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DennisCTB
Join Date: Nov 1998 Posts: 2707 NorthWest NJ Pics |
2007-10-05 146555
Ok Murf,
I saw your Picture 16. Now I hope that isn't your driveway ;)
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Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada Pics |
2007-10-05 146558
No, I have more trees around my place. ;)
But it does snow pretty good up here sometimes.
Best of luck. ....
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kthompson
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5275 South Carolina Pics |
2007-10-05 146565
Dennis, I understand Murf uses blocks of snow to build a roof over his drive way, sort of like an igloo. :) kt You can owe me Murf. ....
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Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada Pics |
2007-10-05 146568
Kenneth, shhhhhhh, it's actually grits not snow, we're hoarding them up here in an attempt to corner the world market. ;) ....
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AnnBrush
Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 463 Troy OH Pics |
2007-10-05 146571
On a related note: We just put down a ton (73 actually) of small stones on our driveway. Any advice on how to clear the snow with a rear mounted blade without moving stacks of stones onto the grass? ....
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candoarms
Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1932 North Dakota Pics |
2007-10-05 146573
AnnBrush,
I'm not sure where you live or what the winters are like there, but we have it pretty easy during the winter.
After the first snowfall, we simply drive over the snow and pack it down real good. It then remains there until March......sometimes May.
When clearing the driveway, we don't cut down so far as to cut into the first snowfall. I just adjust my blower skids high enough to skip over it.
If you live in a place in which the snow comes and goes throughout the winter, you'll have a much more difficult time with things. You'll have to adjust your blade high enough to miss the rocks, which will leave about two inches of snow on your driveway.
Joel ....
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earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan Pics |
2007-10-05 146574
Joel's on track, literally. I pack it down by driving on it to get it nice and solid where ever the rocks are. It's best to let it freeze if you can, then let the new snow fall before you plow. The ruts will fill up and you'll have a solid base keeping the rocks in place. For those places that do get rocks over the year, I use a power broom that has a slow-turning, rubber-bladed drum on a weed-trimmer style handle. Shindaiwa, Echo and Stihl make them. ....
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mobilus
Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 171 Clay County, TX Pics |
2007-10-05 146578
What is this S-N-O-W stuff that you speak of? hehe ....
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earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan Pics |
2007-10-06 146589
Take h-u-m-i-d-i-t-y, add below f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g air temperatures and there you have it.
brrrrrrrrr
But I gotta tell ya's, this will be the first year in 8 that I won't be plowing... snow, that it is. Sold it when I was in 'sippi. Now I can sleep in instead of waking at 2:30 waiting for snow. And I don't have to worry anymore about phone calls from angry (and stupid) customers who get their Corvettes stuck in 8" snows getting to their store (true story). And besides it has only snowed about 3-5 times each season here for the past 5 years anyway, so there's not much to plow anyway (read: can't pay bills). ....
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candoarms
Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1932 North Dakota Pics |
2007-10-06 146590
Oh yes, SNOW.
8 hours of sunlight. 16 hours of darkness. Wind blowing 40 miles per hour. Heating bills that will rob a man. Snow drifts 16 feet high. Temperatures in the -40 range........
and I'm smiling from ear to ear, because there won't be any mosquitoes or biting flies for the next 7 months. No weeds to pull....no grass to mow......no watering the garden, or washing the dog, or sweeping dirt from the floor.
Come Spring, I'll be smiling again, because there won't be any more scraping the snow and frost off of the windshields every day, or mopping up the melted snow from the floor, or trying to start a vehicle when it's frozen solid, or putting down salt on the steps.......and the dog can finally get another bath.
I lived in Georgia for three years while in the Army. I really did miss the cold weather, the snow, and the wind. More than that, I missed the seven month break from those pesky insects.
Snow is something I look forward to every year......and I might as well enjoy it, because we're going to get it whether we want it or not.
Time to get outdoors and truly enjoy myself. It will take a while to get used to having no mosquitoes in my face. I'll walk around here swatting at imaginary flies and mosquitoes for about a month, just out of habit......until I finally realize that I can actually use both hands when working on the car.
Joel ....
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earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan Pics |
2007-10-06 146598
Joel, the "no cleaning the floor or the dog for 7 months" thing... I take it you either don't want relatives dropping by, or you're single :) tehehehehe ....
