Lawny Five Keeps Lawn Mowed, Snow Plowed

#robotshacks #2hitch #autonomous #interchangabletools #lawnmower #mower #plow #remotecontrol #robot #snowplow #trackedvehicle #hackaday
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Lawny Five Keeps Lawn Mowed, Snow Plowed

Although there’s been considerable excitement over the past half century of a Jetsons-like robotic future, outside of a few niche uses of our day-to-day lives there hasn’t been much in …

More #snowplow pix for @clarice oncemore. You probably have graders there in Australia for road levelling work. Here we also use them as snowplows! This one carefully graded the snow off the street and then dumped in my driveway.

#weather #meteorology #winter #snowstorm #Ottawa

Well this is darn fun. More photos from our early #snow storm in #Ottawa for @Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier..again. and everyone else.

So we got about 8 cm of snow that fell, but it has been melting all afternoon and now at 1530 hrs there is only about 2 cm of the stuff left on the ground and the streets are just about bare, just a bit of slush left. So what shows up to clear a local private road, but a huge monster #snowplow. This road used to have a contract with a guy with a blade on a pick-up truck, which would have been overkill today, but this looks more like snowplow satire!

#winter #weather and #meteroology

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/02/03/betty-whiteout-ctrl-salt-delete-top-winners-in-mndot-nameasnowplow-contest

#minneaota #snowplow #winter #humor

'Betty Whiteout' wins MnDOT's snowplow naming contest

A tribute to a Golden Girl will soon grace an orange truck clearing snow and ice from Minnesota highways. "Betty Whiteout" is the runaway winner in this winter's MnDOT Name-A-Snowplow contest.