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[rmd]

assuming i get a job soon enough to profit from my severance payout, i am totally buying a snowblower of some kind before next season. (thus making sure that we have no appreciable snow that year, presumably, because weather likes to be funny like that)

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[cz_unit]

*nod* That makes sense. The Elec-Trak has a 42 inch auger, so it's pretty big but my theory is to move the cars to the top of the driveway, blow out the driveway, then roll the cars downhill and go between them to get to the top.

Updating my numbers, I was pulling 575 amps at 30 volts at just below stalling the auger speed. So about 23hp while chewing through the 2 foot packed street-plowed snow at the top. That's a lot, but derate if you are only doing 24 inch swaths.

Wow.

C