How the hell

EASY, You put on the coat go out, jump on the tractor with the cab and blower on it and blow the snow out of the areas you want cleaned. Then fire up your vehicles and move them so you can clean up the parking area. Then I go over to the Fire Station and clear out the lot and the doors. On the way back I clear out the older residents places so they don't have to.

Then in my case I blow the snow off half the yard so my pup has a place to walk (short legged Welsh Corgi, deep snow is not his friend). Refill the fuel tank and park the tractor back in the shed with the charger/heater plugged in to keep it ready to go.

Broom for the windshield? Oh you don't own a windshield scraper/broom. We have at least 4 of them.

Roof rake for the heavy snow on the roof, under a foot the roof is OK.

The dish is mounted to the side of the house so no snow builds up ,although I did have to clear it of ice once, then I installed a snow cover that a friend sells and no problems since. (neat cover made out of rip stop material with a drawstring, slips over the dish and LNB and snug up the string)

do you guys do it? We had 12 inches of snow here in southern Utah in the past 24 hours. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in this shit. We took pictures, the dogs romped around, I had to go out with the broom and clear off the windshield so I can go to town. I had to go up on the roof and scrape the snow off the dish so I could watch tv.

I cannot imagine living all winter like this.

Steve

He needs a REAL plow...

a nice version. a newer unit.

"little" blower would come in handy some days. I bet a SMART car would fly through it with no problem....

Heh!! He actually has a rotary rig that stays in the back corner waiting for BIG snow. He runs a regular plow for the first few days, then switches over to the rotary. It seems that he is the only one that LIKES to drive it as well as the only one who brings it home in one piece. Last winter he took a day off, the replacement driver burned out a clutch.

I haven't heard from him in several days, last e-mail said he was going to 12 hour shifts.

A metalwork> RoyJ wrote:

Rank has its privileges...

I look out the window when I get up, and if there is 12" or so of snow I go back to bed.

As chief cook and bottle washer I can swing this unless I had a business appointment that morning:-((.

Wolfgang

You learn to adapt and deal with it, then it isn't bad although by late February we are awfully tired of winter.

We had an ice storm and lost power early Friday, and I only got it back a few minutes ago. Many people were running happily on generators and didn't even notice when it came back on.

The towns and State have big plow trucks to keep the roads clear almost all the time and almost everyone has a snowblower or something, often in rural areas a pickup with a plow or a relative with one. This is my toy:

Jim Wilkins

Once we were at the park, and the grass needed to be mowed. Buddy looked like an amputee. Some Forrest Gump accented person asked, "Whut happened to his LAIGS?"

I didn't skip a beat. I said, "Before the industrial accident, he was a bomb sniffing dog at the airport."

I thought the guy was going to cry.

This morning, Buddy went charging out to chase off the birds. The snow was about 14" deep. I thought he was going to get stuck. But he hops like a deer, and came straight back in. He likes the cold. Last night, he barked to go outside, as it was warm inside with the fire. He just laid on the rug on the porch and watched it snow at 30 deg. for about an hour.

Bird is a merlin who came in this afternoon, then pounced on the birds at the feeder. Apparently been at it all day, as there was a considerable amount of feathers and bird parts all over the back.

Steve

FUN fun Fun :-)

Some like it, some put up with it, and some don't want to talk about it.

I'm a fence walker between the first two. The kid > do you guys do it? We had 12 inches of snow here in southern Utah in the

Kids are the light infantry of snow removal.

Recruit one or two.

Only 12 inches? That was nothing at the US Army cold weather test site at Ft. Greely, AK. Twelve feet has been known to fall, before the drifts. You could only see out some of the third floor windows, and tunnels were dug through the tight packed snow, between the main concrete buildings. They didn't even try to plow the roads. They used a road grader to turn the snow into pack ice.

I have one word, "shovel".

We are getting seriously snowed in, I will be out working along my "light infantry" tonight.

i

Nice Pembroke. Buster is a Pem as well. Other than the white nose and longer socks they could be twins.

He gets in deep snow puts his head down and acts like a dozer. He does have a bit of a problem when it comes time to lift his leg though!

LOVE your response, Mine is usually that I forgot and left him tied to the car one day. ;-)

Back in the days when I dealt with significant snow, I had a very good technique for dealing with the driveway being plowed in. I'd always try to get out with the snowblower before the plow came and I would clear my driveway, as well as a hundred feet or so along the road on the inbound side of the driveway. The plow would come along plowing in everyone's driveway, but as it approached mine, since I had already cleared back, by the time it got to my driveway it wasn't pushing much of anything. Of course if the plow showed up while I was doing this I'd just play chicken and make him go around me. Whenever it was a new driver they'd be a bit annoyed, but after a time they'd figure it out.

On the metalworking and welding subject, one time I caught a rock in the blower and it broke the 2nd stage impeller off the shaft, so I had to bring it in the shop, clear out the snow and weld it back on.

Damn, I wish my dish was still working. Tree from the windstorm took down power line, opened neutral and the voltage swing killed the dish pvr. I miss my C-Span. Hope the 508 I bought on Ebay is clean with no outstanding bills.

It is about 6F atm, electric crew just finished repairing neutral. I'm looking longingly atm at a 8KW pad mount LP powered generator. If the job in the automotive segment wasn't looking so uncertain, I'd whip out the debit card and say send me one of those.

Ah, I can't imagine living all year in a ez bake oven so we are even.

Wes

Nothing unusual about that around here. Every government entity (city town county state) owns bunches of trucks like that. The only real difference is that the back would be a dump box but a sanding unit. The switch them back and forth summer to winter. Many trucks are 2 wheel drive. It doesn't really matter when you are 50k pounds or more.

I've seen units much bigger. Some have feed augers two high. A local town about 35 miles from me had 92 inches on the ground 3 Februaries ago. The Tug hill plateau east of Lake Ontario gets what is called lake effect snow. It can lead to massive amounts of snow.

Wuss.

Wes

Winter is here for us in AZ. It is 15 December and we are having our tough winter days. 46 to 68 at my house. Maybe a few more bad days like this but for sure not many. Give me the heat anytime.

You don't really know how the cold states suffer until you watch the bad winter weather on TV when you day was spent in jeans and a tee shirt.

My house is all electric and my electricity is $110.00 every month all year long. My neice in PA spends 2500 to 3000 for just oil. And electricity on top of that.

I for sure will never move from the sunbelt to the snow belt.

Bob AZ

Youre right Bob. As an EX PA resident of over 50 years and lately for 21 a NM one I'd never consider that part of th country again. ...lew... (this is a fun thread :-) )