First time I got paid for pushing snow

Geo-TH,In · Jan 10, 2014

I have elderly ladies on both sides of me. I clean their drives and get a thank you. Last time one lady gave me ham, beans and corn bread, GOOD. The other lady's son saw what I did and put $60 in my pocket. He couldn't stop thanking me. He said that wasn't enough, but all he had at the time.

I've been pushing snow for years and this is the first time I got paid.

I have 10 other neighbors that many times I don't even get a thank you.

Life is good.
George

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2014

Used to help out the neighbors like that, Plow the snow, get a thank you. While it is good to help out people, and I got a warm fuzzy feeling, And a Thank You. The gas Man said I couldn't buy fuel with that! New neighbor now plows My drive, And I do thank Him And pay for the fuel and a little over the fuel. I smile the whole time. lol.

El Toro · Jan 10, 2014

I blow my neighbors sidewalk off. Some of them think I should clean off their driveways for nothing since I have the equipment. Hal

ohiojim · Jan 10, 2014

I used to plow my neighbors snow for years, sometimes get a thanks but no more, got to thinking how many times anyone plowed me out,..NEVER, so I just do mine and go on....

gmccool · Jan 10, 2014

I sold a older couple a house a few years back & right after I did the husband died. So for the next couple years I cleared her drive with my skid steer for FREE. On the first snow of the year on the forth year of doing this I ask her if there were any things out there that I needed to watch out for. She said not a thing. Well she didn"t tell me that she put a longer down spout out into her yard & I ran over it. I told her about it & she told me she thought I should buy her a new one. So I went home & got in my pickup & drove to the hardware store 24 miles away & bought her a new one & took it out & installed it for her & then knocked on the door & told her I would no longer be clearing her drive for her. She couldn"t understand why. So I explained to her that I had cleared her drive for three years for FREE & now it cost me $$ for a new down spout after I ask her if there was anything out there that I needed to watch out for & that for three years it had cost me diesel fuel & time. She just looked at me like I was a A-- Hole.

DMP62 · Jan 10, 2014

No excuse for not getting at least a thank you or not offering to pay for at least fuel if you"re doing it on a regular basis.

A few years ago we got dumped on in a March snow storm 10+ inches of wet heavy snow. I knew my neighbor was gone for the weekend and I knew he wouldn"t even be able to get up his driveway with his car. I did mine with the tractor & blower then went over to do his, there was a pickup parked on the road at the end of his driveway, a friend of his (Fred) had come over with a scoop shovel! Not sure how much he planned to shovel but he had done about 3 feet of a 100+ foot driveway. When I pulled up he exclaimed boy am I glad to see you, the look of relief on his face was all the thanks I would have needed. I blew the driveway and small yard. A couple days later the neighbor"s wife called and said I hear you"re the Good Samaritan who moved our snow, thank you we appreciate you doing that. Not as much as Fred does I replied with a laugh. I still smile when I think of the look of relief on his face, he"s a better friend than me to even attempt it with only a shovel is all I can say.

Frank 41 · Jan 10, 2014

I have 3 widow women that I try to keep plowed out. One never says thank you but 2 of her boys do. The other 2 do, 1 around 65 and the other 95. The 95 year old scouped a path on her drive down to the mailbox the other day before the real bad stuff. Her first hip replacement is going bad and she is in a lot pain. I gave her the dickens for it but she just laughed it off. A real tough old gal. Her son that lives close by won't lift a hand but one of her grandsons is always doing for her. She is like our second mother as ours are gone. I have 2 or 3 neighbors out at the farm that I scoup out when I can. A thank is enough as I am glad I can still do it at 72. It is much eaier to use the backhoe than the walk behind blower.

Andy Wickiser · Jan 10, 2014

Well you're doing better than me. I happen to own a lane system that services three houses other than mine. I was out there in -10 deg temps with a 25 mph wind on a open tractor with a metal seat busting through crusted snow drifts side-to side with the loader (because a high channel was already formed from previous back-blade plowing). I only got a thanks from one of my neighbors. I have to admit though I'm proud that my 1957 Ford 800 tractor with 6 Volt electric started at -10 with no pre-heating

Glen SW Wi · Jan 10, 2014

When I lived in town I used to blow out the neighbors on both sides. On the left it was an 80+ year couple. On the right side was a younger couple who owned a liqueur store. Got cookies from the left and never ran out of goodies from the right.

casenut1 · Jan 10, 2014

Used to have a neighbor lady that i would shovel her drive and sidewalks. She always said thank you and at sometime i would get a nice pie for my troubles.

farmerwithmutt · Jan 10, 2014

Amish neighbor used to plow my snow found out 1 thing they like is ice cream did he hate it when i bought a blade and cut his ice cream supply off

yak651 · Jan 10, 2014

(quoted from post at 13:34:54 01/10/14) Well you're doing better than me. I happen to own a lane system that services three houses other than mine. I was out there in -10 deg temps with a 25 mph wind on a open tractor with a metal seat busting through crusted snow drifts side-to side with the loader (because a high channel was already formed from previous back-blade plowing). I only got a thanks from one of my neighbors. I have to admit though I'm proud that my 1957 Ford 800 tractor with 6 Volt electric started at -10 with no pre-heating

I share a long driveway with my neighbor. He has a tractor but is not real good at using it. This fall he said he's going to put his tractor in the other neighbors pole shed for winter. Asked how he was going to help plow the driveway without it...Gave me a look like why you always do it...I don't mind doing it but it would be nice to offer to have someone else plow it every now and then...

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2014

Some people don't have a clue.

Nick m · Jan 10, 2014

My neighbor has plowed our other neighbors driveway for years without being offered anything. I brush hogged her little 2 acre pasture one time and she offered me $100.(I didn't take it) He was hot! But he keeps plowing it.

VicS · Jan 10, 2014

We my son has a real good rig to push and blade snow. A little 50 hp JD with four wheel drive and cab. I blade all the neighbors drives. Have good neighbors all generally call to say thank-you, or send a card. some even send cash. I also push off our church drive, it is almost 8 miles away. Then on to town to get a few people in town plus the fairground/horsebarns road. Generally one full day. Just glad I am able to do it. Maybe someone will come do mine when I'm not able to do it.

JayinNY · Jan 10, 2014

Yep it's funny, we had a good size storm on valentines day of 2007, my wife's father was out plowing with the town, I was asked to go up and feed his cows, well I could barely get into the place myself with 4x4, so I plowed out his farm, and my wife's sister& husband while they were at work, a couple hundred feet down the road? As there was no way they would have got threw the snow bank at the end of their driveway. Never even got a thanks from any of them, so I've never done that for any of them again.

Kerry50 · Jan 10, 2014

Plowed my neighbors drives out this week. One came out with a tin of home made candy and a loaf of zucchini bread. Another handed me $25 and the other one drives on by.

Pitch · Jan 11, 2014

I used to do three of my neighbors. Couple years ago I had something going on and couldn"t do it.
One of the sons, a 17or 18 year old bum called me up and demanded to know when the hell I was going to get there, he needed to get out.
I now do two of my neighbors.

Roy Suomi · Jan 11, 2014

George... I do remember the last time I didn't get paid for snow plowing....I waited patiently for a day when the garage door was open and no car in the garage.... Yep ... I filled the garage all the way to the back wall, then boogied.....

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