Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Looking at buying a snow blower. The price range is huge. Any advice? I'd be looking to blow out our two-car driveway and walkway, and potentially be a good egg and tackle our whole block's sidewalk.

I don't have experience in snow blowing, but I generally try to live by the mantra "buy it right, buy it once." I didn't heed that advice when I bought a $100 Ryobi leaf blower/trimmer set and now I'll probably have to upgrade both items again within the next year because they just aren't cutting it. Pay the extra money for some power and durability, trag.

I live by that mantra too, but I'm not sure the $3400 model counts as "buying it right." There's gotta be a happy medium between that and the $150 model.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Looking at buying a snow blower. The price range is huge. Any advice? I'd be looking to blow out our two-car driveway and walkway, and potentially be a good egg and tackle our whole block's sidewalk.

I don't have experience in snow blowing, but I generally try to live by the mantra "buy it right, buy it once." I didn't heed that advice when I bought a $100 Ryobi leaf blower/trimmer set and now I'll probably have to upgrade both items again within the next year because they just aren't cutting it. Pay the extra money for some power and durability, trag.

I live by that mantra too, but I'm not sure the $3400 model counts as "buying it right." There's gotta be a happy medium between that and the $150 model.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Strat wrote:Be a man and pay the neighbor kid well to shovel

Self wrote:I'll shovel until it gets stupid. I'm not shoveling a foot of what feels like cement. I did my time.

doug rr wrote:

Self wrote:I'll shovel until it gets stupid. I'm not shoveling a foot of what feels like cement. I did my time.

same..did my time..for probably 15 years shoveling my parents 150 ft long driveway in boulder with one of those crooked tin snow shovels from the 70s..fight me

Self wrote:

doug rr wrote:

Self wrote:I'll shovel until it gets stupid. I'm not shoveling a foot of what feels like cement. I did my time.

same..did my time..for probably 15 years shoveling my parents 150 ft long driveway in boulder with one of those crooked tin snow shovels from the 70s..fight me

Holy shit, those were a monstrosity. It was a baseball bat with a handle and gigantic metal shovel. It was bigger than me. Big old bolts holding it together like Frankenstein's neck. These kids with their plastic.

Whiskey.