Last year, I bought a broken Sears snowblower from one of my customers; It needed further repairs, and by the time he paid for all the parts and labour, it would have been just shy of the cost of a new (cheap) machine.  I offered to take the machine off his hands in leiu of what he owed me already, so in a way it "cost" me about $300, even ( Read more... )

     It may not officially be Winter, but it's close enough!

The "Heavy Snowfall Warning" of the other day was upgraded to a "Winter Storm Warning" - and that's what we got.  The drifts were huge at the farm last night, and when we measured them this morning one of them was more than 33" deep!  Throughout the yard, the snow ranges from about 16 ( Read more... )

     Bleah....

I heard on the news this morning that we're expecting some nasty weather, and I knew right away that a customer of mine was going to be up in arms about getting their snow-blower back.  I was right too; Thankfully I was one the phone with a U-Haul customer at the time, and they just left a message on the voice-mail.  Not a very ( Read more... )

     Early this year, I bought a used 3pt-hitch snowblower for my tractor.  There are three problems with this machine ( Read more... )

     There's a snowblower in the shop that's actually been here since May.  It's been a low-priority item (until recently) so it's taken a back seat while the higher-priority items have come and gone.  it's one of those things that I tinker with when I have some extra time, and the last tinkering revealed that it had several broken welds that would ( Read more... )

     Mother Nature is a day off...  After several days of decent weather, and things warming up so that it finally looks like Spring might really be here, we get this...

SNOWFALL WARNING IN EFFECT
Warnings
Shaunavon - Maple Creek - Val Marie - Cypress Hills
10:42 AM CST Saturday 02 April 2011
Snowfall warning for
Shaunavon - Maple Creek - Val Marie - ( Read more... )

     I attended my first auction of 2011 today; The main reason I went was because they were selling a 1984 Versatile 400 Swather, which is a newer model of the one I currently have.  I was hoping that it would sell cheaply, but that was not the case - it wound up selling for $2,500.00, which was well above what I was prepared to pay for it.  It ( Read more... )

      Brrrrr......   I apologize in advance for any typos - my fingers are still thawing out and loosening up!  I've just come in from being outside for the last 3.5 hours (it's -20°c outside, BTW!) clearing a wide path through the snow with the idea that I might be able to finally get my tractor through it.  There's about another four or five feet ( Read more... )

     What can you say?  It was Monday...  :/

Back on Friday (or was it Thursday?) I got a package I'd been waiting for from Power Source Canada, the Briggs & Stratton distributor in Canada.  In the package were two parts that I had ordered for customers, and two new skids for my snow-blower.  I finally found out that up until 1998, Sears snow- ( Read more... )

     ... 'cause I had a great one!!!  ;)

• As I said previously, the bank phoned right at 12:00 noon, to say that the loan had been approved and I just needed to fill out some final paperwork.
   
• I found out that the only thing wrong with my snow-blower was a simple broken bolt.  5-minute fix, tops!
   
• Joey's Only called, they fax'ed over a form I need to ( Read more... )