Snow clearing — private lanes — operated hireThe long private lane nobody else wants to commit to.
Seasonal snow clearing on cottage and rural laneways. A season contract, not an hourly favour — because a storm is not the time to negotiate.
Sheet A-518Snow blade and snowblower
December through March — the quarter when decks, fences, painting and siding are all dead.
- Overall widthTo confirmNot published — we measure it against your access before we book.
- Overall heightTo confirmNot published — we measure it against your access before we book.
- Operating weight5,685lb· 2,579 kgWhat it puts on a finished lawn. Soft ground, a septic bed or new sod is a conversation before we book, not after.
- Rated lift capacity1,500lb· 680 kgWhat the arms lift at the plate. The dump box behind carries 2,000 lb again.
Figures published by Bobcat for the Toolcat 5600. Width and height are measured against your own access before we commit to a date.
Sheet A-518 — The work
Snow clearing — private lanes
Long private laneways in snow country are the work most plough operators quietly avoid: they are far apart, they drift, and half of them belong to people who are not there. A blade and a blower on a road-capable machine handles them. This is sold as a SEASON CONTRACT rather than by the visit, because that is the only honest way to sell an availability commitment — you are buying a lane that gets cleared through the storm, not a phone call that might get answered.
Who buys this
- Cottage owners who visit through the winter
- Rural homeowners with a long lane
- Property managers who need one reliable name
Sequence on site — in order
- Lane walked in the fall, before there is anything on it.
- Markers set on the edges, culverts and anything the blade must not find.
- Trigger depth and clearing standard agreed in writing.
- Cleared through the season to that standard.
- Spring sweep of the sand and gravel the winter left behind.
What snow clearing — private lanes costs
Sheet A-518 — Operated hire — the machine with an operator
What a season costs
Quoted per job
Operator included
You are hiring the machine with him on it. He runs it, it stays on his insurance, and nothing about the work transfers to you.
- Operator
- Included
- You are buying hours of work with him running the machine. Nothing is released to you and no liability transfers.
- Minimum charge
- Stated with your date
- Every hire has one. You see the figure when we confirm the date — never after the work.
- Float — machine to site and back
- Charged separately
- Mobilisation is its own line, not something buried in the hourly rate. Georgian Bay and Muskoka distances are real and we would rather show them than hide them.
- Attachment changes on site
- No second visit
- The quick-attach is the point of this machine: augering, grading and hauling can all happen on the same visit.
- Clearing standard
- Written down
- Trigger depth, what gets cleared and what does not — agreed before the season starts.
- Spring sweep
- End of season
- The sand and grit the winter leaves behind, swept off before it goes into the lawn.
- Season list
- Closes when full
- One machine and one operator. Taking on more lanes than can be cleared in a storm would be a promise we could not keep.
Before we roll
- Access measured — the narrowest gate, gap or lane the machine has to pass.
- Ground condition agreed — lawn, septic bed, new sod and soft spring ground are settled before the day, not discovered on it.
- Somewhere for the spoil — off site, stockpiled, or spread. It has to go somewhere.
- Locates cleared where anything is being dug (Ontario One Call — five business days).
HST shown as its own line. Price honoured as quoted.
Book the machine
Tell us the site and roughly what needs doing. We reply with a date and what it will take — hours, minimum and float shown before you commit.
No obligation — we reply within one business day.
How it is sold
Per season, by written contract. Not sold by the visit.
Lane length, slope, where the snow goes and how often you are actually there.
Sheet A-518 — Typical job
What a typical season looks like
- A long rural or cottage laneway with a turning area at the top.
- Contract agreed in the fall, markers in before the first fall of snow.
- Cleared to an agreed trigger depth through December to March.
- A spring sweep at the end, which most contracts forget to include.
The machine is new to the business this season, so there are no record photographs filed against it yet. We photograph work as jobs wrap up — the rest of the book is open.
Before we can book it — 05 questions
- A-518.01The lane
- Length, width, slope, and where the snow can physically go once it is off the surface.
- A-518.02Turning space
- Somewhere at the top to turn around. Without it the lane is a reversing job and that changes everything.
- A-518.03Trigger depth
- What depth we come out at. Agreed in writing before the season, never argued during a storm.
- A-518.04Occupied or not
- A weekend cottage and a lived-in house are two different commitments.
- A-518.05Book early
- Season contracts are an availability promise from a one-man shop, so the list closes when it is full.
Sheet A-590 — Book the machine
Get snow booked.
Tell us the site and roughly what needs doing. We reply with a date and what it will take — hours, minimum and float shown before you commit.
No obligation — we reply within one business day.