The worst part of it is that my neighbor, a retired policeman, offers to rid the neighborhood of snow (something like Superman) with his brandy new $12,000 + hydraulic driven Cub Cadet Tractor complete with hydraulic snow blower attachement, seat warmer, coffee maker, toaster, frying pan etc. etc. The thing is a real beauty but I'll never let him know that.
Anyway, I'm in mid spin with my Farmall and he comes racing up the road and starts blowing the driveway across the street. He cluck clucks that it's too bad I don't have a set of chains and to add insult to injury, my wife comes out and tells me to have "Phil" do our driveway.
Of course, my pride kicked in and with a few shouts of "never" and I'll drop dead before I ask him, I proceeded to hand shovel the driveway yet another time.
Ok. Anecdotes aside, I have one question for all of you. As it appears that Tirechains.com is getting a whopping business this year, it looks as though I'm going to order a set of ladder chains. $111.00 I think. I'm thinking that this will be the most asphalt friendly of the bunch. But let's talk about shoes. I placed two on my grader blade and I think that it leaves way too much snow on the pavement. They're adjusted down about as far as they're going to go with approximately 1.5" of clearance underneath. Has anybody with an asphalt drive had any problems taking the shoes off and scraping the surface directly? I'm concerned that I'm going to gouge up the new surface that we just had placed 2 years ago. I'd rather leave the shoes on of course so, I'm open to ideas of how to retrofit the existing ones.
