Question for Snow People

[rodsauder]

I have a kubota with a front end loader and a small mitsubishi with a back blade. I always use the mitsi and just push the snow across the road into the gulley. I guess you get used to doing a certain way. In response to the start of this thread, we had 3 inches of snow ( again) Friday. The drive is long enough and uphill enough that a 2wd car wont make it up. It takes me an hour to push the snow out of the way. Including in front of the mailbox. Now, if I lived in North Carolina ( I did live in South Carolina for a few years) I won't bother to worry about snow. Up here , if you don't stay on top of it, you will be sorry,

 

[k0ua]

Fire trucks have NO problems navigating a few feet of snow...

Rigid heating/cooling vent pipe is much better. Even if a fire does start inside the pipe it won't go anywhere. Not as easy to work with but with the seems tapped with foil there is little if any risk of fire.

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That is what I replaced my horizontal run with. and the flex hose from the back of the dryer to the floor with the metalic flex.

 

[DKCDKC]

If I was on a nice flat NC terrain - or Canadian for that matter - I'd certainly leave a few inches of snow and just drive over it. Unfortunately I live in a mountainous region and my mile-long driveway is up and down steep hills, with curves on those hills. If you leave it you quickly have packed snow, then ice and you either can't get out or you take your life in your hands trying to get in. My 4wd SUV and P/U have slide up to 100 feet as it is. Cleaning off the snow is a priority. We don't get much usually, but it has to be done. But each snowfall is a different problem. A snow to be followed by warm weather might be ignored - I just don't go anywhere for a day or two. But a snow followed by cold has to be handled - I don't care how little it is. Unfortunately, we are having a little snow right now - but it is falling on a layer of freezing rain ice from last night. And it will not get above freezing significantly for 3 to 4 days, if that. There appears to be only 3 or 4 inches of snow at the moment, but it is still snowing and drifting. This afternoon I plan to put my Ratchet Rake on the FEL and a blade in the back, then clear the hills only. I'll use the RR to break up the ice and expose some gravel, then scrape it to the side so that gravel shows on the hills. We'll just run over the snow in the flats. I made my driveway extra wide on slopes knowing that I'd have to clear with a blade sometimes, and move gravel around. But the drive is wide enough that it will not be pushed off the drive itself and still give me driving room. Late I come back and move the gravel back, then box-blade it to smooth it out. It's all awkward and time consuming, but - if you live way off road - it's the only way.

 

[BHD]

I was looking at a post some time ago that listed some plans by universities,

and they had a pull type snow plow it is all bolt together, and one is wood both 1939 plans, kind of before welders were common on the farm, but for light use and a long drive way if one has a loader on the tractor and can clear a path for the tractors wheels this would widen it or deepening the depth one may not need any path for the tractor,

with a chain of some length I would think one would be able to keep from getting stuck in most conditions, no this will not clear 3 foot of snow but light snows it should work well,
steel
http://www.ejackson.net/FarmPlans/NorthDakota/plans/nd3619-2.pdf
wood based
http://www.ejackson.net/FarmPlans/NorthDakota/plans/nd3619.pdf

 

[bcp]

If I move to the Sierras, can I still use my BX rear blade to clear my driveway?





Bruce

 

[franklin2]

I was looking at a post some time ago that listed some plans by universities,

and they had a pull type snow plow it is all bolt together, and one is wood both 1939 plans, kind of before welders were common on the farm, but for light use and a long drive way if one has a loader on the tractor and can clear a path for the tractors wheels this would widen it or deepening the depth one may not need any path for the tractor,

with a chain of some length I would think one would be able to keep from getting stuck in most conditions, no this will not clear 3 foot of snow but light snows it should work well,
steel
http://www.ejackson.net/FarmPlans/NorthDakota/plans/nd3619-2.pdf
wood based
http://www.ejackson.net/FarmPlans/NorthDakota/plans/nd3619.pdf

My Dad told me they used to use a homemade wooden triangle like that with a team of horses or mules to pull it and clear snow away on the farm. It's interesting to hear about ideas they had back then. People with imaginations and mechanical aptitude existed back then just like the people on this forum today. They got it done somehow back then working with much less.

 

[LD1]

If I move to the Sierras, can I still use my BX rear blade to clear my driveway?

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Bruce

You sure can. But it might take awhile:laughing: By the time you got to the end of the drive, its time to turn around and plow it again:mur:

 

[hdmyers]

The dryer thing happened a long time ago, I was just telling that story to emphasize the importance of keeping your driveway clear, even though you may be able to get out like it is.

The dryer thing turned out to be the plastic hose that was leading out to the outside vent. Guess what? You can't buy the plastic hose anymore, safety problems with it! So everyone may want to take a gander at their dryer hose, if it's that white plastic stuff, get rid of it and put the metal foil hose in it's place.

It's still available. It works fine...unless you don't bother to clean your dryer vent. Most learn thsi when their dryer stops working... sorry you had to learn this from a fire.

 

[ericher69]

It's still available. It works fine...unless you don't bother to clean your dryer vent. Most learn thsi when their dryer stops working... sorry you had to learn this from a fire.

Yeah still available but shouldn't be...

A decent article

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/...s-and-myths-of-dryer-fires/overview/index.htm

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[Cord]

Coming from the snow capital of the USA, View attachment 360661

I like most others have said would just drive over it but knowing how South deals with even a 1/2" I would mount a piece of 2"x6" or 8" to the back blade so you are actually using it to push the snow and not the blade. You can also push with the back side of the blade if you don't want to add the 2"x. for the amount of snow you are talking about this will work fine.

I'd hate to burst your bubble, but the UP'ers have you beat. The Keweenaw Snow Thermometer 277" so far this year. They are actually down because Superior was frozen. Ice doesn't make for good lake effect.