Steve, all the times I read your posts I never read your profile until now. I would have got with you sooner! Wht airport do you work at? I'm from CT so I fly into Bradley or Newark a couple times a year. In fact I just bought my fiancee plane tickits yesterday to come see me and she's got to stop over in Newark. Well I just got here to Germany so I don't really know the exact sizes of the runways and taxiways ( and shouldn't really tell ya anyway) But I'll say its very large! <p>We set our plowing up in 3 priority levels<p>1) Primary runway, taxiways (only the ones needed to access the runway and alert facilities , fire, ambulance, police, fuel, and munitions)<p>2) secondary runways, overruns and taxiways, aircraft parking areas and PRIMARY base roads ( main roads to get on and off base, to the clinic and to the 24 hour shoppette for emergency stuff)<p>3) All other streets on base and family housing, parking lots, low priority stuff.<p>We plow in that order, but keeping the runway open is always are main concern!<p>We use multipurpose snow removal units (MSRU's) or (MULTI'S) wich have 4 wheel steering and can be fitted with a plow or high speed ribbon blower (snow blower!) They take about 30 minutes to change out attatchments. We also use a lot of osh kosh plows (rollovers to be correct) and some regualr reversible plows. We have clearway brand deicer trucks and trailers for the airfield, we use sweepster front mounted brooms on our 5 ton dump trucks and farm tractors. We also use graders for scraping ice and front end loaders for heavy cleanup, parking lots and loading snow to haul points.<p>Steve, once I get into the snow removal season here I could comapare notes with you a lot more on what they use here as compared to in the states in the Air Force. A lot of our equipment is in maintenance right now, but as soon as its out I'm going to put a lot more pictures on my web site. If you'd like I'd love to make a folder for you there to post some pictures of the equipment you use so we can compare. Check it out and let me know or drop me an e-mail, I'd love to talk more about this.<p>Guys, sorry I got off track!<p><p>----------<br><a href="http://communities.msn.com/guidosequipmentpics/">"Guido"</a><br>David M. Famiglietti