Snowblower 2024….someone had to do it.
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First time using the E-Blow this season, and it totally failed, got clogged up, caught on fire, and burned the town of Jackson to the ground!
J/K, it kicked ass as usual.
That is all.
J/K, it kicked ass as usual.
That is all.
10 inches at the pass snowtel. I bet that toy really gave the 4 inches in town the what for today.
You know about these right?
Yea, sure, and I also use a Lezyne micro road pump to fill my truck tires, you know, for the MANLINESS of it.
how manly is bragging about the hard work a snowblower just did that a push broom could have handled?
send smoke signals if you need food
looking pretty serious out there
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You are so cute.
When you are a little older, you will understand the concept of using a fulcrum for leverage as well.
When you are a little older, you will understand the concept of using a fulcrum for leverage as well.
bro you wanna see cute............
squeeeeeeeeee!!
You need figure out whether I'm too old or too young to understand how the world works. You keep vacillating
Por qué no los dos?
Why you posting pictures of the teeny-weeny one?
Why you posting pictures of the teeny-weeny one?
rideit every dusting
I'll probably just continue to make my kid shovel.
It's certainly more environmentally responsible than charging batteries in wyomingI'll probably just continue to make my kid shovel.
Our cooperative, Fall River Electric, doesn't use any coal. (I think).
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that's just what they own and operate to sell to the grid
what feeds the grid as a whole is what you pull from
If your power bill is fall river electric, they just own or manage the lines and transfer stations. But it all pulls from the grid
wyoming's hydro percentage (2%) is shit.
I can never keep track between your multiple properties in the most expensive housing markets in the nation so I looked it up. I don't even remember if you live in jackson or driggs.
idaho kinda killin it on hydro
Looks like fall river spans both sides of the pass
most of that green portion is national park
looks like they may be pulling from the idaho side if that reaches down to moran and jackson
that green matches this map of fall river's coverage pretty closely
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Yeah it's infrastructure free teton national park and part of yellowstone.
If you look at that fall river coverage map though it pretty much looks like their exact outline....so it's probably the corner of wy that has its main feed to the grid coming from idaho.
Rideit could probably say if there are bigass transmission lines coming over towgwotee pass or from the south from alpine. I don't really remember any but that doesn't mean they're not there.
I was just looking for a way to talk shit about rideit's snowblower. Fortunately those avenues are multiple so we can let the cleanliness of his charging go.
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Power lines actually come right up over Teton Pass, up over Phillips Canyon, and then down to the valley. Both houses are Fall River, Victor and JH.
Double bonus: A lot of access points for building some of our classic trail networks are because of the Powerline cuts (like almost everywhere). They also provide some fun zones for BC skiing, Snowmobiling, Dirt Biking, Hunting, And such.
Double bonus: A lot of access points for building some of our classic trail networks are because of the Powerline cuts (like almost everywhere). They also provide some fun zones for BC skiing, Snowmobiling, Dirt Biking, Hunting, And such.
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Yeah I know about the ones over the pass, I've seen those. Looks like jackson is east idaho in terms of grid connectivity.
Can't sully yourselves with any of that dirty rawlins power, that's for the poors.
who have to pay more for it
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Oh, I know! Fortunately we can make fun of the wastefulness of making the battery’s, and then again when they inevitably shit the bed and need replacement vs burning 10 gallons of gas in a heavy show year.
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well.......mine will still be working in 20 years
he'll probably be on his third by then
although with the low snow environment he lives in, he might be able to stretch the second one
this thing was 30 years old when I sold it last year. My neighbor still uses it.
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Holy shit, I can’t even begin to describe the ‘snow’ (basically water with some texture) and this thing still kicks ass. I would be more than happy to tell you if I didn’t like it for any reason (I am not emotionally invested), but to say I’m impressed would be quite the understatement.
I wouldn’t have even tried today with the gasser.
However, the first (mostly retired) battery that came with the mower in (2018 or so only holds half a charge, but I think that’s acceptable. It still works fine for mowing, weed whacking, leaf blowing, etc, but the snowblower is another level of power usage.
I wouldn’t have even tried today with the gasser.
However, the first (mostly retired) battery that came with the mower in (2018 or so only holds half a charge, but I think that’s acceptable. It still works fine for mowing, weed whacking, leaf blowing, etc, but the snowblower is another level of power usage.
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meanwhile, a local university engineering department has developed a robot that clear the snow on our canal so it can freeze when it gets cold... (last year there was too much snow before the ice froze thick enough to run heavy machinery on it. the snow insulated the ice, preventing it from freezing fully).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rideau-canal-skateway-ottawa-robots-plowing-ice-snow-1.7044923
(though I have no idea how that thing is supposed to throw snow, it doesn't have a blower?!)
I just did a YT search to see if I could find one in action, only to discover it's already a thing!
will wonders never cease.
(though an Thomas-faced, flame-throwing arachnid would be so. much. better....)
(though an Thomas-faced, flame-throwing arachnid would be so. much. better....)
if it never snows more than three inches and you're disabled I guess?
www.thesnowbot.com
hopefully the college kids build one that works better.......or that canal ain't getting cleared
Snowbot - Autonomous Snow Blower Robot for Residential Use
Snowbot is a smart snow cleaning robot which makes snow removal hand-free, safe, and satisfying. It truly frees you from tough snow plowing work and gives you more free time to do the things you love.
www.thesnowbot.com
hopefully the college kids build one that works better.......or that canal ain't getting cleared
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Yeah I know about the ones over the pass, I've seen those. Looks like jackson is east idaho in terms of grid connectivity.
Can't sully yourselves with any of that dirty rawlins power, that's for the poors.
who have to pay more for it
I have to laugh at WA low electricity prices. Rates are low but 95% of my bill is in fees. Using electricity is cheap, getting it is expensive.
a mountainbiking gentleman simply cannot ignore the powerline easements and towers a babel of the northern cascades where many trails happen to cross
I have no fucking clue whatever someone said to convince local gov't that this sort of thing was needed but god damn they obviously succeeded. I've been in similar topography, similar climate, similar reservoir/hydro placement.......nothing touches that infrastructure up there.
Unlike here where daily helicopter rides continue to pass over neglect, maybe there's regular maintenance of that?
NIST Investigation of the California Camp Fire
Update August 2023: NIST has recently published a new report detailing life safety aspects of the Camp Fire: notificatio
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a mountainbiking gentleman simply cannot ignore the powerline easements and towers a babel of the northern cascades where many trails happen to cross
I have no fucking clue whatever someone said to convince local gov't that this sort of thing was needed but god damn they obviously succeeded. I've been in similar topography, similar climate, similar reservoir/hydro placement.......nothing touches that infrastructure up there.
Unlike here where daily helicopter rides continue to pass over neglect, maybe there's regular maintenance of that?
NIST Investigation of the California Camp Fire
Update August 2023: NIST has recently published a new report detailing life safety aspects of the Camp Fire: notificatiowww.nist.gov
Scratching my head a little at what you mean but the power grid here was designed to make nuclear weapons and supply the means to deploy them. So perhaps a little more effort was put into it than normal.
And it often shows.
Do you think they had snowblowers on the Knox Expedition? Dragged those guns from Lake Champlain to Boston in the winter.
I have never seen one that big in Buffalo. Those are some monster drift cutters.
wimpy east coast snow
if it were really snowing the knox crew would have done what we do out here and eat each other