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

beenthere · Jan 8, 2004

'Shelving' the snow is done around here when the equipment isn't big enough to move all of it at once. Here, the ditches are wing'd out so the thawing process (and expected freezing) doesn't leave a mass of ice in the ditch (really rough on equipment if another snow storm comes through and causes later thawing to run in the road and not the ditch). Also, a clean ditch will keep more blowing snow in the ditch than allowing it to drift on the road. Just some of the reasons its done 'around here'.

I agree that I don't like to see them winging back snow when the ground is not frozen yet, but sometimes the snow comes first. Some plow drivers are real good at not turning up sod in the ditch with the wing, and others...... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Junkman · Jan 8, 2004

( Seriously, I thought you were having a little fun with your description about your wife's dislike for the snowplow operator. I read that as if you were trying to conceal the fact that she didn't like the way you plowed your driveway. You know, one of those...."I have this friend....." things that people say when they're talking about themselves.)

I just don't quite understand how you could possibly come up with a conclusion such as that. Everyone knows that wives always adore their husbands and know that their husbands are perfect in every way. When something should go wrong, a good wife would always blame herself and would never hold a grudge against her perfect husband. It is absolutely atrocious that you would even allow these type of thought to enter your mind. I don't think that I will ever be able to read another one of your posts in the same way that I had in the past. I have a feeling that you are one of those people that spends days on end shooting skeet and brags about how many times you shot the pigeon to smithereens!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

frank_f15 · Jan 8, 2004

( What should the snow plow driver do? How can he/she clear the streets without doing that? )

i live in a rural area, and the town plows do a great job , when it is thrown up into my drivway, its no big deal, as u say what are they supossed to do with it? it is a fact of living in snow country, u are going to snow plowed into the end of your drivway.

narcnh · Jan 8, 2004

Wow, lot's of aggression venting in this thread. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

My long, steep drive empties onto a state road and the humongous state plows keep it clear. Last storm I was down at the base, clearing the entrance, and as each plow went by I waved to the driver. They seemed kind of shocked by it, but most waved back.

It is a problem trying to figure out where to put all the snow. I scoot across the road to dump it on the pile on the other side, which just has woods behind it. I’ve found that people are real good about giving me a wide berth, as I work on clearing the road area. Maybe it has to do with my driving? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

After I put in a brand new mailbox this summer, to spec, my mailman left me a note that it was too high. Now, the remains of the old mailbox from the prior owner were in the woods next to the drive, where they had been knocked by a plow, so I wasn’t about to move a cemented mailbox post. My mail was interrupted in December, even with my clearing the area in front of the box. I don’t think he likes the mailbox location. But, I left a little X-mas present in the mailbox, and all of a sudden my mail is being delivered without a problem. Funny, how things can sometimes be unstuck with a little ‘grease.’ /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Pigeon · Jan 8, 2004

( I have a feeling that you are one of those people that spends days on end shooting skeet and brags about how many times you shot the pigeon to smithereens!!!!!! 
)

HEY! I resemble that remark! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

gordon · Jan 8, 2004

( not able to get coffee (small town-no stores) )

Now that is where I would have to draw the line. Got's to have my coffee for those all nighters. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

What makes you think is when your done pushing snow and get in your personal truck to drive home. Reaching for the plow controls that aren't there before you start moving. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Or if your pushing snow in a backhoe for hours on end then get into your personal truck,,, reaching for the power reverser and turning on your blinker, pressing the gas pedal, then wondering why the truck isn't moving yet. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Gordon

bcarter · Jan 9, 2004

We live at the end of a cul-de-sac and end up with what seems like all of the snow from the rest of the neighborhood. The guys that plow usually start pushing striaght to the end of the street at our mailbox. So, we usually don't end up with too much snow piled at the end of the drive.

My wife happened to be outside one day while they were plowing the street after a particularly large snow fall and the driver offered to "take the curse off the end of the driveway" for her since I had just cleaned it and they had dumped a pretty large pile there. (I was down the street at the time helping the neighbor dig out.) She told the driver that it was nice for him to offer, but that I'd be upset because it would cut into my seat time.... I love that woman! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

TCowner · Jan 9, 2004

I have some understanding of what the snow plow drivers must go through. Their job is to get the snow of the road and of course it has to go somewhere.

The better ones though have figured out a way to lift up the plow/wing to avoid just dumping at the end of the driveway. The less experienced ones just let her go.

About 15 years ago or so I was out blowing snow with my John Deere 430 garden tractor. I had not purchased the Cozy Cab yet. The snow plow came by at about 50 mph with the blade full of slush. The rope of slush coming off the blade at 50 mph hit me in the back while I was on the tractor. I thought I had been shot with 12 guage shotgun.

Fortunately for the snow plow driver I was unable to catch up with him. Had I caught up with him I would probably just now be getting out of prison for the crime of second degree murder.

chocolatehauler · Jan 9, 2004

I'm probably sticking my neck out when I say I was a snowplow driver for the county for seven years up here, the tip of the mitt Michigan. Seeing as my own driveway was on my own route then, I found only one way to keep me from plowing in my own driveway and that was to clear about thirty or forty feet before my drive before I left for work in the morning. That way the plow was near empty before it reached my drive. What I did for others that kept there sholders back was back off near there drives. That way there was less in there drives. the ones that put in the road got it back. Of course the deeper the snow the less choices I had. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif P.S. no we didn't knock mailboxes down for fun. Or throw snow on people. One thing you might want to keep in mind though is alot of snow is going to the side and some is going on the windshield. Seeing was the hardest part of plowing. usually you just had a small hole some were to see. maybe. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Was not the safest thing I ever did.

RebelYell · Jan 12, 2004

I lived in PA for almost 7 years. My first house was on a dead end street. My house was the second from the end and there were no houses across the street. A sign was posted across the road which stated "No parking from Nov. to April". I thought this odd until the first huge snow and realized the snow would be piled there. "No , no, no" said my 75 year old widow neighbor. "They put that sign there to tease us." She had been arguing with the plow driver for years that the sign was there so the snow could be piled on that side. I asked him to put the snow on the other side and he said nothing to me, he almost ran me over one day when I stood in the road. I didn't call the city or nothin', just bought a snowblower and made alot of money with it. I live in East TN now and don't miss the big snows; we do get snow but it is usually gone in a few days. Funny thing, here we get 2 inches and hardly anyone shovels. In PA if it snowed an inch everyone would be gettin rid of it as soon as they could. BTW, ya know what is the best thing that comes out of PA?
I-81 south /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Sorry yall, I had to throw that in there, I see most on this forum are Yan..... I mean northerners. All jokin' aside, I enjoyed living there and actually enjoyed the big snows. I am just glad to be here now where we still get snow but not alot of it, BTW we have had 2 inches on the ground for the last 4 days, must be some kind of record. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif I almost moved it with my FEL cause my drive is long; however, I had other things to do. The snow melted off the asphalt by the second day. Would have been fun to play in it though, but my neighbors would have just said ' that boy just can't stay off that toy tractor he has.' Most of them have big farms along with big tractors. The attached pic was Christmas day 2002.