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10-21-2008, 10:48 PM
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Southern at Heart
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sugar House area of Salt Lake City, formerly New Orleans
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If you live in a house you need a snowblower. I recommend the kind that starts automatically - plugs into the house and you push a button. They used to cost about $500. The salesman told me the new ones were "so easy to start" but he was much stronger than me.  If you are leaning toward the cheaper ones, try to start it yourself in the store before you buy it! |
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10-22-2008, 12:02 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah
If you live in a house you need a snowblower. I recommend the kind that starts automatically - plugs into the house and you push a button. They used to cost about $500. The salesman told me the new ones were "so easy to start" but he was much stronger than me. If you are leaning toward the cheaper ones, try to start it yourself in the store before you buy it! |
thanks for the info! i have never seen this, but will keep in mind what u said if I ever buy one. |
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10-22-2008, 12:59 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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I rent a house and I have no intention of shelling out that kind of $. We are responsible for snow removal (me and the basements tenants). I thought in SL doesn't generally get huge dumps of snow? Isn't it usually fairly dry snow that can be shoveled without too much difficulty? We have no sidewalk, fortunately, but the driveway will need to be cleared.
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10-22-2008, 07:06 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Considering how people are always complaining on here about pollution I think the last thing anyone should do is get something which spews out more pollution!!
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10-22-2008, 10:44 AM
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Southern at Heart
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sugar House area of Salt Lake City, formerly New Orleans
5,434 posts, read 2,891,736 times
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The first snow I saw when I moved here was about 1 foot deep when I woke up. It happened to be a "wet" snow, which does happen from time to time. I could not shovel it. Actually, I could not shovel dry snow, either as I am old and have a bad back. Plenty of people do shovel the snow, but it took me 35 min with the blower to clear my sidewalk and driveway. If you have more time in the morning, like to get up early or be late to work, shovel away. You are legally responsible for clearing the sidewalk in front of your house within 24 hrs of snowfall.
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