Snow shoveling…

[SycamoreStateofMind]

For the life of me I can’t understand why people in perfectly good health do not shovel their driveway. These people just driving in and out of nearly a foot of not shoveled snow is insane to me - I also don’t understand people who just maybe shovel a small path.

It’s all our nothing - you can’t be that lazy.

Rant over.

 

[4Q_iu]

For the life of me I can’t understand why people in perfectly good health do not shovel their driveway. These people just driving in and out of nearly a foot of not shoveled snow is insane to me - I also don’t understand people who just maybe shovel a small path.

It’s all our nothing - you can’t be that lazy.

Rant over.

what's the average age of your lazy neighbors?

 

[sycamore tuff]

I got the 1/4 mile drive and the neighbor's small drive cleared with the tractor and blade today. I don't have a garage so I had to shovel out around the cars. It took a while and I was frozen.
64 years and counting

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

what's the average age of your lazy neighbors?

The couple across the street are mid 30’s. The couple down the street mid 30’s. Next door neighbor mid to late 50’s.

From my experience the under 45 crowd which I fall in is the most lazy group of people ever when it comes to yard maintenance and things like this… I shoveled my drive 5 different times.

If these folks were elderly and incapable I would gladly shovel them out - but they are not so no need to help.

When I lived out in the country I didn’t have this annoyance - but living in a neighborhood things like this just drive me crazy.

 

[DyedBlue]

Are snow blowers acceptable?

Perhaps they are disciples of TH's former mayor Leland Larrison??

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

Are snow blowers acceptable?

Perhaps they are disciples of TH's former mayor Leland Larrison??

Any means necessary. Paying someone to plow it perfectly acceptable option - I mean if you have the funds and that’s how you want to take care of your shit by all means!

 

[treeman]

Out of all the mundane routine home maintenance things to do snow shoveling is my absolute favorite. Maybe it’s a culture thing for me because I’m from a town that just gets dumped on from lake effect snow from Lake Michigan so we routinely get close to 100 inches of snow a year. But man-oh-man I absolute love shoveling. It’s typically beautiful (fresh fallen snow), extra quiet, and a very satisfying outcome. Nothing better than a perfectly cleared driveway and sidewalk. @SycamoreStateofMind i highly recommend shoveling at night if it works out…the most peaceful 20 minutes a man can ask for.

 

[Hooper]

Are snow blowers acceptable?

Perhaps they are disciples of TH's former mayor Leland Larrison??

Larrison fans (or Terre Haute history fans), read this. It reads like an Onion article. It isn't.

Indiana: Open House in Terre Haute

Mayor Leland Larrison, 53, appeared on a local TV news show to protect his reputation. Indignantly, he denied a wire service story that he had vowed to rid Terre Haute of prostitution and gambling....

content.time.com

 

[treeman]

Out of all the mundane routine home maintenance things to do snow shoveling is my absolute favorite. Maybe it’s a culture thing for me because I’m from a town that just gets dumped on from lake effect snow from Lake Michigan so we routinely get close to 100 inches of snow a year. But man-oh-man I absolute love shoveling. It’s typically beautiful (fresh fallen snow), extra quiet, and a very satisfying outcome. Nothing better than a perfectly cleared driveway and sidewalk. @SycamoreStateofMind i highly recommend shoveling at night if it works out…the most peaceful 20 minutes a man can ask for.

But the big ass pile of snow at the base of the driveway from the snowplow pushing it there can go straight to hell. Especially if you don’t get to it right away and it crusts over, biggest pain in the ass

 

[4Q_iu]

Out of all the mundane routine home maintenance things to do snow shoveling is my absolute favorite. Maybe it’s a culture thing for me because I’m from a town that just gets dumped on from lake effect snow from Lake Michigan so we routinely get close to 100 inches of snow a year. But man-oh-man I absolute love shoveling. It’s typically beautiful (fresh fallen snow), extra quiet, and a very satisfying outcome. Nothing better than a perfectly cleared driveway and sidewalk. @SycamoreStateofMind i highly recommend shoveling at night if it works out…the most peaceful 20 minutes a man can ask for.

