greg g......any of that snow in your neighborhood?

[oldmopar]

No snow in NJ yet still in the 40's-50's but here is a photo from last year or the year before of how I remove my snow.

More fun then a snow blower

Ed

[Norm's Coupe]

Fred, my first one, the Toro was a pull start. After having that one I said never again. Gotta have electric start. The last two were electric start. However, the Murray I have now will also start on the first or second pull if I use the pull start on it.

These are sorta like when I rode a motorcycle. First one was a kick start. When I got ready to buy a new one I said it has to have electric start.

Electric start on snowblowers and lawnmowers are a must.

[Norm's Coupe]

No snow in NJ yet still in the 40's-50's but here is a photo from last year or the year before of how I remove my snow.

More fun then a snow blower

Ed

Not only more fun, but I'll bet it's a lot warmer too. Plus, you can drop the plow and drive it around in the warm weather. Maybe I should think about something like that next time around.

[Mr. Belvedere]

Soooo glad I know nothing of snow blowers here in So Cal where our current highs are in the upper 70s and lows in the 50s. Car season never ends here except when gasoline prices begin to get unbearable, currently $3.40 a gallon here in town. About 50 bucks a fill up ouch!

[Don Coatney]

Anyone who doesn't bring a coat to San Francisco doesn't know San Francisco.

Tod;

I am just a visitor here and make no claims to knowing San Francisco. It was in the high 70's (daily at mid day) when I left Tennessee. Foolishly I thought it would be the same here.

I'm seriously thinking about contracting a plow guy to do the driveway .

Good idea Norm;

If you contract the plowing you will be able to take your car on a cruise to the end of the driveway all winter long. If you do it frequently you can clain at least another tenth of a mile of driving time this winter:D

[RobertKB]

Just pictures of snow makes me gloomy. Never been a winter person and hate not being able to drive my cars at that time. Some people like my sister and family love winter but they are skiers and hit the slopes nearly every weekend. I just dread winter. Oh well, it's still better than being the wrong side of the grass.

[Norm's Coupe]

Between 3 an 4 inches of wet, wet snow, mixed with sleet, graupel, and sugar snow.

This was "snow J", mid-day when it had settled some. I had to come home and take the rain gutters down during my lunch break.

Shel, Why do you take the gutters down??

[greg g]

Hey Shel, I was just in your neighborhood, thought to drive over form Boonville, but I was on the clock. Went up to Carbone's and picked up a dealer trade from them. Did see quite a bit of snow up on the hills, but looked like Remsen got more that other places.

J sno looks like he could use a sweater. You be carefull on that ladder.

[Norm's Coupe]

Norm, my gutters are the cheap vinyl gutters. With an 18' run of metal that rises 9' over a 14' span, the snow will push them to the ground as soon as it starts to warm above 32 degrees, and if the wood stove is cranked it will start sooner.

Guess that also solves any problems with building up an ice dam up there too. All of our gutters are seamless aluminum. Get an ice dam up there if the snow gets too heavy. Have to use the roof rake and some ice melter in the gutter then to break it up. Last year I noticed water in one corner of my basement at about 11 PM. When I checked to see where it was coming in, it was dripping from the top of the basement wall down onto the electrical circuit box. Went outside to check that corner of the house. Found a big chunk of ice at the bottom of the downspout. Then checked the 8 foot downspout extension and it was frozen solid. Water was backing up into that corner and had built up an ice dam on the ground forcing the water into the house. Was about zero outside at the time. Couldn't break the ice out of the extension, so finally disconnected it and took it into the laundry room. That thing was frozen solid from end to end. Took me over an hour to get the ice out of it heating it with the propane torch. Then reconnected it after I finished that. During the day the sun would melt the snow on the roof then drain down the gutter. However that extension was buried in the snow so it never got a chance to warm up. After that, I made sure the sun could hit it to warm it too. The stuff we go through in our climate. But........I couldn't take not having the change of seasons where it's warm all the time. Body would like it, but not the mind.

Took about 3 days for the ice to melt out of the laundry tubs, even with the wife draining the washer water over it.

[Young Ed]

Norm I've had those ice issues too. Nothing like climbing an aluminum ladder to get at the roof when its snowy! Man those things get slippery. If the ice gets bad I take old socks etc and fill them with ice melt. Use a ziptie to close them. You put those on the high side of the icedam and then the water distributes the ice melt. It works really well. In the spring you just pick up the empty socks.

[Norm's Coupe]

Ed, I stopped climbing up the ladder about 7 or 8 years ago. Bought a roof rake. My house is only a one story ranch. The roof rake is about 24 feet long. I can stand on the ground and pull the snow off the roof. To get the ice melter into the gutters I made a dispenser out of a coffee can. I then use a paint brush holder to hold the coffee can onto an extension pole to pour ice melter from the can into the gutter. Works real slick and I can do everything from the ground. Your sock idea sounds good too though.

[Young Ed]

Mine dont freeze in the gutter but right in front of it on the roof so I had to have some way to hold that ice melter stuff in place. Someone told me to use nylons but not having them around I raided my sock drawer.

[Norm's Coupe]

Ed, if you don't have any nylons around go to the dollar store and pick up some cheap ones. Wife picks up several pairs of knee high nylons a few times a year. Only a dollar per pair and come in a little plastic egg thing. She doesn't buy them to wear. We use them on the washer drain hose that goes into the slop sink in the laundry room. Keeps the lint in the sock and it doesn't go down the drain and stop it up. Should work just as good on the roof with ice melter.

[Don Coatney]

I take old socks etc

What are socks:confused:

Bought a roof rake.

What is a roof rake:confused:

ice melter stuff

What is ice melter stuff:confused: What is freeze:confused: What is ice:confused:

[Norm's Coupe]

Roof Rake. http://www.midwestrake.com/interim/catalog_sections/mid_snow/2007NewCatalogFINAL%209-07%2051.pdf

[Young Ed]

Don socks are these cloth items worn with shoes. You should try them sometime

[Don Coatney]

Don socks are these cloth items worn with shoes. You should try them sometime

Why:confused:

[Norm's Coupe]

Ed, I think if Don were to visit our part of the country when it's about zero or below, he'd find out what socks were and why he should wear them, "real fast". He's already learned that he should carry a jacket with him when he takes a trip someplace.

[Normspeed]

You can tell winter's coming on where i live. Persimmons are ready to pick in backyards, and it's time to trade the shorts for jeans.