Snow Equipment Owning/Operating What You Find When Blowing Snow

[bigtiller]

It happens every year.
When blowing snow yesterday I found the sales flyers. They are rolled up and put into a tube type plastic bag and dropped at the end of the lane.
With one large snap it broke the shear bolt on the blower and it seldom hurts the flyers much. Al

That is the reason I always said no to anyone who wanted hire me to blow out their sidewalk and driveway. And a lot of people ask when they see a heated cab on your lawnmower/snowblower.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

When I posted I had forgotten about the many concrete blocks I have hit AND the doggie doo-doo. Brown lumpy snow, anyone?

Lol! In the spring as the snow melts in the dog area I actually go on purpose and blow it over the fence into the corn field. Sure beats shoveling it!

In town doing driveways I've lost count of how many flyers, newspapers and phone books I've put thru the blower. If the delivery people are dumb enough to leave them in the middle of the driveway, I'm going to do my best to put it on the front lawn. Once I put the same flyer bag thru the blower 4 times, the first 3 never hurt it but shredded it on the 4th.

Spring is always fun in town for water shutoffs as the frost is coming out. Make quite the racket and usually end up half way down the block. Yikes!

 

[timm9]

Over the years we have ‘sucked up’ some of the most bizarre items with newspapers and Dog Toys being some of the biggest PIA’s. The synthetic dog toys can really get wedge in, with me resorting to an OA Torch to get it out.

One time I actually got an entire Rubbermaid garbage can that was on its side and made it past the Auger and was into the Fan. That required a complete dis-assembly of the Auger and Fan. My crew got the biggest kick out of an incident I experienced. I was in a residential driveway with about 3 feet of snow and completely ‘unaware’ of the fact the storm had brought down multiple ‘lines’ (i.e. cable, phone, etc.) that were buried and not visible. As I progressed up the driveway I was not aware that the cable line was ‘spooling’ onto the Auger. When the ‘end of the cable’ flew up and hit the windshield I had to head back to the shop to change my underwear.

One of our County guys was running an MT trackless doing push back and got a 5 Gallon Propane Tank. Fortunately the shear pins gave before the tank (with fuel) punctured.

 

[Looking4new]

Lol! In the spring as the snow melts in the dog area I actually go on purpose and blow it over the fence into the corn field. Sure beats shoveling it!

In town doing driveways I've lost count of how many flyers, newspapers and phone books I've put thru the blower. If the delivery people are dumb enough to leave them in the middle of the driveway, I'm going to do my best to put it on the front lawn. Once I put the same flyer bag thru the blower 4 times, the first 3 never hurt it but shredded it on the 4th.

Spring is always fun in town for water shutoffs as the frost is coming out. Make quite the racket and usually end up half way down the block. Yikes!

As I started reading that I was thinking you blew the crap into the neighbours yard.

 

[oosik]

You can blow all the dog poo you want - just always be up wind & don't stand in the brown fog.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

As I started reading that I was thinking you blew the crap into the neighbours yard.

LOL!

Well, sort of...it's not my field but he lives 1/2 hr away

 

[FatTire]

Over the years we have ‘sucked up’ some of the most bizarre items with newspapers and Dog Toys being some of the biggest PIA’s. The synthetic dog toys can really get wedge in, with me resorting to an OA Torch to get it out.

One time I actually got an entire Rubbermaid garbage can that was on its side and made it past the Auger and was into the Fan. That required a complete dis-assembly of the Auger and Fan. My crew got the biggest kick out of an incident I experienced. I was in a residential driveway with about 3 feet of snow and completely ‘unaware’ of the fact the storm had brought down multiple ‘lines’ (i.e. cable, phone, etc.) that were buried and not visible. As I progressed up the driveway I was not aware that the cable line was ‘spooling’ onto the Auger. When the ‘end of the cable’ flew up and hit the windshield I had to head back to the shop to change my underwear.

One of our County guys was running an MT trackless doing push back and got a 5 Gallon Propane Tank. Fortunately the shear pins gave before the tank (with fuel) punctured.

Yikes, that's a scary one. Who would leave a propane tank any place it could be hit???

 

[Kubotafan]

I have picked up a child's doll, a Rubbermaid garbage can cover that I had to cut out with a propane torch, and newspapers and fliers. One time the papers jammed into the fan tight enough to break a shear pin. Usually they are shredded. I also picked up a large bird feeder that had fallen off a post and was buried in the snow.

The worst story I heard was a fellow who wanted to do a neighbor a good deed and clean out his driveway. He caught a dog chain buried in the snow. It wrapped around the auger, pulled the attached dog out of its dog house, and into the blower. End of dog and end of story. A sad story but true. I don't know how the neighborly relationship turned out.

 

[Cat_Driver]

I remember seeing a crew of snow removal guys pile snow 20 ft, in the air and cover a pair of cars in a shopping center.
My guess is they didn't get them out till spring.

 

[joecoin]

I pulled 10 feet of 1/4" nylon rope into my walk behind. I couldn't believe how far I was able to throw that machine.

Went out and bought a very nice shovel after that.