[cutntrim]

Since there aren't too many of us on here that plow, I figured we could tack on to one ongoing thread about plow events throughout the season.

Nebraska and others are way ahead of us here, but looks like we'll have our first "plowable" snowfall tonight. Only around 4" but that's a nice way to ease the new drivers into plowing. Judging from the radar, I'm guessing I won't be the only one out later tonight.

[dan deutekom]

It is amazing what a few miles can make. I can't be much further than 45 miles from Cutntrim and I have been out plowing 3 times already while just 15 miles south of me the ground is still bare.

[cutntrim]

Ground isn't bare here any more. We got around 4-5" last night. Snow stopped around 7:00 a.m. so the morning rush hour was insane. City and highway plows were late getting the roads cleared because of the timing of the snow. We didn't even start plowing until after 4:00 a.m.

Good news: equipment ran well, no breakdowns, and new employees caught on real quick

Bad news: one employee had to leave because of his other moonlighting job so he was only around for half the list, also the traffic was hands-down the busiest I've ever seen since I started plowing in 1996...must be X-mas shoppers I guess, took a lot longer than it should have to finish...12.5hrs.

[Pelican]

We've had two salt events so far and yesterday was our first plow event at nearly 12"! I had one truck working at 4:00 am, the second was out at 8:00 am, first finished at 5:00 pm, second was at 9:30 pm. Then I went out at 10:00 pm to do the village sidewalks with my Cat, finished at 1:00 am. This one will bill out nicely!!

[Sprucechip]

Ive been out 4 times during Nov, but nothing this month so far. It was pretty cold most of Nov, finally had a warming spell over the last week. Last Sun morning it was 5* and by 6 that night it was raining. Mon morning was a skating rink , that lasted about 2 days. All gone now.
Ive noticed over the years that everytime you guys back east get large blizzards the weather warms up here, its got to be a jet stream issue or something. Too much coincidence for me.

Get it while you can.

[scl]

I'm getting worn out. We've had snow every day here , though some only flurries. I've got one account that plows on almost any event, then you have to hall it away from their overhead garage that night. Sat. morning we halled out 7 tandems and 4 one tons. And I'm still trying to get a wall in! Starting to feel a little strained. We've already billed as much snow work this season as we did last.

[cutntrim]

At least you're not contracted flat-rate-seasonal for that work! Then you'd really be stressing!

Priced out some snow tires for my GMC 2500HD: $222+TAX (15%) per tire and $107+TAX per steel rim. Yikes! That's for Blizzaks 245/75 16". My stock tires suck though, so I'm gonna have to do something. I was slipping big-time that first snowfall this year.

[cutntrim]

"Storm" number two for us last night. It was a HUGE system that passed through, but we only ended up with a few inches out of it. The weather forecasters had been panicking everyone by calling for a foot or more snow.

I was glad we were spared 'cause the entire route including residentials was completed in 12hrs which is decent for the way I've got my accounts set up.

I'm sure some other guys got hammered though, 'cause it was a large storm.

[Mac]

We also got hit by that storm. I managed to complete my route in about 5.75 hours, an improvement of about .75 hours over estimated and/or best times. I was pleased.

[cutntrim]

That's a nice short route list. My skidsteer operator finished his list in 4.5hrs and myself and the other guy in pickups finished in 11.5 and 12.5hrs respectively.

I'm set up so we do commercial sites overnight (we were done in 8hrs) then hit residentials afterwards. I've also got some smaller non-priority sites that get plowed the following night each time we plow. So, a driver will head out tonight to do those ones. Busy, busy!

[dlcs]

Originally posted by scl
We've already billed as much snow work this season as we did last.

Same here, we just went over last years total for snow work with this last storm. I've already used as much salt this year as I did all of last season. But hey I'm not complaining.


Mike

[Lanelle]

We finally have a real storm to plow. The guys have been out all night. Here at the house the storm dropped 12 inches on the grass and about 10 inches on the pavement. The snow really piled up on the tree branches so there is also storm damage.
A bit north of here, the totals are nearly double ours.
Anyone else plowing this one?

[cutntrim]

Amazing! Someone's actuallly plowing snow. Two months since the last post on this thread.

BTW we got nothing. I was out salting Friday night for a couple hours but it melted Saturday anyway.

Have fun.

[Mac]

Im very happy the majority of my clients have prepaid for this season. Thus far, there have been 2 plowable events. Contracts were budgeted for 6 events, so Im very happy. Let is shine

[al983]

10 miles south of here got 4" today and we got 0. they picked it up in about an hour and a half.