Ridiculous Snow Account Picts

[CaptainsLS]

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Pict #1- Stop yourself (somehow) or destroy garage. As usual, it’s hard to tell how steep it really is.

Pict #2- Unfortunatly… there are no car tracks to show going into the ditch.

Pict #3- We bring snow to the bottom of this drive to create a wall. Behind the wall it’s a drop off. Architect for this development deserves to be shot in the face.

Pict #4- Skid right before it bites the bullet. In the future he will be sure to keep a tight lid on his coffee I’m sure…..:noidea:

[paponte]

Better you than me bud! I can tell you how much I would charge if I had to do those accounts though. I'd just take the sticker price off the truck, plus all the upfitting, and go by that. Cause that's what its going to cost you if you have an ut oh! Based on averages you should make money at that rate. :scared:

[custom patios]

Chris, well this certainly has me feeling a little more upbeat about my accounts. lol. I'll have to get some pics of my accounts and we'll see who is crazier. It appears at least that you can go down those drives first. On mine you have to get up them first! except one.
anyway, do you charge an "oh ****" factor into those accounts?

[GreenMonster]

Chris, you're nutz. I hope those are worth big $$$$$.

I turned down one this year. We did a nice planting job for the guy. I tell no lies when I say the driveway was steeper and narrower than those with three of four curves in it. Down the bottom, there was a stone wall about 8-9' tall, with about 3' of it exposed on the driveway side. Right before this wall, the driveway took a 90 degree turn (downhill again) to the left to go into the garage.

If that wasn't bad enough, you couldn't backdrag the garage because there wasn't enough room to back the truck up far enough to get the snow into the driveway. Oh, and there were stone columns supporting a roof over the garage door. yeah, I'd love to pay to have those replaced.

I don't know how the hell someone is plowing that out. The whole driveway is a loader job for sure. Probably someone around here is doing it for 50 or 60 bucks. I'd want at least a few hundred plus a disclaimer that I wouldn't be responsible for damage, and I want to be reimbursed to get pulled out when we inevitably went off into a ditch.

Nice homeowner and gave us some nice work, I almost felt bad about turning him down, until I started to imagine snow on that driveway.

[CaptainsLS]

We have been doing this place for 3 years now. Unfortunately there are 100 drives in the complex, each having it’s own unique F*** factor.

Some of them are questionable even in summer to be honest. The first driveway pictured (did I mention that’s the one where the handicap/wheelchair guy lives at the bottom… who drives a minivan) we can only get the skid down… not back up. I have a rubber tire machine and it doesn’t have a prayer getting back up.

There have been times I’ve been in the next drive over only to see the cat figure skating 20mph through the woods.

[GreenMonster]

Chris, do you keep your skid over at that development or are you close enough to drive it over there? Also, have you considered chains for your tires? makes a considerable difference.

[CaptainsLS]

Yes, we leave the skid and trailer there. I have thought about chains before but never looked into it. Can you drive on the highway with them? I have multiple condo's and properties to travel too and need to go on the highway for picking up sand/salt.

[GreenMonster]

I don't see why you couldn't. We occasionally run chains on our Int 4900 when it's real bad and run that on the road:noidea:

[Ground effects NH]

Yes, we leave the skid and trailer there. I have thought about chains before but never looked into it. Can you drive on the highway with them? I have multiple condo's and properties to travel too and need to go on the highway for picking up sand/salt.

Chris, We run the chains” love them” on the skid. your plowing with a 1ton in the pic.:scared: 9' blade and a sander you "r" the man

[CaptainsLS]

Chris, We run the chains” love them” on the skid. your plowing with a 1ton in the pic.:scared: 9' blade and a sander you "r" the man

Bill- those chains look awesome. How much did you pay for a set?

As for using the 1ton.... Yeah, I'm a little crazy, but I'm a pro with the thing, I can do circles around a pickup any day. :)

[Ground effects NH]

Bill- those chains look awesome. How much did you pay for a set?

As for using the 1ton.... Yeah, I'm a little crazy, but I'm a pro with the thing, I can do circles around a pickup any day. :)

Chris the chains came with the skidsteer when I bought it. The added traction is truly amazing,
If you do look at a set, get the across the tire (traction chain) every 2-3 chain links.
Mine has 17-18 traction chain.
I have seen as little as 8 on a skidsteer, talking to the operator he told me it has severe wheel hop.

Is that the same 1 ton that you were in the collision with or was it totaled?

[CaptainsLS]

In the last picture, I have actually seen a Toyota Camry fall into the ditch on the right side. It looks small in the picture, but it’s a 10’ drop off located 12” from the pavement…. Right after descending down a huge hill.

[CaptainsLS]

Is that the same 1 ton that you were in the collision with or was it totaled?

Yeah, the insurance company spent 25k to fix it rather than replace it. I wasn't happy with the decision needless to say.

[Terraventure]

I looked at a place a couple of years ago with a private road and a few driveways. The road was next to a lake and the driveways from the road to the lake where insane. One of the driveways I had trouble just walking down in September. The worst part was at the bottom the driveway was also a boat launch so if you started sliding you going into the lake. I bid the place really high. Of course I did not get it. Looking back I am glad I did not get it. I would have had to change my shortsw everytime I plowed!

[CaptainsLS]

Anyone else have any sketchy picts from this season so far??? We still have this 'terror' account and took on another one this year as well. Still havent been sued or ruined the CAT yet.... :crosses fingers: