On 1/28/2015 4:50 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 1/28/15 4:32 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


Overall it has worked out but this storm dumped more
snow that a pickup truck can easily handle. If I had plowed every
2 hours it might have been ok but I waited too long between the first
plowing and the second. It also gets to a point where there's no place
for the snow to go with your plow angled. You are trying to push it into
a 4' pile of previously plowed snow. Finally had to resort to the John
Deere tractor. I have piles of snow that are 8-9 feet high on the sides
of the driveway where we park.



It is funny, but I don't remember lots of huge snowstorms when I was
growing up in New Haven. We had lots of snowstorms, but usually no more
than 12-15 inches at a time. When I was old enough, I'd take my dad's
jeep with the plow and make some $$$ doing driveways. I think I charged
$25 to $35 for regular-sized driveways.

Do you remember the big hill on Fountain that ran up to Woodbridge? I
was coming down in the jeep once when a car stopped dead halfway down
the hill. I had chains on all four wheels but I couldn't stop the jeep.
I slammed into the back of the car and the plow crushed the car. The
woman driver got out and apologized for stopping short halfway down. She
wanted to know if my plow was damaged. It wasn't.


I remember that hill.

One thing I am always concerned about is having the airbags go off if
you hit a snow bank too hard. They mention something about it in the
truck's owner's manual but I think the plow package option may prevent
it from happening. I've hit banks pretty hard, mostly at the end of the
driveway where you try to mound up a lot of snow but I always make sure
the plow is in "float" mode. It allows the plow to just rise up on the
snow bank.