Now the real storm is bearing down on us and is expected to dump anywhere between 4" and 12" later today and overnight. That's a real shovel buster. For some that is... Last year Tracy authorized me (or actually made me, to be more truthful) buy a snow blower. Well if you haven't been to our house, the driveway is rather steep. She was tired of shoveling it, and thus a snow blower was born into our family.
As usual, when I set out to buy a tool of any kind I do extensive research to determine the cost to benefit of the tool to me. And as usual, I ended up with the Cadillac of all snow blowers. It's really more of a commercial model, but with our driveway, I thought the extra money would be well spent in this particular area.
The bottom line on this snow blower is that it has several options that no other walk-behind model known to exist possesses other than this one. Those things would be:
Hydrostatic drive - infinitely variable speed in forward and reverse. No crappy slip clutch here!
3 position auger height adjustment - the auger head can be set to dig into the ground, ride level with it or ride about 1.5" above the ground. This is particularly important for me because I have partly a concrete driveway and partly gravel. On the gravel part I adjust the auger to pick-up snow above the gravel thus eliminating thrown rocks and annoying shear bolt breakages.
Track drive- The photo will explain it all. no wheels and chains here. this thing easily clears my driveway uphill while dragging me along. I'm considering attaching a sulky for convenience.
All this and a 32" clearing path, 11.5 horse Honda motor, electric start, etc, etc.
The Honda HS1132
The reason for the Honda HS1132
These photos of the driveway are about three years old
and thus the driveway shown was hand shoveled. Looks
like fun huh?
5 comments:
Man, you or she shovel a straight line. The eye of a natural born carpenter. Or accountant. Neat snow blower.
Uncle Chuck
Well, actually, the driveway is made up of two individual concrete treads about 28" wide. So what you see is the concrete part of the driveway, the middle swath and sides are grass/weeds. But I'll take the comment about being a good carpenter!
Dan
How about a picture of your driveway the way it looks today? Today will put your machine to the ultimate test. They haven't even plowed Hilltop yet, so there are just tracks down the road. What a storm! Mom
Its so ironic that you all are getting this amazing storm, but it completely bypassed me. Here, we got quarter inch of reeeally fluffy snow, and then it just got cold. Meanwhile, Micah gets two snow days. But, it's okay... there's plenty of snow here anyhow.
So if you have the Cadillac of snowblowers why don't you have the Cadillac of cars? And wouldn't any place called Middletown be right between two other towns somewhere?
We ended up with about 10 inches of the white stuff. However, my snow blower took care of it. There were a couple of times, that I wished you lived closer so a could have borrowed you Mega snow eater. Dad
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