Did you exercise today?

GreyGhost said:
My neighbours have (i think) a smaller ryobi. It is so quiet it is great. Can't throw the snow from the center of the double driveway to the lawn but if you go slow it has enough power to throw the double deep snow from the edge. Gets their ~6 car driveway done easily. No idea how much battery is left at the end. Completely useless against the windrow and a non-starter. I do the windrow for them. Like with battery lawnmowers, it is far happier if you stay on top of things. It is happy to do 3" but if you wait for a foot to build up or if you wait for it to get crusty, it really struggles.
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The two stage gas ones are great for throwing the snow way over the lawn and even full width driveways. Ryobi has a new bigger multi battery self propelled electric but it’s around $2K iirc. Looks promising

If you do an early morning start the electric ones are nice. I think Briggs & Stratton get their mufflers from Harley D.
 
mimico_polak said:
Same. I didn’t expect it to last that long.

Guess my driveway size argument against electric is out the window now.
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I think having the 2 batteries (a 7ah and my lawnmowers 5ah) was the key here. The blower will run on a single battery but having the 2 is certainly an advantage. Regardless I think the single 7ah battery would have still done my entire driveway (quasi 4-car, split by sidewalk) even with Fridays heavy snow - the extra 5ah was what allowed me to do the street (to avoid a bad plow windrow) and then experiment by taking off down the sidwalk and getting surprisingly far.

GreyGhost said:
Completely useless against the windrow
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The key with the windrow is taking it in chunks, not trying to just plow straight into it. Previously I had one of the 120v plug-in SnowJoe blowers and it would do the windrow if you were patient and took it in slices, and I'm pretty sure the Ryobi is more powerful than the Snowjoe even, so I think it'll do the job with a little patience.

With the chute adjusted and it set on the max speed it easily throws the snow 2 car lengths as well, so no problem getting it in our front yard even from the far side of the driveway.
 
PrivatePilot said:
I think having the 2 batteries (a 7ah and my lawnmowers 5ah) was the key here. The blower will run on a single battery but having the 2 is certainly an advantage. Regardless I think the single 7ah battery would have still done my entire driveway (quasi 4-car, split by sidewalk) even with Fridays heavy snow - the extra 5ah was what allowed me to do the street (to avoid a bad plow windrow) and then experiment by taking off down the sidwalk and getting surprisingly far.



The key with the windrow is taking it in chunks, not trying to just plow straight into it. Previously I had one of the 120v plug-in SnowJoe blowers and it would do the windrow if you were patient and took it in slices, and I'm pretty sure the Ryobi is more powerful than the Snowjoe even, so I think it'll do the job with a little patience.

With the chute adjusted and it set on the max speed it easily throws the snow 2 car lengths as well, so no problem getting it in our front yard even from the far side of the driveway.
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I think you have a bigger blower than them and a smaller windrow. Yesterdays was heavy as hell. 15+hp gas blowers taking a 12" cut didn't have enough power to keep rpm up. Windrow was 12-18" tall slush. The neighbours didn't try theirs yesterday but from watching them before, theirs just doesn't work for that application. For most of their square footage the battery powered blower is fantastic.

Prior to getting a 2 stage, I used a 5 hp Honda single stage. If the windrow was fresh, it could get through it in 15 minutes or so. If it was frozen, break out the axe and shovel (or kind neighbour).
 
GreyGhost said:
Yesterdays was heavy as hell. 15+hp gas blowers taking a 12" cut didn't have enough power to keep rpm up. Windrow was 12-18" tall slush.
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Don't take 12" cuts then, take 4-5" cuts. 3" if need be. Patience is key. They will get the job done eventually, and no matter how long it takes, it beats doing it by hand.

The crappy old SnowJoe I had before took care of this snowmageddon last January, including the windrow at the end of the driveway.

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If that thing could do it, the Ryobi can do it for sure.
 
Another good week
2 days of lifting and one day of bike
And in between while im "coaching" the wife, i lift her weight to show/remind her the movements.

Then my kid likes to play on the gym rings/pull up bar so we get to do some of that here and there
 
Few meetings got cancelled this morning. so I'm 'working' while doing my 5x5 strong lifts...

Need to figure out some accessory exercises as these strong lifts are super simple. May skip the walk tonight during scouts simply due to weather...but I could just dress better.
 
Took up rowing (rowing machine that is) about 6 weeks ago. My main sport is cycling so I didn't have much upper body muscle. The rower is awesome at activating the upper body while still giving you a nice cardio workout, I love it. I suddenly have some definition in the shoulders and upper back. Big fan.
 
Matt Rain said:
Took up rowing (rowing machine that is) about 6 weeks ago. My main sport is cycling so I didn't have much upper body muscle. The rower is awesome at activating the upper body while still giving you a nice cardio workout, I love it. I suddenly have some definition in the shoulders and upper back. Big fan.
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Nice! We're considering getting one...but with our track record it'll become an expensive discussion piece same as our Bowflex MaxTrainer...
 
mimico_polak said:
Nice! We're considering getting one...but with our track record it'll become an expensive discussion piece same as our Bowflex MaxTrainer...
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Did you fix the trainer yet?

I thought about getting a water rower for a good price but was scared off by the apparent need to change water at regular intervals to avoid a swamp. Not sure if true or not but location I was going to put it, that would have been annoying.
 
GreyGhost said:
Did you fix the trainer yet?

I thought about getting a water rower for a good price but was scared off by the apparent need to change water at regular intervals to avoid a swamp. Not sure if true or not but location I was going to put it, that would have been annoying.
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No not yet. Hopefully this week I can take it apart.

Kids thought it was a good idea to put my radio antenna into it…so the rotating parts sucked it in and now I need to pull it out.

Then I can deal with the bigger issue which I’m not spending $500 to fix.
 
mimico_polak said:
Few meetings got cancelled this morning. so I'm 'working' while doing my 5x5 strong lifts...

Need to figure out some accessory exercises as these strong lifts are super simple. May skip the walk tonight during scouts simply due to weather...but I could just dress better.
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A program i might jump into once im done with a few months of stronglifts, has some suggestions as accessories, esp t3

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Did a bunch of core exercises today, best thing, don’t need a gym or special equipment.
 
Delivered mail today. 24km in -18c (wind chill) weather. 2” of snow everywhere and lots and lots of hills and stairs.
Was not a good day.

On a side note, my legs are more toned than ever before.
 
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