Let's see your snow removal equipment.......
 

:hooray:I'm probably the only person on this board to have owned a 455 Pontiac Stratostreak powered plow:

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But sadly, the frame rusted away in 1999, and it went to the big boneyard in the sky. After 20 years of plowing tons of snow, (Erie PA) the broken frame made me decide to give up on it.

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This is the current snow removal piece of equipment, I bought it on Marketplace a week and a half ago. Paid $60 for it. It's a Jacobsen Imperial 626 (6 HP, 26 inch clearing path, 2 stage, 110 V electric start). Near as I can date it, somewhere in the mid 70s. The thing is of course made in the US, and everything is overengineered, built like a tank. It needed a set of chains for it, they cost 3/4 of the purchase price ($45). 6 HP Tecumseh Injun engine for power.

I also have a 8 foot Western plow I haven't yet installed on my 1993 K3500 dually, but at this time my driveway is about 24 X 35, and I really don't need an 8 foot plow to clear it.

We have plans to move out of the village we currently live in, to the country, so if this happens we'll definitely need the 8 foot plow.

This does the job , 2018. We have had a few deep snow storms. Heated seat, bucket level indicator, line guards and lifts 1150 lbs.

94 F350. 351W

It's on 35s in this pic, but sits on 37s now


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Was going to post a pic of my wife with a shovel, but thought better of it -

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pair of worn out plastic shovels. The ends got some batwing shape from all the scraping.

Time to renew my "planet fitness" membership: 2 new shovels.

Hoping to add a "pull type" 3 point blower in the future

for now its the bucket and a Gannon rear box blade to push snow in reverse

Track drive 10 HP yardman (MTD) walk behind snow blower

Oh and in a pinch the 2000 watt inverter on the tractor will power the electric start on the snow blower

This is what we use down south when we do get an occasional snow shower. Last one was about 7 or 8 years ago. It was 73 here today but we are hoping for a warming trend to set in.

Vintage Snow Pup. 30 lbs. 2 HP Tecumseh 2 stroke. Late 1960's

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Man does not live by Pontiac alone, there is also John Deere.

Jon.

Briggs an Stratton,

1990 1520 Ford compact diesel tractor with box scraper . Over80” snow this winter

When we have a bad one, I break out the whisk broom.

Oh yeh , i think i remember when that one came through.
Thought i was going to have to find my windshield scraper - close call !

Mike, I've seen a ton of those junked over the years, hard to find any that still run anymore. I had a neighbor that had one back in the 80s, it finally had so many of the directional fins torn up, I think he left it at the curb finally.

Snow Removal Equipment...
 

I bought myself a Christmas present a couple years ago. This LS and the 79 400 small block do the trick here in southern Maine.

I don't have a personal shot with the 42" blower attached, but this is my Husqvarna R322T AWD articulating rider with the mower deck on doing a 180 on the sidewalk by my front porch in photo #1.

Photo #2 shows my 150' long driveway to my shop, with a "Y" going to my attached garage. The driveway to my shop is 16' wide at the narrowest and 30' wide in front of my shop.

Photo #3 shows the 50' x 26' driveway to my attached garage.

And photo #4 shows the meandering 42" sidewalk from the driveway to my front porch where it expands to 7' wide.

Stock photo with the blower mounted below.

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With the engine over the rear wheels and my butt over the front wheels, no chains are necessary to deal with even 48" tall snow drifts of hard packed wind driven snow.

Speaking from personal experience...

1985 Cub Cadet 1711 Hydro with hydraulic blade lift and a Kohler Magnum 18 repower from a newer Cub. Never let me down..



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1957 Ford 860, with 44hp, 13.6x28 filled rear tires, and a 7' blade. Even though its 2wd, its remarkably hard to get stuck. Its unrestored, its rough, but it always starts on the first cylinder when you hit the button. I also have an Ford 8N that I mow with in the summer, and it has a loader. If the money ever becomes available, I am the perfect candidate for a diesel zero turn and a diesel tractor with loader. But this old gas stuff just keeps going, and the maintenance is minimal. I pay for it with the extra time I have to spend over having newer equipment.

My superstition was that if I put the blade on early enough in the winter, I wouldn't need it. And for the past three years, that seemed to work. The wheels came off that idea this year, pun intended.

Next to Pontiacs, my other weird obsession is small engines of every variety. Been working with them for just over 50 years. Those little Toro Pups were revolutionary and changed the entire industry for small snow movers. Even today, very sought after by commercial snow removal businesses. Safety requirements, and emission standards have outlawed the 2-stroke small snow movers. The huge advantage was the super light weight, 30-40 lbs. depending on intake size. Commercial accounts with sets of stairs, long narrow walkways, just love these little guys. I have a standing order from 2 businesses that they will buy any of these, pups, snow hounds, S-200's, 3450's for $50.00 each for just parts, $75.00 if the rope pulls and the engine has compression, and $100.00 if it runs. I put together 4-6 of them a year for various customers. Parts interchange over a 30 year period and their were probably over a million produced. JC Penny, Wards, and Sears also private labelled them over the years. 2 things went wrong with them really. 1. The 2-cycle engine was run on straight gas, killing short block. 2. Carburetor got all gummed-up with old gas. Most have little diaphragm carbs you really can't get parts for anymore. I have been putting the generic Chinese float type carbs on in their place, $10.00, and they run just fine. IMO, best of the breed were the late 80's-to late 90's S-200 with the rubber single blade impeller and electronic ignition. They could throw light snow 20-25 ft.

