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My Idiot Neighbor.....

GM Tech on Sat January 29, 2005 1:48 PM User is offline

...has for the last 14 yrs built a snow fence 4 ft away from his driveway- actually inviting the snow drift to cover his drive.... He is in his 60's and one day when he was dutifully erecting this fence I stopped and advised him that if he set that fence about 30 feet to the west of his drive it would work as designed. He told me he has been doing this for 14 yrs and it has always worked well- I said yeah- but you are shoveling thru 3 feet of snow instead of 3 inches. He claims he is right. I just laughed and told him to go look at the county's design a mile down the road... Too bad snow fence doesn't come with instructions!! He put it up again this year exactly as in the past-- I feel like taking a picture and posting it for the DA of the year award!!

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TRB on Sat January 29, 2005 2:02 PM User is offlineView users profile

Post it, lets see the neighborhood!

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GM Tech on Sun January 30, 2005 1:12 PM User is offline

Asrequested my neighbor's driveway



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The number one A/C diagnostic tool there is- is to know how much refrigerant is in the system- this can only be done by recovering and weighing the refrigerant!!
Just a thought.... 65% of A/C failures in my 3200 car diagnostic database (GM vehicles) are due to loss of refrigerant due to a leak......

MrBillPro on Sun January 30, 2005 1:41 PM User is offlineView users profile

Man we don't get that much snow in the city of Houston in 100 years, we got a little Christmas eve here's our big snow of the century.



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Edited: Sun January 30, 2005 at 1:44 PM by MrBillPro

TRB on Sun January 30, 2005 4:26 PM User is offlineView users profile

So what is that fence supposed to do. If it is supposed to block the snow which is carried by the wind seems to me you would have to square off the house or moved the fence with wind shifts. Remember I have never lived where its snows, if that is the white stuff on the ground!!

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NickD on Sun January 30, 2005 6:50 PM User is offline

Snow fences only work with a light blowing snow, when we have temps near the freezing point or even above, the snow is very wet and doesn't tend to blow, period. One can analyzed that the reason this snow fell from the sky is that it is darn heavy. Snow fences are generally used in wide open spaces, such as that large field to the left and GM's neighbor would have been okay if the drifts did come from the left. The state and counties here put up snow fences along flat highways that are lower than the average surface near open farm fields, as the blowing snow can really pile up. But this is also done on a trial and error basis particularly on north south roads as we can get blasts from either the east or the west. But like GMtech said, they are a good distance from the road, generally 50-100 feet just acting like a barrier to hinder blowing snow. But do kind of lose their effectiveness if the snow piles up higher than the fence.

Most storms here come from the west southwest. As you can see in the picture his snow came from the right and his fence is doing more damage than good. In Arizona, don't you need sand fences?

I got my blower working again, having either a snowmobile or a working blower is almost a guarantee, we won't get snow, LOL.

GM Tech on Sun January 30, 2005 11:13 PM User is offline

This snow was only a 3 inch lite powder snow that drifted easily- the shot is to the North the fence did exactly what it is designed to do - to block the wind and let the snow fall behind it- the secret is to put it 50 ft to the left to put the 2 ft pile to the east of the fence then it would be almost zero inches at the drive because the blowing snow all settled back at the windbreak. This guy thinks it is supposed to block it all like building a ten foot brick wall might........

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The number one A/C diagnostic tool there is- is to know how much refrigerant is in the system- this can only be done by recovering and weighing the refrigerant!!
Just a thought.... 65% of A/C failures in my 3200 car diagnostic database (GM vehicles) are due to loss of refrigerant due to a leak......

NickD on Mon January 31, 2005 5:20 AM User is offline

Maybe he likes to shovel snow, LOL.

NickD on Wed February 02, 2005 7:13 AM User is offline

No wonder why that dealer tried to sell me the entire connecting rod for 75 bucks when I just needed a 14 buck plus tax bearing, he and another dealer were in the paper yesterday as to be really hurting due to the lack of snow and snow blower and snowmobile sales this year. Most of that 8" of snow we had last week is gone and many snowmobile trials have been closed. Before that we had a 1/2" of ice rain that ruined the trails that we got New Years Eve night. Ha, I just got the last of that cleared off the rest of my driveway yesterday.

That ice made the snow worthless for snowmobiles as it would pound both the snowmobile and rider to death, but this 8" of snow just gave them about another week of riding and now that is gone, the rest of the trails are expected to close as our temps will be in the 40's this week.

Kind of a worthless machine when you think about it, when I was there some of these contraptions are selling for as much as $15,000.00, ha, not good of an old timer that paid $11,000.00 for his first home with four bedrooms, a real stone front and two baths with a two car garage.

Can't use these things to hop to the store to buy a quart of milk during a blizzard, illegal to run on any public road or sidewalk so they basically drive these things around in circles on some trail and are really not going anywhere. Ha, these things became popular at all times during the energy crisis as another means to waste gas. Been lots of injuries and deaths flying along at 80 mph and having your head cut off with a barb wire fence or hitting a buried stump or rock in the middle of a field, not much was left either of the snowmobile nor the riders. Another popular way to die was to cross a lake or a river and drown when the ice broke. I do admit back then the nicest part of snowmobiling was following a river as you can see nature at it's best, but for the most part, such travels are illegal today. Ha, most of the trails built since then were made from bar to bar that created other problems.

One of the dealers was quoted as saying, buy an SUV and trailer your snowmobiles up north, ha, here that is only 120 miles to Lake Superior and you don't want to cross that unless he was referring to driving around it to make it to the north pole.

I knew if I got my blower working again that would end the snow, gosh, I am a dirty old man, LOL.

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