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

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.

Nice, good amount of snow. I'm still waiting for one of those storms this winter. The last snowfall was a mere 3 inch.

Looks like your going to have a blast in that nice powder.

I just got done,I'm beat! Did 5 homes.

Had all 3 fired up gave them all some time.The Honda is the champ!

I just finished up after 5 hours! 20" the last time I measured (about 12:30 pm) and the snow is still falling. My wife made a nice rabi, sausage and orechetti soup that was delicious after all this hard work.  I'm beat - a little libation and it's off to LaLa land... I'll have to do a quick driveway cleaning tomorrow morning before I head out for the day.

aa335 wrote:

We actually have about 20 inches right now! When I started it was 16" at the edge of our door. It was snowing then and it's still coming down out there. We spent 2 hours doing the driveway because it took time to video everything. I can normally do it in 1.5 hours. Lots of videos being uploaded to YouTube right now. I will post links once they are done in another thread. What is interesting is I got a great video of Toro's Power Max Auger System at work! Very cool! I also have a video on just how fast, quick and easy it is to use Toro's joystick controlled quick chute system. Now that was fun! I did eat some of the small fence under the snow.  Lots of EOD vids and my wife did a couple of EOD vids as well. She also was able to pull start the Toro on one pull on her first try! We have a video of that too! So this was a fun snowstorm. I think we could get another 5-6 inches by morning!  

I hope you get some white gold soon!

@steve

That is a lot of snow.  Good thing you took advantage of it to take some videos.  Hopefully Toro can use some of the clips for their promotional material.

I like one of those 20 inch snowfall once a while to take out the big Honda and stretch its muscles.  I want the heavy wet snow so that I can hear the engine load up, and enough snow to block in the neighbor's Hummer H2 that never seen dirt but been to Starbucks everyday.  :)  He's got a itty bitty little snowblower.  Can't wait to see him shovel this load.  I've never seen a 200lb 6 foot tall grown man shovel 2 inch of snow in such a wussy manner.