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From: "Ranbo" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.
*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
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