How's this winter treating you?

[MossRoad]

I have noticed that several of our neighbors with snow blowing lawn tractors did not think ahead and remove the snow by their mailboxes very well. They kind of made looping passes for cutouts for the mailman to try to get his truck in there. Well, the last couple snows and the plows packed those cutouts with a couple feet of hard packed snow. The blowers get stuck pushing into it and that's that. They have two foot thick walls of snow 2' high in front of their mailboxes that the mailman cannot reach over anymore. I felt sorry for the old man across the street. He has a nice cub lawn tractor with cab, but he just can't knock it down far enough to get it with his blower. So while I had my bucket on, I just pushed in, picked up and kept pushing forward. I was able to move that wall of snow a good 5' back with a few scoop-and-lift-and-dump moves. Now the mailman can drive right up again. :thumbsup:

 

[Looking4new]

MossRoad,
you could hire out at $5.oo/mail box and make your fuel money for the winter out of it.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah. I thought about that. I saw a video several years ago and I wish I would have saved it. There was a guy that had what looked like a 4WD ag tractor with cab with a reversed operating station, so he faced the rear of the tractor. He had a blower on the 3pt hitch and was going from house to house clearing drives one after the other. Took maybe 5 minutes per driveway. He could see perfectly and power angle the chute to dump the snow very precisely. I'm thinking if he charged $10 a drive he was making over a hundred bucks an hour. Could be very lucrative on snow days. Wish I could find that video again.

 

[Looking4new]

I do three driveways plus my own. Two of them are $20.oo each and the other is a pie/cake/brownies. Just the two of them will pay for my fuel for the winter to do mine too.

 

[woodlandfarms]

I am in LA, but get the report from up north. And one of my neighbor has full permission to use my tractor as needed. We have a mile long driveway, dirt, narrow and steep with a ravine that is heavily treed but drops 50 to 70 feet. I have lived there 7 years now, and only remember one instance of a car dropping into the ravined. Well, we have lost 7 cars this year. No one hurt, but the ice under the snow has given a lot of people fits. We got about a foot of wet heavy snow and the all the neighbors decide to just forgo road cleaning and wait for the rain to melt it down (which looks like it happened today).

 

[ponytug]

Carl- How big is that garage up there? Did you personally drop seven cars over the edge, or are we all living vicariously?

All the best,

Peter

 

[cqaigy2]

Carl- How big is that garage up there? Did you personally drop seven cars over the edge, or are we all living vicariously?

All the best,

Peter

When it's time to change the oil, over they go.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Bwahahaha... I was referring to the collective Road We. Not Me We. God I wish I was rich...

I remember a story I read about a Microsoft exec buying his first jet. He went to Gates, said I am thinking of buying this jet, what should I know. Gates replied

"Go buy a Toyota Camry, drive it to the airport. Go in, and buy a first class ticket and fly to wherever you want. If you can emotionally never return to the Camry, you can buy a jet." Never looked at it that way but 40K to be wheels up in a jet makes sense.

Instead I am sitting at Warner Brothers. I get to park in the executive lot. I have a 2006 Honda Civic. It is crushed in on one side. Not bad, but dented. It is parked between A Maybauch and a Tesla S. Around it are Porsche and BMW. I am out of my league.

 

[grsthegreat]

We have had 18" of accumulated snowfall this season...way below normal. Problem has been its too cold for the snow to stick to the ground. Just stayed powder. Cant operate sleighs in that kind of snow. It finally started to warm up some.

We finally have the right kind of packed snow on the ground so i can use the horses to pull the sleighs. Problem is the weatherman is now predicting 40F temp and rain for next 6 days straight. I ran out and groomed the figure 8 in my arena and took off work today so i could play with the sleighs. Havent been able to use them at all this year.

Had 3 hours of blasted fun today. its 34F , sunny and the snow is perfect. wish it would last longer. Took the horses out on the road to warm them up, then hit the arena for some fun sleigh racing. man what a blast.

 

[jfh28]

Yup....we're in the cross-hairs of the same storm too......I've got to go out tomorrow and try to push the piles back some.......I've got no place left to push the snow as I have mounds over 6' tall in some places and the drive is starting to feel pretty narrow....haha.

The first year I plowed using the PT without chains I found I was crabbing to much......once I installed chains on the rear tires I can push all but the heaviest of snows in a straight line. Most I've done at one time is 14" of a dry snow........if it's a heavy wet snow I don't let it get over 8" unless I really want to struggle......Jack