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Merged Dealing with snow - plow, blower or shovel? & how do you clear your driveway

View Poll Results: How do you clear your drive of snow?
Pay someone else to shovel, plow or snowblow
6
17.14%
Clear it yourself (plow, snowblower, etc.)
9
25.71%
Shovel it yourself
15
42.86%
Other
5
14.29%
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Merged Dealing with snow - plow, blower or shovel? & how do you clear your driveway

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Old Nov 18th 2013, 5:54 pm
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Originally Posted by jeffreyhy
As long as the extra weight can be placed below the high CoG.

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Load the boot and floor space...if that's still to high, the motor is going to topple over regardless
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Originally Posted by Nutek
I carry most of my extra weight just above the belt line.
I find strapping the belt higher helps to lower the weight line.

It's quite effective really.
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Old Nov 18th 2013, 5:57 pm
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I find strapping the belt higher helps to lower the weight line.

It's quite effective really.


It would have to be quite a bit higher....
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Old Nov 18th 2013, 6:02 pm
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Queue a picture of Steve Urkel.

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I find strapping the belt higher helps to lower the weight line.
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Old Nov 18th 2013, 6:19 pm
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Queue a picture of Steve Urkel.

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I was think Simon Cowell
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Originally Posted by Bob
Attaching is the easy bit.

It's the weight and traction to move the snow that's the problem...
Agreed we plow with a fair sized 4wd tractor, anything else just slithers.
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The snow shovelers buddy: snow and ice will melt right underneath it, wheel it around to do the whole drive and you can make s'mores while keeping warm.

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