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Why do women think a stack of birch logs set beside the step

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Why do women think a stack of birch logs set beside the steps to the deck appear festive ? Today while clearing snow there was some awful bangs and thuds from the snowblower. The tractor engine lugged down momentary as chunks of kindling and sawdust flew from the chute and across the driveway. It took many swings with the sledge to hammer the snowblower's bent 3/8' steel back into shape.
 
You DON'T want to get most of us started on that question!!! Many years ago I ran a spray can of lawn green through my Gravely snow blower. Big cloud of green spray paint all over the porch. Another time I found out how much of a 50 foot air hose you can wrap up into a Gravely dog eater. Fourty five and a tad more feet of it.
 
Don't know, but I've got the neighbor's IH #80 snowblower hangingnon the back of our 1855 right now. The winter hasn't been too bad so far, and for that I'm grateful. He hasn't used it since he tweaked it catching the wall at the local drag strip that he works at. The sprocket on the auger doesn't line up any more.

The auger also had a pretty good bend to it. I gotta do some fixing before I can think about trying it out, and I'm not sure when I'll have that opportunity.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Don't know, but I've got the neighbor's IH #80 snowblower hangingnon the back of our 1855 right now. The winter hasn't been too bad so far, and for that I'm grateful. He hasn't used it since he tweaked it catching the wall at the local drag strip that he works at. The sprocket on the auger doesn't line up any more.

The auger also had a pretty good bend to it. I gotta do some fixing before I can think about trying it out, and I'm not sure when I'll have that opportunity.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Yep! Buddy had someone get stuck at the end of his driveway. Got the blower tractor (big cabbed JD of some variation, not sure exactly), hooked up the chain, pulled him out easily, and figured as long as he had the tractor out he'd clean up a bit. Yep--forgot to pick the chain up and the first couple passes blew enough snow over it that he didn't see it when he took another swipe. Not to worry--he found it THAT time! Sure does make a racket with a couple hundred horses whipping it around inside the blower housing! Shut it down before it really made a mess in there, but still did enough damage to make it an expensive favor.
 
OWWWWWWwwwwwwuchh!! I can just imagine what that must have looked like. Bet it was 3/8 truck tie down chain with tow hooks!
 
I let my log chain dangle to close to the inspection hole on my bush hog once... ooops. I mean Ooops!!! Can't hear me?? OOOPPPSS!!!!
 
Be careful, a couple others on here may know of, or heard of, a NY man that got too close to a truck mounted snowblower and was pulled in. I knew his brother a big tractor collector a little.
 
I do know a bush hog can remove a quarter mile of electric fence wire in the amount of time it takes to pull the PTO lever on a 4020.
 
Stones from a gravel drive way do a number on the blower, too, and worse on whatever they land on. I don't care much for snowblowers. At least with a dozer blade, it's just pushed up in a pile and you find it next spring.
 
(quoted from post at 00:35:44 01/02/17) Why do women think a stack of birch logs set beside the steps to the deck appear festive ?
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I don't know, but back in the early 80's we sold a lot of firewood to city people who liked white birch "for the looks" when they stacked a bunch beside the front door, or paid me a couple bucks to stack it more likely. These were the same type of people who tip wheel barrows over in their front yard and plant flowers in dirt that looks like it was spilled from the barrow. Never understood that either.
 
The neighbor was in town a few years ago to blow the church parking lot out. Got done and thought he would blow his brother in-law out who has a has a acreage on the edge of town. The guys wife had rocks the size of a quart paint cans lining the driveway by the house. Don't know why he was blowing towards the house but a rock hit the side of the old two story house. Put a dent in the siding-they didn't think there was much damage until they went inside. Knocked a bunch of plaster off the inside of the wall. Nobody got hurt.----Tee
 
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