Re: (ET) Snow topped the blower, now what?

["Pieter Litchfield" <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

I'm jealous too!  My "retirement" job is grooming cross country ski trails,
and I have been largely unemployed lately.  After a good December, we have
gone into a long cold snow drought in upstate NY. Practically no snow from
1/1/10 to the present. About 10 days ago we got an inch of rain in a few
hours - massive flooding of course.  I am using my big bucket loader (John
Deere 4120 40 hp utility tractor) to salvage snow banks plowed up earlier 
in
the parking lot to patch dirt spots nearby on the trails.  But at least its
now staying cold so the repair jobs last

By the way, you guys might want to consider my ET bucket loader for those
time when the blower just can't move it anymore....
http://www.plitch.com/loader1.htm
It works well to scrape up hard packed snow on the driveway or clear the 
big
snowbank the town plow left at the end of the drive or around the mailbox.
But honestly, the gas walk-behind blower is faster on the rest of the job.


-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Tim Humphrey
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:02 PM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) Snow topped the blower, now what?

I'm sorta jealous.

As you all know we typically get 12-14 ft of snow annually. Well I
have 3" on the ground now. Haven't had over 18" at one time all
season.

The nor'easter that is hitting Chris is staying south of us, no snow
predicted for the next week. I haven't even had the 'trak out this
winter. Just using shovels.



On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:
> bill wrote:
>>
>> stop complaining!
>> Up in Maine here, we have no snow
>
> I'm near the bay so we're getting dumped hard. It is over 3 feet at this
> point. I'm giving up for now, got the level part of the driveway done.
>
> I need to upload some pics...
>
> Chris
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Zach"
>> <cz alembic crystel com>
>> To: "et" <Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:12 AM
>> Subject: (ET) Snow topped the blower, now what?
>>
>>
>>> Well, this is interesting; blowing 2+ feet of snow this morning is
>>> causing a problem: The snow is above the level of the chute.
>>>
>>> How does one handle this sort of thing? I'm starting to realize that 
>>> you
>>> need a place for the snow to *go* as well. The 4 foot walls on the edge
are
>>> literally collapsing onto the tractor.
>>>
>>> At this point I have a good 4 lanes cleared on the level portion, but I
>>> can't get up the hill due to the drifts. Oddly enough when I go for it 
>>> I
>>> literally *stall* the auger. The whole auger.
>>>
>>> Still snowing. So do people have snow blowing techniques? Or should I
>>> hook up the tiller and take this stuff in reverse?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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