Alaskan's Journal

[Alasgun]

I feel your pain Buddy, while ours doesn’t appear to be as deep it was getting to the high level alert category. Which is “as much as you can plow with a wheeler”.
i took care of it today and it now looks like we’ve got a little over a ft. on the flat.
Should we tell them “outsiders” how we have to shovel the roof’s sometimes to relieve the snow burden or how DOT drives around busting down potential avalanche sites with 105 howitzers along the mountainous highways? Probably not

 

[Alaskan]

how DOT drives around busting down potential avalanche sites with 105 howitzers along the mountainous highways?

But that is always so cool!!!!!

 

[Alaskan]

And yep... that is the issue with the wheelers, you really have to stay on top of the snow since they can't push much.

Huge upside though, is no problem at all when you run the wheelers into the ditches!

Actually, that is one of the reason the kids try to 4-wheeler plow in pairs...
Easy to pull each other out.

 

[Baymule]

Alaskan, what will you do when all your boys grow up and leave home? Move?

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, what will you do when all your boys grow up and leave home? Move?

I will have to... no way could I live here without them doing so much work.

 

[Alaskan]

I actually, today, need to get the 2 eldest to go wrestle a busted snow blower into the back of a truck to get it taken to the shop.

 

[Alaskan]

Blah, blah, blah...

Couldn't get either 4-wheeler going...

Plow truck is working... had to plow... can't get the truck to plow up hill to the big house rental..

Got everything else decent... which is nice, since it looks like it is starting to snow again.

Just now, finally getting that snow blower loaded to take into town...

 

[Alaskan]

Well gosh gee golly!

Guy at the fix-it place said "hummmmm, looks pretty impressive. I can tell you right off, I will have to order parts, which means 10 days until it is fixed. But, there is a chance that a bunch more is busted up in there. Might cost as much to fix as a new machine."

My eyeballs rolled about... once breath returned I said "well, seeing as it looks like it will snow again tonight, any way you can look at it sooner rather than later, and if the cost to repair it is the same as a new machine, then I could just buy the new machine now."

He looked at me and said "Well, not until October."

Mumbling from me....

So..... turns out that because of covid... all of the seasonal people STAYED instead of running off to Arizona and what not... so had to buy brand new snow blowers... they bought up ALL local stock.

And, again...because of covid... production of new machines is way slower than usual ....

Oh... good... grief.

Well... we have 2 ancient machines... that are only slightly busted... might fix one of them.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's tough. You obviously need a good blower. We finally anteed up last year and bought one that we could count on and retired the ancient Craftsman. We've only had to use it a couple of times this year, but it's not March yet.

 

[Alaskan]

That's tough. You obviously need a good blower. We finally anteed up last year and bought one that we could count on and retired the ancient Craftsman. We've only had to use it a couple of times this year, but it's not March yet.

True... March, since it usually warms up a bit, can bring huge snow dumps.

But... actually... we never use a snow blower. Ok... as in the little walk behind ones. We had one... not sure why or whatever... but eldest hated to use it, and would always shovel instead... so it just sat there.

The snow blower I just took to the shop is the church snow blower... so I might get our old one fixed up and then give it to the church... it isn't as big as the church one... but better than nothing... hopefully... or the kids will be doing way more shoveling.

We did use to have a snow blower on our tractor... THAT was useful... horrid bear to use though, since you had to twist around and drive in reverse to use it... but the tractor died.

As I plowed today.. and just about got stuck on that blasted big house... (can't believe I made it up to the big house, turned around in that junk filled parking lot without getting stuck OR hitting anything, and made it back down again! ) I was thinking I REALLY need to get a functional snow blower on a 4 wheeler... or the plow truck... or a new tractor with a snow blower....

I NEED a huge drivable snow blower! (Now insert screams... or sobs while I try not to think about the cost)....

Anyway... I will look into it this summer.... not now.