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Different exercise
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:29 pmIt snowed on Tuesday night, but I didn't have any chance to do much removal until today (I'd cleaned my steps and salted them so the postman didn't kill himself). This snow is nothing like what I've seen before. It was so hard I could walk on it without making a mark. An ice/snow mix, I guess. This made clearing it off quite a challenge; the snow shovel would barely make a chip out of it!
Using a normal flat blade shovel I managed to start making headway. Cleaned from the steps to the driveway. At this point I noticed something; shovelling just right would cause fracture patterns in the snow causing large-ish sections to shear off. It needed an edge for this to work... fortunately the path I'd just cleaned gave me such an edge! So now I attacked the bottom of the driveway. This was piled up because it had the road-snow that had been plowered. A lot of it could still be fractured so the driveway started to look like it was filled with boulders. Heavy boulders. Clearing them out of the way caused funning "thunking" sounds as I tossed them onto the lawn (and the snow still didn't break; they bounced!)
Finally the drive from the sidewalk to the was clear. So now onto the rest of the drive. Fracture patterns worked here quite well. The snow was cracking up just like you see in movies where the heroes have to run away. I ended up with 4->6" thick chunks of snow. And now I know how igloos can be made from snow! This stuff was pretty solid. Never seen snow like that back in England.
Anyway, cleaned about 6' or so (I guess; I'm a bad judge of size and distance) back.
2 hours of snow shovelling. Well, it's a form of exercise!
Using a normal flat blade shovel I managed to start making headway. Cleaned from the steps to the driveway. At this point I noticed something; shovelling just right would cause fracture patterns in the snow causing large-ish sections to shear off. It needed an edge for this to work... fortunately the path I'd just cleaned gave me such an edge! So now I attacked the bottom of the driveway. This was piled up because it had the road-snow that had been plowered. A lot of it could still be fractured so the driveway started to look like it was filled with boulders. Heavy boulders. Clearing them out of the way caused funning "thunking" sounds as I tossed them onto the lawn (and the snow still didn't break; they bounced!)
Finally the drive from the sidewalk to the was clear. So now onto the rest of the drive. Fracture patterns worked here quite well. The snow was cracking up just like you see in movies where the heroes have to run away. I ended up with 4->6" thick chunks of snow. And now I know how igloos can be made from snow! This stuff was pretty solid. Never seen snow like that back in England.
Anyway, cleaned about 6' or so (I guess; I'm a bad judge of size and distance) back.
2 hours of snow shovelling. Well, it's a form of exercise!
