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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 13th 2017, 3:23 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Mayor Tory is a sad shadow of Mayor Lastman. Prior to your post, I'd already forgotten that Tory was the Mayor while Lastman and his cooking pot will live on as long as I have memory.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 23rd 2017, 12:42 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

That's what we have. It's like driving in very heavy snow, no forward visibility at all. On roads with lines it's fine but on dirt ones it's very hard to see how close to the ditch the car is so...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 19th 2017, 12:06 am
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

I rode a horse in my sweatshirt.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 13th 2017, 3:20 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Phwoar! I could move into that one.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 13th 2017, 1:29 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Our driveway was clear yesterday. This morning there was this drift across it.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 16th 2016, 12:14 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

I rarely depend on the kindness of strangers but last night a kindly passer-by in a medium-large orange tractor with a two rotor blower on the back pulled into our driveway and made three passes. I...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2016, 9:16 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

It is! The problem though is that there's a deep drift where someone planted a bush, to the left of the car in the pictures. If you have the momentum to go through that drift then you're on to a nice...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2016, 9:11 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

I used to get the front wheel drive pastel Beetle convertible stuck just the same. I also got the 4WD drive tractor stuck, and a Yukon and a GMC Sierra. A Sears delivery truck also got stuck at that...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2016, 8:45 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Obligatory pictures of car in snow drift. I drove up the driveway as far as it would go then went back and tugged it the rest of the way with the tractor. The February Parking Procedure.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2016, 8:41 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

No but I used to live just north of Shelburne, off the 124. CR124 has permanent "Road Closed" signs that the cops turn on remotely when the weather's bad. If you live between the signs you don't know...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2016, 5:53 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Today the weather is bad enough that the snowploughs have been cancelled. The OPP have closed all the roads in the county but that's really just a liability thing; people, us included, still have to...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 12th 2016, 2:00 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Same problem here, the truck has to be in the right spot to avoid risk of clonking it. No building ever seems big enough.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 12th 2016, 1:30 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

So, how big is this machine?

Today will be my first snowblowing of the season. Good timing really as the blower got greased and hooked up yesterday.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 12th 2016, 1:01 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Is "dual phase" marketing speak for two stroke? If so, the oil is mixed with the petrol, it comes in bottles of about half a pint, one of which you tip into a five gallon can of petrol.

TSC is...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 12th 2016, 12:39 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Shearbolts are bolts that are designed to break when something has gone wrong and is not yet a disaster. For example, if you suck a driveway marker into the snowblower, the shearbolt should break...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 12th 2016, 12:36 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

If push comes to shove, take the one out of the auger.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 9th 2016, 12:07 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Now that we've put up the wooden posts, and concreted them in, I hope that won't be necessary. Braces are hard to attach to T posts, maybe you can buy ones with braces attached but I haven't seen...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 6th 2016, 2:14 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

Horsekeeping on a Small Acerage by Cherry Hill has a clear explanation of how to place them and, of course, everyone has a copy of that to hand.



I'd be smug but it's minus a few C here, we...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 6th 2016, 12:34 pm
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

The fence is in a gap in a line of trees, 100' downwind of the fence/line of trees is the driveway. The idea of the fence is to cause a lift in the flow of air such that the snow is carried over the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 6th 2016, 1:46 am
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

The bloody snow fence always blows away, it doesn't seem to matter how many T posts it has or how far they're pounded in. So, this year we've gone tougher...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 30th 2016, 11:48 am
Replies: 225
Views: 14,185
Posted By dbd33

Re: Winter 2016-17

An associate in Moncton writes:


" I guess 4000 people are without power currently. I’m working outta my house today. I have power because I live close to McDonalds (on same power grid), and...
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