How do you grit?

lindens

Last year, communally as a street, we all dug 2 tracks for tyres all the way to the main road, then we took grit from the council grit bin and sprinkled the tarmac that now showed in each track, that meant we could all get out the next day as the grit had prevented the 2 tracks freezing.

marlot

Last year I dug a lane through the snow, wide enough for a car to pass through. Did it in the evening, as no more snow was forecast overnight, and it would mean that everyone in the close would be able to get out.

One of the neighbours then parked right in the middle!

mcjordi

wba31 wrote: »

did people actually try and clear snow with a bucket of water??? you're winding me up right? people really thought that while the air temperature was not high enough to melt the frozen water from solid back to liquid, the solution to the issue of having all this ice and snow was to wash it away with water (in a temperature that freezes water into ice and snow...?)

that would be my !!!! tard of a nieghbour.. bucket after bucket of warm water.. quickly turned the road into an ice rink.. till i went out and told him to pack it in.. if anyone hits hit car its his own fault and i would side with the one who hits it after what he did..

but i clear the snow from my end of the street as the top end gets done by the other neighbours.. the people in the bungalows at the end of the street were grateful as it meant they could get their carers in easily.. i intend to do it this year to.

I will go mad if anyone pinches my freshly cleared parking space tho

Delivery_Driver

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Fraid I'm one of those. We are next to the top of the hill, the bins at the top, but I look on it this way if I try to get out of my drive without gritting it then I get stuck across the road so borrowing a bit of the council stuff helps others get by. And I spend a fair amount of effort chucking gravel under the wheels and pushing cars whose drivers have not the slightest clue of how to deal with winter conditions, so I feel justified.

Our council made it clear in the local rag that if you do that you are stealing the grit.I thought I'd already paid for it in the 1st place?

cyclonebri1

Delivery_Driver wrote: »

Our council made it clear in the local rag that if you do that you are stealing the grit.I thought I'd already paid for it in the 1st place?

That's my take on it to. They taketh with 1 hand giveth away with the otheror vikverk so to speak.

The whole issue's irellevant on a hill, the salt rolls downwards.

Wig

I live at the top of hill. Before snow falls when it is forecast I might go out and scatter the whole road.

If I am at the top and there is snow on the ground, I will clear one or two tyre tracks down the the bottom, and probably sprinkle inside the track. One track if I am feeling lazy, because it is good enough to get down the hill, the brake will work on that wheel good enough. I will then park at the bottom of the hill and wait for it to all melt. meanwhile wheelspinning numbskulls who have parked facing up hill :rotfl: will quickly flail about and ruin my tracks anyway. Then when they come back home, half of them will wheel spin and drive like lunatics trying to get back up the hill. Meanwhile I just give up and park on the main road at the bottom.

I could and used to, clear the whole hill with two tracks, but I get no thanks for it, and I'd have to keep renewing the effort to counter all the mess the numptys make of the place. So I now just do what I need to do to get out of there and leave the rest for them to mess up. I generally always will sprinkle and completly clear the bottom 5 metres at the junction with main road so anyone sliding down the hill will be able to control the car at that point so they don't go flying out into the main road or hit my car which might be parked at the side at the bottom.

Sometimes my pre-snow sprinkle will keep the whole hill clear of frost and ice (but not heavy snow) for the duration of the cold snap.

I get my grit from other grit bins near by, I have asked the council to put grit bins near my road they have refused, so I go to get it from the bins nearby, I store it on my hill in a dustbin. I ahve many times gone to the local council grit depot and asked them for grit, they usually refer me to the foreman who usually says "no". and then I tell him it is for a public highway and there are no bins near by, and I explain to him how I could raid the local bins, but then that makes more work for him as he has to fill them again, and I am taking grit that could be used on those local roads, and "seeing as I am here, you might aswell let me fill my dustbin and boxes (in the back of my car) and it'll be job done" then he has always (so far) said "yes".

And I always grit the pavement outside my house.

Mobeer

wba31 wrote: »

did people actually try and clear snow with a bucket of water??? you're winding me up right? people really thought that while the air temperature was not high enough to melt the frozen water from solid back to liquid, the solution to the issue of having all this ice and snow was to wash it away with water (in a temperature that freezes water into ice and snow...?)

This happened near where I live last year.

The problem is that this genuinely does work for the person who tries it. Someone went outside, poured hot water onto a footpath so they can walk out easily on a wet but not frozen path. I then went out some time later when there was ice and fell over (but fortunately didn't hurt myself much).