Ideas for getting up a hill in the snow and ice
Discussion
Although Feb 2010 and the last week have been very bad the hill where I live is impassable quite often in the winter. Any fall of snow or even a heavy frost made certain key points on the hill very tricky, one being right outside by hous. The result is early morning wheel spinning, frantic digging and slush being thrown against my walls and windows. The council are worse than useless in filling the grit bin and passers by use the bin as their personal stock for the patio so when it is needed it is always empty. Once we reach the top of the hill things are often OK so we ened up with a temproray car park at the top of the whill with people leaving their cars there once they have got out once. There are about 14 houses affected, although 3 or 4 have 4x4's.
So, ideas to keep the hill passable or at least help people passed the 2 tricky points were it gets suddenly steeper so far include;
All buying 4 x 4s
Having a whip round and buying a couple of tonnes of rock salt and finding somewhere to store it or buy in in bags and share the storage around our grages and sheds.
Having a regular whip round for a contractor to grit the hill as needed
Buying an electrtric winch we can use to pull people up the will.
Stop paying our concil tax until the council give us more bins and fill them when we call
Getting some sort of matting to put in the two key points, over any snow or ice if we do get stuck
Stuff the others, just but a 4x 4 and shut the f
k up
Any more ideas?
So, ideas to keep the hill passable or at least help people passed the 2 tricky points were it gets suddenly steeper so far include;
All buying 4 x 4s
Having a whip round and buying a couple of tonnes of rock salt and finding somewhere to store it or buy in in bags and share the storage around our grages and sheds.
Having a regular whip round for a contractor to grit the hill as needed
Buying an electrtric winch we can use to pull people up the will.
Stop paying our concil tax until the council give us more bins and fill them when we call
Getting some sort of matting to put in the two key points, over any snow or ice if we do get stuck
Stuff the others, just but a 4x 4 and shut the f
k upAny more ideas?
Cogcog said:
Although Feb 2010 and the last week have been very bad the hill where I live is impassable quite often in the winter. Any fall of snow or even a heavy frost made certain key points on the hill very tricky, one being right outside by hous. The result is early morning wheel spinning, frantic digging and slush being thrown against my walls and windows. The council are worse than useless in filling the grit bin and passers by use the bin as their personal stock for the patio so when it is needed it is always empty. Once we reach the top of the hill things are often OK so we ened up with a temproray car park at the top of the whill with people leaving their cars there once they have got out once. There are about 14 houses affected, although 3 or 4 have 4x4's.
So, ideas to keep the hill passable or at least help people passed the 2 tricky points were it gets suddenly steeper so far include;
All buying 4 x 4s
Having a whip round and buying a couple of tonnes of rock salt and finding somewhere to store it or buy in in bags and share the storage around our grages and sheds.
Having a regular whip round for a contractor to grit the hill as needed
Buying an electrtric winch we can use to pull people up the will.
Stop paying our concil tax until the council give us more bins and fill them when we call
Getting some sort of matting to put in the two key points, over any snow or ice if we do get stuck
Stuff the others, just but a 4x 4 and shut the fk up
Any more ideas?
Snow chains, snow socks, winter tyres....So, ideas to keep the hill passable or at least help people passed the 2 tricky points were it gets suddenly steeper so far include;
All buying 4 x 4s
Having a whip round and buying a couple of tonnes of rock salt and finding somewhere to store it or buy in in bags and share the storage around our grages and sheds.
Having a regular whip round for a contractor to grit the hill as needed
Buying an electrtric winch we can use to pull people up the will.
Stop paying our concil tax until the council give us more bins and fill them when we call
Getting some sort of matting to put in the two key points, over any snow or ice if we do get stuck
Stuff the others, just but a 4x 4 and shut the f
k upAny more ideas?
Anything that needs everyone working together are doomed to failure as one house will reap the benefits but contribute nothing and it will all fall to pieces.
There are five households on our private road and one contributes nothing and when presented with the bill for road maintenance they told us to "fk off" and we were cheeky to even think about asking for money towards filling in all the potholes in a 1 mile long road.
We got quotes that were in the thousands to do the work so we did it ourselves as one of the households owned a JCB and a road roller and this is how it has worked for years.
The amount of cash we asked them for was £50
So after the abuse the guy with the JCB etc has sold them and we shall let contractors do the road next time as everyone is legally bound to maintain the road and we shall all get a bill for thousands.
All due to a pair of miserable sts
There are five households on our private road and one contributes nothing and when presented with the bill for road maintenance they told us to "f
k off" and we were cheeky to even think about asking for money towards filling in all the potholes in a 1 mile long road.We got quotes that were in the thousands to do the work so we did it ourselves as one of the households owned a JCB and a road roller and this is how it has worked for years.
The amount of cash we asked them for was £50
So after the abuse the guy with the JCB etc has sold them and we shall let contractors do the road next time as everyone is legally bound to maintain the road and we shall all get a bill for thousands.
All due to a pair of miserable s
ts
Turn it into a permanent water feature! buy an old fire pump, and rig it up with a shallow pond at the top and bottom, with the pump lifting water to the top, that overflows over a little lip, so a "sheet" of water flows back down over the whole width of the road. And now for the genius part, in winter, just add antifreeze, and bingo, an attractive water feature all year round and easy non skid surface in the winter months...... I know, I know, i'm a bloody genius right ;-)
(also, as an added benefit, kids could use it as a water park in summer, and it would be great at stopping unwanted door to door salespeople if you just swapped to pure water when you wanted to keep people away!)
What could possibly go wrong
(also, as an added benefit, kids could use it as a water park in summer, and it would be great at stopping unwanted door to door salespeople if you just swapped to pure water when you wanted to keep people away!)
What could possibly go wrong
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 4th December 15:49
CooperD said:
deeen said:
Install one of those catapults from the deck of an aircraft carrier at the bottom of the hill. Shame to see them go to waste...
They'll be taking one off HMS Ark Royal shortly. the Invincible class are 'through deck crusiers' optimised for the harrier and don't have catapults...
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