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September 30th, 2020, 07:09 PM
#21
Yeah I have an idea of how to do it. Just not as fun as fixing things to go fishing or hunting.
Starting to get tired of fixing things. I did the motor bike, paid someone to do the chainsaw, I still need to do the brakes on my car, but paid someone to do the wives car.
The current snowblower might make it one more season but she is getting long in the tooth,
but my Uncle also says the new big box stores stuff is crap as well .
I'm not exactly easy on equipment.
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September 30th, 2020 07:09 PM
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October 1st, 2020, 07:28 AM
#22

Originally Posted by
greatwhite
Yeah I have an idea of how to do it. Just not as fun as fixing things to go fishing or hunting.
Starting to get tired of fixing things. I did the motor bike, paid someone to do the chainsaw, I still need to do the brakes on my car, but paid someone to do the wives car.
The current snowblower might make it one more season but she is getting long in the tooth,
but my Uncle also says the new big box stores stuff is crap as well .
I'm not exactly easy on equipment.
I have been hand shovelling both my own driveway and my neighbours for the past 5 years.I have never owned a snowblower and consider this a free gym workout. In reality right now in the GTA we are only getting about six big snow falls a year.
Is it worth it to invest $1500.00 in a decent snowblower that sits idle for most of the year and takes up storage space.
I am pretty sure you will repair that unit and save your money for something more essential.
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October 1st, 2020, 07:32 AM
#23
I hate spending Money, but I clear about 2000 sq ft of driveway.

Originally Posted by
Gilroy
I have been hand shovelling both my own driveway and my neighbours for the past 5 years.I have never owned a snowblower and consider this a free gym workout. In reality right now in the GTA we are only getting about six big snow falls a year.
Is it worth it to invest $1500.00 in a decent snowblower that sits idle for most of the year and takes up storage space.
I am pretty sure you will repair that unit and save your money for something more essential.
"This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms."—Premier Ralph Klein (Alberta)Calgary Herald, 1998 October 9 (November 1, 1942 – March 29, 2013) OFAH Member
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October 1st, 2020, 05:47 PM
#24
Try 3.5 km. Lol. That’s what I open to get to the camp. Not sure about this year, broke the 7’ Lucknow snowblower. Didn’t bother fixing it. More time to fish.
"Only dead fish go with the flow."
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October 1st, 2020, 06:23 PM
#25

Originally Posted by
Gilroy
Is it worth it to invest $1500.00 in a decent snowblower that sits idle for most of the year and takes up storage space..
It will be if you're laid up in the hospital with tubes up your nose. Shovelling snow is one of the riskiest activities when it comes to heart attack.
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October 1st, 2020, 06:33 PM
#26
I think I would buy a plow. 

Originally Posted by
Deer Hunter
Try 3.5 km. Lol. That’s what I open to get to the camp. Not sure about this year, broke the 7’ Lucknow snowblower. Didn’t bother fixing it. More time to fish.
"This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms."—Premier Ralph Klein (Alberta)Calgary Herald, 1998 October 9 (November 1, 1942 – March 29, 2013) OFAH Member
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October 1st, 2020, 06:36 PM
#27
I use to shovel my 150' driveway at the old house, but not any more.

Originally Posted by
sawbill
It will be if you're laid up in the hospital with tubes up your nose. Shovelling snow is one of the riskiest activities when it comes to heart attack.
"This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms."—Premier Ralph Klein (Alberta)Calgary Herald, 1998 October 9 (November 1, 1942 – March 29, 2013) OFAH Member
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October 1st, 2020, 07:14 PM
#28

Originally Posted by
trimmer21
CC's is a measurement of engine size whereas HP is a measurement of power. AFAIK,there's no way to convert it without getting a headache. I've seen the Can Tire snowblowers and I'm pretty sure that they're 8 HP. With $600 in Can Tire money,I'd throw a couple of hundred more in the pot and go big.
That is because there is no way to convert it. The displacement of the engine has no bearing on the power at all, just ask a 350 V8 from 1957 vs a 350 V8 from 2003, identical displacement but no where close to the same power output, the block and head may be similar but the rest of the bits make a difference.
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October 2nd, 2020, 03:51 AM
#29

Originally Posted by
greatwhite
I think I would buy a plow.

Yes thought about that, just fed up of spending all my time working to get there, last winter when snow blower broke, I would snowmobile in. I had lots of time to fish the rest of season, me likes that better. But it is nice to drive to camp door Friday night after work.
"Only dead fish go with the flow."
Proud Member: CCFR, CSSA, OFAH, NFA.
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October 2nd, 2020, 06:53 PM
#30

Originally Posted by
sawbill
It will be if you're laid up in the hospital with tubes up your nose. Shovelling snow is one of the riskiest activities when it comes to heart attack.
Well Sawbill I just got my Canada pension and have no problem running 10 k a day with my dog. So I think one could reverse what you said because if an individual worked out all our life they probably will not get that heart attack.