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borat
 
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #53 Jan 4, 2011 3:44 pm |
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I'll send you some of ours ;-) My entire front yard varies from 5-8 feet high of snow. Of course a good part of that comes from the driveway being blown over it. How about some pics of that driveway of yours. I'd like to see those drifts. I put a good row of cedars on the windward side of my property. They're fairly tall now and don't get too much drifting anymore. From the cedars to the driveway is about 70 feet or so and when we get a wicked west wind for a couple days, it will build hard drifts on the driveway. Not very deep though, maybe 20 to 24 inches but hard packed. If I get that much of a drift with only 70 feet of fetch, I can only imagine what you'd be getting from wide open farm fields.
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Steve_Cebu
Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #54 Jan 4, 2011 6:05 pm |
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I'll send you some of ours ;-) My entire front yard varies from 5-8 feet high of snow. Of course a good part of that comes from the driveway being blown over it.
What a Pal!  We could use a couple of feet maybe a meter or two if it's not too much trouble.
I'd also like to see a pic of all that windblown snow. The farms in my area are pretty bad when the snow is powder but that's usually not a problem as heavy wet snow doesn't blow very far.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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rubinew
Joined: Dec 30, 2010
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #55 Jan 4, 2011 8:14 pm |
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What a Pal! We could use a couple of feet maybe a meter or two if it's not too much trouble. I'd also like to see a pic of all that windblown snow. The farms in my area are pretty bad when the snow is powder but that's usually not a problem as heavy wet snow doesn't blow very far.
Yeah, I'll have to post some pictures on flickr, then link to them, at least I think that is how it works here.
Wet snow doesn't usually blow far, yeah, what I though, till we had 5 days of 70km wind, never let up. We even had freezing rain to crust up the top, but the relentless wind slowly dried and eroded the snow. This was like sand, packed in the driveway. Only 20-30 inches deep, but I could walk on it, with barely a foot print, and I am a 200 lb guy. :-)
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Chxbeachva
Location: Long Island, NY
Joined: Oct 31, 2010
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #56 Jan 4, 2011 9:11 pm |
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Yeah, I'll have to post some pictures on flickr, then link to them, at least I think that is how it works here. Wet snow doesn't usually blow far, yeah, what I though, till we had 5 days of 70km wind, never let up. We even had freezing rain to crust up the top, but the relentless wind slowly dried and eroded the snow. This was like sand, packed in the driveway. Only 20-30 inches deep, but I could walk on it, with barely a foot print, and I am a 200 lb guy. :-)
Bring some of that snow my way! Im ready
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Steve_Cebu
Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #57 Jan 4, 2011 9:59 pm |
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Yeah, I'll have to post some pictures on flickr, then link to them, at least I think that is how it works here. Wet snow doesn't usually blow far, yeah, what I though, till we had 5 days of 70km wind, never let up. We even had freezing rain to crust up the top, but the relentless wind slowly dried and eroded the snow. This was like sand, packed in the driveway. Only 20-30 inches deep, but I could walk on it, with barely a foot print, and I am a 200 lb guy. :-) Yeah we had windblown snow this last storm and it is a PITA to deal with. You situation is constant and much worse than average. I think we'd all love to see pics. I use Photobucket but Flicker probably works too. That Yamaha will eat through that stuff like paper. 
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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rubinew
Joined: Dec 30, 2010
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #58 Jan 4, 2011 10:15 pm |
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Yeah, I'll have to post some pictures on flickr, then link to them, at least I think that is how it works here. Wet snow doesn't usually blow far, yeah, what I though, till we had 5 days of 70km wind, never let up. We even had freezing rain to crust up the top, but the relentless wind slowly dried and eroded the snow. This was like sand, packed in the driveway. Only 20-30 inches deep, but I could walk on it, with barely a foot print, and I am a 200 lb guy. :-)
Okay, I had a picture from Mid December on my phone, I posted it, so lets see how it turns out!
This is when I returned from Toronto, my wife had hired a bobcat ,when she could not get the MTD to dig thru, hence the lumpy snow. To put things in perspective, the bottom of the front door is 4.5 feet above grade. The yard slops down to a swale, then back up to the road that I am sitting on. Notice little snow on the left side, this is because the contant wind forces us to blow to the right side. 
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Steve_Cebu
Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Re: Breaking the Jinx!
Reply #60 Jan 4, 2011 11:03 pm |
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Okay, I had a picture from Mid December on my phone, I posted it, so lets see how it turns out! This is when I returned from Toronto, my wife had hired a bobcat ,when she could not get the MTD to dig thru, hence the lumpy snow. To put things in perspective, the bottom of the front door is 4.5 feet above grade. The yard slops down to a swale, then back up to the road that I am sitting on. Notice little snow on the left side, this is because the contant wind forces us to blow to the right side.
Your driveway isn't all that long about the size I have off of my long driveway. But that windblown snow is nasty. We had a ton of snow 3 years ago. The plow guy brought in a front end loader on a BIG tractor to move it. The snow at that time was up to the top of the roof of our house! Nice boat you have there, is it a bowrider?
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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