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| How do most of ya'll nawthuners get that cold white stuff off your
driveways?
Do you just hire people to do it at $25 a crack or do you own a blower and
do it yourself?
What about a plow on an ATV, is that worth a damn?
(I need an excuse to buy an ATV) ;-)
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| P Fritz 2005-12-17, 6:21 pm |
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"Don" <one-if-by-land@concord.com> wrote in message
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> How do most of ya'll nawthuners get that cold white stuff off your
> driveways?
> Do you just hire people to do it at $25 a crack or do you own a blower and
> do it yourself?
> What about a plow on an ATV, is that worth a damn?
> (I need an excuse to buy an ATV) ;-)
I have a big XXX snow thrower, but then I am only on a 1/2
acre........anything larger and peopel tend to have plows on their riding
mowers......or pay someone to plow.
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| Harvey Van Sickle 2005-12-17, 6:21 pm |
| On 17 Dec 2005, Don wrote
> How do most of ya'll nawthuners get that cold white stuff off
> your driveways?
When I was a kid, parents had their kids do it.
> Do you just hire people to do it at $25 a crack
We didn't get paid, either -- it was a kids-assigned job.
> or do you own a blower
Ha. Bloody luxury.
> and do it yourself?
When all the kids had gone, dad probably bought a blower, yeah.
> What about a plow on an ATV, is that worth a damn?
If you plough *into* the drive, you've got to move it somewhere
else. If you've got enough space to plough *out* of the drive,
you've got a bigger driveway than we ever had....
The worst -- absolute worst -- thing about clearing a driveway was
a sod's/Murphy's law thing: you *just* got the bastard cleared
when the city snowplough came by and threw a 3-foot-high wall of
crappy road ice across the mouth of the driveway.
23 years ago I moved to a non-snowy country. Take a guess whether
or not I miss snow....
--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian
For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van
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| Ken S. Tucker 2005-12-17, 8:21 pm |
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Don wrote:
> How do most of ya'll nawthuners get that cold white stuff off your
> driveways?
> Do you just hire people to do it at $25 a crack or do you own a blower and
> do it yourself?
> What about a plow on an ATV, is that worth a damn?
> (I need an excuse to buy an ATV) ;-)
An ATV can be justified in Manhattan to clear the snow
in front of your brownstone, (architecture word, so I'm OT),
so it's a *must* have ;-).
Factors:
1) length of driveway
2) slopes of driveway
3) the snow displaced location
4) affinity for machines
5) desired convenience
can be rated on a 0-10 scale.
We had a 400' negatively sloped (down to the building)
with no good place to pile the snow, and I have no
particular affinity for "ploughing" and (5) we didn't care
about convenience, we just walked the distance, and
for grocery's pulled a tobogan (downhill).
So we parked very near the road and tarped the car,
but that's a bit rough.
Ken
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| RicodJour 2005-12-17, 8:21 pm |
| Don wrote:
> How do most of ya'll nawthuners get that cold white stuff off your
> driveways?
> Do you just hire people to do it at $25 a crack or do you own a blower and
> do it yourself?
> What about a plow on an ATV, is that worth a damn?
> (I need an excuse to buy an ATV) ;-)
It's not an ATV, it's a mid-life crisis. Tell 'er it's either the
wheels or something in high heels. ;)
R
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| "RicodJour"> wrote
> Don wrote:
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> It's not an ATV, it's a mid-life crisis. Tell 'er it's either the
> wheels or something in high heels. ;)
Rico said high heels. LOL
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| RicodJour 2005-12-17, 10:21 pm |
| Don wrote:
> "RicodJour"> wrote
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> Rico said high heels. LOL
Sorry, I forgot my audience - for the Floriidaianains, substitute
thong(s). I'm sure your wife, being the trusting soul, will think
you're talking about footwear. 
R
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| "RicodJour"> wrote
> Don wrote:
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> Sorry, I forgot my audience - for the Floriidaianains, substitute
> thong(s). I'm sure your wife, being the trusting soul, will think
> you're talking about footwear.
They're called flip flops around here and they're pandemic.
They are more dangerous than cellphones when driving and the legislature may
make them illegal.
Can you believe it? LOL
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| RicodJour 2005-12-17, 11:21 pm |
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Don wrote:
> "RicodJour"> wrote
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> They're called flip flops around here and they're pandemic.
> They are more dangerous than cellphones when driving and the legislature may
> make them illegal.
> Can you believe it? LOL
That must get confusing, calling politicians and sandals the same
thing. I can see why they'd want to outlaw them.
T
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| "RicodJour"> wrote
> Don wrote:
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> That must get confusing, calling politicians and sandals the same
> thing. I can see why they'd want to outlaw them.
LOL
(they get caught in the gas peddle)
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| 3D Peruna 2005-12-18, 9:21 pm |
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"Don" <one-if-by-land@concord.com> wrote in message
news:xa%of.6327$3Z.1574@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> How do most of ya'll nawthuners get that cold white stuff off your
> driveways?
> Do you just hire people to do it at $25 a crack or do you own a blower and
> do it yourself?
> What about a plow on an ATV, is that worth a damn?
> (I need an excuse to buy an ATV) ;-)
Depends on how much you've got to plow/blow. I bought myself a Husqvarna
blower (mostly because I like saying HUSQvarnA!) But, I have a small
driveway. People either have blades/thrower attachments for their John
Deere lawn tractors, or they have them on their trucks. Not many around
here have them on their ATVs. I know a few people with Bobcats that they
use snow as an excuse for owning them.
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| "3D Peruna"> wrote
> Depends on how much you've got to plow/blow. I bought myself a Husqvarna
> blower (mostly because I like saying HUSQvarnA!)
The 1st motorcycle that almost killed me was a Husky.
Still got the scars to prove it.
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