Conquer Club

So do all americans and canadians do this? It's oddly fascinating.

waauw wrote:So do all americans and canadians do this? It's oddly fascinating.

only those in areas with snow

oh hell, thats only a light dusting of snow.....and yep, I know some apartment dwellers that use their leaf blowers for that....lol.......me, I live in rural New Brunswick, Canada, and I have a small yard tractor with a 40" blower for my driveway.....and I have the smallest tractor around here....lol

Yeah that ain't going to work for the wet heavy snow or more than a dusting

IcePack wrote:Yeah that ain't going to work for the wet heavy snow or more than a dusting

Yep, that little leaf blower ain't gonna touch heavy wet snow. It just makes a lot of noise and pisses off your neighbors. You are better just using a broom and shovel like everyone else.

Here is my Dad using the real snow blower I bought just before the super ice storm of 2010:



I am happy I got it, because shoveling all that snow that year would have been exhausting.

I use a "real" traditional snowblower for my driveway.

I do use a leaf blower sometimes for areas where a full-size snowblower won't work.

Sometime this is a paver walkway with stairs.

Generally though I only use the leaf blower for my porch/deck.
It's great at getting the snow off the deck in between the railings or around furniture or grill.

If you live in an area with snow and have never tried it you should!

It doesn't work great with really wet/heavy snow... nor does it work great with dry/fluffy snow, as that stuff will often blow back in your face. This is true with any type of snow removal. You have to take the snow type and outside conditions into account when you decide how and when to attack the job. Do you wait till it stops? Is it windy? How much is there? What's the weather like tomorrow?

I've become an expert after last years record snow!

Where I live, sometimes we'll get 3-4 inches... but the forecast for the next 2 days is sunny and 45-50 fahrenheit. In that case I wouldn't bother even shoveling at all.

I was waiting for that.

Here in the desert we cower like superstitious cave-dwellers seeing an eclipse any time it snows more than half an inch. All the schools close, the electricity goes out, and anyone going out ends up skidding off into a ditch.

It's unnatural and we are far too scared to try provoking it with any resistance.

/ wrote:Here in the desert we cower like superstitious cave-dwellers seeing an eclipse any time it snows more than half an inch. All the schools close, the electricity goes out, and anyone going out ends up skidding off into a ditch.

It's unnatural and we are far too scared to try provoking it with any resistance.

Ha! I heard Atlanta (Not the desert but still) cancels on the THREAT of Snow... :/ Wusses.

/ wrote:Here in the desert we cower like superstitious cave-dwellers seeing an eclipse any time it snows more than half an inch. All the schools close, the electricity goes out, and anyone going out ends up skidding off into a ditch.

It's unnatural and we are far too scared to try provoking it with any resistance.

Sounds about right. My uncle, who grew up in Wyoming, lives out in Nevada. With half an inch, their town shuts down, even though it's gone by 10am.

In Canada, we don't even bother removing it unless it's at least 12 inches worth.

notyou2 wrote:In Canada, we don't even bother removing it unless it's at least 12 inches worth.

About the same here.

muy_thaiguy wrote:

notyou2 wrote:In Canada, we don't even bother removing it unless it's at least 12 inches worth.

About the same here.

my place its roughly 6in when it becomes dangerous. But even more dangerous is the ice, that can hide underneath the snow.

rishaed wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

notyou2 wrote:In Canada, we don't even bother removing it unless it's at least 12 inches worth.

About the same here.

my place its roughly 6in when it becomes dangerous. But even more dangerous is the ice, that can hide underneath the snow.

Ice and black ice. If you don't have winter tires on your vehicle here, you should at the VERY least, have all-weather tires, so you have SOME grip.

we stopped calling them "all season" tires and now refer to them as 3 season tires.

notyou2 wrote:we stopped calling them "all season" tires and now refer to them as 3 season tires.

Fair enough.