Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt?

   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #21  
You guys are making me happy I don't live up north anymore!

When I lived in Charlotte area I used a Scotts easy green with cheap fertilizer.
Worked better than salt, was designed to be used in a spreader, and didn't kill plants.
 
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   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #22  
I take an old Folgers plastic coffee can and just spread salt by hand. My driveway is about 600 feet long and I can do it in less than an hour.
I use a similar method but with Maxwell House. Used to have to spread salt every year but I have only had to spread salt about 4 times in the last 4 years. Bought a 50lb bag 5 years ago, still working on it.
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #23  
During one my early ventures up north in the mid 80’s (Atlanta) I remember them liberally sloshing Prestone on the sidewalks. A big no-no today huh? ;)
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #24  
I use a similar method but with Maxwell House. Used to have to spread salt every year but I have only had to spread salt about 4 times in the last 4 years. Bought a 50lb bag 5 years ago, still working on it.
Maxwell House? The blue can? Doesn’t work near as well as the red Folgers.
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #25  
Probably better off with a little walk behind spreader


Snowex 100 lb. capacity Broadcast Spreader SP-65
For only a 250’ driveway that is all that is needed. Same thing I use to fertilize a much larger lawn than that driveway.
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt?
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#26  
Brine. Hmm. A few have mentioned it, and the more I think about it the more interesting the idea is.
-It doesn't clump up and become unusable like salt does
-It pours easily and doesn't require power to sling it around
-It might be transferrable without any lifting (?)

So, how do you use brine? I mean, is there an attachment for spreading it?

On the down side, does it run down a steep driveway, cutting a narrow crevasse and disappearing? Or does it say put?

If I spread brine on ice on a slope, is its first effect to make the ice even slipperier?
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #27  
Depending on the brine mix it can coat the ice melt so it starts melting and working faster,
if applied before a storm it will melt the early snow and aid in a bare road policy.
Many brine mixes will work at lower temperatures then ice alone does.
Some brines are added via gravity system to the spinner for the salter,
others are pumped through a set of dispensing nozzles, it will look like a trail of water about every 3-4 inches apart.
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #29  
We spread 80 lbs of barn lime on the litter alley of the dairy barn every day for decades by hand out of a 5 gallon pail. 8' wide by 120' long. With a little practice a near perfect spread pattern is easy.
It kinda depends on how often 'often' is and how able and ambitious you are.

I use a 5 gallon bucket too. Have found that to be the easiest and most efficient throughout the years on my 600' driveway and 2,000sf garage area.

I just dump some salt in the bucket about half full, cradle the bucket under my arm, and use my other gloved hand to fling the salt where I want it.
I don't cover the whole driveway; mainly just where the tires drive. As the ice melts, the salt water spreads around more of the driveway.
 
   / Spreading just a tiny amount of road salt? #30  
I use a shovel. My 250 foot long driveway slopes from the road to my house, so by working top to bottom, tossing a shovelful at a time down the driveway it spreads itself quite nicely.
 
 

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