round 1 of operation clear the driveway completed

[gragravar]

it was really coming down earlier - with the wind blowing so hard most of the snow had already blown away
http://1strule.org/62/DSC02765s.jpg

there were some drifts around though, like this little one behind the cars:
http://1strule.org/62/DSC02769s.jpg

using the little plow on the lawn tractor, it takes a while to build up such a large pile of snow:
http://1strule.org/62/DSC02775s.jpg

but the driveway is now clear
http://1strule.org/62/DSC02777s.jpg

even the parking day at the top of the driveway is clear
http://1strule.org/62/DSC02779s.jpg
I feel bad for the rover having to sit outside in this, but with the top box on, it wont fit in the garage.

will likely have to do this again by morning, but at least there is that much less that will need to be cleared.

[Patrolman]

That is the way it goes I suppose! I had a tractor last year that had a 42" snowblower on the front of it. Was super cool for moving serious snow! No large snow mounds as it would shoot it 50-100 feet.

[gragravar]

That is the way it goes I suppose! I had a tractor last year that had a 42" snowblower on the front of it. Was super cool for moving serious snow! No large snow mounds as it would shoot it 50-100 feet.

I need to get me one of those.

[Patrolman]

How long does it take to plow with the tractor? Looks like it takes a while to do. Forward/back, push up and over...

[gragravar]

the driveway is 175' from the street to the garage - 2 cars wide the whole way down, widening to 3 at the top, and then there is an additional 20x40' parking section on the side of the top. It takes between an hour and 2 hours depending on how much snow we get to clear it. I can clear one car width with a pass down and a pass back, but pushing the rest to the sides takes more time.

[Brody]

The huge snow we got a few years back, I was living near Aspen Park with a driveway almost exactly that long. I had a Toyota pick up with a camper shell buried in the drive..I literally couldn't see it. I had to crawl out of the 2nd floor window over the front door and dig a tunnel to the garage. The snow on the front of the house was over 7' tall. It took me 38 hours of shoveling to shovel the driveway and I managed to break all but one shovel.

All this living with some woman who constantly pissed and moaned about the lack of phone or TV...and never helped on the drive or even offered a cup of hot chocolate...needless to say, that relationship ended soon after that fiasco...it just didn't make all that shoveling go any better.

[Chris]

the driveway is 175' from the street to the garage - 2 cars wide the whole way down, widening to 3 at the top, and then there is an additional 20x40' parking section on the side of the top.

That's a pretty good description of the street i live on. :p

[Roostercruiser]

hahahahaha ive got a nephew do it:D

[gragravar]

The huge snow we got a few years back, I was living near Aspen Park with a driveway almost exactly that long. I had a Toyota pick up with a camper shell buried in the drive..I literally couldn't see it. I had to crawl out of the 2nd floor window over the front door and dig a tunnel to the garage. The snow on the front of the house was over 7' tall. It took me 38 hours of shoveling to shovel the driveway and I managed to break all but one shovel.

All this living with some woman who constantly pissed and moaned about the lack of phone or TV...and never helped on the drive or even offered a cup of hot chocolate...needless to say, that relationship ended soon after that fiasco...it just didn't make all that shoveling go any better.

I think I would have ended that relationship too. thats nuts. oh, and any time you have to go through the 2nd floor window to get out because of the snow, thats too much snow.


That's a pretty good description of the street i live on. :p

LOL


hahahahaha ive got a nephew do it:D

My nephews in town here are only 6. it would have taken them all day or longer.

[Brody]

That was only the second time in my life that I had to do the second story trick because of snow. The very first time was in Bethesda, New Hampshire up in the White Mountains, near Franconia Notch. I went up there to see a friend I went to school with. It was the first time I had really seen snow in my life! They had a tunnel down from the 2nd floor, a ladder, and another tunnel to the garage. People were X skiing over the top of the houses. Actually had a blast as I learned to ice climb that winter, ski, ice skate, drift cars on frozen lakes, etc. A pretty wild change for a Florida water sport boy....