I got to have some fun yesterday, too. We only had about 5", but it was pretty soggy and HEAVY. Our mailbox got knocked off from the city crew's clearing overnight, and the post is leaning about 10-15 degrees. That hasn't happened in the four winters we've lived here. I cleared out our driveway, then did the sidewalk and uncleared drives down the block. The 129 uses quite a bit more gas than it did with the old 10 horse. I guess the 10 was burning so much oil there wasn't much room left for gas in the combustion chamber. I never ran out of gas before when clearing the neighborhood. Got to meet a new neighbor, who thought I was stuck and offered to help push. Good thing to remember. He did move his truck out of the middle of the sidewalk when I was getting close to his house. I was using just the ags with weights, and will go back to the fluid filled turfs with chains. Too much sliding around, and I had to have some pretty good speed built up. Kind of a pain when you're trying to guess <u>exactly</u> where the three sections of heaved sidewalk are under the snow. Ouch.
(Message edited by bmoore on January 22, 2006)