Author Topic: Mustachian Snow Removal  (Read 5264 times)

RetiredAt63

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Re: Mustachian Snow Removal
« Reply #50 on: October 06, 2020, 11:34:03 AM »
The people here in the land of lake effect snow with long driveways use 4x4 trucks to plow them. Jeeps are too small and light for that big of a job. I would think a small tractor would take forever for 1/3 mile. To be economical, go with something older.

Here people with long driveways use tractors with snowblowers.  You can't plow that much snow.  I know of contractors who plow until the 2 car wide driveway is one car wide, then they come and snowblow the edges to regain the space.

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Re: Mustachian Snow Removal
« Reply #51 on: October 06, 2020, 01:38:45 PM »
The people here in the land of lake effect snow with long driveways use 4x4 trucks to plow them. Jeeps are too small and light for that big of a job. I would think a small tractor would take forever for 1/3 mile. To be economical, go with something older.

Here people with long driveways use tractors with snowblowers.  You can't plow that much snow.  I know of contractors who plow until the 2 car wide driveway is one car wide, then they come and snowblow the edges to regain the space.
Sure you can-- just take more than one pass. I believe the op said 300 inches/season, not per storm
(I've actually never seen contractors do that with a double driveway, but I suppose that is one way to handle not having somewhere to push your snow piles. )

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Re: Mustachian Snow Removal
« Reply #52 on: October 06, 2020, 01:53:45 PM »
The people here in the land of lake effect snow with long driveways use 4x4 trucks to plow them. Jeeps are too small and light for that big of a job. I would think a small tractor would take forever for 1/3 mile. To be economical, go with something older.

Here people with long driveways use tractors with snowblowers.  You can't plow that much snow.  I know of contractors who plow until the 2 car wide driveway is one car wide, then they come and snowblow the edges to regain the space.
Sure you can-- just take more than one pass. I believe the op said 300 inches/season, not per storm
(I've actually never seen contractors do that with a double driveway, but I suppose that is one way to handle not having somewhere to push your snow piles. )

The snow has to go somewhere that is not the road.  Where it goes depends on terrain, length of driveway, and total accumulation.  I've seen years where it was easy to clear, I've seen years where it just kept coming, and I've seen years where the snowbanks were over 2M high.  I'm talking ordinary Ontario/Quebec winters, not lake effect snow areas.