No grillin tonight

[Mark Silver]

I'm moving to just north of Seattle to Star, ID, just north and west of Boise in mid-January--so from rain in the winter to snow in the winter. I've never used one, but even I bought a snow blower on Prime Day just in case!!

 

[Brad Olson]

Dad moved snow with an open top tractor with a front blade for some 50 years, and just froze. He bought this tractor for orchard work, 90hp 4cyl turbodiesel 4wd, with a charcoal filtered seal cab. It has a front mount 3pt hitch with a PTO, and it's perfect to hang an 8' 2 stage snowblower on it. He could clear the farm yard in less time than it took the tractor to warm up, and in shirt sleeve comfort. He started clearing yards for the neighbors just because he enjoyed it.

My dad was in sand & gravel so during the winter the company he worked for would do contract snow removal, and from time to time he'd bring a wheel loader (usually equipped with a 3 to 5 cu. yard bucket IIRC) home if he expected to be out early the next day. When he had time he'd clear the neighbors' driveways, and then at Christmas he always received a few tall, square boxes. Although in 1981 someone gave him a case of Hamm's, and since he wasn't a beer drinker it went back to college with me.

We didn't have much trouble this morning; I used the snowblower to open up the end of the driveway and clear the nearby intersection a little bit, and my wife likes the new snow shovel I bought her.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

I just waited for the rain to melt the plow snot at the end of the driveway, I need to go get the dumpster now,that I think of it.

 

[JKalchik]

dad was in sand & gravel so during the winter the company he worked for would do contract snow removal, and from time to time he'd bring a wheel loader (usually equipped with a 3 to 5 cu. yard bucket IIRC) home if he expected to be out early the next day.

That's a good way to move snow, big, heavy, powerful, and maneuverable. Don't worry about that Pinto.....

A few years ago, at my client, the parking lot was being cleared by a 300+hp articulated 4wd field tractor with a front bull blade. It didn't look like it'd pile snow very high..... but it'd move the entire pile.