Great Idea - Communal Snowblower

I just finished digging out from a foot of heavy wet snow. Basically the same snowblower as yours. took me two hours :-) Drifts up to 4' around the car. When it snows here in PEI, the winds are usually

What's snow? :-)

Ahh, that's what I keep the boyfriend around for :D He was out shoveling for a couple of hours this afternoon, and our side of the street got *nothing* compared to the drifts across the street.

chem

James P Crombie wrote:

I remember SNOW. I think. Last year we had about 2 inches once or twice but it was all gone by noon the next day. :-) ...lew...

Please don't say that, it hurts. :) I just finished three days of clearing a

Had an 8 year old Murray but sold it in favor of a 40 year old Ariens. I'm happy.

GTO(John)

Early Feb. 1996 I got to see Georgia state highway authority's snowplow in company with two road graders out on I-75. I had been driving on snow packed/track bare highway ever since crossing the Detroit river. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

The stuff that causes people to slow down and drive even more stupid than they usually do (if that's possible). Of course the same can be said for sunshine, warm temps and dry pavement.

There's only one good thing about snow. You can have fun driving in it (away from traffic of course). Other than that, let it be summer. Two wheels are better than four.

James. Ottawa Canada (slightly modified) Subaru Outback (the fun part of winter)

I don't remember the exact age, but I think when I looked up the serial number on the B&S motor on my snowblower it was a 1956. I may be off a couple of years. It's a Lambert "Klondike" Industrial Snow Thrower model EZ28 (never heard of them, myself). Two stage with a chain drive to the main auger, predates those little worm gear boxes they use now. I picked it up well used three years ago after doing my own shovelling the first year here at the house, and I've been happy with it ever since. Only thing I've had to replace so far has been the recoil spring...

--Glenn Lyford, also in MA

OH!! Like rain in Southern California! But then in So. Cal..they just drive faster. Got to love it when you see 4 SUVs all swapping ends at the same time within 100yrd of each other at 70 mph.

Gunner. cringing as its supposed to rain for the next 3 days in So.Cal..and he will be there in the morning..

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith

How did you work out the terms for ownership, repair costs, survivorship, etc. My folks had a boat co-owned with another couple. They had a falling out and it was a bitch sorting it out.

Just Curious, tHAT

I had an 8 hp Ariens that I brought from Syracuse when we moved here 16 years ago. After not using it at all for three years, I sold it. The following year we got an 18" dump. Since then, every time we've had a big snowfall, I've regretted selling the Ariens. The Murray isn't an Ariens, but it should be fine for the few times we'll use it. Should last for years and years.

-- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

We agreed up front that if anyone moves, the other two have to buy him out. They can then try and sell the new neighbor the share. Other than that, two of us are mechanics, so we don't foresee a lot of maintenance issues. I guess as it gets older, the cost of a share should go down, but at $247 per share, it ain't the national debt.

-- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

Yup - but that old ariens will still be around to bury the Murray when the time comes. Old Ariens stuff was well designed and well built - price be damned. The Murray stuff is built to the lowest common denominator - the penny.

Rain? At least I've heard of that. Happened a few years back. I was driving along a 45mph road and the traffic all of a sudden slows down. Inch our way forward to find a low spot in the road with an inch or 2 of water in the street, then they speed back up. Huh? We had to stop for a water puddle?

Joel. phx

I'm almost sure it is because they don't want to get their car remotely dirty.

I lived in east Boston for a summer and I heard how owning a car can be fun in the winter. They said it is like a war with where to put the snow and parking spaces. I was sure not to stay to find out.

We could have used digital cameras as teenagers cause we couldn't touch the snowblower in northern Wis. We had to make it look like it was never moved. And then redo everything to make it look like it was shoveled by hand. Even down to having the snow pile up close like it was all done by hand.

No wonder why I like the southern belt , I wish I was further south.

Hey Bob,

A simple Buy-Sell agreement would do quite well here , if it's not too late. A very fair system. Any one "owner" is entitled to ask either or both of other owners to "buy" his share for a price he sets for his share. If one or both of the other two owners feel the proposed asking price is too high, then the owner that proposed the price MUST buy the share of the other('s) instead, and he MUST buy at that price he set for his share. Works the other way too. Say one owner is displeased with someone else, possibly in the way the other is operating the machine or monopolizing the use (doesn't matter WHY), then he has the right to offer to BUY the other's share, and that owner must either sell at the proposed price, or buy from the originator at the price the originator set. This will keep the price at real value.

Take care.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.