Roof Snow Removal

Beeman · #21 01/09/10, 07:50 AM

WOW!, people up north really know how to have fun.

ninny · #22 01/09/10, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

Hey, even if you did get snow down there, that dern Corpus Christi wind would blow it right off the roof. I remember walking down there and could barely keep my cigar lit.

I can't argue with you there. That's why all of us who live along the coast kinda lean to one side when we're walking. Sure is good for wind farming though.
They call Chicago the windy city but on an avg. day the wind blows stronger here than there.

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uncle Will in In. · #23 01/09/10, 02:51 PM

I thought Chicago was referring to the flatulence from all that Polish sausage.

deb · #24 01/09/10, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

Finally, there is a new method to remove roof snow that is actually FUN and EASY to do! It’s with the use of the Avalanche! Original 500. I have had one of these for several years and love it. Now, I look forward to removing snow from our roofs (okay that is stretching it a bit!).

Go to the Avalanche website and look at thier photo gallery to see how the Avalanche! Original 500 works.

Hey CF
Did you buy this from the website or did you find it sold locally?

I think I want to get one. DH has back problems and he can only use the roof rack on a small area before his back goes into spasms. I usually do the roof raking now, but it does get tiring.

deb
in wi

**Cabin Fever** · #25 01/11/10, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by deb

Hey CF
Did you buy this from the website or did you find it sold locally?

I think I want to get one. DH has back problems and he can only use the roof rack on a small area before his back goes into spasms. I usually do the roof raking now, but it does get tiring.

deb
in wi

I bought mine locally. The Avalanche website tells you where you can purchase their products locally ==> Find a Local Dealer.

You will not believe how much easier it is to remove the snow from your roof my letting gravity do the work (with the Avalanche Original 500) compared to making your muscles do the work by using a pull-style roof rake.

**Cabin Fever** · #26 02/07/10, 11:03 AM

***BUMP***

Thought some of our friends out east might find this resource useful for thier current snow clean-up efforts.

AnnieinBC · #27 02/07/10, 11:13 AM

wow, I have to show that to my hubby.....even tho we have a very steep pitch on our (metal) roof, sometimes the snow gets stuck on there.

Last year, we had a bit of snow fall, followed by freezing rain. Then the temps never warmed up enuf to let the snow slide off. More and more snow landed on the roof. One area never did shed snow until early Spring....

mistletoad · #28 02/07/10, 12:04 PM

Excuse the stupid question, but does everyone in the great white north have one storey houses? I can't see reaching our roof with one of those and it seems it would be dangerous to use from a ladder.

**Cabin Fever** · #29 02/07/10, 02:34 PM

Mistletoad, on taller roofs I had used the Avalanche from near the top of an 8ft step ladder. The ladder was about 6 to 8 feet away from the house.

I have also used the Avalanche from on top of the roof. What one does is hold the pole out in front of you so the runner drapes down the side of the house and then pull the pole towards you...kinda the opposite way of using it from the ground where you push the pole away from yourself.

The whole idea is to undercut the snow on the roof and let gravity make the snow slide down the runner.

tyusclan · #30 02/07/10, 03:17 PM

I know less than nothing about removing snow from a roof, but that thing looks plumb amazin'.

southerngurl · #31 02/07/10, 03:52 PM

What a nifty idea! We don't get enough snow here normally to worry about it.

mistletoad · #32 02/07/10, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

Mistletoad, on taller roofs I had used the Avalanche from near the top of an 8ft step ladder. The ladder was about 6 to 8 feet away from the house.

I have also used the Avalanche from on top of the roof. What one does is hold the pole out in front of you so the runner drapes down the side of the house and then pull the pole towards you...kinda the opposite way of using it from the ground where you push the pole away from yourself.

The whole idea is to undercut the snow on the roof and let gravity make the snow slide down the runner.

Thanks - I had not considered either of those options but so obvious now you mention them!

Ann-NWIowa · #33 02/07/10, 10:52 PM

We saw these advertised in Countryside a couple years ago and I thought then we should get one. Dh or I aren't able to use such these days, but maybe we could have paid the man less than $95 to clean off our roof if he hadn't had to climb up to do it. We have a low pitch roof and this is the first time in 31 years we've felt it necessary to remove the snow/ice. BTW we have a metal roof.