- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Dad sent me this photo this morning, he's up in Swaledale. Just a good frost in Essex this morning.
Whos got the snow then
- Thread starter Gedd
- Start date
Dad sent me this photo this morning, he's up in Swaledale. Just a good frost in Essex this morning.
- Location
- Northumberland
Couple of inches here in South Northumberland
Checking the vans, the one up the North Tyne to Otterburn (where weather is often challenging ) is on time
Newcastle van has lost an hour in the city . Held up by dozy buggers who don`t know how to drive
Checking the vans, the one up the North Tyne to Otterburn (where weather is often challenging ) is on time
Newcastle van has lost an hour in the city . Held up by dozy buggers who don`t know how to drive
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- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Sky News were discussing the amber weather warning for 'slightly cold' issued yesterday morning. They even went so far as to describe it as 'big coat weather'.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
1” here bugger all really , it far nicer with a little snow, just when measured in feet its a issue .
Many years ago, I was on the snow plough call out for the County Council.
We could all see the forecast, and would have the ploughs fitted, except for smart arses like me who had front linkage... Wake up at 4am and see what had fallen, then if more than 2", warm the tractor up and call Council and "ask" could I go out. If more than 2" and still falling, I was rolling 10mins later. Had the local Beet Factory roads open before the trucks got too near...
Nowadays, it has got to be such a ballache, and when they brought in a rule of only ploughing in daylight, I gave up! The whole idea of early doors ploughing was to clear roads BEFORE commuter traffic, as opposed to fighting it!!
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- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I’ve never found the Council very helpful in wanting to pay me to snow plough for them.
They tended to rely on Dairy farmers to clear the roads so that the tanker lorries could get to them, for free.
I remember a bad snowfall in Suffolk 1983 (I think), being out for hours and hours on an open sided Manitou MB25P clearing the roads with a 6’6” slurry bucket.
I still haven’t warmed up since that day!
The hedges were the problem, causing the snow to drop out onto the road in drifts.
Then some prat would follow in his Mk 5 Ford Cortina, swearing that I was taking too long and not making it wide enough for 2 vehicles to pass.
From that moment on, I only ever cleared what we needed and nothing extra there.
But I bought this plough because there is a nasty hill coming into our village here that the council avoid and I’m sick to death of being asked to pull folks up it when they get stuck.
Those deep roads are a PITA. I remember one bad winter, I had been out for several hrs on main routes, and was then asked, "could you open up Wrockwardine", the local Village. I already knew the drifts were 6ft deep and said it needed a blower or I could use the Teleshift. I agreed a price/hr and cracked on! Most of the day, as I recall and sent the YT to relieve me
Easier days. Less H&S and and an experienced Council snow team.
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Netherfield
Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Local scrapyard used to have six wagons out gritting, then the council got a new directive, only x grammes per metre had to be spread, meant having a computerised setup run from the cab.
The bill for the six wagons was something like £25k, so they decided not to bother anymore, Kirklees had to spend £250k to equip their own wagons, but struggle find enough drivers or end paying a fortune for out of hours working, or worse using agency drivers.
The bill for the six wagons was something like £25k, so they decided not to bother anymore, Kirklees had to spend £250k to equip their own wagons, but struggle find enough drivers or end paying a fortune for out of hours working, or worse using agency drivers.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Total gridlock according to local facebook group.. not much more than a hard frost in reality
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
It was on last week .
About due again then, knowing Film4....
Souinds about par for Councils..... too clever by half!!
- Location
- south norfolk
None here and don’t want it neither.best place for snow is on Christmas cards
nick...
nick...
SilliamWhale
Member
You could have done with that for the linseed!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Blocks instead of liquid after all, or both?
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Trying blocks , I’ve 1300 ltrs of liquid to use up but these are on some away ground , I put two bales out and two blocks .
It will make for an interesting comparison
- Location
- northumberland
Patchy up here (north Northumberland) some places nothing 5miles up the road a couple of inches then another couple of miles nothing again