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11 minutes ago, Professional Lurker said:

driveway finally done. Shear pin ftl.

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I thought I was going to snap one. My dirt/rock driveway is thawed out so I kept sinking in and chucking rocks. Time to pave that mofo.

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Let's see, things that I've snowblowed: the Boston globe newspaper on two different occasions. It's also not very smart trying to snowblow to the wood pile when there are random chunks and pieces of bark laying around. Yep, ive gone through a few shear pins...i even got the Boston globe so wedged into the auger and chute, that we had to have a guy come and take it apart just so we could get it unclogged. I'm pretty damn awesome!

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2 minutes ago, #NoPoles said:

Let's see, things that I've snowblowed: the Boston globe newspaper on two different occasions. It's also not very smart trying to snowblow to the wood pile when there are random chunks and pieces of bark laying around. Yep, ive gone through a few shear pins...i even got the Boston globe so wedged into the auger and chute, that we had to have a guy come and take it apart just so we could get it unclogged. I'm pretty damn awesome!

Do you really need a snowblower there? :whistle:

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Let's see, things that I've snowblowed: the Boston globe newspaper on two different occasions. It's also not very smart trying to snowblow to the wood pile when there are random chunks and pieces of bark laying around. Yep, ive gone through a few shear pins...i even got the Boston globe so wedged into the auger and chute, that we had to have a guy come and take it apart just so we could get it unclogged. I'm pretty damn awesome!
Lol. Earlier this season mine ate a rubber doormat. I had to cut it out, it was a hot mess inside the auger. Lol. I'm sure I'll find chunks of mat all over my yard.

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4 minutes ago, #NoPoles said:

Let's see, things that I've snowblowed: the Boston globe newspaper on two different occasions. It's also not very smart trying to snowblow to the wood pile when there are random chunks and pieces of bark laying around. Yep, ive gone through a few shear pins...i even got the Boston globe so wedged into the auger and chute, that we had to have a guy come and take it apart just so we could get it unclogged. I'm pretty damn awesome!

So is your delivery person, flinging the paper onto the driveway during S+.  ;)

Many years ago I nearly vacuumed a partridge into the machine - was about to run it toward the dog trolley but decided to walk instead.  The bird had done its dive-in-the-snowbank thing during the overnight, and burst out right as I came by, beating its wings on my leg as it fled.

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1 minute ago, HimoorWx said:

Wow.  I'm just east of route 24, and I probably almost doubled that.  Had 8+ when I cleared the driveway at 6:00 and it was pouring snow when I left at 7.  Quite the gradient on the south shore.

 It’s possible could’ve been more because I was not home but that’s seems to be my best guess. It was quite the  longitude gradient.  I doubt more than 6 inches.  Can’t win them all. 

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1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

 It’s possible could’ve been more because I was not home but that’s seems to be my best guess. It was quite the  longitude gradient.  I doubt more than 6 inches.  Can’t win them all. 

Definitely a positive bust for my area.  Wasn't expecting much last evening, but when it changed over it started accumulating so quickly even at 35 degrees.

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9 minutes ago, #NoPoles said:

Let's see, things that I've snowblowed: the Boston globe newspaper on two different occasions. It's also not very smart trying to snowblow to the wood pile when there are random chunks and pieces of bark laying around. Yep, ive gone through a few shear pins...i even got the Boston globe so wedged into the auger and chute, that we had to have a guy come and take it apart just so we could get it unclogged. I'm pretty damn awesome!

I ate a phone book with my last machine.  It got completely wedged between the augur and the body of the snowthrower.  I finally removed it with a reciprocating saw with titanium blade.  There was smoke pouring out of it from all the friction.  The worst thing that has happened to the current one is taking in about a softball size rock and throwing it.  No harm on that one luckily.

Still kind of angry that someone would deliver phone books just as a storm was beginning.  I think it may actually have been the last time they were delievered as it's definitely been awhile.

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Nice fluffy dimes have turned to teenyflakes in Augusta, not for the first time today, though visibility is still 1/2 mile or less.  We'll see if there's more of the good stuff to come.  At least the Maine dogsled championship races in Farmington this weekend have plenty of snow to run on.  It was looking kinda grim for a while. 

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31F  light snow.  Vis 2 miles   12.5"  Temps during the storm were in the 28 to 29F range so no tree issues here.  Mood flakes all day.  Peak of sun midday but now just a gentle light snow.  A friend of mine that lives NW of me in Groton called me and said she got 21".  She is at 1500 feet.  Seems suspect.  Most places in my general area according to the Gray Maine reports look like around 9-10".  Makes sense I was more being up high.  I didn't clear,  just stuck the ruler in the pack.  

Im at #4 on the boards snow list but dryslot hasn't updated so will fall back to #5.  Backedgeapproaching made a big jump with 19.5"!  

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25 minutes ago, HimoorWx said:

Wow.  I'm just east of route 24, and I probably almost doubled that.  Had 8+ when I cleared the driveway at 6:00 and it was pouring snow when I left at 7.  Quite the gradient on the south shore.

I saw the gradient driving into work today....as I passed near 24 on 93 (pretty close to blue hill), you could see there was at least a solid 7-8" and that was after a bit of compaction since it wasn't until midday. By the time I got to the Braintree split, it was at least 2-3 inches less. Obviously that is not a very far distance between the two.

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