I am played out.

we got a foot of this nasty wet stuff. I did dig out the snow blower and gave it a shot . Well it did chew thru but it was vary slow going . I started around 9:30 this morning since the War Dept was on a two hour delay . My 90 dollar Craig's list Arenes St 724 fired wright off on last years gas let it warm up a bit and went at it . War dept made me more work as she wanted to take our old 2003 dodge Durango that has been setting since last week and i had to dig it out . Once i got the turnaround done i set in on the drive then the side walk. With what the city plowed on top of what came down made for some rough going . I finished up at 1:30 My little 7 horse was a little shy of needed pony power . The Fatman across the street has a 11 Hp 28 inch blower Now that will blow snow. I may have to start looking for a 36 inch blower with Duals and a blowed motor and do a repower and put a 24 Hp engine on it Then i can blow snow across the street behind him and fill in what he has just done.

I'm glad you got dug out. A friend of mine plowed out for the hay truck this morning. We got him loaded up and had to give him a tug to get going just as it turned into freezing rain. I think he got south of here before it got real bad. Another trucker tipped his tanker over a few miles from here. Hes headed for NJ. Its snowing again here, supposed to until midnight. We've got about a foot.

I've got a Wheel Horse 520 with a two stage blower on it, it was made after Toro took over Wheel Horse so I think the blower is actually the same they offered for the smaller Groundmasters. The 22 HP Onan will work a bit if I run into heavy wet snow but sitting there in my little canvas cab beats standing out in the weather. Although the has flexible windows like they used to put in convertible cars there's no wipers so if the wind blows I have to get out and clear the windows off.

tractorvet,

Snow wars in your future?! Meant in humor.

D.

We got 7 inches....we have one of these 13hp blowers, but since we got the truck i'd rather sit in there...

Are you using a two stage in wet snow? If so go on utube and look up how to modify you snow blower so it will blow wet snow. You add little rubber flaps to the paddles that take up the big air gap inside the machine. Looks like it works!

Hello jeffcat,

Truck mud flaps! Works for me!

GUIDO.

Think Id skip the 24HP , and go straight to a 350 V8. Believe there is a you tube of one of those out there. Now that sucker can move some snow !!

That's some funny $hit.The tractor vet have you seen the movie "Grumpy old men"?If you haven't then you need too...very funny.

Paul

Tractor vet, might want to be careful. Neighbor might be like this guy.
Crazy Gary

At one time the county had a couple of huge Oshgosh truck mounted snow blowers. They used em to keep Rt 177 clear over Tug Hill, and the Number 3 road from Lowville to Copenhagen. They had 4 wheel steering so you could walk them right into the snow banks. Those old girls would blow your snow for you. Lol!

Yea that's what i am talken about. I did the truck plowing for 19 years , till my last truck got totalled out When a 17 year old kid lot it on a curve while racing his buddy and slammed into me broad side head on . Went to buy a new plow set up for my newer truck and about had heart failure on the price . So i just stopped doing it . But still needed something for myself . So i made up a plow set up for the Super H , i had a 7 1/2 foot western plow i had steel , welder torches drill press and a blueprint in my head. Pulled the H in the shop set up four jack stands and started with two pieces of 4 inch channel and went at it . Three and a half hours later the plow was on and working , Put the pulling weight brackets on it used some all thread and put four sets of donuts on the rear wheels and hung 2000lbs of iron on it and it sorta worked but if you tried to back up on a hill you was stuck . So back to the drawing board . I still had two sets of 12-16.5 tire chains left over from my old plow truck and a whole bag of repair links a bag of side ling chain , So i took them and made a set of chains up to fit 13.6x38 tires . Now it would plow snow and move . So i would bring it in to the house and once here i would put the chains on an cover it with a tarp. Now comes the down side of H and home drive snow plowing , When the snow would come and i would go out and get the tarp off of it and fire it up and like all old gas tractors ya would have to let it warm up , so that would take about fifteen min. Then the plowing would start a push here a couple pushes there and i was done . Back it into it's parking space and cover it back up once the muffler cooled . Then here would come all the FREE LOADING lazy neighbors that during the rest of the year that would go out of there way to not even wave or say HELLO would be knocking at the door to get you to come over and do there work for them . Well call me and arres hole but why should i when they would not even speak to you the rest of the years But would be the first to sue you if something happened . Nope ain't going to happen . Even with this SHARE drive that i have now with the last three neighbors that have come and gone they expect me to do it all and with out even a thank you. When this new one that just had to have the house and we first talked i told her that this is a SHARE DRIVE and where the propperity lines were and NO you DO NOT OWN wright up to my garage and her having THREE teenage BRATS Who would NOT do anything it was MY resonceabilty to keep the drive clean and salted so she could get up and down fifty times a day . That is when i asked her WHY I should do this when it is a SHARE drive and until the snow gets over two feet deep I do NOT NEED to cleanit as we have Four wheel drives and as long as the TRUCK can get up and down i DO NOT have a probelm YOU have a problem and YOU can park your car down at the car wash and market and WALK home.
Or you lazy Arrse kids can get out there and DO your Half and i will do mine . Well now this disfuntional family the kids are all gone and she has a Boyfriend out of town so One week she goes up to his place and is not at home and one week she stays here . So i only have to put up with her twice a month . Now the Fatman across the street and i get along as he will help me and i will help him , but we do torment each other He is good on small engines and well i am good on the bigger stuff . when one of my Lawn and garden THINGS does not work and i so do hate working on something that you have to PULL start or crank. IF it don't start by the tenth pull it get drug across the street . When he has a carb proble with one of his older TOYS here he comes with Carb in hand Or if he is trying to work on brakes or needs a stronger impact here he comes . If he needs something done in wood working here he comes with wood in hand . Yep he and i get along . But the rest Nope people around here don't get better till ya get south of the Bypass.

Be careful, when I was at K I Sawyer Air Force Base some genius in snow control got the bright idea to pull on of those big OshKosh blowers off the flight line and send it through family housing. They found out three things pretty quick, the front side of the Multi-plex housing was about 15 feet from the road, the discharge chute of those flight line blowers is about the same height of the 2nd story windows on the multi-plexes and finally even with a wall and window in the way those big Oshkosh blowers can still throw snow 20-25 feet