Or rain!!! Ron

running snow blowers on roof tops says it all

Wind is killer.... Minus 6 here as I type. Have four more driveways to clear today. A couple additions due to people being away for school vacation. Then work out a better way to deliver calcium chloride onto some hard to reach ice dams. Getting quotes to have snow removed from a few tight neighborhoods too.

These are conditions that I can relate to what the crab fishing fleet must work in.....

Well, I just got yesterday back from deep in the Caribbean, Latitude 10. 90deg heat intense sun. Marlin fishing and relaxing with the wife on the beach and drinking way too much island rum. Have a bad sun burn on my gut. Landed in PVD under white out conditions, took 4 hours to get to woods hole ferry from pvd, then woke up to -8 deg..then the wind blew. I went outside this morning and thought my skull was going to crack from thermal contraction.

I think it is time to begin the planning process to move the south.

Woke up feeling exhausted.... Not good. Wrists, elbows, shoulders all hurting. 2-3" dusting overnight. No one is even bothering with it. I have one driveway to open up for a car that is being delivered back Florida and two more roofs to open up dams on before the rain... And then there are the calls to cut access to oil tank fills... Bought a chipping hammer yesterday to break up ice dams. Cannot find bigger bags of calcium chloride, only in smaller shaker jugs. 25 empty jugs went to recycling. Already telling accounts that I am not doing snow removal next year..... Feeling old this morning.

BJ has 5 gallon pails, and use a nylon stocking, seems to have work well thus far.
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I feel your pain Ross.... I arrived at the plant Monday to find the main and employee entrances drifted in over 8' high.. the 100' walkway was drifted in waist deep ( OK knee deep to some of you guy's)..it took 4 1/2 hours and a lot of shoveling as well as a superior effort from my 20 year old Torro 724 ( the only machine that I can bring down stairs)to move it... and I did it alone because my janitor was born in the Dominican republic.. he and snow/cold just don't mesh.. if it snow... he stays home... when I was done I got to clear off the hydrogen dock and clear 2 storage trailer roofs as well as a few drifted in ( leaking) sky lights.. I guess the good part is that the main roof is %90 blown free of snow... thank god for small favors...all this after working most of the day Saturday and Sunday clearing my own garage.. porch and roof...I turned 60 Sunday.. and this week feel every bit of it..

FYI as of Friday .. Grainger had 50lb boxes of ice melt... I bought 4 more .. bringing this years total to 12... 50 lb. boxes.. the most I have bought in 20 years of maintaining this building. Look them up on line and you can put in your zip code to check availability...

that invitation from my Son to go live in New Orleans is looking better each day... except for the fact that I hate snakes MORE than snow....

Just cleared the 6 to 8 in of fluff. glad its not warmer. Killed 1 snowblower so far and the amount of gas I've gone through with clearin the snow here an at the apts is nuts.1 of the 3 elderly that I keep cleared out met me at the door this AM with a coffee an fresh coffee cake. there are some posetives to this constant snow.

Hope you had a great Birthday.

I hear you on the snakes!!!
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Hope you had a great Birthday.

I hear you on the snakes!!!
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thanks... any day I get up and it's my face staring back it's a good day.. first time some other S.O.B stares back ...I know I'm in deep trouble!

I've been sharing my sears snow blower with the neighbor for selfish reasons, as a guy that makes a living buying and flipping cars at auction; he is very good at keep that puppy lubbed, oil changed and last night I came home to test out the impeller retrofit. Being the anal guy he is of course, he doubled up on the rubber, no self tappers, bolts and nylon nuts, slotted attachments so the rubber can be moved as it wears and cut and shaped perfectly. The Utube 15 minute job was a 3 hour one for him and OMG what a difference. Came home to find the usual plow job in front of the 3 car wide frontage on drive and what I normally would throw into the middle of the road, now goes clear over both lanes so I don't have to do the street too. I think it will also mean the end of snow, because that is usually what happens after a retro to address it, but that will work too; I'm so tired.

Braces on both knees and been on the ladder for 6 hours raking snow off roofs. This DOES suck.

we passed "sucks" a long time ago... BE CAREFUL ON THAT LADDER....

Same here. :(
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Agreed.
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LOL Still can't find my damn roof rake. Things buried under 4 ft of white stuff. My luck when the metal roof clears I'm gonna be right under it LOL

I was able to get two 50 lb bags of cc today. That brings me close to 400 lbs of the stuff. Ice dams are brutal, but the chipping hammer and calcium chloride will at least allow me to release the water pressure building up behind the dams. Mt brother just called asking what the tallest ladder I had, as he has a dam on his third floor level. My 32' is exactly where it should be.... buried under 8 feet of snow. If I can't reach it with my single 16 footer, I am not going up. Told him to keep blasting one side of the dam with cc to relieve the water pressure. Other stuff that happened today is just too stoopid to type.... With the temps plummeting tomorrow, I am taking a day off from snow issues. Get to stay inside doing punchlist and smoke detectors for a client home that is being sold...

my nerhew came and raked the roof last week, not that you can tell today! so i am asking him to come do it again sat. before the rain on sun. also need a path to the oil tank! wish i had a gauge in the house to see how much oil i have.

Will do Joe. Actually rode the ladder down yesterday. It just slid off the roof sideways. Luckily I landed in 5' of snow.:wavey:

finally got roof cleaned off yesterday at dark . Now I have the problem of 6' of snow up against the house from storms and roof snow. So now I need to get the frozen down spouts off and go buy new ones so I can get the gutters to flow because if not the rain will run off roof and down the snow banks against the house and fill the window wells and then the cellar. Been there done that.

If it rains tomorrow,like they forecast, and then everything freezes back up, its going to be a real mess.