I spent about three hours yesterday afternoon (ALL schools were closed around here) clearing my drive, the sidewalk down the length of our block, three neighbor's drive aprons, and one gigantic drive at a neighbor's house. Last time I was clearing the sidewalk, the guy's wife was out trying to clean it with a snow shovel. It hadn't been touched yesterday, so I cleaned it off. I'd guess it's about 24 feet wide and 40 feet long from the sidewalk. I wish Sue had been home to be able to get some pictures, and I was done by the time I had to go pick her up from work.
I did get to find out how long you can clear heavy snow before you run out of gas. Thankfully, I had a gallon only three houses away...
I had been using the 129 with ags and single weights earlier this winter, but was slipping a lot, so I changed them after the last snow. I put on a pair of 8.5's, each with 5 gallons of RV antifreeze in the tubes, chains, and two 26# IH weights on each wheel. Yesterday, I only slipped two times when pushing a mound about 24-30" high. What an amazing difference. Man, that Kohler was just barking when I'd get the snow piling up over the top of the blade.
I've also been drinking some pretty good microbrews lately, so that's added probably another 5 or so pounds of ballast. Yeah, that's it, I'm not overweight, I'm adding ballast to be able to work better!
