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

Posted by Dean on August 23, 2001 at 16:04:56 from (208.166.219.238):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: What type of snowblower? posted by paul on August 23, 2001 at 13:35:29:

I'm learning a lot!

Up here we get 15'-20' of snow per winter, often 1.5'-2.5' per storm. We can't wait to plow the roads or the kids would never get to school so the road crew uses a tri-axle dump with a V-plow to bust through the big drifts and then they follow up with a grader. This leaves about a 3' high wall on each side of the road and is tough on the folks who need to get out but a neighbor with a tractor or truck mounted plow usually helps out. They run like that all day and night until the snow stops falling. Then they put a "snow wing" on the grader and knock all the walls into the ditches they best they can. I can honestly say I've never been unable to get to town for more than a few hours at any one time. Of course, everybody here has 4WD trucks.

I use the loader to pile my snow on each side of my road up to the height the bucket will reach, about 9' or so. I also have a road that dead ends into a field in addition to the one that dead ends into the river. So I usually have a place to dump it, if I'm careful early in the winter and remember to pile it as far into the field/river bed as I safely can. As you know, once you pile snow that high, it gets as dense as a bad concrete job at can't be easily moved again.

I travel I35 between Duluth and the Cities often and have seen the huge snowblowers you mentioned. The first time I saw one, I wondered how many cars stuck in snowbanks get ground up in them. They are very impressive!

It's really interesting to see how what appears to be minor differences in weather, terrain, local custom, etc. can lead to very different ways of doing things. But at the end of the day, it all gets done. And that's what counts, right?

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