Snow
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The Great Wallsendo
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well it's going round these parts and will (hopefully) be a distant memory come the new week...
mark
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hmnnn.... long range forecast ain't good
the track up to ours has gotten packed down to about 8" thick... which has now melted a bit and is just ice with water running on top... on a 1 in 5 track with a hairpin and a few other bends....
just been a passenger in a 2 and half ton sledge cum dodgem car (land rover discovery) I was the driver for a very brief moment, then could do little more than enjoy the ride!
when that freezes in the next few days its going to be very interesting!
back to cold cold cold next week, then snow snow snow. its going to be a very long one this winter methinks
The Great Wallsendo
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please take note of my use of the elipses (there's one for the text talkers.."wts th@ lyk??")
...it'll clear just in time for the fresh batch next Thurs - at least it won't be on top of ice
...it'll clear just in time for the fresh batch next Thurs - at least it won't be on top of ice
The Great Wallsendo
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just in time for them to have run of of road salt n grit then
classic case of supply and demand going on out there at the minute - on the 15th November Dumpy Bags (1 tonne) of Rock Salt were £89...if you can get them now some suppliers are charging £165+ for the same
4 weeks ago I went and bought 10 bags of building sand to make up some rough concrete for a drive repair.
Last week spent 2 hours clearing the drive of snow and the path outside to the road edge, used 3 bags of sand to make sure the car would grip on it. Just got finished and lo and Behold alongs come a grit wagon with it's plough down (first one since the snow began 4 days earlier) and it pushed all the ice and snow and slush back onto the drive entrance I'd just cleared and gritted.
There is moral to this tale - If everyone takes turns and starts clearing there drives/roadsides you can guarantee a grit wagon will appear.
In the end up to thursday I used a total of 8 bags continually gritting back to the road, now it's thawing I'm going to brush it up and shove it back in the bags for re-use later.
Last week spent 2 hours clearing the drive of snow and the path outside to the road edge, used 3 bags of sand to make sure the car would grip on it. Just got finished and lo and Behold alongs come a grit wagon with it's plough down (first one since the snow began 4 days earlier) and it pushed all the ice and snow and slush back onto the drive entrance I'd just cleared and gritted.
There is moral to this tale - If everyone takes turns and starts clearing there drives/roadsides you can guarantee a grit wagon will appear.
In the end up to thursday I used a total of 8 bags continually gritting back to the road, now it's thawing I'm going to brush it up and shove it back in the bags for re-use later.
