Snowblower in garage, keeping area clean
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PhantomEB
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The problems I wish to have.
perfect world I would have the Cummins Ram and Bronco in a separate shop that I could wheel stuff around without moving anything else.
and the dailies/her little bug in an attached garage, Snowmelt drains everywhere.
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finn
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It’s only a problem for six months of the year.
finn
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PhantomEB
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More like 3 for me, we only could wish for snow that much.
snowmelt or not, still a problem like I say above to wish for. My bigger issue is if we had all that then she would want donkeys and goats….
snowmelt or not, still a problem like I say above to wish for. My bigger issue is if we had all that then she would want donkeys and goats….
Kaizen
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geez.......leave it outside. Mine lives outside all winter. It is meant to have snow on it. If high crime area lock a chain through the auger to something not moveable. I sure as heck would NOT be sticking anything in it to clean it out. Next sunny day and it will all melt away.
finn
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Sometimes the next sunny day is two months in the future when you have a mass of water like Lake Superior surrounding you on three sides.
Summers are beautiful, though.
Renegade1LI
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Get a boot tray and park it on top.
Renegade1LI
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Or get a snow blower mat
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SlotlessMan
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The snowblower parks right over a drain.
Jim_No_Garage
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I usually try to knock the majority of the snow and ice off and park it between the doors. Any melt will puddle there and run towards the doors. I will run a fan to get it to melt faster and hasten the evaporation of the melt.
Everything in the garage is off the floor if I can avoid it. My favorite platform is the "plastic soda bottle rack" - I prefer Pepsi Blue to Coca Cola Red. Flipped over they provide a solid flat surface to keep stuff off the floor. When they get dirty you can hose them off. I DID crush one under a HEAVY butcher block table top stored standing on edge - but that's the only one I've lost.
The picture above is for 2 liter bottles - I prefer the ones that hold 24 x 20 oz bottles - it's lower and wider. My son is losing his garage and will be bringing back 8 or so of them back when he empties it out..
Cheers
Jim
Everything in the garage is off the floor if I can avoid it. My favorite platform is the "plastic soda bottle rack" - I prefer Pepsi Blue to Coca Cola Red. Flipped over they provide a solid flat surface to keep stuff off the floor. When they get dirty you can hose them off. I DID crush one under a HEAVY butcher block table top stored standing on edge - but that's the only one I've lost.
The picture above is for 2 liter bottles - I prefer the ones that hold 24 x 20 oz bottles - it's lower and wider. My son is losing his garage and will be bringing back 8 or so of them back when he empties it out..
Cheers
Jim
toolmiser
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"supposedly" weather tech has one made for that purpose. Big enough to surround the whole snow blower, and you can drive the blower over it.
cdestuck
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I snowblower well into my yard area. Set the blower there, drag out the hose and squirt off all the snow. And keeps the blower looking like new.
Fav Onefour
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I let mine melt in the garage.
One tip I've learned is to keep the metal parts off the floor. It prevents rust streaks. I tip the machine back and put a strip of old snowmobile hyfax under one of the skid shoes.
One tip I've learned is to keep the metal parts off the floor. It prevents rust streaks. I tip the machine back and put a strip of old snowmobile hyfax under one of the skid shoes.
JWILLIE1977
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A few pics of my solution to this problem, as I patiently wait for Mother Nature to dump 1' to 3' on the Buffalo and WNY area.
I use a repurposed Weathertech cargo mat from the wife's old Explorer. Traded the truck, but kept the mat.
My ritual consists of brushing off the blower outside as best I can with a hand broom, then moving blower inside the shop and park it on the mat. The 2x6 block keeps the blower housing from sitting in the water.
Most of the time, the puddled water evaporates and is nothing to worry about. If there was an abundance of water, I could just drag the mat to the door and dump it.
If I didn't have the Weathertech mat, I would be using a washing machine pan from any of the usual suspects.
I use a repurposed Weathertech cargo mat from the wife's old Explorer. Traded the truck, but kept the mat.
My ritual consists of brushing off the blower outside as best I can with a hand broom, then moving blower inside the shop and park it on the mat. The 2x6 block keeps the blower housing from sitting in the water.
Most of the time, the puddled water evaporates and is nothing to worry about. If there was an abundance of water, I could just drag the mat to the door and dump it.
If I didn't have the Weathertech mat, I would be using a washing machine pan from any of the usual suspects.
PappyZ3
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I brush off as much snow as possible. We have the flow thru Race Deck flooring in the garage. I just park the snow thrower on a piece of cardboard. The remaining snow melts and is absorbed by the cardboard. Works good.
toolmiser
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Usually here in Wisconsin the air is fairly dry in the winter so the melted snow evaporates quickly.
Jay H 237
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I keep it just inside the garage door so the mess is right there, sweep out what little water there is hours or next day. One thing I do is save a small section of the driveway to do AFTER I clean out by the road. That cleans the brine and salt out of the machine. Then sweep off what I can with a dustpan broom before bringing it inside.