Mr Plow,

My husband tried to put a blow torch to our blower to burn up the newspaper.  It didn't work. Any ideas on how to dissolve the newspaper?
Signed Mrs. Newspaper

Dear Mrs Newspaper,

There is a small bolt (called shear pins) in each side of the auger. Remove those bolts. This should allow the paper to be removed. When reinstalling those bolt, only snug them.No tip for the paper boy this month. Since most snow throwers or snow blowers have gasoline engines, tell your husband to lose the light the news paper on fire idea.I hope everyone got through this ordeal safely.

Regards,

Mr. Plow

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D.E.

Hi DE,
 He is not far off. There is a device that slides over the plow cutting edge. It attaches to the wear shoe bracket. It appears to be made from steel pipe. I have some info on it , but I have no clue as to where. Sorry, I was not more help.
Regards,
M.P.

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Mr Plow;
Casey Rayls Rising Sun

Dear Casey,
Here in CA. we drag the snow onto the beach in our orange bathing suits.

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Dear Sir...
I am looking for some help on a subject about snowblowers and I hope you can help. I saw your website and figured that you know a whole lot more about snowblowers than I do.
My mom is all alone during the winter months and she has an ATLAS snoblower that just quit on her. I can't help her because I am away at college, and she's not in the best of health and I don't want her breaking her back trying to shovel our driveway. She told me the other day that the snowblower broke after 6 years and it's an ATLAS like I've said already.
Trouble was the belt was broken, and my brother told her to find the manual and see what size belt it needed and where the nearest dealer was. Trouble is, I've spent most of the day on the Internet looking for a website or some article about ATLAS snowblowers and I can't find a thing. She can't find her manual and I don't even know if they still make ATLAS snowblowers. So maybe you've heard of them.. or maybe you know if they're still in business. I would greatly appreciate your help in my search because I'm about to give up! It needs to get fixed or she's going to have to continually shovel the inches of snow that never seem to stop.
Thanks,
Elizabeth H :-)

Hi Elizabeth H,
Can she retrieve the broken belt?
Automotive belt stores have belts for snow blowers. Goodyear belts for blowers are GREEN in color. Do not let them sell her a black one, or one with a green stripe. These will slip.
If she can not find the old one, have her put a cord or some tape around the pulleys and cut their ends even. See could take the cord or tape to the belt store. If she tells them if it was in the pulleys like a small cord would, or on top like tape would, they should be able to sell her a belt. I do not know where Atlas is, and they are not in the S.I.M.A registry.
Mr. Plow

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    Friday after Thanksgiving, I was watching the television news. People were trampling each other trying to get into stores in order to give their money away. Being a snow professional, I wondered. If you had a K Mart store and a Wal-Mart store on the same block, and 20% of the K Mart parking places were covered in snow, where would the people go?
    In winter resort towns like Truckee, CA. or Vail, CO., they charge over a buck an hour to park downtown. What happens to the money, from the snow cover spaces? Snow doesn’t pay to park.
    Snow, what is it good for? I used to say, you can make money pushing it or blowing it out of the way. With cities getting so big, where do they put it? You can make some money hauling it away. The high cost of fuel, the equipment, and man power needed, would customers pay that much? Not to mention the men, the trucks, the loaders, the book keeping, the tax (IRS) issues- boggles my brain thinking about it. How would my company survive a winter if it didn’t snow with so many equipment payments?
    Spring comes along and melts it, but it is long wait from November to spring. Can we make spring come early? Can we melt the snow downtown and in shopping centers without melting the snow on the ski runs? Some people tell me snow is good to ski on, and that ski resorts charge money for people to ski on it. I hear they even spend money to make it, for skiers to slide down on.
    Is snow good to melt? Why, yes it is. With commercial real estate needs and our growing population; we are requiring more open space and less snow storage areas. The time is here to seriously think about melting snow for your customers, and maybe even for the former snow plowing competition. They could push snow into handy little piles for you to come along and melt the snow for them. You would of course bill them for doing so… 

    You could maybe reduce your fleet to one truck, one melter, one loader and one of those fancy pickups with the heated seats.
    I think now I know what snow is really good for; melting.

For more information about snow melting:
www.plowsunlimited/.com
www.trecan.com

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M.P.

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Mr. Plow,

Hi Mr. Plow,
I hope you can help me with this problem.
Our condo development in Calgary, Alberta, does not have any place for storing snow. Hauling off snow by truck costs us $1000/snowfall. I was wondering whether we could devise a solution like that I have seen in Calgary when streets are cleared of high banks of plowed snow -- the snow is dumped into a mobile vat and melted off -- goes away as steam. Do you know of any such equipment available? (We could melt it and run it down the sewer, too).
Thanks for your ideas!
Karen

Hi Karen,
The product you are looking for is a snow melter. We sell snow melters by Trecan. Trecan is a Canadian company so the exchange rate is not a factor. Talking to the engineers at the factory wll help determine your size requirements. Trecan makes movable, self-propelled and stationary in-ground units, and they can even be rigged to reclaim deicers at airports. They are a great solution for parking structures and in areas where snow storage is limited.
Mr Plow

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