Awoke this morning to about five inches of wet snow.

Yesterday, I went and started the scout after a period of about nine months of dormancy sitting outside without ever having been started even once. Of course it started up right away even though the battery is at least four years old!

The clutch is stuck though, I discovered this morning and I will have to get that unstuck in a few minutes.

HI ho, hi ho, its off to plow I go.

Ahhhh, the glories of owning commercial rental properties!

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Well, that wasn't so bad. The main parking lot and sidewalks had almost none due to favorable wind conditions, I suppose.

And the clutch healed itself.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

come out here to iowa,we got about 2 inchs of ice underneath another 2 inchs of snow.then some more ice on top of that.talk about tough scoopin.actually it's more chopping then scooping.

I'm sure glad I don't live in the snow belt any more! I've been toying with the idea of putting a blade on the F250 but a decent 9' blade is pretty big bucks and considering it only snows here every couple years, it's probably not worth it. When it does snow though, there's a big potential to make money because nobody has the equipment to handle it!

The clutch on the 'mog gets stuck like that sometimes. I have to run it into a tree at a crawl in 4WD to break it loose because the brakes aren't strong enough to hold it.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Glad to hear that the old Scout fired right up and you got your clutch unstuck. She's far ahead of my old girl!

We haven't had any snow yet, but I'm going to pull it out and get it mounted to my Jeep this weekend. At the end of last winter we had a couple 2" snowfall with freezing rain for 6-8 hrs. storms and I bent the lower mounting bracket on the plow trying to move that crap (flexed the Jeep enough to crack the windshield) so I need to get that straightened out. I could have done it over the summer when it was nice and warm and I wouldn't have to be in a hurry but where is the fun and adventure in that?

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

My trusty Toro snowblower fired right up this season! Love the old ones, big heavy beasts. Not like the newer ones which are so light they bounce all over the place...

Which is a good thing since we've have tons of snow this week. More coming...it'll be a nice Christmas anyway!

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Chris
2007 E550 4Matic - 61,000 Km - Iridium Silver, black leather, Sport package, Premium 2 package
2007 GL450 4Matic - 62,000 Km - Obsidian Black Metallic, black leather, all options
1998 E430 - sold
1989 300E - 333,000 Km - sold
1977 280E - sold
1971 250 - retired

"And a frign hat. They gave me a hat at the annual benefits meeting. I said. how does this benefit me. I dont have anything from the company.. So they gave me a hat." - TheDon

Well, it beats shoveling, that's for sure.

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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K
07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

My snow blower quit this morning, so I got to shovel instead. It took 2 hours instead of my normal 15 minutes.

Why would anyone put a plastic transmission on a snowblower?

Is this thread some type of drug reference, or what?

What is a snow plow?

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Dave
1983 300D Daily Driver

I think it is a little metal scoop that looks like a spoon for a doll....

It snows heavily here just infrequently enough that having a snow plow seems like a waste of good money and storage space. Once every five or six years we get creamed pretty good. The rest of the time, not so much.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I think you're becoming rather jaded from your chosen specialty, JD . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I'm the second owner of a 25yo 2-stage Ariens that keeps plugging along. It's one of those that you need to lean down by the engine to engage the trans. & augers. And if the transmission is engaged the augers are turning, whether you squeeze the clutch to move or not. None of that namby pamby moving the snowblower safely for me!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Just kidding--I hear it started snowing a little up there this morning. I bet I won't get laughed at for wearing my Mustang suit on the water fishing this weekend!