Normal Bill
Bronze Member
Around here it seems like any fool with a pickup truck puts on a plow and then suddenly ....is important. No, seriously, if it isn't too much trouble would you mind just angling your plow a little bit so that the rest of us can get down the road safely when you're coming toward us?
I'm not referring to the professional snow removal companies that take care of the store parking lots. In CT we'll go a few winters with maybe a couple inches of snow. Then in a year like this when we have snow measured in feet they all seem to come out of the wood work.... I'm talking about Mr. Plow.
2011 we got slammed with a couple of 24" snowstorms within days of each other. The plow man from my neighbor's driveway calls over to me to help save them because the snow's too deep for his big truck. So his big 4x4 that weighs probably 3 times as much as my little tractor can't handle the snow piles? I'm going to say bad technique.
I'm happy to help my neighbor but I don't think much of Mr. Plow.
Another time a friend comes down my driveway and decides that it is not plowed to his liking because I left about 3/4" of snow with my snow blower. He drops his new plow right down shooting a wave of crushed stone 6' into the woods. Uh, thank you??? So, don't you have skidshoes on that thing? "Yeah, I do".....Oh I see.
Last winter my neighbor's plow guy comes back doing a herringbone pattern down the first 800 feet of driveway. He plowed down to the sub soil I think. Huge walls of snow, ice and mud. Boulders were being ripped up out of the ground. I guess the hydraulics on his plow broke. It would seem he might have noticed that on the first couple of boulders. Oh well, he never made it down to my neighbor's house. I had to take my little tractor to go move some rocks, dig through the slush piles and then snowblow down to his house. I'm happy to help my neighbors but I'm not impressed with Mr. Plow.
Just the other night after finishing my plowing I took care of the ends of all the driveways close by, I carefully cleaned around all of the neighbors' mailboxes and my own with the bucket and then even carefully placed the newspapers back on the snowpiles next to each one. Perfect. Well sometime that night after I went in Mr. Plow backed right into a couple of our mailboxes. Well, he was careful not to hit the mailbox of the person that was paying him. My mailbox, however, is bent and twisted and the post is splintered. Accidents happen but an apology would be nice....no plow guys are to important for that.
I'm annoyed. Every time I see one of these amateur Mr. Plow guys I get even more annoyed. So, I'm doing what any other American would do..... rant on the internet.
I'm not referring to the professional snow removal companies that take care of the store parking lots. In CT we'll go a few winters with maybe a couple inches of snow. Then in a year like this when we have snow measured in feet they all seem to come out of the wood work.... I'm talking about Mr. Plow.
2011 we got slammed with a couple of 24" snowstorms within days of each other. The plow man from my neighbor's driveway calls over to me to help save them because the snow's too deep for his big truck. So his big 4x4 that weighs probably 3 times as much as my little tractor can't handle the snow piles? I'm going to say bad technique.
I'm happy to help my neighbor but I don't think much of Mr. Plow.
Another time a friend comes down my driveway and decides that it is not plowed to his liking because I left about 3/4" of snow with my snow blower. He drops his new plow right down shooting a wave of crushed stone 6' into the woods. Uh, thank you??? So, don't you have skidshoes on that thing? "Yeah, I do".....Oh I see.
Last winter my neighbor's plow guy comes back doing a herringbone pattern down the first 800 feet of driveway. He plowed down to the sub soil I think. Huge walls of snow, ice and mud. Boulders were being ripped up out of the ground. I guess the hydraulics on his plow broke. It would seem he might have noticed that on the first couple of boulders. Oh well, he never made it down to my neighbor's house. I had to take my little tractor to go move some rocks, dig through the slush piles and then snowblow down to his house. I'm happy to help my neighbors but I'm not impressed with Mr. Plow.
Just the other night after finishing my plowing I took care of the ends of all the driveways close by, I carefully cleaned around all of the neighbors' mailboxes and my own with the bucket and then even carefully placed the newspapers back on the snowpiles next to each one. Perfect. Well sometime that night after I went in Mr. Plow backed right into a couple of our mailboxes. Well, he was careful not to hit the mailbox of the person that was paying him. My mailbox, however, is bent and twisted and the post is splintered. Accidents happen but an apology would be nice....no plow guys are to important for that.
I'm annoyed. Every time I see one of these amateur Mr. Plow guys I get even more annoyed. So, I'm doing what any other American would do..... rant on the internet.