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cutter
Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York Pics |
2007-10-06 146602
Do you have a loader Ann? I curl the bucket back to allow an inch or two of snow to accumulate prior to using the blower or rear blade, much like suggested by others. Works great until the thaw comes.
Speaking of winter, I was ready for some cooler weather. Boat is out now, covered the pool two weeks ago and here it is another week in the 80's with full bug infestations. Felt odd today, my shirt was soaked with sweat from "winterizing" one of my boat engines. The water is so low in Lake Ontario I dared not leave it in any longer.
Bring on the cold!
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bloggins
Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 104 Kingston, Ontario Pics |
2007-10-07 146603
Yeah, I was splitting and stacking firewood today with only a t-shirt on...and sweating! I just feel that we (northerners) will all pay for this good weather with wickedly cold temps. I hope I'm wrong. P.S.: bought a new wood splitter...what a labour saving device...and made in the USA (so the sticker says). ....
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cutter
Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York Pics |
2007-10-07 146604
I'm thinking about the same thing and hopefully I can find a made in the USA model! Once I get to cleaning the back acres I will have plenty of wood to split. ....
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auerbach
Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2168 West of Toronto Pics |
2007-10-07 146613
If you didn't get SOME stones on the grass, you'd have nothing to do in the spring! But here are tips.
Get the way as level as possible. Set blade angles optimally. I'd go for maximum offset (angle) and exact tilt (one side raised/lowered). High RPMS and low ground speed will give more control raising if it digs in. If the surface is bumpy, push in reverse, which better keeps the blade the same height off the stones. When it's cold enough the stones should solidify and resist being moved with the snow. ....
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bloggins
Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 104 Kingston, Ontario Pics |
2007-10-07 146619
For Cutter, I bought an MTD 5.5 hp 21 ton unit that works fine even on 24" diam logs. Other models to consider are Swisher (mid-US) and Timberwolf (VT) who have a 3pt hitch PTO driven hyd pump splitter (their website has some good videos of the splitters in use and a dealer in Lima, NY). ....
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cutter
Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York Pics |
2007-10-07 146620
Thanks bloggins, I will check that three point splitter out. I don't really need another motor to maintain. ....
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brokenarrow
Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1288 Wisconsin |
2007-10-18 147120
I just picked the first tick off the dog since late spring (June 28th). The bugger was actually infected on her belly, never seen a tick bite look like this so I actually washed it off! Never did that before on a dog. Ill take a hundred tick bites over one mskeeter bite, yep, bring on winter.
Aheeem, MR. EARTHWKS, you gettin soft boy??? Gettin used to those warm cushy days down in the stanchville area?
CMon now boy, you better get back north before your skin loses that toughness to it. I hear that if you stay there long enough you actually begin to like it there? Is that true? Or is it those mushrooms your eating?
Time to let the south go and come back to gods country!
(Bring that New holland skid steer too, I have a use for it since I dont own one yet, HEE HEE) ....
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earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan Pics |
2007-10-19 147126
Broken, I've been back since early March. When I left it was 73 degrees and sunny there. However when I got home two days later it was 10 degrees and we got 4 inches of fresh snow. But that was okay though becuase I sold my sno plow since I was expecting to stay there---until the money ran out down there. People say to me, "But there's all kinds of work down there isn't there". Yes there is, if you either do it for free or don't want top get paid!
BTW, my buddy has a 1998 LX665 skid steer with steel tracks, a grapple bucket and a regular bucket for sale for $10,000. Just need your address! ....
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kthompson
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5275 South Carolina Pics |
2007-10-19 147136
Murf, man how did it take me so long to notice what had happened to the GRITS! Wondered why all here was the yellow ones. Murf, too many here have very little idea...call me when done. O, ham or sausage please. kt ....
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earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan Pics |
2007-10-19 147140
Kenny, the grits are yellow for a totally different reason: we nort'ners have a saying that goes, "Don't eat yellow snow" GitwhadImean? ....
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crunch
Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 271 Niagara County, NY Pics |
2007-10-19 147145
I will be on the boat this weekend and the pool is still open. ....
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cutter
Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York Pics |
2007-10-19 147151
Sorry I pulled mine out of the water now. I was concerned with the low water but should have paid the marina to hoist it out next month and the heck with doing it myself. ....
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