Snow Snow plow drivers can bite my [censored]!!

[caj4isu]

That snow plow driver won't get the best of me anymore.

It never failed - I would clear the snow from the drive, get ready for work, get in my car, drive down the lane to find that the county snow plow driver had just gone by and left me a 3-4 foot pile of snow - blocking me in! So it was back to the house, call the boss about being late, grab a shovel and scoop my way out for the next hour, back in the shower, get dressed, then drive to work.

NOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED: I have a BX22.

I always imagined that dirty [censored] laughing as he blocked me in. I imagined the look of horror on his face the other morning as he saw my little orange machine take 3 or 4 passes with the FEL to totally clear a path through my drive entrance. 5 minutes and I was through!

Chalk one up for the little guy!!

 

[Deerlope]

Don't be hard on those plow drivers, they are just doing a job. No one wants to see a bus load of kids stranded on the highway cause the road wasn't plowed. Have fun with your BX22& FEL. I won't snow here so I don't have any snow to remove.

 

[PhilNH5]

Chuck,
I feel the same way about them. And in my town you are breaking the law if you push it back into the street.
I have a retaining wall about two feet high and forty feet long fronting on the road. This sits back 8 feet off of the road. When the plow driver comes buy he doesn't plow the road line. He plows up to the retaining wall. Of course the snow gets squished against the retaining wall with no where to go but up. So instead of a low 2 foot plow pile I get a 4 to 5 foot mountain. If it freezes before I get to it even the BX2200 has trouble.

Phil

 

[KubotaSteve]

I had a similar experience with a couple of guys doing plow work on the side. We had 30" on snow and they were using a dump truck and full size pickup with plows. I only had about 12 inches of snow on my drive as I kept it plowed the night before before I broke a piece on the tractor. I tried getting out in the Explorer and it walked right through the 12" of snow. Backed it back down the drive to get dressed to get part. The guys yelled down the drive and asked if I wanted it plowed. Of course the answer was no because they were charging way too much. Come back outside and there is a 4 foot bank of packed snow in front of my driveway. Trying to chip away at that with a shovel was not fun to get out and get the part. To keep the state trucks from blocking me in, I plow the road a little ways.

 

[lamarbur]

I've done years and years of plowing town roads. no one likes to "plow in" people and their driveways. At least most that I know. I am sure there are guys and possibly girls, that think this is funny. I'll tell you all this, keep swearing while we are awake and moving 22 -28 hours, not able to get coffee (small town-no stores) can't stop,e tc, so you can get to wrok/school or whatever. While your in a warm house counting your "Z"s. were still out here catching the hammers of [censored] between "seeing through a storm, rough riding trucks, etc, etc.. I take the driveway peoples complaints more seriously that your statement *&%^ plow drivers...

 

[PhilNH5]

Lamarbur,
2 points. I didn't call the plow guy a [censored] or anything. I have tried to rectify this through proper channels. But the town says a different driver may do my road each snow based on day or time of the plowing. I don't know if the driver feels he is doing me a favor by plowing that extra 8 foot strip but it is a continuing problem for me. I wasn't whining about the two foot plow pile in the drive I was complaining about the 4- 5 foot compacted pile against my retaining wall.

Secondly - I can appreciate the job of the plow driver. But mind you it is a job and they and you get/got paid to do it. All of us have jobs with their own associated stresses. That's why they call it work instead of play. Hearing how tough a plow drivers job is does not evoke any sympathy from me. I am sure we can all tell tales of woe concerning our jobs.

Phil

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Phil,

It maybe too late this year but have you tried marking the edge of the road with some 1/2 " rebar by 4' spaced say 8-10 feet apart. Perhaps paint them a nice orange color?

 

[Bird]

Being from the south, I've never had snow plows running down our streets, but I've read so many complaints about the snow plows throwing the snow from the street into driveways and blocking them like this that it makes me wonder about something. What should the snow plow driver do? How can he/she clear the streets without doing that? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif In other words, what's the solution?

 

[RonR]

Bird, the solution our former city used when the snow was very deep: Following the snowplow(s) was a front end loader, like a case 580, and he removed the piles across the driveways. The last big snow we had was almost 20 inches. We were blocked in for several days. Prior to the city's FEL, we had a WIDE 4 ft high pile across our drive.

Best wishes,
ron

 

[JerryG]

<font color="blue"> What should the snow plow driver do? How can he/she clear the streets without doing that? In other words, what's the solution? </font>
Being from the South also, I was thinking the same think while I read this thread. We Southerners may learn something this morning.