Not impressed with Mr. Plow

[Baby Grand]

Just say no to snow.
I have nothing but respect for the people who plow with skill around the clock when the weather goes crazy.
It's those other chowderheads that I pray will shear an axle so they just stop.

 

[Looking4new]

I would like to place a snow-ban on my driveway. :laughing: Didn't know there was that option.

I got a friend that works for the city... does a lot of plowing in winter. He talks about all of the people yelling and cursing at him as he drives by. People throw shovels at him all the time. I don't know what they expect him to do? They are probably the same people that complain when the road isn't plowed.

That is right! I got a shovel in the windshield, once. I called the cops. Let them deal with it. I haven't got the time.

I was out plowing in the 'burbs this one day and an old guy....He must have been about 70 had just finished cleaning out the mouth of his driveway and along came I. He knew what was gonna happen and moved well back from the mouth. I did fill him in, but at the end of the road (Now this isn't a huge road and not well traveled) I turned around and went back and pulled all the snow out of his driveway with the one way. I told him that in future to put the majority of the snow on the opposite side of the drive. He offered me $20.oo for doing that. I refused to take it. (That is a lot of money for someone retired in the 1980's) I made the problem and it was up to me to fix it.

 

[Looking4new]

These people are my neighbours. One is a retired dumptruck driver. He used to work for Graham Bros. in the '70's. Fixed income, don't you know.
One is on ODSP. she bakes for me as payment.
One is an unemployed truck driver.
And the last one is retired and living off his families money.
The two truck drivers are the ones paying and they keep me in fuel all winter to do all the driveways.
This is a small community and there are lots of people with plows and loaders, so you gotta be careful what you charge.

 

[LD1]

They are probably the same people that complain when the road isn't plowed.

Yep. Thats them I am sure.

Traveling around residential columbus the last snow we got, it is very clear why the streets arent plowed. People ignore them no parking signs and park on both sides of the street. Now I dont plow the streets, just passing through, but there were times I had to slow to a crawl, stick my head out the window, and run my plow inches away from the cars just praying I didnt hit one on the other side. Ad my rig and plow isnt as big as the 550's and 650's you typically see plowing the streets.

Also see lots of idiots walking down the streets in the tire tracks cause the walks arent plowed. And then they act like they have the right of way and are in no hurry to get out of the way.:mur: I almost hit one fellow wearing nothing but black/dark clothes on a very poorly lit street at about 2am just walking down the middle of the road. Surly he had to have heard and seen me coming from a ways away. But was in no hurry to move until I slammed on the brakes and almost clipped him as he was getting out of the way.

 

[Looking4new]

Back in the '80's when Toronto went into 'snow removal mode', the no parking signs went up. When the street was cleared of snow we would scrape the sidewalk into the street (now don't forget that I worked for a contractor on contract to the city) and then a grader would pull it into a windrow and a second grader would push it back a bit for the mobile melter to pick up. We always had a cop with us.
One night the cop caught this one guy parking under the no parking sign and asked him to move.....The guy said, "F--K you, I don't have to move until 7AM. The cop asked me if there was any way that I could make the car stay put until after 7 AM without doing damage to the car. NO PROBLEM!! That stupid 'citizen' came out at 5 minutes to 7 and couldn't see his car for snow. I had it piled up as high as the hood all the way around. (I had a 450 John Deere dozer for a sidewalk plow) 5 minutes after 7 and there was a tow truck there to hook him up. I cleared out the front of the car and away he went to the pound. I then wind-rowed the snow back to the curb and carried on back to the camp with a police escort.

 

[cqaigy2]

That is right! I got a shovel in the windshield, once. I called the cops. Let them deal with it. I haven't got the time.

I was out plowing in the 'burbs this one day and an old guy....He must have been about 70 had just finished cleaning out the mouth of his driveway and along came I. He knew what was gonna happen and moved well back from the mouth. I did fill him in, but at the end of the road (Now this isn't a huge road and not well traveled) I turned around and went back and pulled all the snow out of his driveway with the one way. I told him that in future to put the majority of the snow on the opposite side of the drive. He offered me $20.oo for doing that. I refused to take it. (That is a lot of money for someone retired in the 1980's) I made the problem and it was up to me to fix it.

Good man!

