Did you exercise today?
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Mad Mike
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1 arm push-ups are like chrome… just for show.
Hey, I'm just happy if I can get my leg through the hole in my underwear without falling over.
Ya'll are ballers lol.
Anyhow, I too used my new snowblower last night for the bulk of the snow, and the clealup this morning. I can't even call it a workout, that thing just eviserated anything I pointed it at. Incredible. I'll never go back to a gas blower again.
Yet, somehow I am still exhausted and haven't hardly moved out of my recliner all day. **** it. Time for another beer.
Haven't tackled the driveway yet doesn't really look like enough to bother with yet should pack down after driving over it for a few different ways
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ifiddles
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that's what we did last night around 10:30 at night...cleared of the truck and front porch/sidewalk before the rain hit...it was actually really nice out at that time...
Might want to reconsider. Whatever is left on the ground beyond the next few hours is going to be concrete for the next week at least given the temps in the long term forecast.
I made that mistake a few years ago and spent 2 weeks cursing myself everytime I had to navigate the surface of the moon between my car and front door.
We have gravel and if there isn't a solid layer of ice base the tractor tears it up with the plow
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Does this mean you have a battery powered snow blower? Any details you wish to share?
After all these years of doing it by shovel I may weaken, maybe. I need to keep the reputation with my neighbours as the old goat still shovelling and not using a blower or having it plowed.
Mad Mike
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It’s concrete now. I just blew out my elderly neighborhood driveway, the snowblower just climbed over the snowpack.
Did 30 minutes on the rower watched top gun maverick.
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I ate some cookies…
Ryobi 40v 21" battery powered.
I found a basically new one on FB marketplace for a great price (less than half of new) because it was a previous gen model with the problematic handle that kept sliding down. A few pipe clamps solved the issue in about 5 minutes.
I already had one of the 40v battery packs from my Ryobi mower (which is also freakin awesome) and the blower came with a bigger one again, so with the 2 together I was able to blow out my entire driveway out, the sidewalk, both my neighbours sidewalk, and then in an effort to see how long it would keep going, I went down the sidewalk and got about 8-10 houses away before it finally died at that point. And that was with the crappy heavy wet snow of 2 nights ago. Super impressed. It's insanely quiet as well.
My spirit animal.
Thanks for the review @PrivatePilot. My snowblower purchased from @nobbie48 seems to be going well also. But not sure how much longer.
Once that thing dies I’m considering moving to electric instead of gas.
Leaf blower, mower, and trimmer are still gas but that won’t change for a while as they’re all in good shape.
Once that thing dies I’m considering moving to electric instead of gas.
Leaf blower, mower, and trimmer are still gas but that won’t change for a while as they’re all in good shape.
Thanks, that sounds very promising. Never thought they had enough power to last that long.
Same. I didn’t expect it to last that long.
Guess my driveway size argument against electric is out the window now.
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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Started back into heavy deadlifts yesterday. Don't recall why I haven't done many since the summer (did a firetruck pull challenge in the summer so I did some core bulking for this). Will keep deads as parts of my training full time. Likely just laziness that I haven't done them much lately but they're vital in overall strength imo and to keep mass.
Driveway too big to go electric. First real test of the new SHO Ariens yesterday morning about 15cm of packed wet snow still blew it 60' without bogging down one bit. Quite impressed.
Driveway too big to go electric. First real test of the new SHO Ariens yesterday morning about 15cm of packed wet snow still blew it 60' without bogging down one bit. Quite impressed.
I bought that one when we had elderly neighbours and I did several driveways.
They’re all gone now and I tried a 40 volt electric Ryobi. The performance would be fine for your driveway but the first generation had crap switches and handles so I returned it. Ryobi went back to the drawing board and the newer ones appear to be really good.
I ended up with a 120 volt plug in when the local hardware store cleared them out for $80. A 50 foot cord gets me to the street. It takes up little space and I can carry it with one hand. No fuel or stabilizer.
A heated driveway would be great but not enough to offset the $35,000 price
