Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:



Just came in from doing the driveway. Got a little over a foot this
time. Wind is just blowing it all back to where I've plowed, so I quit.

Eisboch


Why are you so concerned about removing the snow from your driveway?

:)


Good question. It ends up turning into a sheet of ice anyway. Earlier
today I told Mrs.E. that we'd be better off not plowing it because both
her Navigator and my truck have better 4x4 traction in snow than on
ice. She looked at me like I had two heads.

The pictures you see of our driveway are a bit deceiving. There is
quite a steep hill coming up from the horse barn to the house. If it's
not plowed, the snow packs down into ice and it becomes very slippery.
After the last storm which was about 18 inches of snow, then some sleet
and brief rain the temps dropped that night to about 10 degrees. The
only way to get from the house to the barn was sitting on your ass and
sliding down the hill. Behind the barn (actually in front of it looking
from the road) there's another driveway section that circles around the
barn and up to the house from the other direction. That section also is
a fairly steep hill that turns to solid ice unless you can get it down
to bare blacktop first.

I had to spread 9 bags of rock salt after the last storm. I hate using
that stuff, but the "environmentally friendly" stuff is about 17 bucks
a bag versus 7 bucks for rock salt.

Eisboch

In Essex we had a flat driveway, we never shoveled it. We just blasted
through with the Blazer. Now that we are up state taking care of dad we
have to clean it and spend mucho bucks on rock salt as his friends are
older and drive cars in the winter.. Sucks.
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