*Why can't they come up with a way to simply melt the snow in place? I see they have a device some places used called a Snow Dragon which does this but still requires snow to be shoveled into it (like feeding a furnace). Why not, though, some sort of heating device (I'm picturing a giant soldering iron) that melts the snow in place? May need to have some tubing or something similar to catch the runoff and steer it towards a drain or something. Might not work in all locations but could work in some, particularly if it could melt the snow fairly slowly. I imagine a large arm with the device on the end that moves back and forth across a swath of snow. Once finished one swath the device would automatically move a little to the next swatch or controlled manually according to conditions. Crazy idea?
Randall * On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > When I lived in Canada they did pick up the snow. he banks would get too > high and they would then cut down the banks and use a huge show blower to > load it up in trucks and haul it to an empty field where it cold stack over > winter, and then melt off in Summer. (the two months it would melt) > > Stewart > > > At 08:26 AM 2/12/2010, you wrote: > >> First, plows don't pick up snow, they only push it, so your idea won't >> work >> for plows. Shopping centers often go to the extra expense of trucking out >> snow, but it's sure not cheap. Usually they just find a far part of their >> own parking lot to take it to. Would you really expect a truck to drive >> from >> say, Gaithersburg all the way to a river in a snowstorm? And what would >> they >> do once they got there? Not like we have truck ramps over the river that >> they can safely pull back to and dump - again, in a snowstorm. >> >> Oh, and all those chemicals end up in the rivers anyway as the snow melts. >> > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > mailto:[email protected] > Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
