And so it does. We're at the front end of a 40 hour snow event, the third snow since my last post. Yesterday morning I under took some maintenance on the snowbeast, changed out the drive and auger belts, good that I had as the auger belt had a few cross tears and was only held together by the fabric outer band. Sort of explained why it clogged easily and wasn't throwing snow very far. Would have been dire straits had it broken during the thick of the snowfall. Started the operation by running it until I used up the gas in the tank as it's not made to be emptied. Then I could bring it into the heated mudroom and open up a top cover to expose the belts from that direction followed by lifting up the back end by the handle bars to tip the whole thing over onto the auger housing exposing the bottom plate cover to get at the belts and pulleys from that direction. From there it involved dissembling, twisting, prying, swearing, coaxing, backing out, going forward, fetching another tool or two to go down the rabbit hole and back out again. Then flipping it back round so the correct end was up, dragged it outside, with a splash of gas the beast made a funny sound, shut it down, tweaked the auger cable and all was good. So in spite of my lack of mechanical skills I'm better prepared for what was on the way. This storm started slow enough late in the afternoon, light drifting flakes. By this morning it had only amounted to an inch plus. Since then maybe there more inches, maybe another four by morning followed by another four or more through tomorrow.
Looking ahead there may be a light snow around Thursday and a steady cold spell through the weekend. I hope to have the igloo dug out by then.
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