Ever see an entire newspaper go through a snowblower?

I had this happen to me a few years ago. The paper person left the paper in the driveway and it was covered with snow. My snow blower had it for lunch. The blower was completely clogged and cost over 200.00 to be fixed. Now when it snows I check to see if the paper is in the box, if not I dig to find it first.

 

I hope it's loud enough to scare away any children and other small animals. Otherwise you could make a real mess.

 

I've seen some pretty heavy duty snow equipment on ski runs, from closer than I'd like. Either they need louder beepers or I need less wind noise in my ears. Remember that chase scene in one of the first James Bond movies? One of the bad guys was turned into a cream soda slushie.

 

Quite a few of us at work have done it, and our accounting controller did damage his snowthrower with his Sunday paper. But what's even more impressive is that he called & persuaded someone in the paper's business office enough to get them to cut him a check for the $85 cost to repair his machine. I guess we're lucky that we have him on *our* side handling business transactions.

 

Will your snowblower handle a phonebook?

Once a year we get a new phonebook delivered, and the kid will usually put it on the front step. When I had the house in Tuxedo, I hadn't realized we had the phone books dropped off in the middle of a blizzard

I used to have a 12 hp Craftsman blower. Opened the garage door, fired it up, and went at the drifts. Suddenly: WHOMPH CLANG

Busted the belt, and the shear pins on the augers. I'm bright enough to keep spare shear pins and belts, but it still took me a couple of hours to get the auger cleared, parts replaced, and back in operation

I kind of wish I had hit the kid instead. Little bugger, who drops off a brand new phone book in a plastic bag, in the middle of a driveway?

 

What is this "snow" material you speak of?

 

I knew there'd be one
It's nature's way of providing us guys one more thing to buy tools for.
I didn't grind up any papers or phonebooks yet, but while I was cleaning up an unusually big drift this winter, I got off the driveway and found one of our solar lights. They sure grind up into a lot of pieces.

 

No, but I once saw a Trumpet player play 2 Trumpets at once, once!!

 

While it's about a different power tool, reading this thread evoked images of my favorite scene in movie history. Of course I'm talking about the wood chipper scene in "Fargo!"

 

The Honda snowblowers are direct drive? Instead of a belt, it's all gear and drive shaft, so a guy claimed to me

You're lucky you didn't bend the rod in the engine. At the cabin I used to have, I wasn't paying attention while mowing the "lawn" - weeds and wild grasses - and managed to nail a rock with my cheap yard sale Lawnboy

The bugger jumped up in the air, landed back on its little wheels, and started shaking like crazy. A real bad vibration, a bit of a knocking, and I knew the motor was done. Glad I only paid $30 for it

Yeah I've seen those newer HD snowblowers. I have no need for such a machine, as I have the tractor and work truck at the hobby farm, and my driveway at the house is barely 25 ft

However, such a machine would work pretty good on some of the more annoying neighbor kids

 

I can only imagine how he was able to play the second trumpet. Did he have to eat a lot of chilli and beer?

 

That scene was pretty faked. I *real* woodchipper would have no problem at all with soft flabby skin and some bones

I have an old woodchipper at the hobby farm that runs off the tractor PTO. I fear that machine, and only use it when I really have to.

The machine will eagerly grab and grind up even 10 inch poplar. If I were to ever slip, I would be a human sourced sloppy joe in a matter of seconds

 

Some bloke in CT chipped his wife out into the Shepaug river. They dragged it and found 'er wedding ring and little bits and pieces of 'er. So yeah, that sorta thing can be done quite easily. Pretty horrid and shocking stuff. Talk about grim work.