Snow Too much snow! Help!

[montelatici]

Finally the BX got through and cleared a path.

 

[montelatici]

The Volvo is freed but has been injured! My bad.

 

[montelatici]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

 

[montelatici]

The BX after a days work ready to be fueled for more snow removal.

 

[NSBound]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

Woops! You'll be lucky if it's $1000. Now I don't feel so stupid and clumsy (not saying you are, "I" have been feeling that way ) . First damage was to my portable shelter in the driveway - tore the corner and bent a pole. Then put a gash in the skin of the garage door (just a little gash, but a gash nonetheless), and today I caught the edge of the electrical conduit going down the wall of my garage and snapped it in two, thankfully didn't break any wiring, but have wrapped it in plastic to keep water out until spring). I have to learn to pay more attention to the close up work, or maybe learn to just plain keep farther away from things.

 

[montelatici]

"Woops! You'll be lucky if it's $1000. "

I guess those paintless dent removal guys don't work with gashes to sheet metal!

I'll probably put some putty on it for the time being and decide if i want to get it fixed. It is 98 Volvo with about 140K on it, it may not be worth fixing.

 

[dcyrilc]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

Hope that wasn't the wife's ride.

 

[montelatici]

"Hope that wasn't the wife's ride."

It was my wife's ride, but she has a much newer VW now. It is now my beater so no harm done

 

[Deano]

Injury to Volvo, my bad move and difficult conditions caused about $1,000 damage I figure.

Owww!!! Owwww!! and Owwwww!!

 

[KeithInSpace]

I have a gear tranny- crash box.

Well that's your problem, right there. I imagine it would add incalculable hours to your job having to stop, shift, reverse, stop, shift, forward slow, forward fast, stop, shift, reverse, etc...

I clear ~1/2 miles worth of driveway (8 different houses, so add 8 garage areas, 8 street ends, 8 mailboxes, etc.) with my BX each storm. I run turf tires, no chains, and nothing but the FEL.

This snow, we got 16 inches on the ground, but the first 12 inches of snow were reduced to 4 inches by sleet, creating a very hard, heavy, wet, crusty, and otherwise impossible to shovel sandwich of junk. Took me an hour just to shovel the walkway from my driveway to my front door. Thankless work.

All that said, I didn't have much problem dispatching of it with my little BX. The whole thing took maybe 6 hours. But I couldn't fathom doing that with a geared tractor...painful.

And, of course, I'd never miss an opportunity to share pictures of my family...tractor included...

 

[dodge man]

I had a walk behind snow blower, they aren't that great. It was a two stage, 8hp self propeled, and it worked well, but it is still a lot of physical labor. Its just a lot of work to get it to turn and guide the thing. I sold mine when I got the BX.

 

[montelatici]

"I had a walk behind snow blower, they aren't that great. It was a two stage, 8hp self propeled,"

In the snow we had, my 11.5 HP Ariens 2 stage would not move. You had to be here in Maryland/NorthernVirginia to understand how heavy this snow was/is. As some wise fellow remarked, I should have gone out while it was snowing and hit the driveway as the snow approached 6 inches or so. With 24 inches or so I got I would have had to go out six times overnight and during the next morning!

 

[Patches]

Listening to the evening weather a short time ago; you're in for another bout with "Mother Nature" and she's in a nasty mood. I was kind of hopeing to get a little of the white stuff up here,but no luck;the snowmobile is still stranded in the garage and my tractor/snowblower sitting there "unused"

 

[jackwho]

Hi I'm new here but here is what I put together today, a Bobcat 72 inch blower stuck on the front of my L48. It was not easy I had to work around Bobcat's "black Box". Why a snowblower needs a microprocessor, I don't know. Look here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcU0Jcn1Ac

 

[montelatici]

"Listening to the evening weather a short time ago; you're in for another bout with "Mother Nature""


I heard the same news it went from 4 inches prediction to another 20+ inches prediction. I tried to find chains for the BX but none were available. I will do the incremental plowing this time even if it is coming down heavy.

 

[NSBound]

AccuWeather.com - Weather Blogs - Weather News

Sounds serious!

 

[Kubota-guy1911]

"Keith in Space"

Nice looking family you have there. Looks like you shared some fun.

kj

 

[radioman]

ouch! that really bites just to back into your own vehicles with the backhoe. Thats one of the reasons why I take mine off. Much easier to see. Granted the extra weight is nice, and if I get stuck, it nice to use BH to pull myself out.

 

[thavil]

Thought I would share a few photos from our last snowfall. Looks like another storms is hitting tomorrow afternoon, what fun!

 

[montelatici]

"ouch! that really bites just to back into your own vehicles with the backhoe. "

The thing is, I never back into anything with the backhoe. It was the FEL that caused the damage, I had one of those no traction instant traction moments. I keep the backhoe on, no need to remove it as I have a BX1850 for the use of the three point hitch. Plus I have used the backhoe to get me out of stuck situations in deep snow. It can lift and move the back end of the BX.