beet juice being used on roads instead of tractor tires.

[kco]

They use it here in Ottawa all the time. I don't think it's beet juice they're using, I'm pretty sure it's s calcium cloride solution.

I'm surprised you need anything in Ottawa. There's ample hot air if they open the parliment doors.

 

[wmcnees]

I help my friend who does Toyota's snow removal at the Georgetown, KY plant and they started using beet juice about 3 years ago. They do mix it with a salt brine solution. The beet juice runs around 15-20 cents a pounds. They use it on there test track and from the exit of the factory to the shipping yard. It works very well you can tell right to the spot it was placed.
The biggest pros I could see from it was it took at least 3-4 pushes of snow of the normal bine or salt rock before the snow or ice started to build back up. The stickier beet juice allowed more traction. Also the beet juice will work at a whole lot lower temperature then a normal treatment.
The only cons I see with it is the price, and messing with the nasty stuff.
In the shipping yard they use potassium which is junk in my opinion.

 

[Looking4new]

They use it here in Ottawa all the time. I don't think it's beet juice they're using, I'm pretty sure it's s calcium cloride solution.

Is the stuff they are using up there Orange? Blue?

 

[leonz]

I'm surprised you need anything in Ottawa.
There's ample hot air if they open the parliment doors.

Now Now be nice,

Nobody wants you to get yelled at for stealing Ben Guyatts thunder from Hamilton Ont. for this coming Sunday nights broadcast.

 

[tractchores]

They use it here in MA. Apparently it's an effective 'pre-treatment' and can prevent ice from freezing to the road (guessing it gets better coverage and doesn't get pushed off the road as easily as salt)

 

[flyingcow]

The beet juice lobbyists' are behind this one......almost as powerful as the ethanol group

 

[kiotiken]

Is the stuff they are using up there Orange? Blue?

It seams clear. You can see the pavement is wet but no ral color.

 

[Bob77064]

They use the brine solution here to pretreat, it works very well.

 

[94BULLITT]

VDOT uses the brine water (or as we call it here pickle juice), I don't like it.

 

[mccash40]

Just curious. Has there been an increase in car/animal collisions in areas where they use beet juice? I know that deer sometimes eat beets, along with some smaller animals.