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

Amounts increased to 4"-7" and will start coming down hours earlier than originally predicted.  Have a good one, Long Islander's

Hey Robert,

It did snow here pretty hard all day, but we ended up with only about 3"  After it stopped snowing, the wind kicked up really bad and easily was gustying to 50 MPH.  All that was left outside this morning was mostly a 1/2" of ice over everything and some minor 6" drifts here and there.  So I won't be using the snowblower this time around.  However, since the temperature here is 14 degrees, I'm going to run it since that was the temperature this Tecumseh engine originally experienced the surging, which is why I changed carburetors.   Not to mention I do want to use up the oxygenated fuel in it and store it after running non-oxygenated fuel through it.  I'm pretty sure they stop using oxygenated fuels starting around March 1st. 

We had at least 10 inches. Can’t tell for sure because the wind was gusting to over 40MPH most of the night moving a lot of the snow around. I waited until this AM to get out the blower and used the drift cutters for the first time. The Ariens performed flawlessly as usual, starting with one pull and running at full throttle for 1.3 hours.

After 1:00am the snow moved in on us again.  Woke up to about nearly 3" so far and it just started picking up at about 7:00 am this morning.  At 30 degrees here, it's sticking very well.  Very strange weather pattern we are in which is the same pattern for the last month of snow falls.  No question about a late winter in the north east.  I'm going to consider purchasing a snowmobile in October 2005

We have about the same here. Still snowing. We are concerned about a late Spring as we have a market garden and usually start planting peas in late March and getting early crops in the ground (we start plants inside under lights) in April for the first market on May 7. There is at least a foot of snow on the ground in most areas; more where it has drifted. I'm going to try to till the ground in our unheated greenhouse if it isn't frozen. On sunny days the temps in there get over 80 F.

gardening eh...well there are some folks around here that will shovel the snow off there garden just so they can plant peas before anyone else...crazy in my opinion. but i plan on doing some gardening a little later on.

later chris