Blue2Orange
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Equipment
BX2380 with LA344S & QH05. SB1051. SG0554. BB1248. RB0560, Vassar dirt bucket
Take extra care not to turn my snowblower into a gravel thrower. Skids set to max height. Box cutting edge set to orientate slightly upwards when in float position.
Blaming our schizo weather. Nothing new. It now rains almost every month of the year. Late Sunday's precipitation first arrived as gigantic snowflakes. The real pretty gentle dropping snowfall. Moments or hours later I heard the frizzle. 20's, but there must have been a warm layer of atmosphere turning the precipitation into frizzle, then drizzle, then eventually back to snow.. This is the NORTHwoods. Not south of 45degrees. I really dislike frizzle and rain in winter.
Monday midday fired up LOT(little orange tractor). All was fine. Just dealing with the relatively level parking areas to finish off the job. Chunk, chunk, chunk... Out the chute comes stray stones of blue rock. What the heck. I've got a solid and hard couple inches of packed snow/ice as a base over the driveway. Somehow a slab of that base broke loose with a few stones stuck to it.
Inspection of the box after task completed. Scuffs, scratches. But through the paint in the area around the impeller. Orange rustoleum time next spring. Dang. My shiny new SB1051 is dinged.
Could have been worse. Sucked up a baseball size rock in the old Loftness that bounced around in the impeller housing a few rotations. Or the time a stray chunk of firewood ended up in the blower resulting in multiple shear pins breaking and worse. Gear box shaft sheared where the driveshaft shear pin hole use to be.
Blaming our schizo weather. Nothing new. It now rains almost every month of the year. Late Sunday's precipitation first arrived as gigantic snowflakes. The real pretty gentle dropping snowfall. Moments or hours later I heard the frizzle. 20's, but there must have been a warm layer of atmosphere turning the precipitation into frizzle, then drizzle, then eventually back to snow.. This is the NORTHwoods. Not south of 45degrees. I really dislike frizzle and rain in winter.
Monday midday fired up LOT(little orange tractor). All was fine. Just dealing with the relatively level parking areas to finish off the job. Chunk, chunk, chunk... Out the chute comes stray stones of blue rock. What the heck. I've got a solid and hard couple inches of packed snow/ice as a base over the driveway. Somehow a slab of that base broke loose with a few stones stuck to it.
Inspection of the box after task completed. Scuffs, scratches. But through the paint in the area around the impeller. Orange rustoleum time next spring. Dang. My shiny new SB1051 is dinged.
Could have been worse. Sucked up a baseball size rock in the old Loftness that bounced around in the impeller housing a few rotations. Or the time a stray chunk of firewood ended up in the blower resulting in multiple shear pins breaking and worse. Gear box shaft sheared where the driveshaft shear pin hole use to be.
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