Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Oh Gosh I hope it won't snow! I just washed my snowblower and waxed it. It would be terrible if it snowed and got all dirty. I sure hope it doesn't snow this weekend that would be awful! It's too cold to be out blowing snow. I hope we have the lightest snowfall of the decade. Nothing could possibly make it snow. I hope we don't have any snow at all this year that would be great!

This year we will have no snow at all here. We won't get more than a flurry all winter. It's so great when it isn't snowing. There isn't a cloud in the sky!

Now to sit back and wait for the blizzard of 2011

rubinew wrote:
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.   

rubinew wrote:

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.

Steve_Cebu wrote:

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. :-)

rubinew wrote:

Bring some of that snow my way! Im ready

rubinew wrote:

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.

rubinew wrote:

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.

Chxbeachva wrote:

By the way .....that Toyota FJ is awesome to drive in the snow. a lot of fun. If you have never driven one you should go test drive one at your local Toyota dealer.

rubinew wrote:

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?

Steve_Cebu wrote:

The driveway is about 70 feet. 25 exposed aggregate, 25 feet of  1 inch gravel, then just gravel swale to road.

It is not the length, but the packed snow that kills us!! Only takes about a 2 foot high, 8 foot wide drift, across the driveway, and most vehicles are not getting out. Hard to get a run at it from inside the garage ;-)

We are on the curve, so I keep the area in front cleared about 1/2 way into the swale, for extra parking space.

The rest of the snow has been pushed to a green space, across from us. We asked the bobcat driver to push some there, to help block incoming snow drifts.

The Boat, is a Maxum, yes it is a bowrider. 18ft, V6, my summer toy! :-)

rubinew wrote:

Gravel driveways are such a PITA! We had one here years ago. What a nightmare to deal with especially with a plow. 70 feet is bigger than my section off of the main driveway but it's like 35+ feet wide.

You are lucky you can push it across the street at my parents house the neighbors did that and my parents couldn't park in the street at all.

Maxum is a decent boat. an 18' is a good summer toy, not so good for the ocean tho. I sold my boat years ago.

2 things about boats

1) You always want a  boat 2 feet bigger than the one you have

2) A boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into.  

I'd say your Yamaha will be a more practical toy than the boat but a lot slower. But less money poured into it.