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

We are smack in the middle of February  and here in Montreal Quebec Canada , i've only taken the toro out twice. Talk about no snow. Seems when I was a young lad growing up in the 70's and early 80' s we had so much more snow.

Have you guys used your machines much this year? I've used more wd40 and oil than gas

Cheers

Jim 

Twice so far. One 18 incher and the next was a wet sloppy 2 inches. See what happens this weekend. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Global warming effect?

I recall much more snow in the 70's-80's.  Seems the wind chill was more significant then as well.

Not enough

4 times, did about 20 driveways each time and about 500M ( 660 yd) of sidewalk.

About the only challenge was going further up north and clearing 2 cottage driveways,  60cm ( 24" ) some crusty stuff. Some digging to break things up.

The old blower with a new B&S 11HP throws snow beautifully.

newtonian wrote:
I suspect that not only was there acutally more snow when we were all younger but we were also a lot shorter. We also probably carry more insulation too!

I've lost  count like Chris - probably at least 8 times this season starting with an early 7" storm on November 13.   Most have been in the 3-8" range but we got over 30" between the blizzard and the small storm that followed in late January.  I'd say the last few years have been above average in my area but the snowstorms when I was a kid still SEEMED bigger.    lol      -Bob

well here in Nova scotia ...

we have most of you beat.

we got about 15 inches of very heavy wet snow in november really created havoc here ,took out most of the power in the entire province.

then there were a few small dustings ..nothing significant till boxing day .then we got hammered.

on monday we got 20 inches ,on wednesday we got 15 inches and finally on sunday we were blessed with another 20 inches.

all in one week...yikes we were workiny like crazy to clean up our own mess and on top of that ,i work as a ope mechanic...and as you can imagine we were busy.we sold out of our entire repair parts in about a day .and because all the other shops in eastern canada were faced with the same sort of snow ,getting more parts took a while.

its almost a 2 months later and we are finally getting back to normal.ive been working saturdays all this time and i could finally take this one off...got some much needed sleep.

i could handle anothere big snowstorm now ...they are good for business and we do have a couple of snowblowers left.

later chris 

TomP wrote:

ditto

this means the machine has been worked once this season

Just once...sigh. 

Some talk of snow this weekend.

LL

One "real" storm (about 15 inches) in Chester County.  One about 1.5 inches (took out the blower to see how it did in the small stuff)..and like the others, hoping for something worthwhile Sunday night.

Walt

In my area we had about 12 inches of white on 23 December, three storms since then about 4-6 inches. The Toro 726 has worked like a charm thus far. Maybe 2-4 inches coming 20 February, we'll see.

AZ