County snowplows

[Cabin Fever]

It snowed about 3" overnight. Our county has 12 snowplows on the job clearing our roads. Some of the roads on the map below are state highways, so their snowplowing status is not provided on the map. How many snowplows does your county have? The population of our county is 68,000.

 

[Pearl]

ZERO!! IF our county had plows they wouldn't bother to use them!!

 

[teeceetx]

I hear my county has 1 snow plow.

 

[Cabin Fever]

In Minnesota, we give our snowplow trucks names....

 

[UserNameTaken]

I don't know, probably a half dozen at least. But our county stretches from the Utah line to Lake Havasu and east to nearly Seligman, AZ, including about 1/2 the Grand Canyon, so we go from low desert to 8,000 ft plus mountains. I've seen 18" in a single storm at 4,000 ft.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I think our county has a couple plow trucks and a road grader equipped with a plow and a wing. Our county population is 2800. During a big storm it may take them a few days to clear the roads. Of course they only plow roads that people live on. The state plows the one highway that runs through our county.

 

[Cabin Fever]

One morning, my crazy Texan wife wanted to video the snowplow coming down our road so she could send the video to her family in Texas who have never seen a snowplow. Her video is below.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Speaking of snow videos we make for Texas relatives, here is one of our driveway.

 

[Peanut]

Zero plows and not a single dump truck loaded with sand. Salt? only what I could buy at walley's or for cows at the ag supply store. It's been 5 or 6 years since we got 3" of snow. A snow plow would rust out before it got used. Not a wise use of tax dollars.

 

[Patchouli]

City of Dallas has 8 snow plows. I thought I read Fort Worth has 5. Couldn’t find a number for the county.
And in Maryland, Baltimore County has 423 trucks and equipment, almost 500 personnel working it, 2700 miles of road to tackle. Haha
In Maryland, the plow truck was also the salt spreader, at the same time.
Road is slushy out front. Was snowing a bit ago.

 

[Magus]

Ten plows, none moving until its over.

 

[dademoss]

Clarksville has 1 plow The county does the big roads and ODOT does the highway.

 

[montanabill]

70% of the roads in montana are not paved so some trucks are worked year round.
Every fall there are advertisements for snow plow drivers..
We might have no snow for months or we might get some snow every day for a month..
Living on a school bus route has it advantages since the routes have priority to get plowed first thing in the morning..
With the high winds we have you can be driving on a snow free road and then turn 90 degrees and hit deep snow and drifts that lifted big pickups can get stuck in....

 

[Amish Heart]

No clue how many official plows we have. I know Marvin is paid by the county taxes to plow, and we see him sometimes. But when he does, he leaves big piles in front of our driveway, which is horrible to drive over. Mostly the amish guys just come around and hook something up to the tractor, like the bucket. And our neighbor Marlon clears stuff up with the skidster, like he did for us this morning. We are mostly dirt roads in our town, no stop lights, either. But I took our main road to the bigger town (this road is paved) to take husband in to the docs, and it was not cleared much, and it was not salted either. Just drove 40mph instead of 65. And only one lane was driveable, actually, a half of two lanes put together.

 

[LadyLocust]

When we lived on the Oregon side, the area had a couple mild winters so the main town sold the plows . The county still has a couple but the town is a mess anytime it snows. Wonder where that money went

 

[Mountain trapper]

Here's what I use to clear our driveway, it's 2 miles down to the county road. Also have a track drive 3 stage walk behind blower for around the house.

 

[Mel]

My town would like to know what a snow plow is . This was taken Thursday.

 

[old tex]

We have zero snowplows. Thinking back through my life I realized that to me snowplows are like unicorns. I've seen pictures of them, but I've never actually seen one in real life.

 

[Cabin Fever]

We had about 7" of snow over night as you can see on the birdfeeders and picnic table in the photos below.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Here's what I use to clear our driveway, it's 2 miles down to the county road. Also have a track drive 3 stage walk behind blower for around the house.
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Nice gear you have. Below is what I use to remove snow.

 

[Morgan101]

Our county claims to have 116 snow plows; various sizes. Large ones are used for arteries; smaller ones used for residential areas. I really can't complain. Our town does a pretty good job of keeping the streets cleaned.

My only beef, and this could go in the Rant for the Day, is the barricade of snow the plows leave in front of your driveway when they clear the street. Sometimes they barricade you in. It will be three feet high and three feet thick. You would think they could find a better way.

 

[Cabin Fever]

@Morgan101, you have to get out there and remove snow before the snow plow comes down the road. If you remove some of the snow on the road or shoulder "upstream" from the driveway, the snowplow empties its load there and not in front of your driveway.

 

[Pearl]

Nice gear you have. Below is what I use to remove snow.
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I had an old 1980 that same color!!

 

[Cabin Fever]

I had an old 1980 that same color!!

Since that photo was taken, I removed the plow and mounted in on my 1999 Z71 (below). Someday in the future it will likely be remounted again on my 2008 Z71.

 

[Pearl]

Since that photo was taken, I removed the plow and mounted in on my 1999 Z71 (below). Someday in the future it will likely be remounted again on my 2008 Z71.


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I drive a 1999 Z71 now! Guess my next truck will be an '08!! Lol!!

 

[Cabin Fever]

I drive a 1999 Z71 now! Guess my next truck will be an '08!! Lol!!

I remember when I bought the 1999 brand new. The dealership had two models of the Chevy truck, the "old style" with the 350ci engine and the "new style" with the 5.3L engine. Both were 1999s and both were the same price. I chose the old style with the 350 V8.

 

[Mountain trapper]

@Morgan101, you have to get out there and remove snow before the snow plow comes down the road. If you remove some of the snow on the road or shoulder "upstream" from the driveway, the snowplow empties its load there and not in front of your driveway.
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Yeah it's the property owners responsibility to clean up the berm left over from the snow plows. Our berms can be 3 to 5 feet high or more. Then the county brings out the grader with a wing and cut a couple feet off the berm. Whenever we get a good snow I take the tractor down and clean out the end of the driveway and in front of the mailbox. Occasionally the county plow operator will clean the berm at the end of our driveway, but usually not.

 

[Pearl]

I remember when I bought the 1999 brand new. The dealership had two models of the Chevy truck, the "old style" with the 350ci engine and the "new style" with the 5.3L engine. Both were 1999s and both were the same price. I chose the old style with the 350 V8.

Mine has the 5.3.....well over 450,000 miles on it!!