Don't Leave Stuff On Your Snowblower!
 

First snow-blow of the season - just headed out the garage on the J.D. (500X), for the first run down the driveway...when - thunk! I knew right away that I'd sheared a pin (right out of the block...ugh! I hadn't sheared a single pin all last winter!). Stopped to pull out what at first looked like a large stick, only to realize that it was 1/2 of a pair of channel lock pliers - which I then vaguely remembered having left on top of the blower...stoopid! Yeah...it was still dark out - but I should have at least checked first!

Later...dug around that first path for the other half of the channel lock - but could not find it. So...it waits for me - it will either take another pin this winter, or maybe a mower blade next spring!

Oh man! Been there and done that multiple times. I hope you find the rest of the channel lock before it finds you.

First world problems.

My snow shovel didn't survive the house move, armed only with a push broom I engaged the 12 inches of fluffy stuff.

Well that sucks but we all make mistakes.

Do you have a metal detector?

Snow started yesterday as I left for work. As it had been 50º the day before, the first inch+ of snow melted when it hit the pavement. Air temperature was in the 20's. But it kept snowing, and the snow on pavement sucked up the water. By the time I got home, the snow on the driveway had frozen into a solid ice sheet.

I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure they have snow in the third world. ;)

whats a snow blower.

I think the OP owns one of these.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1573575449.jpg

A snow blower is one of those devices they use in the mountains in Southern California when it doesn't snow enough. When it reaches a cold enough temp., usually at night, they blow air and water into the air and it makes snow. Hence the term "snow blower". LOL

Wow, early in the season to be slowing snow.

A friend sit a box of shotgun shells on his woodstove in his garage in the summer.....First fire of the season, he was under his old Model T, using a rake to move the box as the shells lit off....

Was doing a video of a track skid steer for a customer when I suddenly saw something drop in front of the front door. A screwdriver I had left on the roof came rolling down off.
It happens.

Sadly, it never happens to my 10mm sockets. They seem to fall into some sort of interdimensional void.

One of our couple friends were looking for a new place to start his practice as a surgeon. He graduated from Harvard and was real sick of snow.

His wife said they started driving south, and would walk into a big box hardware store and ask where the snow blowers were located. If they had snow blowers they kept driving south. When they finally walked into a Lowe's and the answer was "A WHAT???" they said this will work.

They ended up in Charleston, SC.

I do not own a snow blower, I really hope to never ever need one. I will remember your advice and file it with the other important information on where to get the best facial tattoos, and which parts of Afghanistan is the best to retire to.

I always seem to find the hockey pucks that get buried in the snow banks around our ice rink. I have cut them in half or launch them across the yard, to only be found with the lawn mower come spring time!

Did my newspaper with the blower last year as it had snowed a bunch after the paper had arrived that morning. Blower slowed and then just quit entirely. Started it and engaged the scroll only to have it stall.
Dammm what a mess!! Tribune was chopped and wedged between scroll and housing in a couple of spots. Used (you guessed itl) Channel Locks to pull it out shard by shard until I could rotate the scroll back a bit and free the rest. Enough was in the 2nd stage and chute to create a ticker tape parade when I restarted it. Channel Locks were securely in my pocket.

That's the thing that causes a brush fire when you leave channel locks on it.

I sucked up a plastic patio light once. Never found a single piece. Neighbour probably did though.

I saw a little black thingie fly out of the chute of my blower and was able to locate it immediately. It was my Subaru fob and key which had slipped through a hole in my jacket. It still works!