You're drunk.

I'd place shoveling snow in the same category as a root canal -- a necessary evil that must be accomplished.

And with an annual 100 inches of snow, why not invest in a snowblower if not a flame thrower?? But a shovel?! Good grief man, it's 2026 Join the 20th century!

 

[CoachShipp]

As for the driveway...buy a Jeep. We traversed our 175 ft long driveway with it's 14 inches of unblemished snow with zero issues...and a few trips back and forth smashed down that wall created by the city snow plows over the weekend. I did shovel a path from the porch to said driveway, however. But before you buy a snowblower, buy yourself some appropriate tires for driving in the snow if you intend to do so. We spent a couple of hours today helping folks get unstuck who, in each case, all had tires balder than a newborn baby's ass.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

Out of all the mundane routine home maintenance things to do snow shoveling is my absolute favorite. Maybe it’s a culture thing for me because I’m from a town that just gets dumped on from lake effect snow from Lake Michigan so we routinely get close to 100 inches of snow a year. But man-oh-man I absolute love shoveling. It’s typically beautiful (fresh fallen snow), extra quiet, and a very satisfying outcome. Nothing better than a perfectly cleared driveway and sidewalk. @SycamoreStateofMind i highly recommend shoveling at night if it works out…the most peaceful 20 minutes a man can ask for.

I’m with you… It’s basically equivalent to mowing grass in the spring or fall.

I did a 1:00 am shift with this last storm. It was fantastic - so peaceful.

 

[Sycamorefan96]

Shoveled around 30 yards this morning to get one of my cars out. Then I shoveled about 20 yards at my mom's house. Never got cold doing it and actually had to shed a layer in the middle of it both times today.

Maybe shoveled 20-30 ft yesterday to get the beater with a heater out. Plugged my diesel truck in last night and didn't need to shovel it out after I got it started.

 

[treeman]

You're drunk.

I'd place shoveling snow in the same category as a root canal -- a necessary evil that must be accomplished.

And with an annual 100 inches of snow, why not invest in a snowblower if not a flame thrower?? But a shovel?! Good grief man, it's 2026 Join the 20th century!

Snowblowers are great, I grew up with one. Problem is you use it only a couple times a year and they take up SSSOOO much space in the garage. If you have a shed to store it in, great, but now you are running the risk of that little shit not starting up when you need too because it’s been sitting in a shed all year and now its 10 degrees when you need her.

But I will say if you are doing multiple driveways, a blower is a must. Snowblowers also come in handing when doing multiple driveways.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

But I will say if you are doing multiple driveways, a blower is a must. Snowblowers also come in handing when doing multiple driveways.

Say it three times for the people in the back!!

 

[Bobbyk60]

Don’t miss that at all. I remember walking home from basketball practice and hearing that scraping sound from people shoveling all the way home!!

 

[IndyTreeFan]

I got myself a Toro electric shovel a few years back, and it's the best $$$ I've ever spent. It's basically a little snow blower in shovel form. It even handled the 14" I got at my house this weekend. Of course, I was clearing a 6" wide path with each swath, but it beat trying to lift and throw that crap myself. Driveway was cleared relatively easily. Relative to shoveling it the old-fashioned way. It still sucked.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

What's snow?

Although we do have a very cold advisory right now at 34 degrees. I may not make it through the hour. Please think of me.

 

[treeman]

Say it three times for the people in the back!!

Was hoping I’d get more love for that comment. Glad someone appreciated it!

 

[treeman]

I got myself a Toro electric shovel a few years back, and it's the best $$$ I've ever spent. It's basically a little snow blower in shovel form. It even handled the 14" I got at my house this weekend. Of course, I was clearing a 6" wide path with each swath, but it beat trying to lift and throw that crap myself. Driveway was cleared relatively easily. Relative to shoveling it the old-fashioned way. It still sucked.

I’d only work at night so my neighbors don’t see me using a 6 inch electric shovel .