Fern Winter storm 2026 (aka "Stahmageddon")

[NORTSTER1974]

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Your shoulders, neck and arms will think so.....

This is the Delaware River the picture of the bridge is where it crosses from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. 20 miles north you hit Washington's crossing where George Washington crossed in 1776. 15 miles south of the bridge you're in Philadelphia. Lord have mercy. Temperatures around here have been way below freezing. Whatever I wish I bought property in Florida like I intended to do 25 years ago. At concours, you could probably drive a snowmobile across that. If you keep the throttle up!

 

[concours]

This is the Delaware River the picture of the bridge is where it crosses from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. 20 miles north you hit Washington's crossing where George Washington crossed in 1776. 15 miles south of the bridge you're in Philadelphia. Lord have mercy. Temperatures around here have been way below freezing. Whatever I wish I bought property in Florida like I intended to do 25 years ago. At concours, you could probably drive a snowmobile across that. If you keep the throttle up!

Izzat the Ben Franklin? I worked a LOT in that area. Walt Whitman & Betsy Ross too...
DelMem as well

Edit: I couldn't wait. Had to search it.

 

[NORTSTER1974]

Izzat the Ben Franklin? I worked a LOT in that area. Walt Whitman & Betsy Ross too...
DelMem as well

No it's called the Burlington-Bristol bridge. It was built in the mid thirties. Everything you're talking about is further south. I remember when the Betsy Ross bridge was built in the seventies. Before it was open I walked up to the top and skateboarded into Philly with my cousin. Lol.

 

[NORTSTER1974]

No it's called the Burlington-Bristol bridge. It was built in the mid thirties. Everything you're talking about is further south. I remember when the Betsy Ross bridge was built in the seventies. Before it was open I walked up to the top and skateboarded into Philly with my cousin. Lol.

No it's called the Burlington-Bristol bridge. It was built in the mid thirties. Everything you're talking about is further south. I remember when the Betsy Ross bridge was built in the seventies. Before it was open I walked up to the top and skateboarded into Philly with my cousin. Lol.

When you're going up to Delaware River once you get to Trenton the big freighters and boats stop under the Trenton makes and world takes bridge. No boats can pass that point small medium or large. There are big bunch of rocks there. At that point you could probably walk across the Delaware in neck deep water. Well in 1776 George Washington didn't have a problem crossing it in a boat to fight off the Hessian terrorist. Google George Washington State Park it's on both sides of the river

 

[BERT]

Ben Franklin ( Count Rumford) researched the power of lightning using a kite in his experiments. He also developed an efficient fireplace for that time period and the design went on to be known as the Franklin Fireplace

 

[grandpaul]

Ben Franklin ( Count Rumford) researched the power of lightning using a kite in his experiments. He also developed an efficient fireplace for that time period and the design went on to be known as the Franklin Fireplace

I'm quite surprised that he didn't invent the motorcycle... It was IN HIM.

 

[Richard Tool]

Izzat the Ben Franklin? I worked a LOT in that area. Walt Whitman & Betsy Ross too...
DelMem as well

Edit: I couldn't wait. Had to search it.

My father’s Uncle Richard ( whom I was named after) was a sand hog ( caisson worker ) on those Philly bridges and ultimately died of Caisson’s disease from breathing compressed air . At the time they thought it was pneumonia.

 

[MikeG]

My crossing point was always the Walt Whitman bridge out of south Philly headed to Wildwood or Ocean City. First you had to go over the Passyunk Ave bridge and if you were lucky Publiker distilleries, just below the bridge, would be cooking up a batch and you would get that wonderful aroma of cheap whisky being made.

 

[MikeG]

Much better now, if youre headed north to New England to take the back way and cross at Frenchtown or Milford NJ. The Ship Inn makes for a nice stop...

 

[NORTSTER1974]

My father’s Uncle Richard ( whom I was named after) was a sand hog ( caisson worker ) on those Philly bridges and ultimately died of Caisson’s disease from breathing compressed air . At the time they thought it was pneumonia.

Rt, I had to google a sand hog.. When you travel from Nj to PA on the Tacony Palmyra bridge you will see a train bridge crossing the Delaware to the left. Before the Betsey
Ross. My good friends Father operated the train bridge. Anyway they found him dead at the end of a shift. He died of an aneurism only to be found by the nexy shift.

 

[Richard Tool]

My crossing point was always the Walt Whitman bridge out of south Philly headed to Wildwood or Ocean City.

Wildwood or Ocean City ? Oh - you mean Philly by the Sea …

 

[MikeG]

Wildwood or Ocean City ? Oh - you mean Philly by the Sea …

Nothing like being 18 and just having to cross the bridge to legally get drunk. My father was born and raised in Atlantic City but even as kids we never went there much. One block off the boardwalk and its a whole different place. And not a good one.

 

[BERT]

It's a 23yo Simplicity.
11hp Tecumseh
32" cut
Those flatbars on the front are called "drift cutters"
Has a "torque shift pulley" on the engine, changes ratio under heavy load.
Sturdy formed channel handlebars
But, most importantly the HANDLEBAR HEIGHT was made for a FULL GROWN MAN.
All the others were small ergonomics that my back said: "NFW will I walk behind it crouching"

Fast & powerful.

