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My neighbor gave me this 4 years ago, he couldnt get it to start. I replaced the plastic piece on the choke and cleaned up the carb... The thing has started on the first pull ever since! Hopefully I'll be getting it out of the shed tonight. It hasnt been out all year.
Honestly, I prefer a snow shovel and a little exercise myself and only get this little guy out if it gets over 5" to shovel my 200' of sidewalks and driveway
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************************************* 1968 Lemans. 37,000 original miles. GTO clone. 462ci/KRE 290 heads. UltraDyne 280/288 Solid/850 Qjet by Cliff/Performer RPM/TSP 9.5" in TH400/8.5" 3.42 gears/3950# Race weight/12.58@106 at Bandimere speedway high altitude Last edited by 68lemans462; 02-24-2021 at 10:59 AM. |
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Ohhhhh yeah snow removal equipment.
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"BIG DADDY" VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFIVLuwO9A ~MaryAnn~ AKA "Stickybuns" 1969 Firebird 400 Convertible 1978 Bandit T/A Tribute 1977 RED TA I'm the FiredUp PY bad girl |
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Actually I did not shovel all this snow the Wheel Horse and the CASE clean it up rather nicely.
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"BIG DADDY" VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFIVLuwO9A ~MaryAnn~ AKA "Stickybuns" 1969 Firebird 400 Convertible 1978 Bandit T/A Tribute 1977 RED TA I'm the FiredUp PY bad girl |
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BX2200 Kubota, 4wd, cab, heater, radio ... can wear a t-shirt when it's 10 degrees outside. In a Snowmaggedon I can use the big tractor with FEL.
Some cool equipment posted so far. Shoutout to the Cub and Ford owners, I have a 4wd 1715 with FEL and backhoe if things get real deep. Last edited by dataway; 02-24-2021 at 11:33 AM. |
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Beautiful round eye!
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I have a couple of JD’s but they’re fair weather work dogs.
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"BIG DADDY" VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFIVLuwO9A ~MaryAnn~ AKA "Stickybuns" 1969 Firebird 400 Convertible 1978 Bandit T/A Tribute 1977 RED TA I'm the FiredUp PY bad girl |
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nothing special, but i had fun rebuilding this for this season. previously i was using a shovel. I must say, for a 20yr old rig, this thing is awesome. spent about 300 on it, cost of blower and parts.
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Our snows this year have been relatively light, so many times I just skip the blowing and use the shovel. I just filled up the gas tank on my Husqvarna for the first time since November if that gives you an idea of how much manual shoveling I've done this year. |
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I saw this thread title, and wanted to come here and ask if I should show a picture of my hands with or without gloves... lol
After a neighbor passed a couple years ago, his old Craftsman snowblower was passed onto me; Apparently it's one of the things he specifically told his wife to give me before he passed. What a great guy, I miss him being around - he was a really green thumb, and helped me out with advice that I don't have a parent ect to turn to for. When it was given to me, I was told that he was unable to get it to fire for a couple years in a row and the first winter after he passed I learned the hard way that just because I could make it run in the middle of summer, that doesn't mean squat when it gets cold. I did bring it to a lawn mower ect shop for a tune up and check up that following spring, but they didn't give me any useful information on it's state, or if something needed to be fixed. The following winter was so mild that I didn't need it. I still looked it over the following fall to see if it looked ok, and still fired up... Then this past December we got a real dump of snow, and sure as poop, the thing didn't want to fire... but I was determined; I pulled the plug, cleaned it, and still nothing. I then brought out the ether. Bam - it fired up!! PS: that van across the street from my yellow Cobalt was stuck there and abandoned hours before I came outside... The full depth of the snow you see me cutting through was from one overnight dump. Most of the time though, I still shovel, because the hassle involved with starting and getting the snow blower to the front of the house just makes the whole idea of using it pointless. It seems now to me like after sitting a while, and trying to start it in the cold it needs ether every time... I'm not sure what to make of that.
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1970 Formula 400 Carousel Red paint on Black standard interior A no-engine, no-transmission, no-wheel option car. Quite likely one of few '70 Muncie three speed Formula 400's left. 1991 Grand Am: 14.4 @ 93.7mph (DA corrected) (retired DD, stock appearing) 2009 Cobalt SS: 13.9 @ 103mph (current DD; makes something north of 300hp & 350ft/lbs) Last edited by unruhjonny; 02-24-2021 at 03:57 PM. Reason: typo ++ |
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My 81 K20. Also have 2 shovels and a snow blower that I haven't used this winter.
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Eric 1969 GTO - 461, turbo 400, Continental 13", 3.08 gears. - 12.59 e.t. @ 108.43 mph, 1.898 60' 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme- 461, turbo 350, PTC 3500 converter, 9" 3:50 gears. = 11.39 e.t. @ 117.55 mph, 1.599 60' on E85 |
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It’s free and takes no effort at all. . . . .the sun is melting my snow right now!
