No so annoyed as……inconvenient. We had the snow event of the decade last night. This morning, my snowthrower decides to commit violoent suicide all over my driveway.
Trying to figure out if I want a cheap corded, a powerful gas that I detest, or a cordless that I want but don’t want to spendthe money on, not the best time to be forced into this decision.
Oh well, I got it about half shovelled (with the help of my spouse) and the neighbour blew out the sidewalk and bottom of the drive. So it’s done for now anyway.
I’m guessing you want a two stage guy for Canadian winters. I’d never looked at the cordless ones, you’re looking at about 1,800 USD, or just over a grand for a nice gas one.
I’m guessing that, like many other tools, the electric ones are lighter, I didn’t look at that. It looks like most cordless might do 60-80 minutes on a charge, is that enough? If not then you could spend many hundreds on extra batteries if you don’t already own some.
Well I broke down and bought one on amazon. Smaller, but it takes dewalt batteries.
Honestly the big ones are nice, but the little ones handle 95 percent of snowfalls perfectly fine. Even this snowfall, I could get through with my small one, just a bit slower.
It looks like the DeWalt guys weigh around 80-90lbs with the batteries. I’d have to find the model number again on my Craftsman but I bet it’s in the 150lb ballpark, it’s a little unwieldy, especially since it has a solid axle, it’s hard to turn.
I think it’s time for a new job, sigh. My new-ish manager is in way, way over her head and she’s a net negative on my productivity. Let’s see what’s on the menu at LinkedIn today.
I read this and realize that i don’t think any manager that I’ve had in the last decade has been much more than a therapist and sounding board. I think I’d go nuts if someone new came in that expected to actually get involved.
Got enough project managers to deal with that are in way over their heads though.
I got the snowblower in from Amazon this afternoon. put it together and just did the driveway. works great so far!
my neighbour, yeah that guy, left for vacation for a week. there was like three feet of snow in his driveway and the sidewalk. zero chance I’m going to do it, if he can’t even be bothered to ask (plus the time I was out with back issues for six weeks which meant I couldn’t snowblow his driveway like I’d done for years. so he had to break out his own blower, so he could do his own……and not so mine. so my wife and young son.were out there with shovels. rant). but wife is good friends with his wife so she texted, and they called the other neighbour who did his driveway and sidewalk. I mean I’d do anybody’s driveway if there away, unasked, but not this guy.
It’s so important to people that you value their opinions, but then they make a jokey put-down without even smiling, and I think, well, do they really want me to value their words? Or do they want me to forget what they said the next day?
Aren’t there companies that people can hire to clear their driveway and sidewalks when away so they don’t have to rely on the neighbors?
We’re lucky our street doesn’t have sidewalks. The city expects you to clear it one or two days after a snowfall or you pay a fine. So we can go on a trip and not worry about clearing sidewalks.
I hope they never put a sidewalk on our street. I found out that the residents have to pay part of the cost of putting one. Geez, are our high taxes not enough!