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« Speaking Of King Kong | Main | Technical Difficulties »

What I Would Want For Christmas

...if I still lived in the Great White North. Behold, the Chevy 454 big-block snowblower. I'll bet that sucker will toss your driveway's contents into your neighbor's yard. You know, the one three blocks away?

Somewhere, Tim the Toolman is grunting. And drooling.

Get down on your knees and beg, Mother Nature! Who's your daddy now?

Posted by Rand Simberg at December 02, 2005 08:05 AM
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Slick. I wonder how much practice it takes to be able to blow snow into your neighbors' yards without sending chunks of your driveway along with it.

I've always liked the monster snowblowers the road commissions in the Keweenaw use: http://www.houghtoncountyroads.org/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?target=12
(As you might imagine, it's not a good idea to leave a small car parked along the street when there's a blizzard coming.)

Posted by T.L. James at December 2, 2005 09:05 AM

We have a Northern Tool & Equipment here in Dallas and I think as a joke they have snowblowers on display in their stores here.

Otherwise, I'd say this guys done a good bit of engineering just to keep from blowing away those puny tires. Of course, its just a Chevy BB so its not like it's really all that much power to contain =P

Posted by Josh Reiter at December 2, 2005 09:47 AM

With that V8 you can remove the snow now and burn so much gas doing it that you give a little kick start to global warming, effectively taking care of next year's snowfall too.

That's what I call an elegant solution.

-S

Posted by Stephen Kohls at December 2, 2005 01:40 PM


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