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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