Yeah, this was one of the 2-3 snows a year I would have liked to have a 2 stage for. The single stage can manage, but not without multiple passes & some shovel help at the end of the driveway.
First world problems..
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Yeah, this was one of the 2-3 snows a year I would have liked to have a 2 stage for. The single stage can manage, but not without multiple passes & some shovel help at the end of the driveway.
First world problems..
Horsepower is valuable with these snows. I have two neighbors with identical 2 stage snowblowers. Roughly 6 hp ones. They had to blow forward or else they were making snow banks 6-8 to the side of them. Took them forever to blow it. I was dreading going out. I have a 10 hp and it clearing the full width (3.5 car) of the driveway. 2 stage helps, but low horsepower renders them to be glorified single stages.
Waukee cancelled and our Superintendent told us we wouldn't have to worry about making it up because we would still have enough hours in to cover it. Now, if we miss any additional days, we may have to make them up.
The local school adds 5-6 no school days in right away. Have not missed a day yet, today is no in person but they went to online so still no down days. They cut spring break to a couple days to make sure they were done by a certain day. I think they can cut to 2-3 days extra if they do the online stuff.
And it was a very wet and heavy snow too. I have a big 2 stage thrower and Im wiped but also did quite a few sidewalks and did 3 other end of driveways for the neighbors.
Most districts have built in days in their calendar so they don't have to make days up in June.
Yes, and so do we, most districts are counting hours these day, instead of actual days. Nice thing about being about to count today as an online day, that we are not burning up hours that we would have to make up in the spring. So since we have built in days in the schedule, we can still go ahead and take those days off.
Just cleared what the plow shoved into my driveway. and my front walks. Still need to finish the rest of the driveway and then the long walk on the side, stupid corner lot.
It's let up a lot but I didn't want all that stuff from the plow freezing into massive ice boulders.
It's let up a lot but I didn't want all that stuff from the plow freezing into massive ice boulders.
How are the roads around and West of Ames on Hwy 30 toward Boone? My daughter needs to drive to Boone (from Marshalltown) and wondering if I should let her.
Not sure how it is there, but I drove down to Kansas City this afternoon and it was fine.
This year I put some liquid silicone on my snowblower and shovels which works like a champ. Most are sold on Amazon as car detailing liquids. Clean the areas off with rubbing alcohol, rub the silicone on it and let it sit for maybe a day and bam, no more snow clogging up the snow blower.
This may be the best post in any weather thread to date.
Ok, who's going to start the 1/23-1/27 weather thread? Weather Underground is showing 10" of snow in Des Moines for that time period.
I just noticed it looks like snow for 4 days straight. Will be interesting to see that develop.
Maybe we should just rename this to Winter Weather 2020 - 2021?