Massey Ferguson C20, homemade cab.

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

Ohhhhh yeah snow removal equipment.

Actually I did not shovel all this snow :D:p the Wheel Horse and the CASE clean it up rather nicely. :D

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.

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Beautiful round eye!

I have a couple of JD’s but they’re fair weather work dogs. :D

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.

I like my driveway and sidewalks to be down to the pavement, so even if I blow snow, I usually do cleanup with my trusty manual snow plow...

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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!!

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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.

My 81 K20. Also have 2 shovels and a snow blower that I haven't used this winter.

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.

LOL.

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/

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.

I've not yet heard someone say "When I retire, I'm moving NORTH!!!"

We dont get snow in maine on the average like we used to.

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

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!

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.

Thank you!

I like to stay warm 'n toasty as well as move as much as I want, where I want and do it in a Super Duty. ;)

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I've got a friend on a Camaro board that moved to the Daytona FL area for retirement from a small town in upper NY because his wife (now ex-wife) wanted to move there. Hated Florida.

After the divorce, he moved back to NY and is much happier living there.

He has the same opinion of FL that I do. It's too hot and humid most of the year. You can always put another layer of clothing on, but they arrest you when you take too many clothes off.

Just a few days ago when we got a quick 8" of snow on the mountain, it was getting to be around 4pm and still no plows had come by. Neighbor stopped and told me it ran off the road or something. Other neighbor is under the weather so I did his drive, mine and another neighbor while I was waiting for the plow to go by so I could finish ... still no plow ... ended up running up and down the road with the tractor clearing our 1/4 mile ... parked in the drive waiting for the plows again.

Along comes a brand new looking 3/4 ton truck with a split plow on the front down the middle of the road and a dozen cars behind him. So some private truck owner took it upon himself to clear a path all the way up the mountain for these people to get home.

So yeah, sometimes a nice comfy big truck is the way to go. Probably used 2 gallons of fuel on the five mile trip up pushing about 8" of snow.

This is Alice, a 1972 Allis Chalmers 416Hydro. Bought the tractor several years ago for $300.00, from my friends book keeper. Ended up buying an A/C 410 in Wisconsin, to get the snowblower. Alice has the original 16HP Kohler under the hood.
Behind it is a 1973 Simplicity Landlord 3410, the first Simplicity I ever owned. Bought it from the original owner in 1987. Been repowered with an 11HP Briggs.

Transmission line failed during the first plow of the season


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Dave

Had to make that same repair in the parking lot of a grocery store at night many years ago on a 72 Chevy PU. Crawled under and spliced the line with a piece of fuel line and two clamps that I scavenged off some other part of the truck. Store had a small auto section with some trans fluid. I was not happy that night.

I've called an end to winter up here. I'm fed up with the snow, not going to snow throw again. Still about two feet deep on the ground but it's going to be sunny and 49 next week with no snow in the forecast, so I'm done till next year no matter what happens, I just don't care anymore :) ( I reach this point about now every winter )

I had the cooling lines fail on my 93 K3500 about 3 years ago from rust and corrosion while towing my fifth wheel camper. I did the splice and repair with high pressure hose one time only to have another portion fail. Nicopp replacements were the answer, as were all the brake lines a few years earlier. The lines will still be solid and operational when I'm gone, or the truck will be sitting in the junkyard with pristine tubing lines on it.........:D

Dataway, I know the feeling well late in the winter after living in Erie PA for 47 years, you get "snow fatigue" after fighting it for 3-4 months in a row.......not fun at all, especially living up on a mountain as you do. Since getting out of the lake effect zone I don't seem to get that "snow fatigue syndrome" any longer. Average of 40 inches a year is like the mildest winter I've ever seen in Erie back in the mid 80s. It was like 20 inches of snow in one season, probably a once in a lifetime phenomenon. I never even put the plow on my truck that year. Other years I was stacking snow up as high as I could with my truck as there was no longer any place to put it. The X wife took a picture of my daughter sled riding on the snow pile in the front yard, probably 10 feet high and 20 feet at the base. that was from just clearing the driveway for the season.

I notice that every plow operator down here never plans for more snow to fall after they first clear a lot or driveway. They never stack it, or move it past the edge of the pavement. That's because most times it's all melted before we get another significant snowfall. Big difference in the planning and techniques of plowing snow from what I'm used to.

I'm good till about 75-80" then the fatigue starts to set in, specially when it's 3 degrees out like it was last night. Getting kind of late for temps like that.

I'll recover when it hits 40 degrees the first time ... then let it snow all it wants, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel :)

We’re running right there next to you in Elma south of Buffalo