Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread Bill Gallik
Scott, From your question, I'm surmising you don't think a blind person can operate a gasoline snowblower? Oh contraire my friend, I am the only one here and even if I weren't I'd still be in charge of clearing the snow with my 8 HP snowblower. Certainly a blind person isn't going to be

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread Scott Berry
- From: Bill Gallik To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 18:53 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Scott, From your question, I'm surmising you don't think a blind person can operate a gasoline snowblower? Oh contraire my friend, I

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread Rick Hume
] electric snowblower Scott, From your question, I'm surmising you don't think a blind person can operate a gasoline snowblower? Oh contraire my friend, I am the only one here and even if I weren't I'd still be in charge of clearing the snow with my 8 HP snowblower. Certainly a blind

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Blaine Deutscher
it sometime it's not that hard. Use your feet to determin where you are. I do it all the time and it works really well. - Original Message - From: Bill Gallik To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Blaine Deutscher
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
to be absorbing sun in Texas during most of the melt. 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 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Scott Berry
: [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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread Lenny McHugh
light powerdy snow can be blown away. Don't blow it up-wind. - Original Message - From: Donnie Parrett deparr...@prtcnet.org To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:34 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower We recently received aa 12 amp

RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread john schwery
]on Behalf Of Lenny McHugh Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:19 PM To: mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.comblindhandyman@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

RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread William Stephan
] On Behalf Of Donnie Parrett Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 00:35 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com 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? ~ To receive my Daily Devotion

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread Lee A. Stone
my new neighbors have one I do not know the brand but I am told it looks like back breaking work to move any amount of snow. the last storm we were just shy of 18 snow which was like moving concrete. myself I would be worried about stepping on the lead or extension cord and If I may

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press
Aloha Lee, I don't know what you call it either, but I have one on a roler that is 100 feet. You can either let it move on it's own, or you can pull it out to a specific length and lock it there. Betsy At 03:10 PM 2/27/2010, you wrote: my new neighbors have one I do not know the brand but I

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Blaine Deutscher
: [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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Lenny McHugh
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Blaine Deutscher
Message - From: Lenny McHugh To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:18 PM 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

RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Donnie Parrett
@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

[BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-25 Thread Lenny McHugh
Well, first I can't locate one locally. Has anyone used the electric snow shovels? I was reading about some and am not really sure about them. One has a 6 amp motor but according to some reviews does not work well with a heavy wet snow. One had a great review but was a snow blower with a 19

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-25 Thread David Ferrin
blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:26 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Well, first I can't locate one locally. Has anyone used the electric snow shovels? I was reading about some and am not really sure about them. One has a 6 amp motor but according to some

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-25 Thread Victor Gouveia
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-25 Thread Lenny McHugh
Thanks, it was very interesting reading. - Original Message - From: Victor Gouveia victor.gouv...@rogers.com To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Hi Lenny, While this may not be in your neck