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Joke Of The Day: Snowplow Directions

Rubber Chicken On a bitterly cold winters morning a husband and wife in Edmonton were listening to the radio during breakfast.

They heard the announcer say, “We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the Snowplows can get through.” So the good wife went out and moved her car.

A week later while they are eating breakfast again, the radio announcer said, “We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the odd-numbered side of the street, so the Snowplows can get through.” The good wife went out and moved her car again.

The next week they are again having breakfast, when the radio announcer says, “We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park….” Then the electricity went out.

The good wife was very upset, and with a worried look on her face she said, “I don’t know what to do. Which side of the street do I need to park on so the Snowplows can get through?”

Then with the love and understanding in his voice that all married men exhibit, the husband replied, “Why don’t you just leave the car in the garage this time.”

 

 

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Chevy V8 Snowblower

Chevy V8 Snowblower

Chevy V8 Snowblower
This powerful snow blower, built by a Canadian, has a Chevrolet big block V8 engine and can shoot snow up to 126 feet in the air. It has enough power to blow the snow back to where it came from!

This is the snowblower needed to tackle the infamous Polar vortex.

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Australian V8 Chainsaw



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Track N Go – Winter Driving Mastery

Tire chains? We don’t need no stinking tire chains!

The AD Boivin company has created ‘Track N Go’, the world’s first wheel-driven track system to allow driving through thick snow. It literally turns your vehicle into a snowmobile.

Track N Go is the first ever ”wheel driven track system for pickup trucks”! This innovative and unique system opens the market to an easier utilisation of track system in winter time.

Who would have thought that one day we could install 4 tracks on a vehicle in 15 minutes, while keeping the tires on and without any modifications of this vehicle. Well, after several years of research and development we are proud to present you the Track N Go system: “The first ever wheel driven track system”, an innovation that will make it much easier to use tracks on your vehicles.

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How To Information

How To Of The Day: How To Build The Perfect Snowman

Apparently building the perfect snowman requires a little more than a corncob pipe, a button nose and two eyes made out of coal.

How To Build The Perfect SnowmanBuilding a snowman, that universal celebration of winter, is actually a deceivingly difficult task. Every year, around this time of winter’s arrival in the northern hemisphere, “build a snowman” peaks on Google Trends. And there’s another flurry of interest, thanks to the Disney blockbuster, Frozen, featuring a wisecracking snowman named Olaf and the sweet princess duet, “Do you want to build a snowman?”

There are more than 89,000 YouTube videos to teach them how. Two years ago, someone even patented instructions on the process.

Humans have been making sculptures out of snow for thousands of years, but despite our primal instincts, we’re clearly still struggling to perfect them. “It’s a special activity that’s very old. If you’re making a snowman you’re probably participating in one of the first forms of folk-art known to man and maybe one of the very few activities we share with our ancestors,” says Bob Eckstein, author of The History of the Snowman.

So what’s the best way?

Professor Roy Pruett, who was responsible for the plans, told Quartz: “The snow has to be somewhere right around 30°F (-1 °C), where there’s just a little moisture in it. It can’t be too cold or not cold enough.”

Temperature is paramount, says Pruett. Too high a temperature and the snow will be wet and lack strength. If the snow is too cold and dry, it will be too powdery to form stable snowballs, which are then built out into the base, torso, and head of the snowman. You’ll need a lot of this good quality snow: the engineers’ ideal snowman—standing 6 feet tall—takes almost 19 cubic feet of compacted snow. Proportion—the ratio of each segment to the next—is important for stability. The engineers suggest diameters of 3 feet, 2 feet, and 1 foot for the foundation, torso, and head, respectively.

Where you build your snowman matters, too. There should be a “foundation of at least two inches of wet snow,” since the depth of snow in your building zone becomes your building material. It’s best to avoid the bases of hills near sledding paths and windy areas—at least if you want your snowman to have a long life.

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