Snow Too much snow! Help!

[montelatici]

Finally the BX got through and cleared a path.

 

[montelatici]

The Volvo is freed but has been injured! My bad.

 

[montelatici]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

 

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The BX after a days work ready to be fueled for more snow removal.

 

[NSBound]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

Woops! You'll be lucky if it's $1000. Now I don't feel so stupid and clumsy (not saying you are, "I" have been feeling that way ) . First damage was to my portable shelter in the driveway - tore the corner and bent a pole. Then put a gash in the skin of the garage door (just a little gash, but a gash nonetheless), and today I caught the edge of the electrical conduit going down the wall of my garage and snapped it in two, thankfully didn't break any wiring, but have wrapped it in plastic to keep water out until spring). I have to learn to pay more attention to the close up work, or maybe learn to just plain keep farther away from things.

 

[montelatici]

"Woops! You'll be lucky if it's $1000. "

I guess those paintless dent removal guys don't work with gashes to sheet metal!

I'll probably put some putty on it for the time being and decide if i want to get it fixed. It is 98 Volvo with about 140K on it, it may not be worth fixing.

 

[dcyrilc]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

Hope that wasn't the wife's ride.

 

[montelatici]

"Hope that wasn't the wife's ride."

It was my wife's ride, but she has a much newer VW now. It is now my beater so no harm done

 

[Deano]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

Owww!!! Owwww!! and Owwwww!!

 

[KeithInSpace]

I have a gear tranny- crash box.

Well that's your problem, right there. I imagine it would add incalculable hours to your job having to stop, shift, reverse, stop, shift, forward slow, forward fast, stop, shift, reverse, etc...

I clear ~1/2 miles worth of driveway (8 different houses, so add 8 garage areas, 8 street ends, 8 mailboxes, etc.) with my BX each storm. I run turf tires, no chains, and nothing but the FEL.

This snow, we got 16 inches on the ground, but the first 12 inches of snow were reduced to 4 inches by sleet, creating a very hard, heavy, wet, crusty, and otherwise impossible to shovel sandwich of junk. Took me an hour just to shovel the walkway from my driveway to my front door. Thankless work.

All that said, I didn't have much problem dispatching of it with my little BX. The whole thing took maybe 6 hours. But I couldn't fathom doing that with a geared tractor...painful.

And, of course, I'd never miss an opportunity to share pictures of my family...tractor included...