Simplicity was a holdout to the MTD (and cheesy quality) scoop up.
Turns out Briggs & Stratton has since bought them, and implemented the expected cost (quality) reduction.View attachment 123537

It's a 23yo Simplicity.
11hp Tecumseh
32" cut
Those flatbars on the front are called "drift cutters"
Has a "torque shift pulley" on the engine, changes ratio under heavy load.
Sturdy formed channel handlebars
But, most importantly the HANDLEBAR HEIGHT was made for a FULL GROWN MAN.
All the others were small ergonomics that my back said: "NFW will I walk behind it crouching"

Fast & powerful.

Simplicity was a holdout to the MTD (and cheesy quality) scoop up.
Turns out Briggs & Stratton has since bought them, and implemented the expected cost (quality) reduction.View attachment 123537

This is a LawnBoy from the late 80's doing more "drift cutting".

It has moved alot of snow. 10hp cast iron sleeve tecumseh engine which hasn't been touch other than carb fettling(never removed). They don't build them as tough nowadays

 

[concours]

This is a LawnBoy from the late 80's doing more "drift cutting".View attachment 123675 It has moved alot of snow. 10hp cast iron sleeve tecumseh engine which hasn't been touch other than carb fettling(never removed). They don't build them as tough nowadays

I don't believe I've ever seen a lawn boy snowblower. The power equipment market was ao different then. The mowers were legendary quality, and I enjoyed using mine because the smell of 2-stroke smoke held me over until snowmobile season.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lawn-Boy an OMC owned company for a while?
That machine will last a long, long time.

 

[BERT]

I don't believe I've ever seen a lawn boy snowblower. The mowers were legendary quality, and I enjoyed using mine because the smell of 2-stroke smoke held me over until snowmobile season.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lawn-Boy an OMC owned company for a while?

I don't know the Lawnboy history, but they are good snowblowers. I had a smoking Lawnboy 2stroke lawnmower at one time. It didn't want to quit running either. In fact it spun so fast it probably could have snowblown too

 

[NORTSTER1974]

Wildwood or Ocean City ? Oh - you mean Philly by the Sea …

RT, back in the early 80's majority of visitors to WW were from Canada and NY. Believe me, my buddy had 2 hotels there. The Swan and the Cassanova. What was really crazy was when me and my girl took a ride on the Harley to the Seaside boardwalk. We parked the bike and continued down the boardwalk. About 15 minutes into it, I thought I was in a foreign country. I couldn't understand what anyone was saying. I saw one of them guys spray painting custom T shirts and asked him the cost and time. He said $20 and a half an hour. He said what do you want? I said a big American flag on the front with the saying....You're in America A hole speak English. Still have the shirt until this day!

 

[Deets55]

RT, back in the early 80's majority of visitors to WW were from Canada and NY. Believe me, my buddy had 2 hotels there. The Swan and the Cassanova. What was really crazy was when me and my girl took a ride on the Harley to the Seaside boardwalk. We parked the bike and continued down the boardwalk. About 15 minutes into it, I thought I was in a foreign country. I couldn't understand what anyone was saying. I saw one of them guys spray painting custom T shirts and asked him the cost and time. He said $20 and a half an hour. He said what do you want? I said a big American flag on the front with the saying....You're in America A hole speak English. Still have the shirt until this day!

Being from North Jersey, A.C and Wildwood Crest were nice vacation spots in the late '60's, but nothing was better than being a teenager in the '70's and walking the Seaside Boardwalk during the summer. It's a shame what happened, a lot of fond memories there.

 

[NORTSTER1974]

"Nor'Easter Bomb Cyclone"
Hang on kids, this may be a bumpy ride...

@concours @Richard Tool How's the weather? They are talking 18" along the Delaware river here in the Peoples Republic of New Germany. It's starting to lay now. Back in 1996 I was living in Philly. We had the snowstorm of the century, I don't recall, but I believe 33". I lived on a corner and there was a 7' snow drift. WTF? I was a route driver and work shut down for 2 days. A couple of neighbors and myself got together and shoveled a path 2 blocks back to Bridge St. I was the first person out of the hood with my 1987 Ford F150 2wd Short bed manual transmission. Awesome old truck. Still have it today. I hope you guys have plenty of beer!

 

[Richard Tool]

@concours @Richard Tool How's the weather? They are talking 18" along the Delaware river here in the Peoples Republic of New Germany. It's starting to lay now. Back in 1996 I was living in Philly. We had the snowstorm of the century, I don't recall, but I believe 33". I lived on a corner and there was a 7' snow drift. WTF? I was a route driver and work shut down for 2 days. A couple of neighbors and myself got together and shoveled a path 2 blocks back to Bridge St. I was the first person out of the hood with my 1987 Ford F150 2wd Short bed manual transmission. Awesome old truck. Still have it today. I hope you guys have plenty of beer!

Well since you asked - just starting to lay here - temps dropping and wind picking up -

And I have just one more bottle of my new beer crush left for tomorrow.

This stuff is GOOD !

 

[concours]

Not started yet, but within a couple hours....