Snow plowing's not the problem!

[Boondox]

Snow plowing\'s not the problem!

It's getting all that stuff off the roof! Spent several hours yesterday on my various rooftops with snow shovel in hand. We had about 2 feet of powder which had been compressed by a heat wave (in the low 30s) and some freezing rain into about ten inches of wet, HEAVY stuff with a base of slush and ice!

Sore shoulders today!

I've been gazing at an ad for a little vacuum robot thing. Vacuums your floor till it hits something, then changes direction and vacuums some more. Sure wish they made a little snowblower like that. Put it on the roof and turn it loose to blow snow down to where the Kubota can deal with it. When it comes to a drip edge it changes direction. Man, what a bunch of happy folks such a thing would make! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Pete

 

[Egon]

Re: Snow plowing\'s not the problem!

Pete:

You may be in luck as I have seen a remote controlled lawn mower on the web.

Egon

 

[RobS]

Re: Snow plowing\'s not the problem!

I had to chuckle a couple of years ago Pete. There was a guy on his roof WITH a snowblower. Probably only a 4/12 pitch roof but still, talk about an accident waiting to happen.

Ever check into the various roof rakes available? I haven't but there are a lot of clever looking ideas out there /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[MikePA]

Re: Snow plowing\'s not the problem!

<font color="blue"> Spent several hours yesterday on my various rooftops with snow shovel in hand. </font>
Pete, I have a roof rake that looks like this. Works great, but it does give the abs a work out. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Even though we don't get as much snow as you do, I rake our roofs (house and garage) immediately after almost every substantial snow. One year I let it go for a few days, and the ice that forms next to the roof, plus the melting snow, made the job a very difficult and heavy one.

 

[Boondox]

Re: Snow plowing\'s not the problem!

Mike -- We have a roof rake too, but the roofline of the house and garage is so high up there we can only get the bottom three feet or so...plus with me going to work AND coming home in the dark thanks to so-called Daylight Savings Time, raking often has to wait till the weekends when the stuff is no longer light and fluffy. Real pain!

The there's the shop. With a roof so flat water hardly even runs off! That one has to be shoveled, though a shop rebuild with an 8' expansion and a decent pitch on the roof is one of my January projects...if the weather cooperates.

Pete

 

[thcri]

Re: Snow plowing\'s not the problem!

Rob,

We use to do that all the time. We had this little Honda mini what ever. It only took about a 24" path but it was easy to handle. In fact the wheels on it were only 3" wheels. I would not go right to the edge with it but it was a lot easier on the shingles over a shovel.

murph