The Trials Of Personal Snow Removal.

[gravitylover]

If only...

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Hell, I may give it a try anyway.

It works. When I used to leave for work at 5:45am the last thing I wanted to do was scrape the car and shovel before I left so I started covering shit with (blue because I'm upstate) tarps. I'd put magnets down to hold it on the car and 2x4s on the ground. I'd layer the tarps so as the uphill one got heavy it would slide over the lower one Then I'd dump it at the bottom, sometimes on the downstream side of my driveway so the town plow would take it all away.

[ironhippy]

It works. When I used to leave for work at 5:45am the last thing I wanted to do was scrape the car and shovel before I left so I started covering shit with (blue because I'm upstate) tarps. I'd put magnets down to hold it on the car and 2x4s on the ground. I'd layer the tarps so as the uphill one got heavy it would slide over the lower one Then I'd dump it at the bottom, sometimes on the downstream side of my driveway so the town plow would take it all away.

If you are going to play those games make sure it's gonna be cold, try that with a heavy wet snow and you'll be hating life.

[m2711c]

Things flatlanders do…

[gravitylover]

Lol

If you are going to play those games make sure it's gonna be cold, try that with a heavy wet snow and you'll be hating life.

That's the layering part, the heavy one slides right over the lower that's still covered, then roll it off the side at the bottom. We almost never get anything other than wet and heavy.

[riser4]

Or you can park in the garage.

[gravitylover]

Garage?

[m2711c]

it’s a fancyassed way of sayin “car hole”…




fa t.

[riser4]

Some of those holes take multiple large ones at once.

[highangle]

it’s a fancyassed way of sayin “car hole”…




fa t.

Detached car hole, thank you.

[zion zig zag]

Question for the experts here….I currently have someone plow my driveway, they used to charge eighty per push but went to a flat four hundred a month this season. So far, it looks like we’ll come out about the same as previous years as far as cost, but they seem to be doing a shittier job. Three car parking spot is down to two and the turn around is completely gone, so we have to Austin Powers to back into the spaces. I have a five inch deep ice dam holding water at the end of my walk due to the way they pushed the snow.
Im thinking of taking over the job next year with a snowblower, something like a thirty inch Ariens. Driveway is about two hundred feet long and sixteen feet wide and has a three car spot at the end, with a two car turn around. Mostly flat and I’m going to guess we get around one hundred twenty inches a year. How long would you estimate it would take to clear a six inch storm? Also, does anyone keep their snowblower outside all winter in an unheated space? What kind of problems does that cause? A bunch of snow built up on it that gets hard to clear? I have a space I could keep it covered but I would have to do some redneck engineering to heat that space above freezing.

[half-fast]

I have a cub cadet that I keep in an unheated garage. Starts first pull every time. I clean it off after every use so I don’t have to deal with frozen snow around the augers

[Name Redacted]

Just hire a different plow guy.

[Shredhead]

Preferably with big blower. Way nicer than plowing.




I had a big Cub Cadet with electric start, that I left out all winter. Starting was never a problem.
Similar sized drive could take me an hour, depending on density.

Had shoulder surgery and hired my landscaper to remove the snow, while I recovered.
Sold the Cub instead.

[Meadow Skipper]

I have a 12 year old (+/-) Craftsman blower that I keep unheated outside, covered and under a roof, in NM at 7200 ft. The first start of the season I use the electric starter, after that It always starts on the second or third pull, no problem. I use only non-ethanol high octane gas, and run the fuel out at the end of winter. Change the oil every year and the plug every few years. We rarely get over a foot of snow and I clear probably about 1500-1800 sq ft.

Hope that helps.

[Meadow Skipper]

Also, I try to stay on top of it and not let the snow build up and/or get packed. I’m on a shaded ~10 foot hill, so it gets ugly if I don’t.

[AlpiNord]

It works. When I used to leave for work at 5:45am the last thing I wanted to do was scrape the car and shovel before I left so I started covering shit with (blue because I'm upstate) tarps. I'd put magnets down to hold it on the car and 2x4s on the ground. I'd layer the tarps so as the uphill one got heavy it would slide over the lower one Then I'd dump it at the bottom, sometimes on the downstream side of my driveway so the town plow would take it all away.

6 inches can be done at full speed if not slop. How fast can you walk up and down your driveway 4 times? My drive is about the same plus parking area, terrace, a couple walkways and secondary drive can be done in an hour to hour and a half (less if blower snow) with my 28 inch Ariens.

[XXX-er]

I have a 12 year old (+/-) Craftsman blower that I keep unheated outside, covered and under a roof, in NM at 7200 ft. The first start of the season I use the electric starter, after that It always starts on the second or third pull, no problem. I use only non-ethanol high octane gas, and run the fuel out at the end of winter. Change the oil every year and the plug every few years





pretty much the same ^^ for me , I had been using a couple of older craftsmens that alwasy needed the electric start which sucked if it stalled at the end of a drive way cuz i had to drag it back to 115v but my now 15 yr old almost always starts on a couple of pulls.
A few years ago insted of messing around during winter with broken belts I preemptively changed both the belts in the summer which IME was a good idea becuz finding the right belts was not as easy as you think, so change belts and keep the old ones for spare

[Trackhead]

We don’t get a ton of snow, but the wind likes to drift it up. Have a big driveway and snowblowers don’t throw it far enough. I’m using an overkill device which is more fun, and I do our unplowed road and neighborhood driveways.



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[The Reverend Floater]

^this is the way.

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[XXX-er]

Gona risk being a kil joy and mention people get killed when ^^those collapse, of ocurse every kid did it including me





remember to run your snow blower auger before shutting it down to clear the snow/ ice out of the auger & chute or the next time you engage the snow thowing bits it might be stuck/ frozen

[Trackhead]

Agreed on snowcave safety. He’s not out there alone. In the 70s and 80s we were tougher and less risk averse.

I’d love to have a PTO driven industrial blower. Needed one when we lived at 7k in northern Utah one winter.


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[Name Redacted]

I have a pos toro that has served me well for 12 years. Just got its first oil change last year when i blew a belt. Stored cold. Run it on whatever gas is around. I do put seafoam in it sometimes. 9’k in the rockies. Need it like 5-10 times a year. Driveway is kinda big. It handles the chunky plow bump ok. It has wheels. Not tracks.

If i had a hudge driveway on a hill or something maybe i would invest in something fancier. But at that point I’d probably just hire it out.

[Trackhead]

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Takes about 10 min to clean a pilot jet on most snow-blowers. Some you can do it with carb on the machine. I just poke my pilot jet annually for easy starting.</p>

[XXX-er]

the last thing I want to do at -15 is kneel in the snow to work on a snow blower , you americans are so hardcore !

[Trackhead]

Preseason bro, like October, after it sat neglected all summer