Northern weather

[healey36]

Take your spark plug out. Then hit the plug hole with a blow torch.(careful of eyebrows). Pull starter cord with plug out and re torch. Do that a few times. Heat your plug with your torch. Spray some starting fluid into spark plug hole. Place your spark plug back in and try to start it. Repeat that a few times if needed. A little wd40 into the spark plug hole want hurt. I just pulled our shop blower inside. It starts better when it is warm. Tomorrow morning it will be 60 degrees in the shop when i try to start it.

More complicated...I've got a fuel deprivation issue, i.e. no fuel's getting to the cylinder...need another carb tear-down. Religious use of Startron, Seafoam, Stabil, et al...new carb three years ago. I hate small engines...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Take your spark plug out. Then hit the plug hole with a blow torch.(careful of eyebrows). Pull starter cord with plug out and re torch. Do that a few times. Heat your plug with your torch. Spray some starting fluid into spark plug hole. Place your spark plug back in and try to start it. Repeat that a few times if needed. A little wd40 into the spark plug hole want hurt. I just pulled our shop blower inside. It starts better when it is warm. Tomorrow morning it will be 60 degrees in the shop when i try to start it.

More complicated...I've got a fuel deprivation issue, i.e. no fuel's getting to the cylinder...need another carb tear-down. Religious use of Startron, Seafoam, Stabil, et al...new carb three years ago. I hate small engines...

Got any alcohol handy? I cleared just such a clog using alcohol. Sort of have to push it in with some pressure, but it worked for me a few years ago on my snow blower.

[healey36]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yikes!

We're barely closing in on 4"

[healey36]

Sarge probably has sixteen by now...

[robert.]

We might have 4 here also. They keep saying wait for it. It's going to show up at 3 inches an hour.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Still coming down, right on top of the trees and shrubs crushed down by the last snowstorm.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Unless there's a big gap in the storm, it looks to be done here.

Started with the shovel and decided that was just stupid; gas into the snowblower, primed, and pushed the start - bang! Off & running on the 2nd try after sitting idle and dry for 2+ years.

Cleared the shared driveway and pipe.stem and one of the neighbor's around the front.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Unless there's a big gap in the storm, it looks to be done here.

Started with the shovel and decided that was just stupid; gas into the snowblower, primed, and pushed the start - bang! Off & running on the 2nd try after sitting idle and dry for 2+ years.

Cleared the shared driveway and pipe.stem and one of the neighbor's around the front.

When you do such a kindness, it is a Corporal Work of Mercy, IMHO, and is so much appreciated that I'll bet your neighbors can barely express their gratitude to you. I say that because when our next-door neighbor snow-blows our entire sidewalk, walkway and driveway, I am grateful beyond words. I keep trying to find ways to express that gratitude and have found a couple that seem to do the job. You're a good man, Rufus.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Unless there's a big gap in the storm, it looks to be done here.

Started with the shovel and decided that was just stupid; gas into the snowblower, primed, and pushed the start - bang! Off & running on the 2nd try after sitting idle and dry for 2+ years.

Cleared the shared driveway and pipe.stem and one of the neighbor's around the front.

When you do such a kindness, it is a Corporal Work of Mercy, IMHO, and is so much appreciated that I'll bet your neighbors can barely express their gratitude to you. I say that because when our next-door neighbor snow-blows our entire sidewalk, walkway and driveway, I am grateful beyond words. I keep trying to find ways to express that gratitude and have found a couple that seem to do the job. You're a good man, Rufus.

If the snowblower is running, I use it! Doing a few extras is not a big cost to me, I can use the exercise, and helps them out, so why not....

Sometimes I get cookies!

Now that chicken I sacrificed to the Gods to get the snowblower running goes into the cook pot!

[up148]

Yeah, and your not a spring chicken either (sacrificial or otherwise) so I don't want to be reading about how Rufus suffered a heart attack shoveling his driveway. News we don't need! Blowers are great when they are working and you still get exercise. We are not 40 any longer.


BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yeah, and your not a spring chicken either (sacrificial or otherwise) so I don't want to be reading about how Rufus suffered a heart attack shoveling his driveway. News we don't need! Blowers are great when they are working and you still get exercise. We are not 40 any longer.

This snow is also very wet and heavy, and the impeller on the snowblower kept jamming up......

Wait! I'm not 40 anymore?

[healey36]

...gas into the snowblower, primed, and pushed the start - bang! Off & running on the 2nd try after sitting idle and dry for 2+ years.

I'll say this once...nobody likes a braggart...

Nobody.

Healey

[robert.]

Don’t worry. Snowblowers are useless against this stuff. It’s almost like soft serve ice cream.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...gas into the snowblower, primed, and pushed the start - bang! Off & running on the 2nd try after sitting idle and dry for 2+ years.

I'll say this once...nobody likes a braggart...

Nobody.

Of course, it's all about that sacrificed chicken that makes it work...........