Gritting lorries
Discussion
OK, I know the reasons for putting salt onto the roads when the weather's like this, but what f
witted, lentil eating, car hating oxygen thief decided they had to operate like manure spreaders and throw the stuff as high and wide as possible, pebbledashing every fing car coming in the opposite direction. The poxy salt needs to spread downwards, not upwards you rds.
Not that I'm pd off at the three times my cars been sprayed with salt this week alone 
Oh, and while I'm at it, is it only Cambs council that's had the street sweepers out this week as well, helpfully taking away the fing salt that was chucked onto it the day before 
witted, lentil eating, car hating oxygen thief decided they had to operate like manure spreaders and throw the stuff as high and wide as possible, pebbledashing every fing car coming in the opposite direction. The poxy salt needs to spread downwards, not upwards you rds.Not that I'm p
d off at the three times my cars been sprayed with salt this week alone Oh, and while I'm at it, is it only Cambs council that's had the street sweepers out this week as well, helpfully taking away the f
ing salt that was chucked onto it the day before pscl227 said:
Around here they have the brine spraying lorries, a much better solution, and no cars get hurt! (apart from the slowly rotting body panels!)
You know what, I think they have around here too... As I was pulled up on the pavement waiting for the gritter to skim my mirror, my response was along the lines of 'arrrrghhh move over you baassstaarrr.... oh, actually that wasn't actually that bad'So come up with a better way of doing then? Keeping in mind that you also don't want a rise in taxes etc.
I would guess it's spread onto both sides of the road so that it reduces the number of times they need to do each road. It also sounds a lot worse than the actual damage it's doing, just like when a stone hits the screen and scares the poo out of you, it doesn't always damage it but it sounds like a bullet going off in your head.
I would guess it's spread onto both sides of the road so that it reduces the number of times they need to do each road. It also sounds a lot worse than the actual damage it's doing, just like when a stone hits the screen and scares the poo out of you, it doesn't always damage it but it sounds like a bullet going off in your head.
b4rk3r said:
Why do you think they operate like manure spreaders? To get maximum coverage in minimum journeys surely.
Height isn't a prerequisite for distance, it's just a lazy (or cheap) way of achieving it.Brine makes sense in some respects, the other thing I noticed last weekend was salt just blowing around on a bone dry road, with most of it ending up in the gutter before the snow even arrived
CambsBill said:
OK, I know the reasons for putting salt onto the roads when the weather's like this, but what fwitted, lentil eating, car hating oxygen thief decided they had to operate like manure spreaders and throw the stuff as high and wide as possible, pebbledashing every fing car coming in the opposite direction. The poxy salt needs to spread downwards, not upwards you rds.
Not that I'm pd off at the three times my cars been sprayed with salt this week alone
Oh, and while I'm at it, is it only Cambs council that's had the street sweepers out this week as well, helpfully taking away the fing salt that was chucked onto it the day before
Ohh give it a rest.witted, lentil eating, car hating oxygen thief decided they had to operate like manure spreaders and throw the stuff as high and wide as possible, pebbledashing every fing car coming in the opposite direction. The poxy salt needs to spread downwards, not upwards you rds.Not that I'm p
d off at the three times my cars been sprayed with salt this week alone Oh, and while I'm at it, is it only Cambs council that's had the street sweepers out this week as well, helpfully taking away the f
ing salt that was chucked onto it the day before You'd probably be the same person whining if you crashed due to ice on a road the council has failed to grit.
Can't win in this country.
My advise?
Phone the council.
I tend to find this only when they've run out of real gritter lorries and just attach a spreader to the back of a tipper wagon. If the trucks rear side is high enough it ends up mounted the equivellant of just above the windscreen of my car so just throws the stuff on top when passing.
poing said:
So come up with a better way of doing then? Keeping in mind that you also don't want a rise in taxes etc.
I would guess it's spread onto both sides of the road so that it reduces the number of times they need to do each road. It also sounds a lot worse than the actual damage it's doing, just like when a stone hits the screen and scares the poo out of you, it doesn't always damage it but it sounds like a bullet going off in your head.
Don't dump grit/salt/brine/sand over the roads - council saves money and less cars/vehicles rusting away prematurely.I would guess it's spread onto both sides of the road so that it reduces the number of times they need to do each road. It also sounds a lot worse than the actual damage it's doing, just like when a stone hits the screen and scares the poo out of you, it doesn't always damage it but it sounds like a bullet going off in your head.
More people why winter tyres - more business helps the economy in supplying and fitting said tyres.
Of course someone will take a corner at the same speed as they would if it was dry, crash, get killed and someone will say we need to turn entire road surface into the bonneville salt flats.
poing said:
So come up with a better way of doing then? Keeping in mind that you also don't want a rise in taxes etc.
I would guess it's spread onto both sides of the road so that it reduces the number of times they need to do each road. It also sounds a lot worse than the actual damage it's doing, just like when a stone hits the screen and scares the poo out of you, it doesn't always damage it but it sounds like a bullet going off in your head.
Actually they can do a lot of damage to water based paints and plastic bumpers. While back a mate of mine was pebble-dashed by one in his Focus, and it needed respraying on the bumper, even big chunks of paint flaked off. Now I realise this might be a fault at the production of the car, but it was just fine before....I would guess it's spread onto both sides of the road so that it reduces the number of times they need to do each road. It also sounds a lot worse than the actual damage it's doing, just like when a stone hits the screen and scares the poo out of you, it doesn't always damage it but it sounds like a bullet going off in your head.
k15tox said:
Ohh give it a rest.
You'd probably be the same person whining if you crashed due to ice on a road the council has failed to grit.
Can't win in this country.
My advise?
Phone the council.
Got winter tyres thanks, and if I crash and it's my fault, then I'm quite capable of taking responsibility for my own actions.You'd probably be the same person whining if you crashed due to ice on a road the council has failed to grit.
Can't win in this country.
My advise?
Phone the council.
So I take it you approve of sending the road sweepers out after the gritters?
stuart-b said:
Actually they can do a lot of damage to water based paints and plastic bumpers. While back a mate of mine was pebble-dashed by one in his Focus, and it needed respraying on the bumper, even big chunks of paint flaked off. Now I realise this might be a fault at the production of the car, but it was just fine before....
Then claim it back from the council if you can prove it.There just isn't a realistic alternative, except as mentioned above making people buy winter tyres. I suspect that wouldn't go down well though so gritting is the only option.
Person A
Bloody roads are terrible, never see a damn gritter, nearly died this morning. Stupid council.
Person B
Bloody gritter sprayed grit all over my car and scratched it! Stupid council.
CambsBill said:
Height isn't a prerequisite for distance, it's just a lazy (or cheap) way of achieving it.
To get distance the alternatives to a high trajectory are a higher starting point or high velocity. A higher mounted spreader would probably have the same effect on a passing car as a high arc from a low spreader and I'd much prefer a gentle rattle on my bonnet to bullets hitting the bottom of my doors.Brine sounds like a nice idea, but means more trips for the trucks as they need to carry water as well as "grit". Does it work for pre-treating? I'd have thought it would run off too quickly.
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