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02-09-2013, 08:23 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Storm Clean up?
Was out briefly last night. Drifting has erased any sign of that, and I can't even make out any snowbanks from town plows. They last came through in the middle of the night. Not sure it makes sense to get out yet. No one has been down the street in many hours. Planning to get at it in a couple hours if the wind dies down....
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02-09-2013, 08:31 AM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Time to go play in the bobcat
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02-09-2013, 08:36 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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Was up at 4 to clear drive way and get wife off to work (nurse, no calling out option). Got the drifts on deck knocked down before daughter woke up. Snowed in alone with 2 year old and puppy, going to be a long day.
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02-09-2013, 08:43 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Looks like maybe 8 whole inches here in VT
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02-09-2013, 09:08 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,655
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I have more snow than my jumbo Toro can handle. Mearsured areas 30" and for the most part 24-28". Out for an hour to open driveway, I have another 300' to go!! It's no use now, no snowplow on the road and just as much on road. Jeez, gonna need a bucket loader!!!!
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02-09-2013, 10:04 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Got 3 feet here but the drifts are nuts. took 2 trys just to unbury my yukon which was under an 8ft drift.Tried gettin a pic all you see is snow flyin in the air an snow flakes. LOL The driveway snow bank isn't gonna be fun.
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02-09-2013, 10:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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Stretched the belt on my snowblower. I figured i would clear a path on the lake for my tilts, bad idea i think the slush killed the girl.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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02-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Other Cape
Posts: 1,239
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Still snowing like crazy here. Good thing I filled the birdfeeders- the little guys are going to town
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02-09-2013, 11:17 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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The ice is crazy. The lines to our house are almost 3" in diameter and its coax!
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02-09-2013, 02:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 4,449
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Ugh, between prepping and painting the bedroom this weekend, sleeping on a leaky aerobed in the living room last night, and shoveling today, I am super beat. We didn't finish all of the cars (figured parking all four cars nose to ass in the driveway would help...NOT!
And I also missed the huge front end loader that had the operator pass out in the middle of going down 117 in front of my house, spin around twice and smash the bucket into the telephone pole across the street. I guess it was high Waltham drama.
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John Redmond Thinks He's Smart By Changing My Avatar
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02-09-2013, 03:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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Took me half an hour to finally get out my door. All doors were drifted up. I wasd able to get just a hand out then kept sweeping away the stuff pilled up in front of it as I inched the door open. When I got out I shoveled just enough to get the door open freely. By then I was already winded and went in.
Driveway has about 4 feet at the end where they plowed then it drifted over. Car is covered.
One step at a time. Not going anywhere anyway until the end of the driveway gets cleared out.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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02-09-2013, 03:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Still more shoveling to do, despite the work done so far ... while shoveling, I felt like one of those convicts who try to shovel out of prison with a spoon, every time I stopped to check on my progress, it appeared as if nothing was done at all.
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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02-09-2013, 03:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Thought I was done then went out back an saw the 6 ft drift blocking the back door. Prob is that it's over 60 ft long along the deck to get to the door through the drift. Time for a beer an to re-evaluate this LOL
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02-09-2013, 03:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 4,834
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Back at the house after the tide changed. House held up well. Wind and salt spray took care of the shoveling . Went to lowes and somehow snagged the last propane heater . Now to keep the pipes from freezing . I'm guessing days before power is restored
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02-09-2013, 04:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Beer tasted good now time to go shovel again. Takin 2 beers with me. Snow keeps them nice n cold.
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02-09-2013, 04:42 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Mike - call me tomorrow - I can come up with snowblower
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02-09-2013, 04:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Quote:
Originally Posted by buckman
I'm guessing days before power is restored
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That's what I thought and then it came back on.
