Found this on Kare 11. Apparently 45 or maybe 55 is the new recommended limit for shoveling and even blowing snow. 
I guess that means a bunch of us on IDO can get together for ice fishing whenever it snows?!?!?! 
Maybe the plow companies are behind this ground breaking news cause there sure aren’t kids willing to shovel for pay around here.
Nobody to clear driveways but the old farts that own them! 
My grandma shoveled her own sidewalk and driveway (small driveway) at 95 years old. Too proud to let anyone else do it. The only way anyone could get it shoveled for her was if they beat her too it but that didn’t happen too often.
My grandma shoveled her own sidewalk and driveway (small driveway) at 95 years old. Too proud to let anyone else do it. The only way anyone could get it shoveled for her was if they beat her too it but that didn’t happen too often.
I love your Grandma!
You damn old people are to cheap to pay. Only joking. My son and I plow for the 4 neighbors and 2 of them are 70ish plus, we do it just to do it. The one waves from the window which is nice and the other old guy is a crabby crab apple and he shakes his head any time we help him. So we just do it quick and run away. The single 40 year old lady comes over with a 20 dollar bill and we deny it but she insists. We then put it in a envelope and put it in her mailbox. But she brings it back lol. We do the same with grass in the summer.
One day I hope I’m the old crabby guy and some one comes and plows my drive, if I keep it up I’ll be to stubborn to hire it out
Shoveling snow sure beats sitting in the house doing nothing.
Hmmm There will come a day for many when those tasks are just not doable . Nursing homes are full of examples.
If you’re going to die from shoveling snow it’s only a matter of time you’re gonna die from some other moderate activity. If taken at a pace appropriate for the individual the health benefits far outweigh the negative. 2 cents
Shoveling snow sure beats sitting in the house doing nothing.
To Ell with that noise! 
Mike you are a sick puppy, I hope you get to feeling better soon!
My 47 year old boss died of a massive heart attack last year after shoveling snow. Healthy guy, too – hiked 14k peaks in Colorado every summer.
The article primarily focuses on shoveling snow. Not blowing it with a snow blower. At the very end there is one sentence about “pushing” a snow blower.
Most 2-stage snow blowers are self propelled. There’s no more risk in using one compared to going for a slow walk or mowing the lawn. I believe that a single stage snow blower requires the user to actually push the machine to blow snow so there could be some risk with using one.
When we get some of that wet, heavy crap that usually comes in March, then there’s really no options other than to shovel it. I’ve tried using my blower with that kind of snow and it just comes out like ketchup.
When we get some of that wet, heavy crap that usually comes in March, then there’s really no options other than to shovel it. I’ve tried using my blower with that kind of snow and it just comes out like ketchup.
Most of the time this can be fixed by adding flaps to the edge of the auger. The reason wet snow doesnt blow well is because most augers have a sizable gap in the drum between the auger. If you attach a rubber flap to close this gap it would greatly help. There are people that sell kits out there. It will also increase the distance the snow gets thrown regardless of its consistency. I had an old John Deere that was a complete POS with wet snow and didnt even want to blow fluffy snow either so I researched this.
Instead of doing the mod I just got a new simplicity and this thing throws snow like nobody’s business. First time I used it I wasnt paying attention and I was filling my neighbors driveway back in. LOL
Most of the time this can be fixed by adding flaps to the edge of the auger. The reason wet snow doesnt blow well is because most augers have a sizable gap in the drum between the auger. If you attach a rubber flap to close this gap it would greatly help. There are people that sell kits out there. It will also increase the distance the snow gets thrown regardless of its consistency.
Great advice. Will have to try it because that wet heavy crap is unbearable in March.
Most of the time this can be fixed by adding flaps to the edge of the auger. The reason wet snow doesnt blow well is because most augers have a sizable gap in the drum between the auger.
What all those YouTube guys don’t tell you is that on some machines this mod produces too much drag and lugs the machine down and burns up belts like they’re going out of style.
Also, it makes the machine very prone to freezing up solid between uses unless you store it somewhere heaated. The rubber scrapers freeze to the impeller housing and since they flex, it’s damn near impossible to break them loose with engine power alone.
