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
Sep 11th 2013, 7:13 pm
#16
Joined: Dec 2001
Location: Dixie, ex UK
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
.... which does snow removal ...... 
Back to the topic: we don't get much snow, but our driveway is about 70ft long and it slopes steeply uphill (it rises 10-12ft) towards the road, and we are as likely to get ice (which is effectively impossible to clear quickly) as to get a couple of inches, or more, of snow. So when any sort of winter storm is forecast we park on the edge of our lot by the road, because even with careful shoveling it is quite likely that we couldn't drive even as far as road! That said, on all but a couple of occasions in the past ten years, the snow or ice has melted on its own before the sun set, so doing anything to clear snow is a waste of time.
Back to the topic: we don't get much snow, but our driveway is about 70ft long and it slopes steeply uphill (it rises 10-12ft) towards the road, and we are as likely to get ice (which is effectively impossible to clear quickly) as to get a couple of inches, or more, of snow. So when any sort of winter storm is forecast we park on the edge of our lot by the road, because even with careful shoveling it is quite likely that we couldn't drive even as far as road! That said, on all but a couple of occasions in the past ten years, the snow or ice has melted on its own before the sun set, so doing anything to clear snow is a waste of time.
Last edited by Pulaski; Sep 11th 2013 at 7:22 pm.
Sep 11th 2013, 7:18 pm
#17
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Posts: 49,598
Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
.... which does snow removal ......
Back to the topic: we don't get much snow, but our driveway is about 70ft and slopes steeply uphill, and we are as likely to get as a couple of inches, or more, of snow. So when any sort of winter storm is forecast we park on the edge of our lot by the road, because even with careful shoveling it is quite likely that we couldn't drive even as far as road!
Back to the topic: we don't get much snow, but our driveway is about 70ft and slopes steeply uphill, and we are as likely to get as a couple of inches, or more, of snow. So when any sort of winter storm is forecast we park on the edge of our lot by the road, because even with careful shoveling it is quite likely that we couldn't drive even as far as road!
Sep 11th 2013, 7:20 pm
#19
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Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
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Sep 11th 2013, 7:29 pm
#21
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
Sep 11th 2013, 9:13 pm
#22
Deep in the woods of CT
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 7,002
Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
A quarter of a mile back in the woods, down two steep inclines, we have a guy come over with a plough and are lucky to get change from $100. When it was really bad a couple of years ago, he had to bring in a payloader to scoop the snow out so the pickup could get through. He will retire to FL on the proceeds of our driveway. Yeah, I know, we could move, but it is so beautiful for every other season of the year! (And in the snow too, if you don't have to go anywhere and forget the bill!)
Sep 11th 2013, 11:24 pm
#23
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Location: Lakeview. NY
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
Buffalo,,, Snow Blower!
Sep 12th 2013, 12:15 am
#24
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Location: Nuevo Mexico
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
I just wait for it to melt / sublime.
Sep 12th 2013, 3:30 am
#26
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Location: MA, USA
Posts: 92,170
Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
Shovel it with a wide shovel, split it between us and the folks upstairs.
Old place, condo had a service take care of it which worked for us as we were one of the first buildings, but rubbish for the ones at the back.
Previous to that, landlord did it, with his bobcat...usually after we had to clear some of the driveway already.
Out in Maine, previous place also had people do it.
It's a couple hundred bucks down our way to get it done, so a tad pricey. Chap across the street or next door help out with a snow blower on the really bad blizzard days which is nice.
Old place, condo had a service take care of it which worked for us as we were one of the first buildings, but rubbish for the ones at the back.
Previous to that, landlord did it, with his bobcat...usually after we had to clear some of the driveway already.
Out in Maine, previous place also had people do it.
It's a couple hundred bucks down our way to get it done, so a tad pricey. Chap across the street or next door help out with a snow blower on the really bad blizzard days which is nice.
Sep 12th 2013, 3:41 am
#27
Joined on April fools day
Joined: Apr 2012
Location: 30 miles from a decent grocery store.
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
I wait about three or four hours, by then its usually gone or slush. Usually.
Sep 12th 2013, 5:35 am
#28
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
ATV with a Plow
Snowblower
Really bad get a loader in.
Wait 6 months for it to melt?
Snowblower
Really bad get a loader in.
Wait 6 months for it to melt?
Sep 12th 2013, 6:00 am
#29
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
Sep 12th 2013, 6:14 am
#30
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Location: Scotland --> NJ --> TX
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Re: Snow country USA--how do you clear your driveway in the winter?
Landlord pays for snow crew to come and plow. They are the same crew that do the gardening in the summer. They typically do the snow removal at around 2am in the morning which is nice and noisy! We are in NJ.