Paul how is man town coming??:uhuh:

Ummm Larry, Jess is an Iron Worker..... nothing safe and cozy there... He's just nutz, in a good way

Good new guys, It's going to be 40 on Tuesday and rain!!

If you need to move it, move it this weekend or it's gonna be there for a while because starting thursday the coldest airmass of the winter is coming..

Thanks you proved my point! He doesn't know me and I don't know him so maybe he shouldn't make assumptions.

with the snowblower down.....:wall:
it appears to be a clutch malfunction

i had to just go down there all powered up
and drag the S.O.B. backwards up hill in neutral

(lemme tell ya that wasn't easy)

and load it in the snow blower rescue van
so i can rush it to the hospital :soon:

Mine has a friction plate, I haven't replaced it but it appears to be a relatively painless procedure to change, when I'll need to. Hopefully after I move to a snow free zone

Good point.... but I know you.:grins:

I would like to give old man winter a columbian necktie.

Oh come on Bob...have you no backbone?:rotf2:

Guess not, but the pup loves the stuff.

My sheperd pulled a muscle yesterday, and his hips are really bothering him. Sad, he used to love the snow would snoot surf all day.

Awesome dog Bob!

buncha sissies

move the florida already


:bshake:

It was 25 in Pensacola last night.

I get a sanity break next week, I get to escort the parents to Naples FL and stay for a few days.

I've been plowing/removing snow since I was 5 years old, helping my dad around his buildings as soon as I was strong enough to do it, now I run the show. Hate the stuff and can't wait to get past it again.

Meteorologically/historically speaking, the week of January 21 is the bottom of winter, then it is back up the ladder, so this upcoming week is my starting point for light at the end of the tunnel. My finish line is the 1st weekend in March when I can turn on the water at my cottage without much fear of freezing. Then it is time to hang the birdfeeders, burn downed wood and scout beach -

Thank you for the light--- I see the light --- Oh no it's a SNOWPLOW!!

my cellar has no access really (ain't exactly legal)
if it was a walkin .......... i woulda dunnit

since not, i farm it out
to keep our economy going
just dropped it off

Not sayin you should do it. whatever you're comfortable with. I have been get more comfy doing my own stuff these days, so thats my choice unless it's like a internal engine component, then I'll look for help, until I learn how to do that stuff too.

A buddy of mine who lives about a mile away and is terribly disabled was yakking about his 19 yr. old sat inside and watched him do all the shoveling during the storm. He just signed for a car for the kid. Thats was kind of bothering him at coffee this morning.

Disabled and he was out shoveling while his healthy, able bodied son watched from the warm house??? And he just signed for a car for the kid?? Did you recommend to your friend he get his head examined?? Who is gonna wind up shoveling out the kids car???

Do you need a sherpa for bags and whatnot?
I usually wait until the end of March/first of April to be freeze proof.

That is so wrong........:doh::doh:

Todays word for the day is " filicide ".
Can anyone use it in a sentence ?

I don't know that we got amongst the greatest amounts of snow, but we definitely got the stickiest.... Still have 70% of the powerlines here in town covered in 1-3" of ice. Lots of them pulled down so low that a semi would probably hit them. The trees, poles, and houses are still covered on the north side. Once I got out of town I saw none of that on my way to a hockey in Andover. Must have something to do with the fact that Marblehead is surrounded on three sides by water and juts out into the northeast.....

oh how completely ASSUMPTIVE of you Larr!

i'm an Union Ironworker, for 24 yrs, and we don't go home unless it's
30-35 below w/ the windchill. i work in subzero temps, regularly.

last winter i was over 250 ft in the air, during a blizzard, taking apart a tower crane. my partner and i were sitting on 4" needle beams setting the trolley so we could dismantle the tower sections, then we were climbing up and down the tower sections and driving the 5" diameter link pins out of each section with 12# sledge hammers. it was soooo COLD, the hydraulics froze and we had to replace the pump. 12 hour days into nightfall for three days. THOSE 3 days were the coldest i've ever been. i've also dealt with a minor case of scoliosis my whole life that makes a "bad back" a daily affair and trips to the chiro pain maintenance,,,,,,,, about as far from cushy as one can get, my brutha!!

before that, i worked in the oil fields of Oklahoma~ again in sub-zero temps ~pulling water wells, and oil wells for my daily bread.

i'm 50 and i absolutely LOVE the sticky white stuff, snow angels with my daughter, sledding, snow caves, and shoveling snow is simply one of the toils of winter. let us not forget our elderly friends and family, likewise.

just found it humorous that your "Sick of Winter", when it's only just begun!! and you do choose to live/work/play in New England's wintry wonderland, no? at the risk of reiteration,,,,,,,,,COLD is a state of mind and preparedness, imho. i choose to embrace it and it definitely makes me long for Spring!!! :fishin: :fishin: :fishin:

thanks Ross~~~
the above was posted before i saw the previous posts.

didn't mean to ruffle your feathers, there, Snow Chicken!

or did aye?? perhaps the backbone comment was a bit COLD.
kinda like sending people to the Vineyard on a snipe hunt for Stripers!

but hey, if Winter was supposed to be warm we'd ALL be in Aruba.
:lurk: :stir: :stir: :stir: :lurk:

sorry to hear about the mechanical mishap

funny stuff,,,,,,,,,,,quick Robin, to the snow blower rescue Batvan!
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:

GREAT dawgs, gents!!

gottsta LOVE their Spirit~~~
:jump1: :jump1: :jump1:

1300 clams for one of them huge snow thrower's

gonna get me one of them bad boys someday

the chunks (square blocks) of snow that slid off of the hoop house looks kinda like a sidewalk all destroyed by an earthquake