How do you plow snow?

[Boondox]

I use an inverted Meteor snowblower, sitting comfortably in my heated cab listening to rock n roll on the stereo.

 

[grsthegreat]

Finally got some snow. 6” overnight…but it’s due to warm up again

 

[LouNY]

We got about 2 to 2 1/2 inches of snow, sleet freezing rain on frozen ground. If finally quit flurrying about 1 this afternoon. So I went out and used the back blade to try and scrape most of it off. Then dropped the back blade off and hooked up the sander and loaded it to sand the driveway. So 3 hours later scrapped and sanded.

 

[Carl_NH]

We got 1.5" Monday night, which I cleaned off the walks and up/down the driveway and to eliminate slippery spots near the house.

Then the Tuesday night storm was to be 2" snow and 1/8" ice, well it was all ice only an 1/8" but stayed at 30* all morning so was sanding time with my bags of sand and ice melt and yak tracks on boots.

It warmed up this afternoon to 34* so its mostly gone but some patches remain all ice - just have to be careful walking - broken ribs twice on ice!

 

[Gordon Gould]

Last week while I was plowing in the single digit weather after the ice storm with the defroster on full heat to keep the windshield clear I tried to crack the window to get some air. I guess I reefed to hard on the window crank one to many times in the 24 years I've run this truck because the crank turned but the window stayed frozen in place. I could here the mechanism going up and down in the door. Fearing the window would drop down into the door panel I stuck it in place, I hope, by running tape over the door frame.

This morning I had to plow another 5" and it was warm enough to thaw the window and it held.
After the ice storm I put the chains on the truck.

I'll take the door panel off next warmish day we get.

gg

 

[Carl_NH]

GG - like your window fix! that's thinking ahead, and yes ice is the worst.

Daughter lives in the Smoky Mtns. roads are narrow, hilly terrain, they get the occasional ice storm, but when it happens its dangerous as they don't deal with these conditions often.

 

[Tomtint]

Up here in Mass.. Its been a cold and windy winter.. It started early in November with low temps.. No snow but just friggin cold. I think I have plowed snow 2x this year.. I hope it's over. It looks like we get the January thaw at the end of this week with high 40s in temps.

 

[Gordon Gould]

GG - like your window fix! that's thinking ahead, and yes ice is the worst.

Daughter lives in the Smoky Mtns. roads are narrow, hilly terrain, they get the occasional ice storm, but when it happens its dangerous as they don't deal with these conditions often.

I was sent to Dallas on a service call many moons ago. Over night they had a wicked ice storm. The temp suddenly dropped to 5* and it was drizzling. I walked out of the hotel and couldn't begin to walk. The people down there didn't seem to have any idea that you could not drive on that stuff. There were cars all over the road. They thought if you couldn't get going you just needed more gas ??? Someone hit a hydrant and broke it off. By the next morning there was a huge ice sculpture formed from the geyser. No sign of city sanding equipment any where.

gg

 

[grsthegreat]

Finally got some snow. 6” overnight…but it’s due to warm up again

I was wrong…3 more inches overnight