What a mess

[cougar]

Been snowing sense Monday, more on the way. I've been working overtime, So it has been piling up. Add insult to injury, my landlord decided to shovel the snow off the roof. I have 4 vehicles and only one I can get to without some serious excavation. Landlord wont/can't plow, so I'm on my own. My little snow blower can't handle a job like this. I went hunting for a snow plow but everything got snapped up. Good thing I have half a dozen snow shovels.

[Ace]

Never heard of shoveling snow off the roof. What's the deal with that?

[ahale2772]

gets to heavy/ mealts and can leak into the roof, i feel bad for ya were supposed to get 26 hours of snow here in mass my dad went a little overboard and bought a 2750 deere with a snowblower and the unimog has an 11 food baker plow on it.... we are ready, good luck with your delima

[cougar]

Never heard of shoveling snow off the roof. What's the deal with that?

Flat roof. If a gallon of water weighs 8lbs, 3' of snow weighs
Hired a guy to come dig out my vehicles and plow my drive and parking. Took him a few hours. He was laughing because my trucks were buried and I was driving a Subaru. Surprised it could bust its way through the berm to the road. More like mole its way. It was what I was driving before the snow started and trapped the others. It wasn't supposed to snow that much that fast.

[ahale2772]

it snowed today all day proved that my truck with an open diff is usless

[Richie O]

it snowed today all day proved that my truck with an open diff is usless

I had brand new snow tires on a 89 I used to plow with. I was stuck everywhere. It had a 2 yard fisher sander in the back and was still useless. I used to have to call my dad to come pull me out with his dmax. Just no traction.

[MrHorsepower]

When I was at college in Oswego, NY I had to stop and stare at a trailer that had a snowblower on the roof. Come winter the husband would be on the roof and the wife on the driveway. Several houses were like that there. They got what 13' January '07?

[Ace]

Up in the mountains where it snows alot we just build roofs with steep slopes so it slides off.

[cougar]

it snowed today all day proved that my truck with an open diff is usless

Both mine are open and I don't have any trouble.

[dodgetkboy78]

Cougar, I didn't realize you were from Sutton, next time that happens, let me know, I am not extrememly busy, unless I'm driving I guess... But thats far between, seems Baxter has pissed off everyone he has hauled for, I thought I was gonna' get some snow haul, o well.

Anyway, long story short, get ahold of me, I have a plow truck, and a bigger yamaha Snowblower, and would be more than happy to come help you!

it snowed today all day proved that my truck with an open diff is usless

Huh, I prefer an open end, less chance of sliding off the road, I guess they work in the flat ground, but remember, you have both tires driving until it spins.

[redneckroot]

I am still wondering why no one has any tire chains............. buy a set you will be impressed.

[Mark Nixon]

I am still wondering why no one has any tire chains............. buy a set you will be impressed.

I'll 2nd that.
I'm a flat lander.
Here in Nebraska there are no chain laws, when I started hauling for hire back in '04 the first time I ever ran into HAVING to use them was coming up I-80 out of Sacremento, then I realized not only how big of a no-no, law-wise, it is to not have them, but how much BETTER things get once you put them on.
Granted, it takes some learning and a willingness to freeze your hands to put them on at roadside, but the difference in control and capabilties is actually really noticeable.

I once ran the partway up the east slope out of Denver and nearly wiped out, right then I found a place flat enough to chain up.
Until that point I didn't realize just how much I had been sawing the wheel back and forth trying to keep the trailer straight.
Once the chains were on, and final tightened 50 feet later, the difference in control was night and day.
WELL worth the frozen hands, and I actually made way better time, even though the chains usually slow you down, due to having to drive at slower speeds to avoid breakage.

TIRE SIPING is also proven to aid bare tire traction on plowable snow.

Mark.

[Ace]

You can go just about anywhere with anything that's got chains on snow/road-wise as long as you are not being absolutely stupid about what you are trying to do. 30mph max, chug right on through anything if it's not actually high-centering.

[ahale2772]

my last truck had a detroit in the back so its kind of a huge difference between 35 inch boggers and a locker and ye old dodge with an open diff and stock rubber, not as fun spinning one tire

[Richie O]

I was plowing snow with a 2wheel drive 7 yard dumptruck for a town I used to work for. I had chains on the outside of each dual and aired down the inside tires. I was stuck in a snow bank about 8 feet high. I said on the radio I was hung up. I could see the John Deere 540 coming at me pretty fast. I knew what he was going to do. I held it on the floorboards trying to get away from him. No luck. He never lifted off the throttle and he hit me plow to plow. He actually stuck his buckett through my blade. Cut it like a can opener. The pothole is still in the middle of the road where I was chewing trying to get away from him. I was less then impressed. I knew I would be the one welding it back together.