I guess it's a seller's market now.

[johnridley]

I tried to sell our snowblower a few months ago, but just got hagglers that wanted me to give it away. Today I posted it for sale again (on the discussion board at work) and it got bought in a few minutes.

Then I went out and shoveled the driveway.

I know for a fact that I cleared it way faster with a shovel than I could have with a blower, and it's probably something like 1/10th the work I do every day to ride my bike to work. Our driveway is about 80 feet long. It took I think about 20 minutes to clear.

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[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Gosh -- that's not my experience at all. I shoveled on Monday, and it was, I'd guess, under 3 inches of accumulation. I figure our driveway is about 70 feet long (haven't measured) -- 2 cars wide near the garage, only 1 car wide at the street -- and then there's the sidewalk across the front, across the short front of the neighbor's house, and up to the door -- and it took me an hour and a half. That's about normal. If there's a lot of snow it can take me well over 2 hours. After a few days like that with the spouse stuck at work a half-dozen or so years ago I said "you owe me a new back". We got the electric snow-blower instead. I did it all this morning, granted, probably not quite as well as I'd have done with a shovel, but all of it (ranging from 2 inches to about 9 I'm guessing) in about 45 minutes. And my back isn't killing me.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

That's more like me too. The driveway is about two cars by two cars. Six inches of snow, like this morning, would take me two-three hours. I spent 20-30 minutes this morning with the snowblower, and I didn't feel like I was going to die.

But, John's insane. It's one of the things we like about him. And this gives him something to talk about with Tullio "The Shovel" Proni.