Blow or by hand?

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olds

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Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Option for Sno-Go?

I want one.

Hey olds...why don't you grab a plow and hook up the driveway for me? The sun came out and now the snow is all wet and heavy. My old man back can't take the weight!

How about I take the "Go" and blow some drier snow into the driveway instead?
 

Hyperlite

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Originally posted by: tm37
Like to do a little of both.

Blowing takes care of majority with a little hand to handle the rest ;)

QFT. blowing alone just doesn't do it for me.
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Option for Sno-Go?

holly shit thats awesome.

in one of my magazines i get (think populare mechanics) they had a guy who took a V8 engine out of a old truck and made a snowblower out of it. it looked fricken cool it had tracks and threw snow like 100ft+


If i had a old v8 sitting around i would do that (had instructions on how to do it). but for now i will stick with my toro


i just wish my toro rideing lawnmower had a attachment. to bad the wheelhorse is only afew years old or i would just get a new rider that could get one.
 

imported_Imp

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Shovel. Our frontage and walkway is pretty short, and there's no driveway so you've gotta be lazy as hell to use a snowblower here.
 

dud

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I wish it would snow here (central Florida). It's the most interesting "weather" month of the year here. Yesterday it got down to 38 in the morning (my neighbor's heat pump froze into a block of ice) but by the afternoon it was 70 and I was deepening my tan on the back porch.

Gotta love Florida except for June through September ...
 

RU482

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unless it's 8 or more inches deep, shovel

more than that, fuck it, I pay someone
 

rudeguy

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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Option for Sno-Go?

I want one.

Hey olds...why don't you grab a plow and hook up the driveway for me? The sun came out and now the snow is all wet and heavy. My old man back can't take the weight!

How about I take the "Go" and blow some drier snow into the driveway instead?

You cursed me. The sun went away and now its snowing even more....dumping a ton of dry snow on the freshly plowed drive :(
 

geno

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I'm a real man and shovel it bay hand, pansies.*


(*can't afford a snow blower yet.)
 

lxskllr

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It hasn't snowed here for the last couple of years :^(

I just drive on it, and wait for it to melt though.
 

GeekDrew

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Originally posted by: bignateyk
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Option for tractor, front end loader and rear blade (or, snow plow)?

Damn, that's freaky.

... huh?

Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Option for tractor, front end loader and rear blade (or, snow plow)?

Done

Still doesn't apply. :p We don't have "snowplow service", nor a mansion... we fire up one of the Deeres and get to work (driveway is rather long...).
 

alkalinetaupehat

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I swear to god the plowtrucks are going to crash through the front wall one of these days...Most of the time I go out in a t-shirt and shovel whatever needs to be done.
 

Red Squirrel

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Shovel or front end loader. Whoever is faster. Our backhoe guy tends to wait last minute so we end up shoveling at least near the door ourselves when it hits about a foot or so.