My thoughts on snow thus year

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If you're referring to snow as bull "spit" and chasing it around with a flamethrower that's a pretty good sign that you need to move South.

A flamethrower is impressive to look at but about useless for clearing show. What little you do manage to melt into water will just freeze and turn to ice.

If you want to blow off some steam clearing snow get a big coal-rolling diesel pickup truck. Preferably a Cummins with the 6" pipe sticking straight up through the hood and the pump turned ALL the way up.

Oh and don't forget to deploy your tow mirrors.

He should be given an award for showing initiative. Unfortunately, in our neck of the woods, we haven't received enough snow to even think about how to remove it. Probably less than 2 total. And the was not an error. We are in the extremely dry area of the state.

Snow cakes in Cortez and Sons walkway in Flagstaff. Snowing here today.

That sums up the mood in my part of the state too!

Paul

Shoveled about @ off the drive in December. Not enough to bother with since then her in SE MI. 45 degrees and light rain right now.

'A flamethrower is impressive to look at but about useless for clearing snow'.

Do you think that news item was authentic?

I think the guy has problems. If you've lived in snow country most of your life you just accept the inevitable and deal with it. Proper equipment can make it easy.

I bought a tractor mounted blower to compliment my snow removal equipment last December and have yet to use it. Hoping for a repeat of the 1980's when years would go by before there was enough snow to ride my sled.

Have you never seen where the railroad uses a jet engine to melt snow?

Well had i not been ready like i always am we would have been buried up to our eye balls . But this year i was ready , i rebuilt my old junk Ariens St 7-24 with a new carb , new traction drive wheel , change oil greased , replaced the blower housing aired up the tires fix this fixed that even mixed up straight 90 octane gas with Satbil , never used that stuff before got it running adjusted the carb brought the RPM's up to the 3600 filled the tank test run it and it runs like a new one . What snow we have received a 95 year old woman and wore out broom could handle it and to day we have 48 degrees and SUN and warmer tomorrow .Just like when i did commercial plowing the weather guessers would call for this huge storm and i had a lot of lots drive ways to do i would start at 3 :00 Am and sometime still be at it at 3 Am the next day and still going keeping up with it So you would get the truck all ready and wake up at 2:30 and look out and ya had a dusting , the storm changed course . Butsometimes they would call for a dusting and we would get hammered and you were woke up by the city plow going past the house at 4 Am and the truck was not ready , the plow frozen to the ground the hyd. couplers froze solid wind blowing 50 MPH snowing so hard ya could not see the houses across the street and you now fighting with everything frozen and your behind . This is one year sofar i am glad that i am not plowing snow Talk about loosen your donkey with the cost of insurance the cost of repairs the cost of new worthless trucks and the replacement costs on a new snow plow . . And oh the cost of motion lotion to run them on . The old plow trucks had dual tanks and carried darn near fifty gallon and sometimes i would have to fill two three times in one plowing .

Well my Daughter works for the States Attorney, in the county Fargo is located in,I could check it out pretty easy !!

make snow ice cream here , so a good start to cleaning by the back door

I flew EMS helicopters for over 31 years of my 58 year flying career. One time, we were called out around 7 in the evening (after dark) to a scene where, as it turned out, the husband was sitting in the house watching TV and drinking beer. His wife came home from work and yelled to him ''when are you going to take care of that ice in the driveway''? He got up and said ''I'll take care of that ice right now''. He proceeded to pour 5 gallons of gasoline on the driveway. When he ignited it the explosion blew him off his feet and he landed in the fire. Fireman came and called us. The fireman said the fire didn't melt any of the ice because the heat went right up and it was well below freezing. We landed on the road at the end of his driveway and then transported him to a burn center.

A foot of snow is still much easier to deal with than an inch of ice.

A Sno Jet. They're really handy for deicing the switches, turning a inspection pit into a pond & throwing ballast & brake shoes everywhere.... including the windshields of vehicles still parked by the tracks because their owners were taking lunch at the gin mill. :v)

Mike

You have to remember this to shall pass.

I vote in favor of No snow this winter. Got the plow mounted and tractor ready as insurance.

I volunteered to blow the snow out of Dad's driveway this year. When I thought I was finished, I found that the service door would not close on the garage. So I used my snow rake to pull some snow off the garage roof. It had so much moisture in it that the snow blower would ride up on the pile instead of cutting into the pile. We had to use a shovel to break it up and get the packed snow off the sidewalk. I guess I should have worked on it last week when it wasn't so warm outside.