll just let the wind blow the snow off the car as I drive...."

24 January 2022, 05:21 PM

rontuner

I used a battery snowblower for a couple of seasons for a driveway that looked a bit longer than Steve's. The batteries would just barely last through doing the whole thing, unless the snow was very light.

Not a problem for me, because it is a midwestern rule for retired guys to take lots of breaks...

24 January 2022, 05:33 PM

QuirtEvans

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Steve, is it a temporary arrangement that your truck needs to be parked in the driveway? Or does it not fit into your garage? I can't imagine having to de-snow/ice that if I needed to go somewhere.

By all means, de-ice a heavily iced windshield by turning on your defroster. The temperature imbalance definitely won't crack your windshield the way it did mine.

I have, however, been known to stand outside with an electric hair dryer and an extension cord ...

24 January 2022, 06:11 PM

rontuner

I had a large push broom dedicated for car/snow clean off... Pretty easy to push/pull from the side to clean off the whole car pretty quickly.

24 January 2022, 06:21 PM

Mikhailoh

The wonderful thing about being out of the workforce is we don't have to go anywhere. It'll melt in a couple days.

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