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Our snow falls are usually 3 or 4 inches at a time overnight which I would always just shovel until I bought this little cordless blower which works pretty well for smaller jobs or sidewalks.
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Count yourself lucky. I lived for a short while after graduating High School in my birth city Winnipeg - which is essentially how I came to having my Firebird; When the snow falls there (which is normally before Halloween), it sticks around for months on end, and just piles up until some time around Easter, when it starts melting. I have pictures somewhere of one of the only times we visited with that side of the family for Christmas - I was somewhere around twelve years old; We quite literally dug into the show piles my grandfather made from snow blowing his driveway to make forts. That was for a good while, the snowiest I recall any city being over winter... That was until I went to Prince George, British Columbia (this is where my wife is from); I was floored at just how high the piles of snow were along every street - it wasn't unusual to see the piles over five feet tall. Yikes! To this day, that is one of the major reasons that I cite to my wife, why I am unwilling to consider moving there. I hate the snow, but at least where we live, we get what's called a chinook (which recently made a big Hollywood actor seem quite ridiculous after citing global warming when filming just outside of my city - even though some of hte main stream media didn't catch onto his ineptitude.); https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...gary-a-chinook https://globalnews.ca/news/2392298/a...ange-comments/
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1970 Formula 400 Carousel Red paint on Black standard interior A no-engine, no-transmission, no-wheel option car. Quite likely one of few '70 Muncie three speed Formula 400's left. 1991 Grand Am: 14.4 @ 93.7mph (DA corrected) (retired DD, stock appearing) 2009 Cobalt SS: 13.9 @ 103mph (current DD; makes something north of 300hp & 350ft/lbs) |
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Having been born, and living for 47 years along Lake Erie shores I can say if you waited for Mother Nature to remove the snow from your driveway, you'd be taking a lot of time off from work between mid November and late March. Erie Pa can have as little as 80 inches of snow in a winter season, but at the high end, 200 inches of snow, or 16 1/2 feet of snow. Lake effect can be a real bear to deal with.
Where I currently live 40 inches of snow is average, so to me is just an annoyance compared to where I lived for 47 years. |
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I've not yet heard someone say "When I retire, I'm moving NORTH!!!"
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We dont get snow in maine on the average like we used to.
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72 lemans,455 e-head, UD 255/263 solid flat,3.73 gears,,,10" 4400 converter,, 6.68 at 101.8 mph,,1.44 60 ft.2007 (cam 271/278 roller)9"CC.4.11gear 6.41 at 106.32 mph 1.42 60 ft.(2009) SOLD,SOLD 1970 GTO 455 4 speed #matching,, 3.31 posi.Stock manifolds. # 64 heads.A factory mint tuquoise ,69' judge stripe car. 8.64 @ 87.3 mph on slippery street tires.Bad 2.25 60ft.Owned since 86' |
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Dataway, what size is your snowblower? Just guessing it looks to be 46' or 50". My best guess is 50"s.
I used to use just a 47" landscaping blade to push snow back before I bought the snowblower. And spend 2 hours just moving it back away from the driveway so I'd have enough room to move for all of the winter snow. Very hard on any machine unless it a bigger tractor than what I have..... but it worked. And then fixing the torn up lawn in the spring. Best thing I ever did was get that 50" blower. Saved a lot of time an no worries on having enough room to keep pushing snow. Best of all was no snowbanks that caused those damn snowdrifts. LOL
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Gary Get in, ShuT Up, Hang On! Member of the Baltimore Built Brotherhood MY GTO built 4th Week of March 1966 "Crusin' Is Not A Crime" Keep yer stick on the ice. |
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We haven’t here in MA either, hence my sun melting comment. I think I’ve used my little snowblower twice in the past three years. Mostly just clean my walk and drive over the snow in the driveway.
Plus I retired early last year so no need to be at work at 6:30 AM anymore! Having experienced the Blizzard of ‘78, I remember how much snow we used to get!
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Misterp266, the winter of '78 was bad, February of 78 was when I started working for Anchor Mtr Frt and had to lad car and drive in it to
deliver them. But the winter of '77 up in Northern NY from Syracuse up to the Canadian border and east was worse.... at least for us. Back in '58 when I was a kid was the worst winter storm I've ever been in I'd say. There was so much snow it was blown from the roads and the snowbanks were maybe a foot below the power lines. At least you didn't have to worry about sliding off the road. The sides of the road were one big snow barrier for miles and miles.
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Gary Get in, ShuT Up, Hang On! Member of the Baltimore Built Brotherhood MY GTO built 4th Week of March 1966 "Crusin' Is Not A Crime" Keep yer stick on the ice. |
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