A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

Brian

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A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent
vacuum, you could have a snow blower as well.

Well, i and quite a few other shoppers at asda just had a good laugh at the
local boy racer in his ultra lowered corsa type chavbox car with an
extremely large and low front spolier thing, he was doing a pretty good snow
plough impression just trying to get out of the carpark, when he came to a
speed bump (the yellow and black plastic ones about 8 inches wide) he pushed
enough snow up onto it and under the spoiler to reduce traction from his
front wheels to zero.

Yes, I also heard that one of these, being made apparently of flimsy plastic
completely broke off the car in a Croydon car park yesterday. Not built very
sturdily are they.

Brian

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent
vacuum, you could have a snow blower as well.

Well, i and quite a few other shoppers at asda just had a good laugh at
the local boy racer in his ultra lowered corsa type chavbox car with an
extremely large and low front spolier thing, he was doing a pretty good
snow plough impression just trying to get out of the carpark, when he came
to a speed bump (the yellow and black plastic ones about 8 inches wide) he
pushed enough snow up onto it and under the spoiler to reduce traction
from his front wheels to zero.

On 19/01/13 09:05, Brian Gaff wrote:
Yes, I also heard that one of these, being made apparently of flimsy plastic
completely broke off the car in a Croydon car park yesterday. Not built very
sturdily are they.

Brian

OF COURSE ThE INABILITY TO SUCCESSFULLY PLOUGH ROADS EQUIPPED WITH SPEED
BUMPS IS YET ANOTHER REASON WHY THEY ARE DANGEROUS


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On Jan 18, 3:54*pm, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
A diy snow plough?

*Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent *vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

Brian

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They don't actually blow, they throw.
So it wouldn't work.

On 19/01/2013 10:45, harry wrote:
On Jan 18, 3:54 pm, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

Brian

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They don't actually blow, they throw.
So it wouldn't work.


They blow.

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:54:21 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent
vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

I made a blade for the lawn tractor a couple of years ago as an
experiment, but even with chains it didn't have the traction to go
through anything heavy; it really needs 4x4 (or tracks). For the lighter
stuff it would probably have been OK, but we don't generally get lighter
stuff around here!

On 19/01/2013 15:10, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:54:21 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent
vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

I made a blade for the lawn tractor a couple of years ago as an
experiment, but even with chains it didn't have the traction to go
through anything heavy; it really needs 4x4 (or tracks). For the lighter
stuff it would probably have been OK, but we don't generally get lighter
stuff around here!

Well I just nail a piece of thin ply to a pole

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:11:52 +0000, ss wrote:

On 19/01/2013 15:10, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:54:21 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent
vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

I made a blade for the lawn tractor a couple of years ago as an
experiment, but even with chains it didn't have the traction to go
through anything heavy; it really needs 4x4 (or tracks). For the
lighter stuff it would probably have been OK, but we don't generally
get lighter stuff around here!

Well I just nail a piece of thin ply to a pole

I've done that, too - it's quite useful for raking large amounts of snow
out of the way, so long as the snow's of the right consistency - if too
wet and heavy then it takes too much effort, and if too powdery half of
it tends to just flow out of the way and around the rake.

"Jules Richardson" wrote in message ...

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:54:21 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

A diy snow plough?

Could be mounted on a lawn mower and if you have a water resistent
vacuum,
you could have a snow blower as well.

I made a blade for the lawn tractor a couple of years ago as an
experiment, but even with chains it didn't have the traction to go
through anything heavy; it really needs 4x4 (or tracks). For the lighter
stuff it would probably have been OK, but we don't generally get lighter
stuff around here!

So did I, it was useless. I used a length of 12 inch industrial guttering,
even added a rubber edge using some old conveyor belt. The plough itself was
basically okay but my 18 HP garden tractor couldn't push it. The problem
was, without a dif lock one wheel just spins.

I now have a snow blower, it does blow not throw as its a two stage machine.

See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEvT...RsSow&index=18

Mike