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02-09-2013, 04:56 PM
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Frank Capone
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Hamden, Connecticut
Posts: 2,229
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I was out 4 times yesterday thinking I was really on top of this one. When I woke up this AM and went outside it was as if I never removed 1" of snow. We have about 3' and in some areas more. My wife and I teamed up and did it in 2 stages today (I'm not risking a heart attack or other injury). We have 2 cars freed up and can move them forward about 10' in the driveway, then we clean in back of them. The problem is the TOWN hasn't come by my street yet and there is nowhere to move the snow. I still have one car completely buried and my just sit that way for a while.
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02-09-2013, 04:58 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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My arms are like rubber. Wrestling with a snowblower with snow over the top of it is only a little bit easier than shoveling a 200 foot driveway and to think I used to shovel the whole thing for 15 years. What was I thinking. Seen worse storms but this one was plenty bad enough for me. Probably had at least 2 feet but it seemed like it was 3 foot in the friggin driveway. Feeling old right now. Wife better wait on me hand and foot for rest of night. Wish I had more kids. Going to watch the golf and dream about living in Monterey.
Last edited by ProfessorM; 02-09-2013 at 05:03 PM..
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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02-09-2013, 05:20 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Mike - call me tomorrow - I can come up with snowblower
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John, if you can't make it, let me know I'll go over with the Ariens
I need to blow 30" off of the top of the Jeep any way |
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02-09-2013, 05:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 577
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Cleared mine in about hour and a half sucked down a few heady's then shoveled out my neighbors who have had done recent health issues. Town just opened our street an hour ago.
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02-09-2013, 05:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,595
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I hate every one of my neighbors that don't own a snowblower and count on me! It was OK 25 years ago, getting old now adays ..
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02-09-2013, 06:07 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Got my house done enough to go and do the jobs in the neighborhood. Then packed the blower in the Tahoe to do my other jobs. Got pulled over, threatened with a fine, and sent home....... So I loaded it into my work truck and got half of them done before it got dark. Back tomorrow, as the town plows will plug every driveway again over night... I'm whipped from wrestling the Ariens, but it was a champ.
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02-09-2013, 06:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Ross, is the driving ban still on? I thought I had seen more cars out and about just before I called it a day for shoveling around 4:30 or 5:00.
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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02-09-2013, 06:19 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Ended at 4pm.
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02-09-2013, 06:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Took me 3 shipyards an a sam adams to do the back door. Lookin for some hot wings but everyplace is still closed.Went lookin an ended up pullin the guy down the street with a snow plow out of the ditch.got a 6 pack for it. Went home an havin grill cheese beer an advil LOL.Done till tomorrow.
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02-09-2013, 06:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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Hey Pater. Charge them a 12 pack per driveway. Works. LOL
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02-09-2013, 06:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,883
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fcap60
I was out 4 times yesterday thinking I was really on top of this one. When I woke up this AM and went outside it was as if I never removed 1" of snow. We have about 3' and in some areas more. My wife and I teamed up and did it in 2 stages today (I'm not risking a heart attack or other injury). We have 2 cars freed up and can move them forward about 10' in the driveway, then we clean in back of them. The problem is the TOWN hasn't come by my street yet and there is nowhere to move the snow. I still have one car completely buried and my just sit that way for a while.
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This is pretty much my experience. Except the wife is trapped at work and my partner is a 49 farmall with a small loader. Still took almost 2 hours of work to get the driveway mostly clear. Town trucks still nowhere in site.
Last edited by zimmy; 02-09-2013 at 07:08 PM..
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No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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02-09-2013, 06:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Mike - call me tomorrow - I can come up with snowblower
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
John, if you can't make it, let me know I'll go over with the Ariens
I need to blow 30" off of the top of the Jeep any way
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I have a plow guy who has been reliable for 6+ years now. I haven't heard from him yet though. Right now I'm within 4 feet of my car door. If I can move the car out after he plows the bottom of the driveway he can do the top part and also he gets almost to my side door. If for some reason he's out of action I'll send out an SOS. Thanks for the offers. |
Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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02-09-2013, 07:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Weymouth, MA Fore River
Posts: 1,258
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High tide today at Fore River, Weymouth. logged in 6 +hours today - did my house and 2 others - all ready to head to work tomorrow at 5AM.  |
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