An electric snow blower isn't any more difficult than a gasoline powered one
from the perspective of blindness except that it is quieter I suppose. You
don't have to carry gasoline home but otherwise it comes down to keeping your
hands on the handles and keeping the cable out of the mechanism.
They just aren't powerful enough to be much use. Maybe for really weak people
they are less work than a shovel. There are very low powered gasoline ones too
for small snow loads but really wrestling a low powered snow blower or a shovel
to me is about the same. The bigger machines are self propelled and can move
tons per hour. Trouble with them is that the blind can never be sure where the
snow is blowing, fill up a neighbours car through an open window or cast gravel
into his paint work and someone won't be happy. The electric machines don't
throw the snow all that far but they don't move all that much snow either.
If you can push a wheel barrow along your path or driveway then you can
probably push an electric snow blower.
If you have trouble locating your garbage can you will probably have more
trouble with a snow blower since your land marks are covered in snow.
Don't know if that is helpful or not.
Personally I know I can't go in nice straight lines for the 85 feet length of
my driveway every thirty inches or so over the 32 foot width without some sort
of guide. I can't push my big snow scoop more than a couple of dozen feet
without wandering left or right far enough that I am either missing parts or
just skimming off inches from the last pass. I don't suppose guiding a roaring
machine would be any easier.
I had thought of standing pipe in a cement filled pale and drawing light rope
between them as guides I could follow with a forearm but there remains the
issue of being certain I am not deluging someone passing with the output of the
machine so, I hire a man with a really nice Kubota tractor with a blade and
blower on it and he freezes his a$$ off out there and I just clear the patio
and Janet the front stairs.
If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Berry
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
Just out of curiosity is the electric snow blower sometghing that a totally
blind person can run and if so what brand is recommended.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Leavens
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 15:40
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
Angela doesn't get here much especially in the winter. They don't get all
that much snow in Calgary though really and when they do it tends to melt
pretty quickly.
The mouth of a snow blower rides just a little above the surface. If you want
to clear right down to the pavement always assuming you have pavement you need
to scrape it by hand.
We don't generally see bare pavement except on the highway where salt and
warm tires melt then spray it into the air or onto the banks until the sun gets
some warmth in it around the end of March or early April. Tends to complicate
way finding for the blind.
It is my other daughter I was speaking of.
If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Deutscher
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
awe and I'm sure she is use to having snow on her car. After all they get a
lot of snow there where she lives. How often does she get there. I prefer
gas blowers and before I finished reading your post I thought to myself that
it's really stupid to blow snow because if you blow in the wind but then
realized that if you walk out your door and the wind is blowing straight at
you that you wouldn't want to blow the snow away but you can turn the shoot
so that it flies out to the right or left away from the wind. If the wind
was blowing from left to right I guess you could push the snow ahead of you
and then blow it to the right at the end of the driveway, or blow it to the
right if the wind is blowing from the left. It gets cold blowing snow if you
have wind to contend with. What I want to know is how do you ajust the blade
so you're not scraping the cement beneath and wrecking it? If I had the
garage door open I would turn it on in there and go down the driveway so
that it got the entire driveway cleaned off. Just my thoughts. Oh yeah, go
Canada go, we're playing right now, up 1 nothing for Canada.
Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: Dale Leavens
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
Blowing snow in that way wouldn't be much fun. You have to make sure you are
blowing down wind because once you lift the flakes the environmental air
currents will take it and usually return it directly into your face.
Once any compaction has taken place it won't blow at all. The term snow
blower really isn't accurate. These machines scrape the ground forcing the
snow and ice into an auger which lifts it. Two stage machines feed the auger
supply into an impeller which, working something like a squirrel cage fan or
something like an impeller pump fires the snow out through a sort of half
pipe shoot which can be directed to throw the stream of particles more or
less where wanted. Once they leave the shoot of course the stream rapidly
expands and decelerates but the point I wish to make here is that the snow
isn't pushed along ahead of a stream of air as happens with a leaf blower.
It is physically lifted and ejected in the general direction of the shoot.
I don't know much about most electric blowers, generally they don't have
nearly enough power to be particularly useful. Some of the very small ones
have a series of rubberized paddles which rotate not unlike the brushes of a
carpet cleaner sort of sweeping the snow forward. I have a wide stiff shop
brush which I sometimes use when there is just a dusting of snow though more
usually I just leave it until it either accumulates or melts. I have a
similar wide soft brush I use to rapidly disperse the snow off of my
daughter's car when she is up visiting.
If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie
----- Original Message -----
From: Donnie Parrett
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:34 AM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
We recently received aa 12 amp electric leaf blower as a gift. Would that be
any good for blowing
snow?
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Lenny McHugh
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:19 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
Maybe I should, probably less snow up there. Now if I could find a wind
director. This morning there was several feet of snow on our sidewalk, None
on the car and a few houses up the street had no snow. The wind so kindly
re-located it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blaine Deutscher" <b.m.deutsc...@sasktel.net>
To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
no you're telling him this so that he moves up to Canada. come on be onnist,
you want him to move to Canada. ha ha ha.
Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Gouveia" <victor.gouv...@rogers.com>
To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower
Hi Lenny,
While this may not be in your neck of the woods, there's a store up here
called Canadian Tire, which sells the snow blowers you're referring to.
I'm not telling you this so you can come up here and buy one from them, I'm
telling you this because their website is completely accessible, and, they
have a good comment and feedback section on each of their products that are
equal and unbiased.
It' a rating system, and people rate their products and comment on them.
One of the comments I saw in regards to electric snow blowers is that you
shouldn't get anything under 12 amps, otherwise you risk not having enough
power to clear what you want.
I can't readily remember where it is you live, but judging from the snow
fall you all have gotten down there in the last couple of months, a 6 amp
blower won't do you at all.
Either way, I would suggest you check out the site below, and check out the
comment section for the blowers you're looking for, in addition to the specs
for the products, and look for the one most similar to the one you're
looking to buy, and see what others say about it.
I mean, who would know more about clearing snow than Canadians, right?
Smile.
In any case, the website is below, and have fun looking.
http://www.canadiantire.ca
Hope this helps.
Victor
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