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liquidsquid wrote:and a LOT faster. You have no idea how much faster a blade is, especially when you learn to do it right. You can push a blade as fast as you can, but anything with a blower has an optimum volume flow rate. Go too slow and it doesn't throw well, go too fast and it bogs down.StrangeDay wrote:I really have to invest in a snow blower to do this huge driveway.
Get a 4-wheeler and a plow A LOT more fun.
SpotTheCat wrote:liquidsquid wrote:and a LOT faster. You have no idea how much faster a blade is, especially when you learn to do it right. You can push a blade as fast as you can, but anything with a blower has an optimum volume flow rate. Go too slow and it doesn't throw well, go too fast and it bogs down.StrangeDay wrote:I really have to invest in a snow blower to do this huge driveway.
Get a 4-wheeler and a plow A LOT more fun.
liquidsquid wrote:Holy cow... I burn through about 2-3 face cords per year and I thought that was a lot!Since we cannot afford to heat our house with liquid gold, we have our big Vermont Castings. Takes about 13-15 face cords per year to heat, which amounts to $700-$900 depending on the source.
SpotTheCat wrote:liquidsquid wrote:And no, the snow heaps go wherever they wish. If I piled up away from the wind, the wind direction would just switch on me and dump the other field's contents into the hole.
-LS
Oh, come on. Plow it to the east.
SpotTheCat wrote:I'm not sure if it's as much getting used to it as to re-learning how to behave in the cold/heat. In the cold you keep moving, in the heat you move as little as possible. Minnesota is blessed (cursed?) with all 4 seasons. Our winters go down to -40 wind chill, and our summers hit over 100F. I think the only part of my body that might actually change is my nose. I've always got a stuffy nose for the first few cold weeks, and then it goes away eventually.
Hance wrote:Yeah listening to the diesel engine in your 40k truck clatter and rattle because it was -30 f when you started it up makes a person want to cry. I dont know exactly how many quarts of coolant it holds but I think its around 30 . My truck will start fine when its cold but with that much coolant to warm up plus the block etc it takes a good 20 miles before its even remotely warm in the cab. With it plugged in you start it up and have instant heat.
pete_roth wrote:I rode my room mate to work