Blizzard Pictures from around Campus

[gordyo]

#1 There is a road here somewere:shades

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#2 Found it. Needed the Loader to back up and plow down to open it up.

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#7 The pic above and this one are Magic Treated roads

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[grasshopper]

Looks like fun! Nice pics.:burnout

[gordyo]

I have had a few people over the last few weeks ask me what Pre-Treating and/or Anti-Icing are all about. I am still researching and learning alot about it myself from members of this site, the Salt Insitute and others in the Snow and Ice industry. I did notice after viewing these pictures again that there is some good evidence to show what Pre-Treating/Anti Icing can do.

Picture #1. The road in there somewere was pre-treated before the storm started on Friday with a light coating of treated salt and then was not touched until the storm was over on Monday when we opened it up with the loader. This is what it looked like right after it was opened up, temp outside was 27 degrees all day. Bare pavement already starting to show.

Picture #4 shows a sidewalk that was not pre-treated in the foreground and had the tractor mounted snowblower plus kids walking on it all throughout the storm. It has about an inch of snowpack bonded to it. The roadway in the background was pre-treated Friday before the storm started. It was hit once a little over halfway during the storms duration with a light coat and again with a light coat when the storm ended. It is a nasty hill and there is traffic all day and night long because there are three dorms up there. This road was slushy for most of the storm, was a bit slick throughout but we never had one student call to complain that they could not get up the hill which is very rare. Right after the storm ended the road cleaned up quickly and there was never any snowpack on it. Most of the roads in the towns around us had snowpack on them and the road out infront of my house has 4" of snowpack and still does even today two full days after the storm has ended. I am not tooting my own horn here just hoping to pass on some useful information to someone who may be contemplating trying pretreating. There is a learning curve to this and I learn more and more each time I use this technique and read about other Snowplow-Contractor.com members experiences with Pre-Treating/Anti Icing.

Jeff