How's everyone doing with the SNOW

[Baby Grand]

The parking lot at work has got such bad frost heaves I thought I was going to break a tooth getting out to the street last night.
Have to remember to drive sloooooooooowly tonight. Can't wait to see the crop of potholes that germinates this spring.

 

[tk tom]

I'm thinking I should have waited a bit to buy a new tractor hauler. The first few thousand miles will be beaten up on the nasty roads LOL

 

[Garandman]

I'm thinking I should have waited a bit to buy a new tractor hauler. The first few thousand miles will be beaten up on the nasty roads LOL

Why you need trailer? The Maine Way.

 

[Looking4new]

-19F this morning when I got up (5A.M.). The forecast is for a high of +19F, I might have to turn on the air conditioning on my way back from N.Bay this afternoon.
I think the black water pipe to my septic tank might be frozen. The toilet was flushing real slow last night, so I plunged it and 'stuff' started coming up in the shower drain and from around the toilet. I will get a 50' drain snake today when I am in town and see if that will do the deed.

 

[check]

Since this thread is about how we are doing with the now I thought I would post that My Super doper Temporary garage gave up last night and collapsed. It is a total loss. 4 feet of snow/ice on the roof. You cannot blame rhe garage. I just could not shake the burden loose, it had frozen to the plastic. What a mess in there to dig out...Oh POOP

Poor jix! My fear as well. I have one of those plastic 10 x 20 sheds that I use to store my Sea-Doos in during the winter. Great deal, because it only cost $200, but you have to keep the snow from building up on the roof. It will actually take quite a bit, and it has never caved in on me, but I do have to use either the snow rake or the broom from the inside periodically to get the snow off.

Some friends have not been so vigilant, and theirs caved in. Mine sits on a nice concrete pad, so one of these days I will have to build a stick built shed with a very strong roof, so I can just leave the snow there all winter.

Was your shed a plastic one, or did you have a stick built roof and wall structure?

 

[radair]

Great idea, my tractor would need spacers for chains so the total cost is $$$.

Which model did you get? They list #1910 and #1911.

I bought the shorter #1910. Tight space for my rear tires so this was a great option.

I'd like to see a side by side comparison, same tractor, same tire load etc. with ice chains on one and studs in the other. And I want a hill with a ten percent grade and a two inch layer of ice on it and a mist of water wetting down the surface.
Show me.

Show you what? I didn't say the studs are superior to chains, I said I like them better. I had chains on my BX and they were a PITA. My driveway is 20% in places and I can blow 8"+ of snow (sitting on 2" of ice) off the steepest part with the blower all the way down (& a mist of water wetting down the surface - hahaha). That passes the test for me. Your mileage may vary.

 

[RusselF]

I just got this lovely new machine. It does snow real good. I used to try to use a lawn-tractor, but was a waste of time, as the wheels just would spin. My new Kubota apparently has calcium in the tires to make the big turf tires heavy, and it pushes into and thru the snow just fine. It was the goofy level of snow we've had, both last year, and this year, that convinced me to spring for this amazing machine. I really should have bought something like this years ago.

Next thing, I guess, will be a finishing mower. Again, this being Canada, probably won't need that 'till May 24...

 

[Thomas]

No snow for the last 7 days for us but yet melting either.
Looks like March will come in w/roar snow late Sunday/Monday and wintery mix Wednesday.

 

[buickanddeere]

I use a snow blower and don't run out of room to store the snow. Blading and pushing is only good for areas with a melt between storms. Pushing snow just makes ridges and banks that act as snow fences making drifting worse.

 

[rScotty]

We finally got reminded that winter weather can happen in the Rocky Mtns. Up until two weeks ago we'd had a mild winter with daytime temps in the 60s and above!
So we we kinda figured winter had forgotten us. But the last two weeks we've had the occasional snow storm and some more normal low temps. Not at all like New England, though. For us it's more like 0F at night and 15/20 in the day. And that's coupled with a couple of feet of snow. The snow's just under knee deep now. Deep enough to fill your boots from the top, but not quite enough to make shoveling necessary.
I've been fascinated by the TBN pics of snowblowers in action. Snowblowers aren't popular here. Plows, yes....lots of people have them on PU trucks and tractors. But for some reason snowblowers never became popular. When I think snowblowers what comes to mind are the big commercial ones up on the ski slopes. Can't remember ever seeing a homeowner sized one used residentially, though I'm sure there must be some. Certainly not common tools - even though I did see lineups of good-looking blowers for sale at what looks to be reasonable prices in front of the big box lumber store....... Don't know who buys them or anything about them. Be fun to learn a bit about them though.
good luck, now...
rScotty