It happenned again! Forecast was for snow going to freezing rain then rain and back to snow. Timeframe was from midnight last night to early afternoon today. Temps were to be in the 30s overnight and dropping to near zero by tonight.
I anticipated using quite a lot of salt, possibly plowing the contract accounts, depending on how fast the snow came.
What we got was about a half inch of snow, startting around midnight. By 2 AM it was freezing rain, nasty driving in some places. By 5AM it was all rain and coming down hard. That had blown through by about 8:30. We never did get the snow. Wind had been south and gusty while it was raining, that changed to west and pretty gusty and the temps started dropping. Gone down 20 degrees in the past four hours so I guess they got part of it right.
What I did was get up at 2, rolling by 2:30. Had a load on the truck that I had picked up at the supplier yesterday, just under 3 tons. I had dumped 18-20 gallons of Magic on the load, spread out in trenches that kept it contained while it seeped down into the salt. The augers on the spreader mixed in in pretty well. Salted 12 stops by 6AM, broke up the crust and pretty well did in the ice even before the heaviest rain hit it. Loaded the vee box in the pickup and took about a quarter yard of mix to one site that is partly gravel and had iced badly.
No plowing again. Here I sit with a new urethane edge on a straight blade and a new-to-me vee plow and neither of them have seen any use yet. This is starting to look a LOT like last winter. My cash flow is heading for the toilet at this rate.
[Edited by Alan on 12-12-2000 at 07:44 PM]
I anticipated using quite a lot of salt, possibly plowing the contract accounts, depending on how fast the snow came.
What we got was about a half inch of snow, startting around midnight. By 2 AM it was freezing rain, nasty driving in some places. By 5AM it was all rain and coming down hard. That had blown through by about 8:30. We never did get the snow. Wind had been south and gusty while it was raining, that changed to west and pretty gusty and the temps started dropping. Gone down 20 degrees in the past four hours so I guess they got part of it right.
What I did was get up at 2, rolling by 2:30. Had a load on the truck that I had picked up at the supplier yesterday, just under 3 tons. I had dumped 18-20 gallons of Magic on the load, spread out in trenches that kept it contained while it seeped down into the salt. The augers on the spreader mixed in in pretty well. Salted 12 stops by 6AM, broke up the crust and pretty well did in the ice even before the heaviest rain hit it. Loaded the vee box in the pickup and took about a quarter yard of mix to one site that is partly gravel and had iced badly.
No plowing again. Here I sit with a new urethane edge on a straight blade and a new-to-me vee plow and neither of them have seen any use yet. This is starting to look a LOT like last winter. My cash flow is heading for the toilet at this rate.
[Edited by Alan on 12-12-2000 at 07:44 PM]