So I have been debating weather to post this or not and have decided I should. On new years eve the snow slid off my roof into my driveway I wAnted to get it cleaned up before it froze in. I was home alone with my two young boys 7 and 2. Was not thrilled about them being inside alone but had to get the snow taken care of . I knew going in if would be hard blowing with the cub cadet 149 with single stage but doable . It clogged several times but I expected so I would disengage drive forward to stop auger back up and clean out the shoot. All was going great and I was almost done but had been a while and boys were in the house alone . I got in a hurry as it was turning dark and it clogged up I disengaged and hopped off to clean it out and bang . Notice I missed a step. So I'm sitting here writing this with three broken fingers which have 7 pins holding them together . So please everyone be careful this winter it only takes a second to make a dumb mistake
Ashamed ...snow blower accident
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PeterK
Gold Member
It's good to be reminded. Thanks for that. Hope that you are on the mend.
Markcuda
Veteran Member
Shouldn't the blower have stopped running when you got off?
dave1949
Super Star Member
Sorry about your fingers, thanks for posting. It's good to be reminded. Truth be told I bet most people on here that have all there fingers and eyes owe a lot to luck, so don't be so ashamed.
Dave.
Dave.
First one
Gold Member
Sorry to here the bad news . My uncle acouple years ago was using his snow blower. After about the third time getting clogged up he forgot to disengage it and drove his hand down in it. If it wasn't for his leather glove getting pulled off and stalling the motor ,he would have lost more than just the two fingers.
I own a DR mower/snow blower and use a stick( after I disengage the Alger) to get the snow out when it gets plugged up . The other night after using it I put it in my pole barn and left it running . I was just going back out to get my gas can ,when I heard the alger start by itself. Before I could get back in to turn it off ,somehow it got a hold of my four wheeler cover and proceeded to eat it . It took me 20 min. to get it out.
Learned a good lessen from it .... Even if you disengage your alger with the motor running **** can happen quick. Never use hands to get it unclogged:thumbsup: P.S. I was wondering how I was going to get a new cover because I had a hole in mine, Now that it has about 20 in it I guess I can justify it now.:ashamed:
I own a DR mower/snow blower and use a stick( after I disengage the Alger) to get the snow out when it gets plugged up . The other night after using it I put it in my pole barn and left it running . I was just going back out to get my gas can ,when I heard the alger start by itself. Before I could get back in to turn it off ,somehow it got a hold of my four wheeler cover and proceeded to eat it . It took me 20 min. to get it out.
Learned a good lessen from it .... Even if you disengage your alger with the motor running **** can happen quick. Never use hands to get it unclogged:thumbsup: P.S. I was wondering how I was going to get a new cover because I had a hole in mine, Now that it has about 20 in it I guess I can justify it now.:ashamed:
Chuck Oppermann
Member
Wow. Sorry about you accident. About 20 years ago I was snowblowing our driveway with a 420 with a single stage snowblower. I was making good time and was blowing past the dog house and the golden retriever housed there was deathly afraid of the snowblower. He was at the end of his very 25' heavy chain in the opposite direction. All of a sudden the snowblower started jumping aroung and grinding and pulling the dog toward it. The dog had all four brakes on and I got the thing shut off with about 3' to spare. It took me half a day to pull that chain out. Prior to that I was a little careless with people and animals around. I learned a good lesson there and so did my dog.
