For Greg and Ray (non boat content)

[Howard]

This should allow you to get to the boat shop....so no excuses.

If it's a really bad winter like last year with a few flakes falling in south Texas, Charlie may want one too.

[Greg Luckett]

Now that is a serious snow blower

I think if Charlie needs one again he might migrate even further south. That man definitely dislikes snow at his home.

Greg.

[Frank Hagan]

Hey, maybe I could use one of those while I'm visiting my daughter and son-in-law for Christmas. They live in Jamestown, NY, near Buffalo. I hear it snows there sometimes.

[Bud_Wilson]

Hay Frank: Taking that thing to Buffalo N.Y. would be like taking a water pistol to a house fire. It SNOWES in Buffalo I mean big time. Y'ALL COME Cap'N Bud.

[Greg Luckett]

Hay Frank: Taking that thing to Buffalo N.Y. would be like taking a water pistol to a house fire. It SNOWES in Buffalo I mean big time. Y'ALL COME Cap'N Bud.

Isn't that the place that they gave up shoveling snow and just built more exterior doors on the second floor?

[Frank Hagan]

So are you guys telling me there WILL be snow near Buffalo this winter. I hate snow, and my daughter keeps telling me they are hoping for a White Christmas, but it doesn't always happen. I'm wondering if she's just pullin' my leg ...

[Greg Luckett]

So are you guys telling me there WILL be snow near Buffalo this winter. I hate snow' date=' and my daughter keeps telling me they are hoping for a White Christmas, but it doesn't always happen. I'm wondering if she's just pullin' my leg ...[/quote']

Gee, Frank. I would be really shocked if they have not already had a foot of snow so far.

[Guest]

Guys quit messing around with Frank. Everyone knows that it never snows in Buffallo NawYark in Dec.

More than 83 inches of snow have fallen this month -- all but an inch since Monday. That's about 90 percent of the average snowfall Buffalo usually gets for the entire season. By Saturday, the snow had compacted to about 44 inches on the ground. December 29, 2001

The city's previous record, set in December 1985, was 68.4 inches, according to the National Weather Service

Buffalo's top 10 snowfalls since 1890, in inches, during a 24-hour period:

1. 37.9 - Dec. 9-10, 1995

2. 35.4 - Dec. 27-28, 2001

3. 25.3 - Jan. 10-11, 1982

4. 25.2 - Dec. 24-25, 2001

5. 24.9 - Nov. 20-21, 2000

6. 24.3 - Dec. 15-16, 1945

7. 20.1 - Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 1979

8. 19.9 - Nov. 28-29, 1955

9. 19.4 - Feb. 27-28, 1984

10. 19 - Nov. 30, 1976 (tie)

10. 19 - March 17, 1936 (tie)

[Guest]

One thing that Buffalo will truely have in Dec, is a real wooden boat that is not under some blue tarp, or it better not be...... :wink:

http://www.messing-about.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34401#34401

[Greg Luckett]

:shock: WOW, I had no idea they had this much already.

Years ago I landed, if you can call it that, at Buffalo in the winter. The plane twisted and slid down the runway sideways. I watched the runway lights from what is usually the pilot's perspective.

I am not sure how much we have had here in SW Michigan so far, with about 10 inches on the ground right now.

[Stump]

heck, we already had snow here in Seattle during the last couple of weeks...stayed almost a whole day on the ground :shock: :shock: Must have been an inch... or even two!!!! :roll:

And then I was mowing my lawn today. Under my halogen work lights. Starts to get dark early up here.

Not so early as our friends further north though. :twisted:

[Greg Luckett]

Stump,

That just sounds so wrong . We do not mow or rake once the snow is on the ground. You must have a very hardy grass that it grows when it is cold? Or, a better winter climate?

Greg.

[capt jake]

have a very hardy grass that it grows when it is cold? Or, a better winter climate?

Grass is actually a cool weather plant. It doesn't like the heat of summer, but thrives in the cool. We don't get the extreme extended cold like you folks do, thus it never really goes dormant. When I lived in CO, the grass would brown and go dormant for the winter, not here. As wet as it is here, you have to mow when you get a 'dry' chance to do so.

[Greg Luckett]

I have not visited you part of the world, so please bear with me?

When it is wet here (or on the Gulf Coast) it is very difficult to mow either due to the grass clogging up the mower or sinking into the water. Do mowers there have balloon tires for floating? Just kidding. How do you all deal with that very wet growing environment? Bigger HP on the mowers like we do for snow blowers and the wet snow here?

[Ed Hawkins]

Here in Western New York you have Buffalo and the Northtowns (where I am) which gets a little snow. We have about 6 inches on the ground now, no big deal. The Southtowns (Hamburg, Orchard Park, Jamestown and the Ellicotville ski areas) they get pounded a bit more. Buffalo's reputation just never recovered after '77. It is just snow, we push it out of the way and get on with it. I'll take a 2 six pack blizzard any day over hurricanes, earthuakes, tornadoes and such. My story and I'm sticking to it.

[capt jake]

Gregg, I try to plan my mowing for the 'dryest' times that I can. Constantly stopping and clearing the clogged grass. If I can, I mow every third day, this way the clippings are short and I let them fall into the grass as mulch; but this seldom happens.

More HP doesn't help with the clogging, though they do make motor assisted pick-up shutes now for many of the riders. I can't justify the cost, but they suck the clipping right out of the deck! My brother in law has a high end Kubota zero turn moewr with the turbine assited chute. He can blaze through wet grass 12" tall with no problems. Of course he has a wee bit more disposable income than I do.

[capt jake]

I'll check on those blades, but I have no problem picking up all sorts of stuff, when it's dry of course. Hmmm, I might give this to the Mrs. as a Holiday idea?

[capt jake]

As to the idea of getting them for your wife

no, no no, the snow is getting to your brain up there. (reminds me of the Jeff Foxworhty skit!). It is an 'idea' to give to my wife. She has been pestering me for ideas.

[Stump]

oooh, latin..."Plures Naves Quam Mentes"... many boats which change? :roll:

[capt jake]

Too cold to even think about lawn moewrs here. In the upper 20's this AM. cold wind out of the East right now; usually a 'sign'.