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Feb. 6th, 2010 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickUpdate to the Warm and Sunny: Two feet of snow. It stopped snowing about 2 PM today.
Road to my house is mostly passable, though plow roll is worrisome. There's not a lot of places to PUT two feet of snow. Roads elsewhere not so much -- didn't want to do them in the dark of night. Not doing the one to your house anytime soon anyway (discourages theft). Other side needs to be at least given a lick and a promise before someone decides that visiting in the wake of the blizzard is a good idea. Maybe I'll doze it tomorrow. Plow truck is parked just past my house, obstructing road to the upper four houses. I need to clean out my driveway morebetter before I can turn the plow truck around.
All sidewalks have been snowthrown. (By 8 PM at night, given a 2' snowfall that stopped at 2 PM.) I bought ramps from Tractor Supply, best hundred dollars I have spent in a *long* time. Snowthrower has been working like a champ, started easily every time, loads on and off truck very easily with New Aluminum Ramps. (I got the solid, not-hinged kind. In aluminum. Hundred bucks for the pair.)
Courtesy visit to your mother to prove that I was not dead or injured: accomplished. Is there some way that you can convince her that the bulldozer is not particularly dangerous? It's getting old explaining that it isn't.
Route 30 still looks like shit and it's 8 degrees outside.
Also, could not get Cub Cadet (bucket loader) to start even after sticking it on the charger for rather a while. Had to use small grey snowthrower (which did start) to snowthrow my truck free at the lodge, which took up more time than I was really happy about. Lodge driveway not cleared out, cannot easily be cleared out unless I can get bucket loader to run. Do not wish to snowthrow lodge driveway with small grey snowthrower. :( Cannot get plow truck back up lodge driveway without addressing huge amount of snow on lodge driveway. :( May work on bucket loader more tomorrow. Did not have time today, was running out of daylight and wound up snowthrowing in the fucking dark anyway.
Road to my house is mostly passable, though plow roll is worrisome. There's not a lot of places to PUT two feet of snow. Roads elsewhere not so much -- didn't want to do them in the dark of night. Not doing the one to your house anytime soon anyway (discourages theft). Other side needs to be at least given a lick and a promise before someone decides that visiting in the wake of the blizzard is a good idea. Maybe I'll doze it tomorrow. Plow truck is parked just past my house, obstructing road to the upper four houses. I need to clean out my driveway morebetter before I can turn the plow truck around.
All sidewalks have been snowthrown. (By 8 PM at night, given a 2' snowfall that stopped at 2 PM.) I bought ramps from Tractor Supply, best hundred dollars I have spent in a *long* time. Snowthrower has been working like a champ, started easily every time, loads on and off truck very easily with New Aluminum Ramps. (I got the solid, not-hinged kind. In aluminum. Hundred bucks for the pair.)
Courtesy visit to your mother to prove that I was not dead or injured: accomplished. Is there some way that you can convince her that the bulldozer is not particularly dangerous? It's getting old explaining that it isn't.
Route 30 still looks like shit and it's 8 degrees outside.
Also, could not get Cub Cadet (bucket loader) to start even after sticking it on the charger for rather a while. Had to use small grey snowthrower (which did start) to snowthrow my truck free at the lodge, which took up more time than I was really happy about. Lodge driveway not cleared out, cannot easily be cleared out unless I can get bucket loader to run. Do not wish to snowthrow lodge driveway with small grey snowthrower. :( Cannot get plow truck back up lodge driveway without addressing huge amount of snow on lodge driveway. :( May work on bucket loader more tomorrow. Did not have time today, was running out of daylight and wound up snowthrowing in the fucking dark anyway.
