Men. Men with tools. Men with tools, and a garage, and awesome fabrication skills. In Canada, where it snows a lot.
Combine all that and you get this: A custom built, hydraulically controlled, dual-track snow blower powered by a big-block Chevrolet engine with ram intake, custom exhaust and massive torque.
It throws snow 126 feet! The radiator throws heat onto the operator. The hand controls are heated. It is easy to use, although the fuel burn rate may be a bit higher than your discount store Toro unit.
Meanwhile, New York City has a commie with an aluminum shovel.
96 comments:
Rr Rr Rr!
Hey when are you going to start deleting people?
I love that stuff!
It was like you had a big shovel and you were throwing the dog crap out into the thoroughfare.
I've created a monster. I understand that now.
HA! I saw the 4 leaning headers and thought, omg that's a v8! A mtrfkg V8 on his cart! OMG and then saw the title.
I owned cars with V8 engines. All other engines seem minor compared to those.
Trufax: More men perish of heart attacks shoveling snow than any other household activity. On account of the sudden endurance test. That factoid, a word meaning something in the shape of a fact, something that resembles a fact, something in the form of a fact, comes to me by word of mouth from a person tired from shoveling snow.
That noisy thing was going in another window the whole time I'm writing this.
Don't some electric motors have more torque?
Plus they plug into solar panels!
You'd think snowmen would love snowblowers, but no.
The previous censoring shocked me and mortal fried me.
I thought, oh poop, I saw this before. With a newspaper. Then that becomes blogging fodder @TOP. Fodder, a word meaning hay flung into a bin by using a pitchfork for animals to munch and keep them quiet in the barn overnight. This farm-related knowledge coming from Saturday cartoons.
I have the best and most economical snow removal system.
A Mexican.
If Juan Valdez were awake he would say that was racist.
It is true though. Just another job that illegal immigrants are taking away from kids.
I think that is one of our biggest problems. These illegal immigrants are taking away the minimum wage jobs that kids used to get to learn about work. You know your first job where you learned how to work for someone. How to show up on time and work hard. Cashiers or stock boy at supermarkets. Delivery boy at a pizza shop. Shoveling snow. Delivering newspapers. Kids don't do this stuff much anymore. Instead they hire illegal immigrants who will work long hours for minimum wage.
I would rather pay a kid to shovel.
But they are all home playing video games.
Doesn't come close to the picnic table pontoon.
Doesn't come close to the picnic table pontoon.
You're just saying that because pontoons are lady-friendly.
I like to spend my time making snow people.
No, I just want to suck up to Haz.
Of course there is the very appropriate snow people outside of Brandi Glanville's house.
Hey Michael Haz loves to make snow babes too!
Snow blower WARS!!!
One guy throws the snow onto his neighbor's yard from 50 feet away. Neighbor retaliates and gets a bigger HP blower and throws the snow from 75 feet. Oh Yeah!!! take that!
And so on and so on.
Meanwhile the rest of the neighborhood bundles up to sit on chairs, around a bonfire, drink hot buttered rums, and kibitz about the whole thing. Fun :-D
oops...accidentally left my husband signed in for that last comment.
Hey look who used the wrong google id!
LOL!!!!
I blow all the snow off the sidewalks for 4 houses adjacent to mine.
One is an old lady about 70 who comes out with her pathetic tiny small miniscule spoon of a shovel and scrape scrape scraaaaaaape. Drives me bananas, especially because her 40ish year old son never ever ever comes out to shovel. Not once.
Family of 10 next door. Never shovel. If I refuse to snowblow, they never shovel. Ever. Never. So I have to walk to work through drifts if I don't do it.
The renters two houses down shovel once a season, in Novemebr or early December, if less than one-half inch.
It doesn't count as a corporal work of mercy if they piss me off and I benefit from it, I suppose.
My new son-in-law is quite mechanical. He fixed my snowblower some magic way I do not understand so that now the crank thing works again and the blower throws where I want it to.
All praise those guys who can do stuff.
Snowblower.
Snow? That's easy - sawing!
Trooper, You are still living your youth. Except for the rare kid, they have no desire to shovel snow, mow lawns, rake leaves.
I know Nick. It really sucks.
I remember when we were kids and they forced us to go out and pick pockets or we wouldn't get our bowl of gruel.
These kids today!
I get rid of snow the same way as I did in 1974, I push it.
Hell, I shove snow.
Then I slap it around a little.
Snow must like it.
Keeps coming back.
But where do you push it?
UPDATE --
Packers-49ers playoff tickets sold out
I remember when we were kids and they forced us to go out and pick pockets or we wouldn't get our bowl of gruel.
Mixed metaphor, Trooper. Oliver! got his (one) bowl of gruel working in a child orphanage. It wasn't until he met Bill Sykes and the Artful Dodger that he learned to pick a pocket or two.
IIRC, "Oliver!" was reader_iam's favorite musical. :)
Who can guess my fave musical? And for the love of God, don't say Sound of Music.
Oops! The old man character in Oliver! was named Fagin. Can they even stage that play these days?
deborah said...
Who can guess my fave musical? And for the love of God, don't say Sound of Music.
Cats? ;)
Singing in the Rain.
It's obvious.
"Kinky Boots!"
Little Debbie is a wild one!
Deb's fave musical?