Some years ago, i saw three plows staggered, plowing slush out of the freeway. The slush was flying 40-50 feet off the side of the road, the rest of use were traveling behind the plows at about 45MPH and this guy comes up on the outside lane and starts to pass the far right plow. He drives right into that slush! I don't know why his window didn't break, but fortunately, the plow driver saw him and slowed way down to let him get out of the path of the flying slush. You guys put up with a lot of uneducated people when your working and i have alot of respect for you guys.:thumbsup:

 

[J F]

Can somebody Photoshop "Mr. Plow" on the side of my truck for me? LOL....

Me at our old house with Webster supervising (and barking):

 

[mikehaugen]

:laughing:

leave it to Jay!

 

[Looking4new]

When plows are traveling in echelon (3 or more staggered) it is against the law up here to even think about passing them. Anybody gets tangled up in my windrow when I am plowing because they tried to pass on the right, too bad, so sad, the only way I will stop is if they hit me. I will slow the speed down for a cop/firetruck/ambulance and give them room to pass only if they have their lights on.

 

[Looking4new]

That is nice! I like it!:thumbsup:

 

[Looking4new]

The highway plow trucks are noisy, big time. It isn't necessarily the exhaust, but the noise of the motor, the noise of the plow itself which while weighing about 10,000 lbs and about 3-4,000 lbs for the wing if they run onto hard road like a bare patch with no snow and then there is the VHF radio (which I kept an extension speaker right beside my ear) and the tunes turned up almost full volume. It is pretty hard to even hear yourself think in them. And then there are the long hours, if there is a snow emergency called you can be out there until the snow is all cleaned up. The longest time I was out was back in the 80's....3 days. I started plowing on the Friday afternoon and finished up on the Monday morning. The cop I saw in the coffee shop every night at midnite asked me how I did it. He asked if I was doing speed pills commonly called 'beans or 'goobers'. I told him no, just coffee and donuts. Part of my route and the very last thing I did was the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) station. That is when I saw the cop and he asked how I did it.
For that storm I was actually called out of school on Friday afternoon and went back on the Monday after I secured the plow, (fueled and washed), and wrote an English exam. I went back to school in the 80's to upgrade my grade 8 education. It was a grade 11 English exam.

 

[GManBart]

LOVE IT! :laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

LOVE IT! :laughing:

You do know that IF you are a business you can get that in stick on vinyl. I t looks like 'flashy' advertising.

 

[GManBart]

You do know that IF you are a business you can get that in stick on vinyl. I t looks like 'flashy' advertising.

I've actually had to get those made up in the past, but moving snow is just a necessity for me now, not a job!

 

[J F]

Glad you guys enjoyed the "art work". :laughing: And GManBart, I might suggest "Quoth the raven..." for your tailgate graphics.

 

[jimpen]

The slush was flying 40-50 feet off the side of the road, the rest of use were traveling behind the plows at about 45MPH and this guy comes up on the outside lane and starts to pass the far right plow. He drives right into that slush!

Semi-OT. Several years ago I was doing my 55MI commute home on a snowy, slushy night on relatively rural interstate. The speed limit was 65. The commuters and truckers were generally running 45-50MPH with large following distances. The plows were running 50-55. We had an 18 wheeler, a 4WD and an AWD vehicle come blazing by us at 65-70MPH. Then all of sudden all of us were in a traffic jam. Luckily I had stopped at a store to pick up some adult beverages before really getting on the highway.

So I sat in the traffic jam, and considering that I was within 20MI of home, popped one for about the 20 minute delay as the cops and FD went around us. I tipped and nodded cheers to the 18 that was jack-knifed 40' off the highway and the 4WD and AWD which had bumper to bumper accidents about a mile beyond. :drink: Both the vehicles had popped airbags, or in other words effectively totaled. :thumbdown:

All I can think about them is "Don't you know you are an idiot?" Hopefully they figured it out. If not -- I wish I had a video of these fools. :mur:

 

[Looking4new]

In dirty weather I drive at a speed that I feel is safe as long as it is the limit or less. I use 4wd when I need it. I don't care what the other guy does as long as he doesn't involve me. I have watched 'them' fly by me only to find them 5 miles up the road either on the side of it or in the ditch.

 

[hdmyers]

Plow guys in my northern Ontario have actually pulled off/slowed down to let me pass... some plow folk are nice...and others treat it like war.

 

[Normal Bill]

Glad you guys enjoyed the "art work". :laughing: And GManBart, I might suggest "Quoth the raven..." for your tailgate graphics.

I like it!
What is this "Quoth the Raven..." thing? Edgar Allen Poe? The Simpson's Halloween Special? Some inside joke?

Competition can be fierce. Watch out for Plowking

 

[J F]

Yeah, it's from Bartman/raven in the Halloween special...laughing: