What Do You Use For Anti Skid and How Do You Spread & Store it?

[bdhsfz6]

It's been the harshest winter here in over a decade with a lot of ice.

For those who maintain private roads or long driveways, what do you use for anti skid and how do you spread & store it?

 

[leonz]

Gravel sand is what I use if the ice is bad enough, if you have room
for a load you should invest in a pair of 20 by 20 high quality tarpaulins
large enough lay on the ground and to cover the load as well.

If you have room to store it indoors and keep it warm all the better
as its easier to load and spread. Otherwise use a kerosene fired space heater
to warm up the sand to load it.

I explained in detail to a fellow board member a while ago how beneficial
a pendulum spreader would be for his very long sloped driveway that
crosses a creek and he has been very happy with the Vicon pendulum
spreader he purchased with the salt sand tube.

The original Vicon pendulum spreaders with the salt/sand delivery tube
are ideal for this work as they reduce overspread and waste to a bare
minimum.

The original Vicon pendulum spreaders are controlled with manual adjustments
to limit the width of spread by limiting the stroke width of the delivery tube
and the flow volume by adjusting the material delivery gate opening.

The agitator is the cam arm in the bottom of the hopper that is on top of the
gear box and as strokes and rotates it breaks up any clumps.

The small Vicon pendulum spreaders are designed to be loaded on the ground
using a shovel or pails.

Using windshield washer fluid to keep the material flowing is also a common
way to do this by pouring a gallon of it in the hopper after you load it with sand
and only before you spread it to keep it free flowing.

 

[Rustyiron]

Here in the north east they mix a little rock salt with sand to prevent the sand from freezing and provide a little melting when applied.
I'd say about a bag of salt to a yard of sand. It can stay outside uncovered if necessary but a simple cover just to keep any new snow off or at least separated is simple enough.

 

[JJT]

Our town's sand/salt shed is open to residents. That's where I "store" my sand. It's a 10% salt, 90% sand mix.

I pick up what I need when I need it and keep a few five gallon pails in both garages. I also keep 4 full buckets in the back of the UTV for traction and sanding the mailbox area.

 

[mad_planter]

It's been the harshest winter here in over a decade with a lot of ice.

For those who maintain private roads or long driveways, what do you use for anti skid and how do you spread & store it?

I buy a tri-axle of anti-skid from the local quarry every 10 years or so. I keep a tarp on it in the wintertime to keep the snow off it, but have in the past just poured a bucket of homemade brine over it when I needed to to loosen it up and keep it from freezing in the hopper.

 

[rumwrks]

I used sawdust from the woodshop/sawmill for close in stuff. It's not going to do a long road but it works pretty well for the pathways. I find it actually a bit easier to clean up than sand (mostly dries up and blows away - I'm not where that matters) and it's at least as grippy. I had some concern about it slowing down melting, but it's not enough that I've noticed.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Anyone try one of these bucket / spreader combination attachments?

SLS-series sand spreaders - SAMI

sami.ee

There are several like this on the market.

Looks like it would also solve the loading problem by letting you back into a pile of anti skid and scoop it up like a FEL bucket.

It could also be used on a FEL with a 3pt adapter and 3rd function valve.

It would work as a ballast box during the summer months.

 

[Rustyiron]

It's surprising how little sand or salt it takes to work. I'm not sure how that attachment above distributes the material but I'd estimate that it's a wasteful amount for vehicular traffic unless you were traveling 25 mph.
I do see where there's (possibly) 2 shafts down low, but any sand or stone dust that I've seen really needs to "dribble" on to a spinner and it's distributed over a 14' - 16' lane in one pass and I have a feeling that it's a more city sidewalk foot traffic attachment designed for municipalities.
But that's all a guess!

 

[bdhsfz6]

It's surprising how little sand or salt it takes to work. I'm not sure how that attachment above distributes the material but I'd estimate that it's a wasteful amount for vehicular traffic unless you were traveling 25 mph.
I do see where there's (possibly) 2 shafts down low, but any sand or stone dust that I've seen really needs to "dribble" on to a spinner and it's distributed over a 14' - 16' lane in one pass and I have a feeling that it's a more city sidewalk foot traffic attachment designed for municipalities.
But that's all a guess!

I's a drop spreader that uses a rotating shaft with paddles. The drop rate is adjustable but would require several passes to do a wide path. The drop shaft might be preferable to help chew up material clumps which can jam a disk spreader.

Here's a video:

Google Search

 

[RjCorazza]

I looked at drop spreaders like that this fall, and they were surprisingly expensive. I opted to add a deflector cone to my existing 3 point broadcast spreader.
If I were just doing my driveway, I would be satisfied with a commercial walk behind broadcast spreader.

All that said, if money were no object I would be running a 4-5' drop spreader similar to what the OP is looking at.