Oh, the motor is still working on the silly snowblower, but the rotor thingy has stopped going around, so technically it’s not a snowblower anymore…it’s just a noisy piece of crap. It was serviced last season, and barely used at all…and this year I’ve only used it twice. It isn’t jammed with snow. The rotor spins freely if you touch it…it just doesn’t turn on its own. And since the wind is blowing oh, 25-35 miles an hour out there, we can’t really take a good look at the thing to see what has gone wrong. The manual has no troubleshooting section at all…plenty of directions on how to change various parts, but no guidance on what might be the problem.
We at least got enough of the driveway done to get the car unstuck from the end and actually into the garage, but it’s going to take forever to shovel it out in the morning. And since my boss has farther to drive, and my coworker who lives really close to work doesn’t drive and has no childcare on Wednesdays, it’s going to be up to me to get in to work tomorrow to open the store. Though I would vote for having the teenager who lives a block from the store go in and open, since she’s not going to be having school tomorrow. But we’ll probably find out that she spent the night at her mom’s house 30 miles away, 'cuz that’s the way my luck is going tonight.
I’m going downstairs to look out the door again (since the windows up here are all covered with snow and frost) and see if everything is all covered again. The neighbor’s fence is 4 feet high…after we’d finished shoveling the drive and piling the snow up by the fence, you couldn’t see the top of the fence. At least we have light and heat and water. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow at all.
Dayum kittenblue, that sucks. Mr. Ruby was out this morning on a quest for a second, smaller snowblower for the patio and guess what? There weren’t any at the first 3 stores he stopped at. Go figure. There’s only a Blizzard Warning out there. WTF?
I was supposed to be on my way to Cincinnati on business this afternoon but delayed until tomorrow. However, we’re still under the Blizzard Warning and Level 2 Snow Emergency through tomorrow.
Neighbor just had a plow come and do her drive, but he was gone before I could go try to hire him…not that I have any cash in the house…going out to try to shovel again…
Three hours of shovelling, and we have a path to get the car out. We’ve diagnosed the snowblower (shredded drive belt) and had a plow driver turn down the job because the snow is “too Heavy”. I’m showered and sore and ready to go to work…my boss is trapped in her drive, they haven’t even plowed her road (major road) but the teenager opened the store, so it’s all good. Now I just have to drive 14 miles. And then get back home. Wish me luck!
The impeller (rotory thingus to eat and spit crystalline dihydrogen monoxide) is often fixed to it’s drive with either a shear pin or frangible woodruff key, such that if something solid is encountered, engine damage is avoided. Locate that part, and replacing it is under a buck.
Oh, I know all about snowblowers quitting during heavy snowfalls. I’m one of the people that takes calls from dealers who need parts to fix them (or needs me to look up the part numbers) and end users who want to know why it broke in the first place and where they can go to get it fixed or buy parts. (Well, if they have Tecumseh or Kohler engines, anyway)
here on the far north side of indianapolis i’ve been trying to dig out from under A FOOT of the white stuff.
gawd, i hate snow.
in the last half hour 10 pm est), the housing association’s snowplower FINALLY showed up to unearth my friggin’ driveway so i can go back to work tomorrow.
wonderful. and he was doing what precisely all last night and all of today before he finally showed up? enquiring minds would like to know, considering what i pay monthly for exactly that service???
