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Title: useless snow plough
Post by: redelitev6 on 29 November 2010, 17:22:42

Just passed a council snow plough , the plough blade must have been 4" off the road ,doing no good at all,wonder if they've been told to keep them high to avoid damage to the road surface so they don't have to spend money on repairs or am i just being cynical? >:(

Title: Re: useless snow plough
Post by: TheBoy on 29 November 2010, 19:05:57

they are not there to scrape the road, just to make the snow (drifts in particular) a bit thinner, making it passable.  3-4" sounds about right

Title: Re: useless snow plough
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 29 November 2010, 21:47:55

here they drop the blades to 0 and clean the speed bumpers ;D :y

Title: Re: useless snow plough
Post by: aaronjb on 29 November 2010, 21:55:24

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here they drop the blades to 0 and clean the speed bumpers ;D :y

Ooh I need to get hold of the keys to one and try that! ;D

Title: Re: useless snow plough
Post by: Kevin Wood on 30 November 2010, 09:05:39

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here they drop the blades to 0 and clean the speed bumpers ;D :y

Ooh I need to get hold of the keys to one and try that! ;D

The bottom of the bell housing on my Westfield seems to achieve the same effect. >:(

Kevin

Title: Re: useless snow plough
Post by: aaronjb on 30 November 2010, 10:16:30

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here they drop the blades to 0 and clean the speed bumpers ;D :y

Ooh I need to get hold of the keys to one and try that! ;D

The bottom of the bell housing on my Westfield seems to achieve the same effect. >:(

;D (sorry!)

I was always thankful for the (aftermarket) bracing on the underside of the MR2 - that always connected with speed humps first, so although it sounded hideous all I was doing was ... grinding away £500s worth of aluminium tube & laser cut plate. D'oh!  :-[ ;D