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Between 150 and 200 dollars. too late in the game to get someone now maybe tomorrow but doubtful. I booked mine on Thursday and found the guy on Craig's list. He is coming soon. Check Craig's list and see if someone can dig you out tomorrow. I always use them to fond someone to remove my snow. We would do it ourselves but we are in no shape to do so with husbands bad back and my bad knees forget it! I'd rather pay someone else.
Still cheaper than a heart attack especially if you are not young.
True story, Feb 2008, DH had to have an angiogram and we were expecting snow the next day. We go to the hospital and I hear family of DH, paged and this was at most 20 min after I left him. I figured he was dead or it was really bad news - it was that fast. We had been told that the Dr. was not expecting to find any problems but needed to rule it out due to Afib. I get to the recovery room and was told that he was whistle clean and that was why it was so fast. So now the Dr. comes in as I am saying to DH, well you picked a hell of a time to have this done, it is now gonna snow and I am gonna have to shovel and I am laughing. The Dr. looks at me and says, "How old are you"? I replied "didn't your mother ever tell you it isn't polite to ask a lady her age?". I then told him 54. He replies, "you are too old to be shoveling snow, too." I then asked him if he thought it better to be snowed into ones home in the event of an emergency, because there were no young kids walking around the neighborhood like when I was young."
I don’t understand why people who live here don’t have a self propelled snow blower. You buy it once and in 20 years you may replace a belt and change the oil. Worth every penny.
I don’t understand why people who live here don’t have a self propelled snow blower. You buy it once and in 20 years you may replace a belt and change the oil. Worth every penny.
No garage, just a shed way in the back now. At my old house we had one and I didn't really know how to maintain it and it no longer propelled after a couple years. Even when it was working I had to do most of the pushing in anything more than like 6 inches and not soft fluff. Just haven't ventured into buying one more worthwhile as that was already $400. If I do buy another, I'd want to transport it for use at another house and I can't do it with a beast of a machine I'm thinking I'll need - at least I don't think so.
What's the suggestion here - what should I be looking for and at what price range? I'm guessing the electric ones are cumbersome and ineffective?
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