The Trials Of Personal Snow Removal.

[AlpiNord]

My neighbor ‘throwing’ snow for a horse path:




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There is an auger that launches the snow. The highway department have them on steroids.

[adrenalated]

For only $150k you too can own one on steroids!
https://boise.craigslist.org/hvo/d/t...597033796.html

[AlpiNord]

For only $150k you too can own one on steroids!
https://boise.craigslist.org/hvo/d/t...597033796.html

Sander included for the win!

[::: :::]

not sure how much this one is, but my client has it for his place on hood
under 5' wide -- i think sold to institutions for sidewalk clearing and groundskeeping
dual auger

[bodywhomper]

I have seen one in use by caltrans, but sugarbowl, who has an agreement to clear the county roads that access their parking lots on and off donner pass, have a large front loader with an auger attachment instead of the loader bucket. They can elevate it to carve out the upper portions of snowpack or recent snow and run it at ground level.

Live2ski, a solution for some is to live in an HOA, where the HOA takes care of all snow removal, as part of the hoa fee. Condo development is typically the most straightforward where the homeowners does not need to individually deal with any snow removal or exterior structural protection.

[adrenalated]

So many options out there. You can get both front mounted and rear mounted blowers for everything ranging from basically a riding lawnmower up to massive beasts like that Rolba I posted and everything in between. Just depends how much money you got and how much snow you need to move.

I might end up with a rear-mounted blower for my tractor like what Alpinord posted above, but for now I'm going to try to get by with just the loader bucket.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

This Unimog with thrower was for sale on craigslist about 2 years ago for $10,000. It needed work and sold in about 5 minutes.

[m2711c]

http://www.snowvac.com/images/snowvac_cdn_01.jpg[/IMG]

http://www.snowvac.com/snowvac_84_specs.php

[bodywhomper]

How many gotos points?

[From_the_NEK]

How many gotos points?

If actually combined with other GOTOS. Then all of the points.

[skivan]

probably need to be a mechanic to own, but this has caught my eye. 2 in 1!

https://media.sandhills.com/img.axd?...TE3Jwi2JsRc%3d

[old goat]

OG, I don't know what a blower is. Is that a tractor with the spinning wheel on the front that blows snow like 20 feet away? I am assuming a loader is a big tractor with a bucket on the front.

Yep. The guys that do driveways use blowers similar to this one:

not sure how much this one is, but my client has it for his place on hood
under 5' wide -- i think sold to institutions for sidewalk clearing and groundskeeping
dual auger

I was thinking it would be nice to own one but I don't have the mechanic skills. Which are definitely required.

Now there's a second career--plow or blow snow in the winter, patch all the driveways and parking lots you tore up in the summer. Which is what our snow clearing guy does.

[Core Shot]

A blower is a lot like a fluffer. But requires more cocaine.

[XXX-er]

My dope dealer was a HD mechanic for many years so he had the skills to keep this stuff running, in retirement he bought a smaller Kubota tractor with blade/ blower/ rototiller attachments, some asshole would invariably leave shit lying around which he would run over/ suck in/ fuck up the blower, he doesnt do any of it anymore and weed is legal

I always make sure there is not stuff lying around my place that will get stuck in the augers and i won't do anybody else's drive way cuz I don't know what they got lying around so i have never sheared a pin

[liv2ski]

Live2ski, a solution for some is to live in an HOA, where the HOA takes care of all snow removal, as part of the hoa fee. Condo development is typically the most straightforward where the homeowners does not need to individually deal with any snow removal or exterior structural protection.

HOA's and the "Special Assessments" they have scare the hell out of me. I am so AR, I know I would have my roof snow removed early and often but what happens when the HOA fucks up and a roof collapses? Special assessment time my friends. Nah, I will just deal with only getting in a few weeks of skiing a year and be happy.

[adrenalated]

Turns out smaller tractors are not that difficult to keep running. They're very simple machines and those little Japanese diesel engines are bulletproof. Change fluids, grease the pivot points, that's about it most of the time. And they're like a swiss army knife with all the different shit you can attach to them. Snowblower, snowplow, front end loader, backhoe, road grader, rototiller, cultivator, trencher, wood chipper, forklift, posthole digger, you name it.

I wouldn't bother in a city or town and I never thought I'd own one until I moved out to the sticks but now I totally see why everyone around here with more than a couple acres has one.

[XXX-er]

My old dope dealer bud still owns his kubota still uses it on his own property It sounded like the part that sucked was the dealing with customers

imagine that

[ötzi]

Huh, I thought the part that sucked was the auger.

[AlpiNord]

Huh, I thought the part that sucked was the auger.

Don't confuse sucking with The Suck.

[neufox47]

HOA's and the "Special Assessments" they have scare the hell out of me. I am so AR, I know I would have my roof snow removed early and often but what happens when the HOA fucks up and a roof collapses? Special assessment time my friends. Nah, I will just deal with only getting in a few weeks of skiing a year and be happy.

That’s what the Master Insurance agreement on the structure is for.

[Harry]

Building across the street from my Moms condo caved in from snow.





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[old goat]

Probably because the building on the left shoveled all their snow on it. (My asshole neighbor hired someone to shovel his roof onto my yard. I put a stop to it.)

[bodywhomper]

Yosemite NP has a listing for a structural engineer https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...ibextid=qC1gEa

[ironhippy]

Probably because the building on the left shoveled all their snow on it. (My asshole neighbor hired someone to shovel his roof onto my yard. I put a stop to it.)

that looks like it's a metal roof? So maybe they didn't shovel, but it all slid that way.

[Not DJSapp]

Yosemite NP has a listing for a structural engineer https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...ibextid=qC1gEa

OMFG the fed's pay sucks. 80-100k for a licensed PE in California with previous work fed experience? And it's a seasonal job.

That's fresh out of college pay for an unlicenced construction engineer for a real FT career. Maybe when I'm retired and need some beer money I'll look at this.