How the hell

It kinda depends on if you get the wet stuff or the dry stuff and how cold it is after it falls. The dry stuff just plows out of the way and life goes on. The wet stuff can be plowed, IF you have a big enough plow. But if it's wet snow like northern MN got last weekend and then the temp drops to minus 30F, you have real trouble.

My buddy drives a plow for MnDot. Picture 54,000 pounds of Ford 9000 series with a 11' fr> do you guys do it? We had 12 inches of snow here in southern Utah in the

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RoyJ
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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)

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Steve W.

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

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SteveB

He needs a REAL plow...

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a nice version.
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a newer unit.

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

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Steve W.

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:

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RoyJ

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

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wfhabicher

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:

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Jim Wilkins

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Jim Wilkins

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

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Martin H. Eastburn

Kids are the light infantry of snow removal.

Recruit one or two.

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Jim Stewart

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.

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Michael A. Terrell

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RoyJ

I have one word, "shovel".

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

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Ignoramus26897

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.

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Pete C.

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.

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Doug

Wuss.

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Doug Miller

Yeah the hill gets lot's of snow. Those rigs were both up for sale, the blower is an airport rig. The last blower I ran was an Oshkosh unit. Stacked auger and 10 foot single pass clearing sweep. LOUD doesn't describe it. That town now has a unit they strap to a loader instead.

Town I'm in now has a nice Walter (71 or 72 I think) They run it to open the roads, then take the smaller trucks in to clean up. Nothing like 4 wheel drive and steering to make a plow maneuverable.

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Steve W.

I am looking for a shovel like this, to push light but deep snow.

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Ignoramus26897

In early February 1996 I drove I-75 to Florida, a good part of the way single lane on 4" of packed snow, occasionally track bare. Just after we got to Georgia I spotted their snow plow in the northbound lanes along with two road graders. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Gerald Miller

I did go get my big plastic shovel out of the shed. It has a short handle with a t grip on there. It also has a very wide shovel portion. It is very disproportionate, and I'm sure it was a spendy special shovel. I found it on the side of the road. I have seen people at ski resorts take these and ride them down to the bottom of the lift to get back after their shift. They point the handle downhill and sit in the shovel, steering with their feet. Looks fun, and they fly. Anyway, I shoveled about ten feet enough for the dogs to get out the back door and get to the yard.

I don't do shoveling very much anymore. Health stuff.

Steve

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SteveB

I brought my snow shovel with me when I moved to Florida. I finally got rid of it because I was tired of trying to explain how it worked to rednecks who had never seen snow.

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Michael A. Terrell

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