Re: Re: Re: Re: What type of snowblower?

Posted by paul on August 23, 2001 at 13:35:29 from (199.3.9.123):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: What type of snowblower? posted by Dean on August 23, 2001 at 11:07:17:

Thanks for the explination, we seem to be amazed at each other's situation. :)

I wait until the wind is done blowing, out here in the country with a 2-day blizzard there is no point in clearing the driveway - the county roads won't be passible either. We 'normally' have winds lasting 1/2 day, and there is no point in bothering to clear snow at these times, it drifts in right behind me. By the time I got the tractor parked away, change clothes, and get to the pickup, the snow would be just as deep as when I started. Wait until it is done blowing/ switches direction to do anything.

My driveway loops generally to the NW with a grove on the west side, which is where many of the hard winds come from - from the NW that is. I too can have a foot or more of snow scoured off the driveway if I _do not_ drive on the fresh stuff. However, a lot of warm-front storms come from the south with wet snows, and that just DUMPS on the driveway in front of the grove, hours of work with those south winds. Likewise in the yard, the grove does a good job on the prevailing NW winds and often doesn't require much work even in 50 mph blizzards, but oh my those south wet 10 mph breezes!

I'm curious, where do you _go_ with the snow? Here it piles up & piles up, with a blade & loader we run out of room to put any anywhere. People get socked in until they can get a neighbor with a blower to make some room to move any more snow. The highway crews need to rent bulldozers & push it back off the road ditches into the fields it gets so bad. Or, they bring in big trucks & payloaders with _huge_ blowers on the front & drive perpendicular to the road in & out, blowing the snow back away from the edges of the roads where it is piled up so bad.

With a blower, you just aim it with the wind, shoot it up into the air, and the snow is gone with the wind! Here I make 2 passes, out the driveway & back in again, and the driveway is cleared of the 1-2 typical feet until the next strong wind or snow event. Takes an hour or less including openning up enough to walk to the barn, drive the feed mill to the barn & grainery. With a blade, it took me 5-6 hours to clear a poor trail out to the road, as it was back & forth, back & forth, dragging that blasted snow to someplace I could stack it.

The blade would always spill a little on the edges of the driveway, making the edges higher & higher - always drifts in full. With the blower, there is very little extra height to the edges of the driveway, so the drifting problems are much less.

Again, I know we have discussed this in the past, & thanks for the interesting discussion. :)

--->Paul

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