DIYbanter - View Single Post - For those of you in the south that got heavy snow accumulations

Mike Marlow[_2_]

wrote:

Usually but as you point out, salt doesn't work at low temperatures
(doesn't work at all a 0F). If there is any water in the sand the
salt will freeze solid in the salt sheds or on the trucks. Pure salt
is easier to use at these temperatures. No clean up in the Spring is
a bonus.

Around here - in the rural areas, it's still mostly a mix of sand and salt
although I know they do use calcium chloride also, but I don't know how
much. On the interstates, they're using something else - it's green, but I
don't know what it is. You don't ever see a truck with pure salt in the box
anymore around here. Of course heated boxes go a long way to keeping things
from freezing up in the box. On the interstates - no sand in the mix, ,just
salt and whatever else. In the suburban areas - kind of the same. In the
rural areas - sand and salt and (probably) calcium chloride.

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-Mike-