And That Should End Winter...

Several months ago, the first time it snowed, my dad was working the snowblower at the end of the driveway. The pavement around my driveway isn't in the best of shape and he hit a big chunk of it. The asphalt went up into the snowblower and out the chute, cracking the top of it in half. As a result, the force of the snow would force the chute any which way it felt like. Now, for the rest of winter we had duct taped the ever-loving crap out of it and just worked around the problem, as we Rakauskas are known to do (we're not complainers - we just suffer in silence. Not sure if that's a Lithuanian or an Irish thing).

It still worked fine to move the snow around, you just couldn't open it up full-throttle. As long as you were in the middle with the speed, you could get the snow to whatever side you needed. Too fast and the snow essentially just went straight up and, of course, straight back down. Damn gravity. The problem with that system is that you need to go full throttle when the snow is very heavy and our last round of snow just frustrated me to no end. So, we caved and ordered a new chute for the snowblower. 5 screws later and we're all set to take on whatever Old Man Winter feels like throwing at us for the rest of the year. That should guarantee there won't be any April Fools Day Blizzard this year and we don't see a flake until next October. You're welcome.