The weight of snow
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So this is my 2nd winter in Minnesota. Let me tell you... give me 0 degrees (F) any day during the winter. I like the snow, I like the cold, I like the seasonal changes.
But yesterday it was about 33 degrees and snowing... only about 3 inches but at that temp it meant wet/heavy snow. Went out to clear the driveway and sidewalks today, and normally with my 30" wide snow pusher I can do it all in about 8 minutes with that depth of snow. But wet/heavy snow? Felt about 5 times heavier, and took a good 45 minutes since I had to push about half the snow and then use a normal shovel for the last half.
Give me the colder temps that result in drier snow. So much easier to move.
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A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
I was only joking
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A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The weight of snow:
A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
Funny... my brother in law and his dad, who have lived in northern Wisconsin their whole lives, visited me in DC one humid cold day (maybe in the 20s?) but said it was so bone chilling it was the coldest they've ever felt.
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A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The weight of snow:
A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
My experience of Aberdeen in March was identical. Cold to the bones.
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What's a snow shovel?
I have a small two cycle blower and an even smaller electric snow blower for the small areas where the Deere cannot roam.
Save your back for the old age. Get a good snow blower/thrower
@mark said in The weight of snow:
Save your back for the old age. Get a good snow blower/thrower
Love your setup!
I was waiting for that comment, btw.
We have a normal driveway and sidewalk. I have been looking at getting a snow blower (I've been looking at the electric ones, with batteries) since they are quieter, don't need stabilized gas, oil, spark plugs, etc... but they also are not as powerful as gas ones that have 2 or 3 stages to chow through wet/icy snow.
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@mark said in The weight of snow:
Save your back for the old age. Get a good snow blower/thrower
Love your setup!
I was waiting for that comment, btw.
We have a normal driveway and sidewalk. I have been looking at getting a snow blower (I've been looking at the electric ones, with batteries) since they are quieter, don't need stabilized gas, oil, spark plugs, etc... but they also are not as powerful as gas ones that have 2 or 3 stages to chow through wet/icy snow.
@89th very wet snow is even a challenge for the 25HP shaft driven Deere. I have broken more than a couple of sheer pins over the past 24 years. The new X739 however is much more robust than my previous machine. Going on the 6th season with it and I think I have broken 2 sheer pins in that time.
So, think about your back, I mean, steel pins will snap in two, lifting heavy snow.
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@89th very wet snow is even a challenge for the 25HP shaft driven Deere. I have broken more than a couple of sheer pins over the past 24 years. The new X739 however is much more robust than my previous machine. Going on the 6th season with it and I think I have broken 2 sheer pins in that time.
So, think about your back, I mean, steel pins will snap in two, lifting heavy snow.
@mark said in The weight of snow:
@89th very wet snow is even a challenge for the 25HP shaft driven Deere. I have broken more than a couple of sheer pins over the past 24 years. The new X739 however is much more robust than my previous machine. Going on the 6th season with it and I think I have broken 2 sheer pins in that time.
So, think about your back, I mean, steel pins will snap in two, lifting heavy snow.
Good to know!
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As a kid, I would shovel the roof with my dad. Just sayin'.
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As a kid, I would shovel the roof with my dad. Just sayin'.
@Aqua-Letifer said in The weight of snow:
As a kid, I would shovel the roof with my dad. Just sayin'.
Did he have a flat head?
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It sometimes gets wet & heavy south of Renauda but itās usually dry. Until it died this year, my little 21ā single stage Toro, gas, but with added electric start was a trooper. It maneuvers well, stores in the garage & never once clogged on me. It lasted 12 yrs. I include a pic of what I deal with sometimes clearing out a sloped driveway and making a trench into the street for a truck & a SUV. Iām on a wait list for this 2nd pic, another 21ā Toro. Iāve tried out neighborsā 2 stage machines but find them too big & awkward. These little guys are zip-zip go & when itās -35, I need the job done quick.
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It sometimes gets wet & heavy south of Renauda but itās usually dry. Until it died this year, my little 21ā single stage Toro, gas, but with added electric start was a trooper. It maneuvers well, stores in the garage & never once clogged on me. It lasted 12 yrs. I include a pic of what I deal with sometimes clearing out a sloped driveway and making a trench into the street for a truck & a SUV. Iām on a wait list for this 2nd pic, another 21ā Toro. Iāve tried out neighborsā 2 stage machines but find them too big & awkward. These little guys are zip-zip go & when itās -35, I need the job done quick.
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@blondie said in The weight of snow:
These little guys are zip-zip go & when itās -35
Yikes! That's colder than a kiss from my first wife!
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The weight of snow:
A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
Funny... my brother in law and his dad, who have lived in northern Wisconsin their whole lives, visited me in DC one humid cold day (maybe in the 20s?) but said it was so bone chilling it was the coldest they've ever felt.
@89th said in The weight of snow:
@Doctor-Phibes said in The weight of snow:
A Canadian friend of ours, who regularly experienced -40C winters, said she'd never been as cold as when she visited Leeds in the UK.
I suspect it might have been in the summer.
Funny... my brother in law and his dad, who have lived in northern Wisconsin their whole lives, visited me in DC one humid cold day (maybe in the 20s?) but said it was so bone chilling it was the coldest they've ever felt.
The coldest Iāve felt was during a winter in Halifax. Damp & bone chilling cold. I never felt dry. No vehicle, I walked everywhere. I lived near the harbour & at times there was what I called ice-chip snow. Walking against the wind in that was brutal. I had a head nurse pull me out of report one day asking if Iād chicken pox ā¦ when I looked at myself in a mirror I had red ice-chip marks all over my face. -
