On 1/28/2015 2:02 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 1/28/15 9:43 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/28/2015 7:40 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:45:10 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/27/2015 6:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:53:35 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


The Nor'easter that hit the east coast is finally starting to wind
down
here in MA. We officially received 24 inches of snow in our area
near Plymouth although I don't know how they could possibly
measure it
and it's still snowing although not as heavily.


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Glad to hear you're OK there. I understand from the news that
Nantucket got hammered pretty badly.



It was quite a storm, one that we'll be talking about for a few years.
It was bad here but there are others who got it a lot worse. Nantucket
is pretty much without power and the winds are still near or at
hurricane strength so the power companies can't do much. Temps out
there are supposed to go to single digits tonight.

My only problem was a sheet of ice on parts of the driveway. We had a
smaller storm a few days ago that put about 4" of snow down before
changing to rain, saturating the snow. Then the temps dropped well
below freezing and it all froze solid. As a result I could plow the
half of the driveway that is pretty much a straight shot to the road
because I could get up some speed and push the 4' drifts. But up by
the house where I had to start and stop the truck just didn't have
enough traction due to the base ice layer. Got stuck in snow drifts
twice. Finally gave up with the truck and used the tractor to scoop
and dump. It was still snowing heavy so I was soaked and frozen.

Lots of cleanup plowing, shoveling and tractoring to do tomorrow.
Right now I feel like this:

http://tinyurl.com/nzwrdc9


That's gotta be a bitch. Damn, your driveway's damn near as long as
Harry's!

Good luck with it.



As of last evening we had a total snowfall of 24" but it kept snowing
until about 2am adding another 4". Too much for the truck to handle,
despite it's best efforts. Just came in to warm up. Been out since 6am
with the tractor, picking and dumping. Almost done but still have
another section to clear. I have no idea how long Harry's driveway is.
Ours is a total of just over 1,000 feet. At 16 feet wide, that's 16,000
square feet of 24" snow that has to be moved.


Scituate (where I originally kept the boats) and Marshfield got
clobbered with flooding. The sea walls caved and four feet of sea water
with gigantic waves made their way into people's houses and businesses.


Arrgh. That's a lotta snow.

When we first moved here, ours was for several winter months the only
house on our private road. So, it was 120' approximately from our garage
door to the private road, 200' along the private road to a circular area
whose ownership was still hazy, and another 100 feet or so to the county
road.

So, that first winter I had to pay twice, I think, for a plow guy to do
our driveway, the private road from our driveway to the traffic circle,
through the traffic circle and then, finally, to the county road, which
the county plowed. We had, in effect, a 400-500' driveway that had to be
plowed. $200 a pop back then.

What a pain in the ass that all was.


One of the reasons I bought a plow for my truck was that I figured I
could save on the cost of having the driveway plowed and I could do
it when I wanted it to be done and not at the schedule of the
contractor. They plowed whenever it snowed ... even if it was only 3
inches ... and charged the same.

Ok. I'll be honest. I also figured it would be fun. That was several
years ago. Not so much fun anymore.

I originally wanted to get a small, lightweight plow but was advised
to get something heavier duty. I was going to get the smaller "Snow
Dog" stainless plow but Snow Dog would not give a warranty because
my truck is a F-250 Super Duty. They go by the weight of the truck
versus the weight of the plow and said the truck was too much for the
smaller plow. So, I ended up with their big, commercial duty model.
Never had any problems with it.

Overall it has worked out but this storm dumped more
snow that a pickup truck can easily handle. If I had plowed every
2 hours it might have been ok but I waited too long between the first
plowing and the second. It also gets to a point where there's no place
for the snow to go with your plow angled. You are trying to push it into
a 4' pile of previously plowed snow. Finally had to resort to the John
Deere tractor. I have piles of snow that are 8-9 feet high on the sides
of the driveway where we park.