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I have white lights strung on a blue spruce. The tree is ~30 feet tall. The lights stay up. They were a huge pain to install, they are not going up and down. Normally run them in the evening when snow is out. Snow goes away, lights turn off for the season. If they were coloured, I would whack them around new years.
Completely agree but the extra machinery requires more power so a multi HP gas engine is needed. Technically a single stage is a snow thrower and multi stage a snow blower.
My wife turned ours on for Ukrainian Christmas.
My next snow removing thing will probably be a two stage. That bleeping windrow can put a real hurting on the single stages (especially if heavy/frozen and tall). Three neighbours have said I could borrow theirs but I don't want to be that guy. If it is horrible, I will borrow one and clear their driveway at the same time.
It's a work of art.
I keep getting poo pooed by some friends that are on me about my gas powered 'pollution machine'. Same guys that pooed on me for using a gas leaf blower, mower, and trimmer.
Oh man...saw one of these monsters on my FIFO job in the BC interior mountains. 15ft diameter impeller on the front of a loader / dump truck.
The good old days. I remember as a kid in Manitoba looking up at the top of a snowdrift from a second story window. We only had hills in winter.It's a work of art.
Snow falls. Plow comes through the main streets, then the secondary streets, then repeats until it's clear enough for circulation. Then they'll do tertiary streets.
Finally after a day or 2, they go by with these ginormous snowblowers (some kind of loader with a snowblower attachment) trucks to put the snow whether
a) on your 'lawn/property'
or if its already too high up
b) inside a dump truck rolling next to it until its full...and then another dump truck comes to continue getting loaded. The full dump truck goes to the closest snow depot where they simply dump the snow there.
Thats why most winters eventually you can't see peoples' houses and you can only see the roof
Also to limit the plowing they have to do, its quite common to see "tempo" garages put up for winter to avoid having to remove snow on your car and on part (or all) of your driveway. Just gotta remove the snow on top
Feeling all nostalgic now
Swap in a 10 to 20 hp electric motor and extension cord and plug it into your EV outlet. Lots of power, not much noise. Heavy bastard though.
Not gonna lie...that's something I would have NEVER considered doing.
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The Ryobi with two X 40 volt batteries did my driveway, some sidewalk and the neighbor's double drive across the street but that snowfall wasn't as bad. If the handle / switches weren't crap I would still have it. Since the need is so rare it's hard to get a comparison. I don't think you could have rented a twin 40V yesterday for any money and another test day might be five years coming. The windrows could have been a problem.
Short bursts of certain noises are OK. A friend has a six cylinder outboard and at the end of the season he cuff flushes the cooling system in his driveway. Sounds like a CBX. A few minutes is enough though.Not gonna lie...that's something I would have NEVER considered doing.
Electric snowblower conversion: Gas powered Yamaha to 5kW electric
Here is a small video showing my old Yamaha YS828 snowblower converted to approx. 5kW lithium-ion electric: 9-EcJlglOXA Main parts used for conversion: - Removable ENNOID 12S10P battery pack integrated with my ENNOID-BMS-SS-15 board for battery monitoring, charging & balancing. - Denzel D4500...
Milwaukee's power pack makes any 120 volt tool battery powered, just strap it to your back. 45 pounds and $3000.
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