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Mark78
Joined: Dec 28, 2010
Points: 9
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Is it Ok to use a 2 stage to clear ice storm break up pieces?
Original Message Feb 5, 2011 8:13 pm |
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We had a lot of sleet and freezing rain early in the week which turned in to 2-3" of solid ice. I finally broke up the layer of ice in the drive way over the last 2 days. Some pieces where it up to 2 feet long or so and all of it was as very hard not slushy.
I chose to push all of it away manually with a shovel. Just wondered if anybody would have felt comfortable doing the cleanup with a typical 2 stage (I have an Ariens compact 22)?
I was worried the large amount of very solid ice would have been really hard on everything and may have broke the shear pins.
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NickM
Joined: Mar 1, 2005
Points: 21
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Re: Is it Ok to use a 2 stage to clear ice storm break up pieces?
Reply #2 Feb 5, 2011 8:40 pm |
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I was in the same situation in North Jersey. I did most of the snow clean up with a shovel. I had to go out a little later in the day and noticed many people using 2 stage blowers to clean the ice/snow/sleet build up. When I got home I chopped up some pieces of leftover ice still clinging to the driveway just to get them into smaller pieces and then went over them with the blower. I went slow and was careful where I pointed the chute and had no problems.
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larrylaverne
Location: illinois
Joined: Dec 29, 2010
Points: 13
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Re: Is it Ok to use a 2 stage to clear ice storm break up pieces?
Reply #4 Feb 6, 2011 8:09 am |
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i 'scrape and chop' to separate the ice from the pavement , and make sure the pieces are no larger than my shoe/boot and then like shryp said coal shovel them in a pile and blast the pile away, and so far i've never had a issue with shear pins breaking on my 30" bucket.
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