# Snow Rant **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 12, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080 "2006-02-12T16:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/1 "2006-02-12T16:04:44Z")
Now, I love snow - I even enjoy (to a point) shoveling it. But my parents new house? Yeah, it’s on a hill. The driveway isn’t that large (4 car), but it’s like, a 25 degree incline we whip out my dad’s new (last year) huge 8 HP snowblower, it’s huge Self drive, 6 foward gears, 2 reverse. We start it up, switch the auger on, put in in 2 and push it down the hill. Awesome, it cuts a like, 30" wide canyon in the snow all the way down the middle of the driveway. Put it in reverse, squeeze the drive trigger, and it does nothing. the fucking tranny or whatever doesn’t work. so this thing does nothing but throw snow around, but I have to haul around this 300 lbs thing on 2 wheels that don’t turn. this sucks fuck you craftsman ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/2 "2006-02-12T16:06:53Z")
yeah…i used to work at a hardware store thatr fixed snowblowers and alwnmowers (got into a it a little myself durring my stay there) and any kind of mower, snowblower, weedwhacker, whatever that comes from sears pretty much sucks ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/3 "2006-02-12T16:07:24Z")
i feel you… i needed to go valentines day shopping… i leave the house at 2pm to go to the mall… nobody is on the road yet… i get all the way to the mall and its fucking closed. we got 1 foot a snow and they knew it was coming. fucking redicious. now i need to buy everything online… but thats not a bad thing :snky: ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/4 "2006-02-12T16:43:34Z")
Thats why my parents have this… ![http://www.cubcadet.com/wcsstore/pics/CubCadet/SWE945_lge.jpg](http://www.cubcadet.com/wcsstore/pics/CubCadet/SWE945_lge.jpg) 45" cut 22" high Hydraulic Steering 13hp :pimp: ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/5 "2006-02-12T19:16:12Z")
lol that sucks. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Russian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/the_russian/32/7414_2.png) [@The\_Russian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The_Russian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/6 "2006-02-12T19:19:39Z")
i have a 45 year old TORO snowblower with a 36 inch cut 3 forward gears and 2 reverse and it still does everything, sure snow throws about 6 feet but it works… ---
**Author:** ![nitroinsane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/7 "2006-02-12T19:28:35Z")
yea hows the snow there howie? my rents r supposed to goto nyc for a hampton inn buisness meeting but jfk is like shut down for flights ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/8 "2006-02-12T19:56:22Z")
That sucks dude. I bought a John Deere 18hp liquid cooled twin cylinder kawasaki powered tractor. The blower is 48" wide. I have not even tried it yet!!! The three times we got snow, my neighbor plowed my driveway before I got home from work. He is a great guy but I want to play with my tractor dammit!:biglaugh: ---
**Author:** ![MonteCarloChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@MonteCarloChick](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MonteCarloChick)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/9 "2006-02-12T19:57:57Z")
Luckily my grandparent’s new neighbor has a truck with a plow and he’s nice enough to plow their driveway for them so my grandpa doesn’t have to use the snow blower 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/10 "2006-02-12T20:00:23Z")
this turned into “my snowblower can beat up your snowblower” really quick. ---
**Author:** ![JettaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JettaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JettaX)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-rant/8080/11 "2006-02-12T20:27:37Z")
You should have got a troy built 10hp with track drive. Didn’t have one problem with the 20" we got. And as for malls being closed, the palisades center mall was open despite the 20" of snow. I would know because i had to take my girlfriend to work, so krazyjon you just needed to go where there was MORE snow to find an open mall. It only make sense.