Oh, I'll tell ya how much snow we got...

[alternativeheat]

I have shear pins in stock, guess I should stock belts too.

get the good ones when you do. One year I serviced my Ariens and thought I'd do good replacing the main drive belt. Looked worn just be a good idea. Got a gates green colored industrial replacement belt. First snow storm I made one pass in the driveway and smelled rubber burning, then came to a halt. Belt was trash with a big pulley groove in it. Went to the Ariens dealer and bought OEM , paying their stupid price for it. It's still on the machine to this day, been several years now. They use a water friendly gummy compound in their belts. The parts guy said ya, they stick when wet.

 

[chken]

Not including the storm we had over the weekend, 395 cm for the year. Just hit 30 plows this season .

Holy cow, that's 13 feet! We only estimate 10 plows required a season. This year we've only had 3 plows, but it's been cold.

 

[Bioburner]

Holy cow, that's 13 feet! We only estimate 10 plows required a season. This year we've only had 3 plows, but it's been cold.

Better check your conversion scale, its like 64 or so inches

 

[chken]

Better check your conversion scale, its like 64 or so inches

Is it? Must be my calculator.

395 centimeters divided by 2.54 cm/inch should give me inches, right? That's 155 inches, or about 13 feet? Are feets different in Minnesota?

 

[Bioburner]

Is it? Must be my calculator.

395 centimeters divided by 2.54 cm/inch should give me inches, right? That's 155 inches, or about 13 feet? Are feets different in Minnesota?

Maybe the computer is wrong

 

[JoeS]

That is nice set up!

 

[chken]

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Maybe the computer is wrong

Haha, computers, they're sooooo stone age.

 

[John Fortier]

By my computer and calculator it is showing me.........we have had to much More to come.

 

[boomhour]

That is nice set up!

x 2, I could use that, banks are very high around here and I am running out of room.

Holy cow, that's 13 feet! We only estimate 10 plows required a season. This year we've only had 3 plows, but it's been cold.

I like to call it pennies from heaven.

Normally we shoot for 20 to 25 plows for driveways and they are on a per plow basis, commercial around 30 which would include sanding, snow removal is extra. Last year was normal with 24 plows for driveways and 33 for commercial.
This is what happens when you live near a snow-making machine called Georgian Bay.

And yes 395 cm is 12.95 feet for the season,and they are calling for 3 more months of below average temps.

 

[Fish On]

I for one love the snow. It's winter and nice to enjoy all my winter hobbies

 

[alternativeheat]

I for one love the snow. It's winter and nice to enjoy all my winter hobbies

I used to love it, now it's too expensive to heat, the cold hurts my body at almost age 64 but I live it. Hard winter is short around Cape Cod anyway and every so often we get one like this one, with some 0 mornings and snow. We have had complete clear winters here just as well. Jan is always cold, Feb generally snowy and that's the worse of it. we get a crappy spring, the bay is an air conditioner for us and the water is cold till July altering the spring weather. THere are exceptional springs if the wind is from the right direction, maybe this will be one of them !

 

[Stevekng]

That's what I want as I head towards retirement. Never mind horsing the Ariens, it's a great machine, treated me well, cleared tons of snow but it ain't no Berco on a tractor ! I think I need to upgrade the tractor first though, I believe I want a Cub 2000 series or a Husqvarna Garden tractor. I can put a little plow on my present tractor for the light fluffy 3 " storms but when we get 18"-20" of that wet stuff a Berco is the way to go.

A Husqvarna is the way to go. There's a huge difference in the quality of these beasts. Do yourself a favor, get your tractor from a dealer, not at a big box store or Sears. The dealer will repair what you get from them and the big box tractors are not of the same quality as the dealer units. Plus, the price is usually the same.

 

[SwineFlue]

A Husqvarna is the way to go. There's a huge difference in the quality of these beasts. Do yourself a favor, get your tractor from a dealer, not at a big box store or Sears. The dealer will repair what you get from them and the big box tractors are not of the same quality as the dealer units. Plus, the price is usually the same.

Good advice. Take a look at the XLS models with the locking diff for some extra traction in snow.

 

[alternativeheat]

A Husqvarna is the way to go. There's a huge difference in the quality of these beasts. Do yourself a favor, get your tractor from a dealer, not at a big box store or Sears. The dealer will repair what you get from them and the big box tractors are not of the same quality as the dealer units. Plus, the price is usually the same.

Yes I know, I have a Cub now bought from a dealer. Good support, its in their system by serial number etc.

I've looked at both brands in garden tractor. The Cub in the 2000 series is built a little tougher, has thicker everything including the sector gear in the steering. And the cub has a cast iron hydro tranny with shaft drive. The cost difference is about a grand more for the cub. But the Husq is also well made and I like their fabricated deck. The Berco blower will go on either, in fact it will go on my existing cub. I don't trust the tranny in mine though.

 

[alternativeheat]

Good advice. Take a look at the XLS models with the locking diff for some extra traction in snow.

yes the model I looked at had lockin diff or hubs.

 

[St_Earl]

Haha, computers, they're sooooo stone age.

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[Madcodger]

No snow for us with this latest storm - just ice that took out the power. On battery backup until my desire for coffee has me outside firing up the gennie. And you're all giving me tractor envy. Current property too small to justify having a real tractor (even a garden variety) so I just use the walk behind blower and a little JD mower. I feel like a chihuahua at the dog park by comparison.
But at least I won't be out in it clearing the white stuff tody!

 

[Bioburner]

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How many things in that show are true today? Voice recognition for computers. Cell phones. Lasers. 3D printers making food. Hmm, make some gears to replace those in auger motor assemblies.

 

[Stevekng]

How many things in that show are true today? Voice recognition for computers. Cell phones. Lasers. 3D printers making food. Hmm, make some gears to replace those in auger motor assemblies.

Unless you have a 3D printer that uses a composite material that has a hardness factor of about 60 or 70 Rockwell (100 = diamond hardness), they won't help.

 

[Bioburner]

Unless you have a 3D printer that uses a composite material that has a hardness factor of about 60 or 70 Rockwell (100 = diamond hardness), they won't help.

Be worth a shot, Oh wait that's what the stink is all about , making guns

 

[alternativeheat]

No snow for us with this latest storm - just ice that took out the power. On battery backup until my desire for coffee has me outside firing up the gennie. And you're all giving me tractor envy. Current property too small to justify having a real tractor (even a garden variety) so I just use the walk behind blower and a little JD mower. I feel like a chihuahua at the dog park by comparison.
But at least I won't be out in it clearing the white stuff tody!

ya looks like a big fizzle here, turning to sleet and rain already.

 

[mikestod]

only 85' here but uphill and commercial cut to the road so double wide. That goes up to a circle around and back down, so more like 165 now. Add parking for 3 cars wide on one end of the , two cars on the other. Cut a path out back to the shed and another to the apartment and propane tank. Well, I ain't getting a younger, used to think nothing of it with walk behind ariens.

I'm plenty young enough, but its all about working smarter not harder.

 

[Ctcarl]

Well 8 inches and sleeting. My honda 520 push snow thrower is a trooperalways handles my driveway

 

[Seasoned Oak]

This is an average year for snow, now the COLD is a different story...........................