There’s an optimum size for the impeller-to-housing gap, but having no gap and introducing lots of drag isn’t how the machine was designed to run. Just be aware, I’ve had to delete these little science projects.
There’s an optimum size for the impeller-to-housing gap, but having no gap and introducing lots of drag isn’t how the machine was designed to run. Just be aware, I’ve had to delete these little science projects.
A lot of truth to everything you’ve said, but I think if you put a rubber flapper on half of the blades of the impeller it would be greatly helped and little issues.
If you’re going to die from shoveling snow it’s only a matter of time you’re gonna die from some other moderate activity. If taken at a pace appropriate for the individual the health benefits far outweigh the negative. 2 cents
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The exercise of physically removing snow has benefits that far outweigh any negatives for me as well.
One of the most well known snow removal businesses in our rural area is headed by a guy who is 78 years young. He doesn’t just sit in a heated cab plowing snow calling it “work” either. His activity level is the same reason I’d expect him to be going at it for another 10 years for sure.
The article primarily focuses on shoveling snow. Not blowing it with a snow blower. At the very end there is one sentence about “pushing” a snow blower.
Most 2-stage snow blowers are self propelled. There’s no more risk in using one compared to going for a slow walk or mowing the lawn. I believe that a single stage snow blower requires the user to actually push the machine to blow snow so there could be some risk with using one.
I get a good workout with my 2 stage. I sweat my ass off. Yeah, it’s self propelled, but turning it, pulling it back when doing my turnaround pad and other shorter areas..my t-shirt is soaked when I come inside..
This kinda reminds me of dragging deer. I’m in relatively decent shape and used to drag them before I had access to an ATV, but there were times when I thought I was gonna have a cardiac pulling one of those things out of a swamp.
This kinda reminds me of dragging deer. I’m in relatively decent shape and used to drag them before I had access to an ATV, but there were times when I thought I was gonna have a cardiac pulling one of those things out of a swamp.
Do more physical activity. You office guys are soft
Do more physical activity. You office guys are soft
LOL
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
Do more physical activity. You office guys are softLOL
Yup, we are and Ive gotten way worse since I dont have to drive into the office anymore just get up slap on some sweat pants walk 30 feet to my desk.
We can’t all be as tough as Bearcat Brasky.
Yup, we are and Ive gotten way worse since I dont have to drive into the office anymore just get up slap on some sweat pants walk 30 feet to my desk.
My commute is only 20 feet so got ya beat!
I actually shoveled yesterday instead firing up the snow blower to get some exercise. Dangerous I know but got it done!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
Do more physical activity. You office guys are softLOL
Easy there young whipper snapper. I dragged my fishing crap off a lake last week, about 150 yards, got to the landing with my hand on the phone ready to dial 911. Using the wheeler from here on out. Smitty sled was used, just getting old.
We can’t all be as tough as Bearcat Brasky.
It’s tough But some one has to hold us all together 
Sounds like we need a good old fashioned game of tug-a-war.
Or some dodgeball at a local gymnasium.
Easy there young whipper snapper. I dragged my fishing crap off a lake last week, about 150 yards, got to the landing with my hand on the phone ready to dial 911. Using the wheeler from here on out. Smitty sled was used, just getting old.
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I’m not sure how old you are. But the other guys are in my age bracket. And we are not to old for a little physical work. Some may be out of shape. But not to old.
Sounds like we need a good old fashioned game of tug-a-war.
Or some dodgeball at a local gymnasium.
Wouldn’t want you to go in to cardiac arrest.
Sounds like we need a good old fashioned game of tug-a-war.
Funny story, my grandpa (now gone for 15 years) once was a tug of war champion at a county fair I believe in Willmar. I saw an old newspaper clipping of it. Hilarious.
Funny story, my grandpa (now gone for 15 years) once was a tug of war champion at a county fair I believe in Willmar. I saw an old newspaper clipping of it. Hilarious.
We had one a couple years ago on the front lawn of our office building! 10 of us co-workers went out at lunch time (both males and females) and had a tug-a-war. Needless to say I was on the losing side and ended up on the grass. It was hard to stop laughing.
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