Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

The First snow we've had this year and before Halloween no less! New Hampshire might get a lot of snow this year!

These were taken with my Canon HF G10 in near darkness. I have some of the small accumulation we got here but other places we went to tonight had a lot more snow that we did.

I will post the others once they have uploaded. I know it's not much snow, but it is a start!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSyPIXCM5SE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPfAvbh0B7E

Steve_Cebu wrote:
I'm sure a call to the shop would help speed things up a bit.   

"I see snow on the ground, where's my snowblower????  I asked for routine maintenance and adjustments, not an engine rebuild!!! "

Way too early for snow.  In the midwest, we don't expect any significant accumulation after Thanksgiving.   I'm still mowing my lawn.   I just want Halloween to be warm and dry before anything comes down.

I did fire up my snowblower(s) last weekend, we got first frost this morning, so who knows. 

aa335 wrote:

They delivered my Toro about an hour ago. They forgot to flip the side skids so I did that and now I'm good to go. Bring on the snow!

We got almost 2 inches in some places and there is still snow on the ground in many areas but it wasn't a full blanket of snow.

We just do not get snow before Thanksgiving here either! This is insanely early for snow, if it does what it's supposed to do tomorrow it could break historical snowfall records in Massachusetts. I hope FrankMA has his snowblower all set to go.

We still have most of the leaves on the trees so likely my snowblower will do double duty as a leadf blower as well.

I am hoping to mow the lawn this afternoon for the last time this calender year  The ground is way too warm for the snow to stick.  I hope we don't that much snow this winter season. 

MN_Runner wrote:

Well it's hard to say based on this one storm, but in my mind getting 3-6 inches of snow in New Hampshire BEFORE halloween when we normally don't see any real snow until December makes me think that we are gonna get buried this winter.

Since you are in Minnesota and got socked last year that might mean you will get diddley this year and we will get socked! No one here will be mowing their lawns anymore this year.

I wonder whether a lawn mower can remove snow.  It would be interesting but not willing to sacrifice my little red lawn mower. I know snowblower can blow water and leafs very well.

MN_Runner wrote:

I don't even own a lawnmower.  But I would think it would be better at chopping snow than actually blowing it.

This guy is using his riding mower on snow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFfeGXKXC4

They are also predicting more snow than average for MN this winter just like last year.  It is going to be a long winter with the Vkings playing really bad.

MN_Runner wrote:

Well for us we'll get 10-12" tonight so l'll be making videos in the morning. It's coming down pretty heavy right now and we have a blanket on everything except the driveway.

Long winter but that's ok, my wife likes winter cause she likes to cuddle under the blankets.

Steve_Cebu wrote:
You know, you can always turn the thermostat down a few degrees.  Worked for me. 

aa335 wrote:

Good idea!

Also I started a Snowpocalypse thread for this storm we just had. YouTube is slow right now butn. videos will be up soo