Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread Rick Hume
reviews on snow throwers I could find on the internet, and settled on a single-stage Toro. We just love it. It's a real bull dog. Rick - Original Message - From: Bill Gallik To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHan

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread Blaine Deutscher
what are these hoods? Blaine - Original Message - From: Bill Gallik To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower Scott, >From your question, I'm surmising you don't think a blind person c

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread wstephan
either end to try and discourage anybody from walking on it. Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: wstep...@everestkc.net Phone: (816)803-2469 - Original Message - From: Scott Berry Date: Monday, March 1, 2010 1:49 pm Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower > Bill, >

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-03-01 Thread Scott Berry
al Message - 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 co

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 q

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
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 th

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Scott Berry
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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
also hope 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] elec

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Blaine Deutscher
ns To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:40 PM 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. Th

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
te 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]

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Blaine Deutscher
-- 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 cur

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Blaine Deutscher
ry 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 snowb

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-28 Thread Dale Leavens
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: [BlindH

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

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 RJ
gas and a 11 or 12 horse. RJ - Original Message - From: Bill Gallik To: blindhandym...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 13:46 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower A leaf blower is fine for blowing snow off provided the snow is not such that

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Gallik
A leaf blower is fine for blowing snow off provided the snow is not such that it requires a shovel. In other words, if you could simply sweep the snow away a leaf blower will suffice. But if you've got, say, 8 inches of snow it would take an awful long time and a lot of wattage to "blow" that

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 john schwery
iginal Message- >From: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com >[mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of Lenny McHugh >Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:19 PM >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com >

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-27 Thread David Ferrin
To: 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? ~ To receive my Daily Devotion, Word Of Wisdom & Daily Bible reading, please send a

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" To: 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. Wou

RE: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Donnie Parrett
yman@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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Blaine Deutscher
- Original 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

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Lenny McHugh
" To: 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&q

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-26 Thread Blaine Deutscher
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" To: Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower H

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-25 Thread Lenny McHugh
Thanks, it was very interesting reading. - Original Message - From: "Victor Gouveia" To: Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:16 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 calle

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric snowblower

2010-02-25 Thread David Ferrin
My next door neighbor has such an animal and it looks like he is trying to put out a fire with a squirt gun. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com Life is what happens after you have already made other plans. - Original Message - From: "Lenny McHugh" To: "handyman-blind" Sent: Thursday, Febru

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 accessible,