Wasn't it the Star Wars Holiday Special?
Because Bea Arthur is in it, of course.
I think we should guess everyone's favorite musicals!
I will start.
Shouting Thomas loves "Mis Saigon."
Only with Filipinos.
AllenS loves "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."
It's a Howard Kheel thingy.
I have never seen a musical.
Is Christie Brinkley in any musicals? I'd watch that.
Lem is a big fan of "In the Heights" which is story of three days in Washington Heights where his cousin Estrelita kept showing off her tata's in the hopes of getting a date with Manny Ramirez.
The Crack Emcee of course loves
"The Book of Mormon."
At least until there is a musical with Scientologists.
"At least until there is a musical with Scientologists."
That'd be 'Grease.'
Sixty, thank you for playing seriously, but no.
Bea Arthur is da bomb, but no.
Of course my favorite musical would be a mash up of "Damn Yankees" and "Hairspray."
I hope they get to work on that.
Damn straight Bea Arthur is the bomb!
That would destroy a bunch of cities right there.
(Caution-naked Bea Arthur photos are not for the faint of heart)
lol Troop, you're da bomb.
Hey if Iran had naked Bea Arthur photos then even Obama would invade right now.
Talk about your weapons of mass destruction.
Of course for freaks like Icepick we have the naked Golden Girls collection.
He claims he digs them because they come from Florida but I don't know about that.
(also NSFW)
Any musical where the Senators win the series is okay by me.
Martians only increase the appeal. Choreography by Bob Fosse FTW.
How about The Gay Divorcee or Top Hat? I still think it's Singing in the Rain, and if it's not, it should be.
Oh, I know - An American in Paris.
La Boheme? Magic Flute? Tosca?
I question the veracity of that Bea Arthur photo.
No to all, Sixty. Think more common.
Well then I will have to play the naked Betty White card.
Not Safe for Work or if your Grandpa is around the computer. Just sayn'
Ear Muffs!
Oven Mitts?
West Side Story - the last time the Jets amounted to anything.
Singing in the Rain?
Do you have any nails?
Paint Your Wagon - Duke Wayne and Clint Eastwood tag team against Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin to rid the west of a rainbow bedecked war wagon, costarring Jim Brown.
I am going to go with Singing in the Rain. Final answer.
Even notice how Michael Haz's threads always degenerates into naked photos of Bea Arthur and Betty White.
Man I hate thread jackers.
Yeah, starts with power tools, ends with musicals. I KNOW!!!
Hey that sounds kind of gay!
I thought we were all homophobes here or something?
No, just Homophones.
Succor, sucker
Oh, I know, The Producers - the original version with Zero Mostel! Best show tunes ever!
[Icepick] claims he digs them because they come from Florida but I don't know about that.
Yeah baby! GMILFs! GMILFs! GMILFs!
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And I'm guessing my favorite musical is just too obvious.
Synova's would be DUNE: The Musical!
My favorite musical (film) is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Man, I have a great follow up to my last comment, but it was too raw even for Trooper's blog, much less this place.
Even notice how Michael Haz's threads always degenerates into naked photos of Bea Arthur and Betty White
I feel like I wandered onto the front porch at the old bloggers' home on Levitra Night.
Yeah, you're all very welcome!
One of you mopes needs to wander over to TOP and entice some of the female commenters to migrate over here. We need balance.
I don't know what others's favorite musicals are but somebody needs to step up and claim Annie, The Music Man, and Oh! Calcutta! before it's too late.
Sixty, no.
Chick, saw Annie for the first time the other day, and boy did it blow.
If you want chicks from Althouse, you're gonna need a plan. Check to see which ones have email addys in their profiles. I don't know how many Altie babes and dudes actually know we are here.
Dude you had a girl from Althouse posting here and you deleted her ass.
Make up your mind buddy!
Les Miz. Hair. Les Miserable Hair Day.
@deborah: Can you give us a clue like which decade?
Oklahoma?
Jersey Boys.
Big River.
Showboat. Porgie and Bess.
Wait, we don't even know if we are looking for a movie or a stage musical.
H. M. S. Pinafore!
South Pacific!
"Synova's would be DUNE: The Musical
They already have a musical with a big bald worm.
The King and I.
Who can guess my fave musical?
The Wiz
Sixty for the win...South Pacific.
Most people live on a lonely iiii-land, lost in the middle of a foggy sea...
(Not my fave song from, but that popped into my head. 'Night all, my computer is messing up. Hugz.)
Yeah, all I had to do was guess every other musical ever written, then by process of elimination - bam - there you go.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Sam and Janet.
Sam and Janet who?
Sam and Janet evening.
But seriously, folks, Borodin's Polovetsian Dances never sounded better than they did in South Pacific.
:)
Damn Yankees
That goes without saying.
This thread started out being about a V8 snowblower and wound up being about musicals.
I got rolled.
Yes you did!
I question the veracity of that Bea Arthur photo.
That's a painting by artist John Currin from 1991, which sold at auction last summer for 1.9 million.
I got rolled.
More like Rogered and Hammersteined, as back in the day that particular con was described as "ev'ry whippoorwill is sellin' me a bill".
With art and breasts included as added attractions, what do snowblowers and musicals have in common?
Stages!
Whoa, deep. I might have guessed something else, but that was deep.
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