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... of a very manly snowblower working on the field. Oh, and it's built by Oshkosh Corporation. (Yes, the same Oshkosh - They're just east of the field.)

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There's one of those (or one very similar; the chassis is Oshkosh, but the blower itself is made by Snogo, and has a separate engine mounted on the back of the chassis) at KFRM. It sat for years until someone showed the airport manager how to run it. Now it sees regular use, and the runways and taxiways stay pretty clear.
 
Based on the snow piles outside, I think I need one of those...
 
Now that's some serious snow throwing hardware. Glad we don't need such stuff here.
 
Thought you guys would like to know spring is on its way, we found these today.
 

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jmaynard said:
There's one of those (or one very similar; the chassis is Oshkosh, but the blower itself is made by Snogo, and has a separate engine mounted on the back of the chassis) at KFRM. It sat for years until someone showed the airport manager how to run it. Now it sees regular use, and the runways and taxiways stay pretty clear.
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It's amazing how clear they get the runways here. I wish my driveway got half as clean.

Here's one of the local rigs, an older Oshkosh:

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The trailer with the big rotary brush on it pretty much completely clears anything that's left on the runways after the plow moves the big stuff. The reason the ramp still has a lot is that (as you can see) the brush isn't being used on the ramp. "Notice to airmen, patchy thin snow and ice on all ramps, advise on initial contact you have..."
 
After spending most of this winter in Appleton, WI I came to realize that you guys don't remove snow---you simply rearrange it and your preference is rearrange it to the neighbor's yard. The snow blower simply blows it into the air and you guys simply wait for winds that will make it all land in the neighbor's yard who never mowed his grass last summer and let his dog poop in yours. Better yet are the days when the wind will allow you to blow your snow onto his roof.

And the city doesn't care, their only law is that you don't push it into the street. It's a big fine in Appleton for doing that.
 
timwinters said:
After spending most of this winter in Appleton, WI I came to realize that you guys don't remove snow---you simply rearrange it and your preference is rearrange it to the neighbor's yard. The snow blower simply blows it into the air and you guys simply wait for winds that will make it all land in the neighbor's yard who never mowed his grass last summer and let his dog poop in yours. Better yet are the days when the wind will allow you to blow your snow onto his roof.
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:rofl:

I wouldn't know, yard's big enough that there's no way the snowblower would be able to get to the neigbor's yard.

What do you do to "remove" snow in MO? Take it inside to melt? ;)
 
We don't move it, remove it, or rearrange it!

Heck, if we get over an inch or two then everything simply shuts down! We're a bunch of woosies.

It's supposed to be 70 here Thursday and Friday though.

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We had a couple of those in AUG.


They would park it right next to the crew door on the side of the terminal when they'd come in for coffee. Nothing beats swinging the door open to have that thing staring at you. The AUG airport was kind of up on a hill...it was amazing the distance they could get on the snow going over the edge of the hill. Rumor has it a shopping cart got sucked into it once...pretty much came out recycled.

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When I was just a young kid, we went up on Nettle Hill, just north of Sherman NY, and watched one of the first Oskosh Rotary Plows clear a path through a drift that was 12 feet deep. (1944) Bob
 
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