Us Northerners need snow equipment even after the snow plow comes through. We need to clear out the plowed in driveway or vehicles parked on the road.
The plow often makes another round right about the time you’ve taken your boots and coat off.
If you did the job right, you aren’t plowed in again. There’s just a hump of snow to drive over.
Yall may find it funny, but this is very enlightening. I thought the relationship between a snow blower and truck mounted plow was more like what a push mower is to a big rotary mower. I can’t imagine having the weather add an extra hr of chores to do every day.
I used to say Hurricanes are our thing down here, but what I’ve noticed since Michael is that the only time we equate storms to snow is when we’re not affected.
At LEAST an extra hour, and it's something else to keep gas/oil/belts in and hope it starts every time lol.
Once your done you look like the abominable snowman, covered in icicles, wet ass gloves and boots, hoping it stops snowing soon so you don't have to go back out before all your clothes dry.
The end of the driveway like sarge said is always fun too..
How big of a road your driveway is on kinda dictates how tall the plow wash at the end of the driveway will be. If you live on a state route, the plows will go by at 30-35 mph. This will send half the snow 15-20' Into your driveway as they drive by.. so if you got a foot of snow.. the plow wash makes the last 15-20' of your driveway 2 feet deep.
If you live on a little private road like I do that's plowed by a pickup that's doing 10mph... the plow wash at the end of the driveway doesn't extend down the driveway as far.. BUT its a lot deeper. Seems like the pile we get at the end of our driveway with 1 foot of snow is over the controls on my blower.