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:

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.

Steve_Cebu wrote:

Hey Steve,

Yes, the gravel is a pain, once the developer is done with the swale and the road, I am going to see about putting a culvert down, and paving over the swale right up to the road.

If not, then I'll put some crushed gravel, or something that will pack like cement.

I will have to watch the Auger tilt on the new machine, don't want to start chugging a pile of gravel through a new machine! :-)

Yes a boat is a fun toy, I am not near an Ocean, so no worries. I just got the boat in 2008, kids old enough, and we do the seasonal camping thing every weekend.

I like the size of the boat, but like most guys on the water, I sometimes wish it was faster! hee hee Although, on the lake we visit, only maybe 3-5 days a summer it is calm enough to rip!

Yes, the Yamaha will be the new toy, still waiting for a phone call. I have to go to Toronto tomorrow, till Saturday, but I gave the sales guy my cell phone #.

He is only getting 3-4 in, and 2 are already sold. Seems the 928 is more popular than the 624, they had about 1/2 dozen 624s in the showroom.

This is funny.

Every thread starts talking about one thing.

Someone eventually asks for a picture.

After the picture is posted there is more talk about some small item in the background in the corner of the picture than what the original topic was.

The thread never gets back on topic.

Shryp wrote:

Well he didn't buy his Yamaha yet. So what more can you say about a driveway that has been plowed by a Bobcat? The local malls use huge front end loaders to move the snow and pile it up like 30 feet high.

When he is able to post pics of the Yamaha he's getting that will generate more comments.

Steve_Cebu wrote:

I can post a pic, not my own though, waiting....

Ok I can finally say the Jinx at least here is officially broken. Thanks to all of you who washed and waxed your snowblowers this winter.

In this pic you can just make out some black dashes on the bottom left that is a small fence that's about 11" high and it's still coming down. It doesn't show in the pic because it's a light powderery snow and not big flakes. But it's really coming down. YAY! We will be making more vids this afternoon when it stops.