Nothing gets it all off but if nothing has been over the snow there won't be a lot left, maybe quarter of an inch but having gone over it with the machine it packs. Subsequent snow falls layer more on top. Ultimately it packs to form ice, often several inches thick by the end of the winter. This often causes people problems at the entrance to the garage for example because it can block the door and can cause water to run into the garage when it begins melting in the spring. I know one old man who is very careful to clear that snow right down by hand before putting his blower on it for exactly those reasons.
I don't have a garage but I do like to scrape it well down particularly this year to minimize the snow melt running down and washing out the beach sand that son of a ***** filled into the pavers. I am interested to see just how it drains this year except that I also hope to be absorbing sun in Texas during most of the melt. If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: Blaine Deutscher To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower mmm I see. So if you blow the snow off your driveway how much would you have left on it after? If you don't let the snow pack too much wouldn't you be able to get right to the pavement? Yes I know how hard it is to walk in snow when blind but if there is a little snow on the pavement then I am able to navigate, it's the dnow drifts that really throw me or the banks that the graders push to the edge of the roads. In Saskatchewan the roads are cleared rather well. It's really nice. Talk to you all later. Blaine ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Angela doesn't get here much especially in the winter. They don't get all that much snow in Calgary though really and when they do it tends to melt pretty quickly. The mouth of a snow blower rides just a little above the surface. If you want to clear right down to the pavement always assuming you have pavement you need to scrape it by hand. We don't generally see bare pavement except on the highway where salt and warm tires melt then spray it into the air or onto the banks until the sun gets some warmth in it around the end of March or early April. Tends to complicate way finding for the blind. It is my other daughter I was speaking of. If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: Blaine Deutscher To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower awe and I'm sure she is use to having snow on her car. After all they get a lot of snow there where she lives. How often does she get there. I prefer gas blowers and before I finished reading your post I thought to myself that it's really stupid to blow snow because if you blow in the wind but then realized that if you walk out your door and the wind is blowing straight at you that you wouldn't want to blow the snow away but you can turn the shoot so that it flies out to the right or left away from the wind. If the wind was blowing from left to right I guess you could push the snow ahead of you and then blow it to the right at the end of the driveway, or blow it to the right if the wind is blowing from the left. It gets cold blowing snow if you have wind to contend with. What I want to know is how do you ajust the blade so you're not scraping the cement beneath and wrecking it? If I had the garage door open I would turn it on in there and go down the driveway so that it got the entire driveway cleaned off. Just my thoughts. Oh yeah, go Canada go, we're playing right now, up 1 nothing for Canada. Blaine ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Blowing snow in that way wouldn't be much fun. You have to make sure you are blowing down wind because once you lift the flakes the environmental air currents will take it and usually return it directly into your face. Once any compaction has taken place it won't blow at all. The term snow blower really isn't accurate. These machines scrape the ground forcing the snow and ice into an auger which lifts it. Two stage machines feed the auger supply into an impeller which, working something like a squirrel cage fan or something like an impeller pump fires the snow out through a sort of half pipe shoot which can be directed to throw the stream of particles more or less where wanted. Once they leave the shoot of course the stream rapidly expands and decelerates but the point I wish to make here is that the snow isn't pushed along ahead of a stream of air as happens with a leaf blower. It is physically lifted and ejected in the general direction of the shoot. I don't know much about most electric blowers, generally they don't have nearly enough power to be particularly useful. Some of the very small ones have a series of rubberized paddles which rotate not unlike the brushes of a carpet cleaner sort of sweeping the snow forward. I have a wide stiff shop brush which I sometimes use when there is just a dusting of snow though more usually I just leave it until it either accumulates or melts. I have a similar wide soft brush I use to rapidly disperse the snow off of my daughter's car when she is up visiting. If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: Donnie Parrett To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:34 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower We recently received aa 12 amp electric leaf blower as a gift. Would that be any good for blowing snow? ~~~~~ To receive my Daily Devotion, Word Of Wisdom & Daily Bible reading, please send a blank email to: [email protected] Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning Skype Prayer Time. Contact Me At: Donnie Parrett 2000 Asa Flat Road Annville, Kentucky 40402 Home Phone: 606-364-3321 Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY Skype Name: Donnie1261 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Maybe I should, probably less snow up there. Now if I could find a wind director. This morning there was several feet of snow on our sidewalk, None on the car and a few houses up the street had no snow. The wind so kindly re-located it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blaine Deutscher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower no you're telling him this so that he moves up to Canada. come on be onnist, you want him to move to Canada. ha ha ha. Blaine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Hi Lenny, While this may not be in your neck of the woods, there's a store up here called Canadian Tire, which sells the snow blowers you're referring to. I'm not telling you this so you can come up here and buy one from them, I'm telling you this because their website is completely accessible, and, they have a good comment and feedback section on each of their products that are equal and unbiased. It' a rating system, and people rate their products and comment on them. One of the comments I saw in regards to electric snow blowers is that you shouldn't get anything under 12 amps, otherwise you risk not having enough power to clear what you want. I can't readily remember where it is you live, but judging from the snow fall you all have gotten down there in the last couple of months, a 6 amp blower won't do you at all. Either way, I would suggest you check out the site below, and check out the comment section for the blowers you're looking for, in addition to the specs for the products, and look for the one most similar to the one you're looking to buy, and see what others say about it. I mean, who would know more about clearing snow than Canadians, right? Smile. In any case, the website is below, and have fun looking. http://www.canadiantire.ca Hope this helps. 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