Should all be required take a test, be licensed
,bonded and insured .

There are way to many shit 4 brains
Cork soakers out there ripping
people off.

A lot of them think that packing the snow
on to the pavement is the answer to
A foot of snow.

11 trips back and forth pulling a 1/4
Inch at a time does not work.

So now I will be falling down on
four inches of packed frozen snow until
March.

Yes, more government control, oversight and intrusion. Don't forget fees and taxes. Exactly what we need.

i have plowed a lot of snow. Plowing it down to bare concrete or asphalt is not always possible. Actually it isn't possible very often. But yes hiring someone can be a gamble in terms of what you get. Damage to things can and does happen. But sounds like your guy did not do you right. The first plow or two of the season is the most challenging even for the most experienced. Ymmv.

We got a foot of snow in 16 hours,
And my snow blower won't start.
I've cleaned my Apt. driveway to
my garage for 15 years now because
None of the 6 plowboys could get
down to the pavement.


They can all push snow off to where
ever they want too.
But when the try to drag it back away from the
building too the curb, it floats all the way back.

So now there is a three inch top layer
Of crust on the pavement, that is elderly
have to walk on.

I will take the ice breaker bar out there
and work on it for three days.

It's possible I guess that I expect too much.

The best implement for getting down to bare pavement is a rotary broom. My snow clearing arsenal is a tractor mounted plow, snowblower and rotary broom - sometimes you need to use all three. The broom is the best for getting slush off before it freezes.

The Lake area here has three pretty good sized communities and the snow plow guys all do a pretty decent job. But then, this is Missouri and we can get a foot of snow on Sunday and it will probably be completely gone by Wednesday. Right now St. Louis is really getting hammered.

Yeah the last thing we need would be more government regulations for them.

MaSigchist, what kind of rotary broom do you use?

Move to Cheese country. The local farmers did a great job and did not plow in the entrance to your driveway.

I was working outside monitoring a crew working inside a storage tank at a chemical plant, it was summer in South Texas and hotter than the surface of the sun. The crew inside the tank had to wear rubber suits to prevent contact with residual chemicals and I was complaining about the heat to their foreman (even though I was not going in the tank). He said he grew up in the north but settled in Texas and I asked why. He said “I never have to shovel sunshine”.

I grew up in Southern Illinois and also lived in Utah and Maryland for a while so I have seen my share of snow and ice so I understand your pain. We just got our first real cold front and it is a chilly 50 degrees right now.

Hope you can find someone to clear your ice/snow so you do not have to do it.