"Steve W." wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Gunner Asch wrote:
when the roads are that icy...the plows, sanders and salters cant get
out of the yard.

Been there..done that.


No kidding. There were times they had to wait till the ice melted to
get them out of the lot. It's kind of hard to move a snow plow or salt
truck when they are frozen in place.

That is one of the reasons the newer designs have the spreader located
at the front of the box. Lack of traction for the salt truck itself with
a rear spreader. It works but you have to dedicate vehicles to the job,
Not like the slide in units that just hook to the hydraulics on a normal
dump body. The worse item now are the damn calcium spray trucks. That
crap really eats up steel.


THey used a road grader to turn snow into pack ice in Alaska in the
'70s. Ice on the road? No problem smooth another layer of snow over it
and compact it.

They were using still 30 & 40 year old trucks in the township I lived
in, in Ohio. Mostly W.W. II surplus. When their stock of salt was
gone, the state had to take care of the highway, while the side roads
were left alone. With all the limestone haulers going down that highway
24/7, ice wasn't that big of a problem.

I've only seen snow twice in Florida in 25 years.