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Originally Posted by Northendzone
just out of curiosity, how long would it take you to shovel your driveway if it snowed 10 cms (~4 inches).
Although I have a two car garage, it only takes me 20 to 40 mins (the longer time period means I am scraping down to the pavement) to shovel so I could never justify purchasing a snow-blower - also it is a big contraption to store.
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I want to get one as well even though it doesn't take me that long to shovel the driveway. I have 3 reasons:
1) My neighbors do not shovel their sidewalk, and they are just downhill from me, resulting in any melting making ponds on my sidewalk. I realize this is their problem but I do not want to have to deal with chipping 3 or 4" of ice like I did last year. My passive aggressive approach will be to blow the snow from their sidewalk onto their driveway...
2) The city was kind enough to plow our street once last year. The did this in one pass which resulted in hard packed snow at a higher level than our driveway, which cause some interesting moment when the thaw came. A snow blower will prevent the massive piles of snow at the end of my driveway.
3) I want all the snow from my driveway on the street. There were massive patches of dead grass on my lawn this summer from road salt that fell off my truck and was shoveled onto the lawn.