I was going down to my buddies in the Seaforth & Worthington St/Falaise Park area. At the bottom of the hill, someone just left their IS 300 sitting in the middle of the street so nobody could get through. I'm guessing they had no traction being a RWD with probably no weight on the rear wheels. My buddy had to walk home from the bottom of that hill because of that damn car.
Yeah...the spade peels the ice/compacted snow right off the road. It literally comes off in sheets that you can throw into the snow pile, or pick up with the snow shovel. Snow shovels usually just get stuck when you hit compacted snow.
Here's a pic of my back lane after about an hour of shovelling. (I think this was around Christmas Eve or Christmas Day before the 3rd dumping of snow) The pile on the centre left is no longer there and was all moved up against the green shed in the background so guests could park in front of our garage, so that pile by the shed is now twice as high.
We cleared out a path all the way to the end of the block:
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Turn 180 degrees around and see what my lazy ass neighbours have done:
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There's almost always a car stuck on the other side. I never exit from that side, hence I didn't plow all the way to the end of the block there. (plus it's actually longer to that end of the block)
Not that hard. Three or four rounds with the spade, and the snow shovel and I've got a clean path to the end of the block. I just wish people would put in a little effort to do the little piece in front of their house so there would be less havoc in the back lanes. Of course it took less than two hours for some fuckers to block each one of those lanes I had cleared out with their cars so I couldn't get through.
