I've never seen one with a track drive. My Troy Bilt with wheels has no problem. I would also be concerned that the track might be too aggressive in pushing against hard packed snow as if you are not careful you might be replacing shear pins or worse damaging the blades. I recall years ago my neighbor doing his drive hit his newspaper buried in the snow and warped the blades on his snow thrower.
I can only imagine ... I haven't been on a snomo in almost 40 years , since we moved from Utahaha . Dad had a Skidoo 640 that was capable of speeds that I found scary , and the new machines are much much lighter and waaaayyyy more powerful .
Big thing here is high marking. It's a lot of fun until you trigger an avalanche. With motorcycle hill climbs the whole damn hill doesn't come down on you.
In 2013 we had some sort of Toro. A single-stage jobbie with those rubber flappers. We have some colored and stamped concrete that we don't want to tear up.
We replaced it this year with a Honda. I think it's this one:
Cindy Hamilton
Nice. Our yard tractor isn't quite powerful enough for that. We did the math on buying a bigger tractor. I figured we'd just save the money toward hiring it done when I get too feeble to use the snowblower. We'll probably phase it in: do it myself for up to 6 inches and hire someone to do it for anything deeper than that. Then after a while just sit in the house and watch someone else do it all.
Not as much fun as hiring landscapers. The snow-removal guys have to keep their shirts on.
Cindy Hamilton
Doesn't your city require the sidewalks be completely cleared? Ann Arbor does, and if you don't clear your sidewalk they'll do it for you and bill you for it.
That works if the snow isn't very deep. I've several times been "beached" when the snow was substantially deeper than the ground clearance of my car. One memorable occasion was in the parking lot at work: it was fine when I went to work in the morning but so much came down during the day I actually needed the shovel that I keep in the car.
Cindy Hamilton
In the middle of NC where I live we don't often get more than 4 to 6 inches of snow at one time. However one year we got about 12 to 14 inches. I got in my car about 3 in the afternoon. Backed up out of the parking space and was 'beached'. All wheels were off the pavement and the car (1994 Pontack Ventura) was sitting on the frame. Had to go back in and sleep over that night. It is a large plant with about 700 people working each shift. The plant runs 24 hours a day. Some agency brought in some cots and blankets for us to sleep on. All was not a total loss as I did work the 2nd shift and got paid for it.
I am retired now and if we have much snow I just stay home. The driveway is about 200 feet from the house to the road and about 100 feet of it is slightly up hill. In the country so no sidewalks to clean off.
I think so, but I can't believe that includes cleaning the whole width.
That's never happened to me or any of my neighbors afaik. Maybe because we own our own streets**.
So it's more likely the HOA would do that, but even the law gives us 24 or 48 hours and I'm sure the HOA settles for 8 inches. Well, actually I guess I used to do two widths of an 8" shovel, 16 inches. I'm not sure the HOA has ever given a snow shoveling fine.
With Covid, only the mailman comes to visit, and he doens't come 6 days a week like he used to.I'm pretty sure because my house is out of the way, I think he saves up mail until I have several pieces and only then delivers it. (Plus I get a weekly newspaper that sometimes comes a month late, or two issues at one time.) Apparently this is a problem in many n'hoods, and Maryland Congressmen have complained to DeJoy, who is still postmaster general. Biden doesn't have the authority to fire him, although he could add people to the Board and the Board could fire him. That's the kind of thing that traditional politicians are loathe to do.
** (We'd like to give them to the county, so that we didnt' have to pay for maintenance, but they are not thick enough. We repave them every so often but I never got straight if more layers of blacktop get them closer to the county requiremnt. Even 20 years ago repaving cost 100,000 dollars for the 109 of us, and the neighbors are eager to spend 910 dollars a piece. I suppose i could have moved to a n'hood with richer people, but I love my lot and my stream. I haven't seen a better lot in my price range in all the years I've lived here. Still I'm stuck among a bunch of newer people here who have less money than I do. The ones who were here when I got here with as much or more money stayed here a few years and moved, when they had children, or even when they didn't have children.)I hope you don't mind my laughing.
I've only been beached once, in the summer. There was a pile of dirt maybe 6 feet tall and I had a crazy idea to drive over it. I got a running start but only got part way. When I got out of the car I saw that all four wheels were off the ground! I was working with a crew that was putting down steel reinforcement for a new interstate hway, so I found the guy who drove the little crane, and after lunch he picked one end of my car up and pulled it off the dirt. I was lucky.
This was a '50 Oldsmobile and it had both a rectangular frame and an X-frame so all that protected the car's underside and muffler. Lucky again.
I kept a shovel in the car during the winter for many years. Used it at least once to dig myself out of the snow.
A couple years ago, during good weather, I got stuck in the dirt, the finest dust I've ever seen for dirt. So it wasn't a pile of dirt, just dust several inches deep that the tires spun in. Rental car, I found a big crushed soda bottle I used as a shovel and dug myelf out. .
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Very good.
Even better.
Yes, it does:
Wheelchair access, for one thing.
If people didn't clean the whole width, it would be pretty challenging by the end of a normal winter to do any shoveling at all. Our average annual snowfall is
42", although we generally lose some of that to thawing. Still, people trudging along would knock down the unshoveled snow, pack it down, and it would turn to ice.Cindy Hamilton
Our HOA has no regulations on snow.
When I lived in Philly and CT it was the full sidewalk. though in CT where I lived we had no sidewalk and the street was plowed to the curb.
The city requires the sidewalk to be CLEARED within 24 hours of snowfall
You wear knee-high boots to get to and into the car? ANd when the snow freezes you tear your muffler off? You use your bumper as a plough to push the snow from behind or infront of the car???? The plogh can leace 2 pile 2 feet deepand 2 or 3 feet wide across the end of the driveway. You MIGHT get out once - You MIGHT get in once, but I can almost guarantee you well be spending money on exhaust repairs.
Not to mention the mail man and couriers will NOT deliver if the driveway is not shovelled (the friveway is the "sidewalk" to the front foor.
We call those snow throwers - or power shovels. The work good for loose snow - not bad for wet - but no good for frozen packed snow or snow with a heavy ice coating. Sometimes you NEED wheel drive or track drive to motivate the thing.
Nah, not a problem. Micky is in Baltimore and I grew up in Philly, about 90 miles north of it. A four inch snowfall does not need knee high boots or tear out your muffler. Where I lived in Philly only the main streets were plowed. Every few years you got a 12" storm. The average annual snowfall is only 13" spread out over the winter.
You need some. Even if you are in Florida.
Wow. I'm going to pretend I never read your answer or angelica's.
We parked in the garage then.
The mailbox was at the road. And if we got one package delivered a year that was a lot. (This was quite a few years ago, but now, I'm not going to buy anything online until the snow melts. I did shovel for the grocery delivery..)
Not where I live. There may be a few times when it dusted the lawns up where Ed lives but water doesn't freeze down here. We have plumbing outside.
And if 13 inches lasted more than a week it was a heavy winter. The stuff comes down so wet it sticks to both sifes of traffic signs. I know, I've seen a "King of Prussia" snow storm - Slick as snot for 8 hours, and gone.
HAven't been able to put a car in the garage for over 30 years. The
80 corolla was a snug fit without my tool box and the Myford lathe and Lincoln Tombstone welder - not to mention the bikes etcHomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.