pushing the snow back

[thecfarm]

Not something that I thought would have to be done on March 21

 

Town came up the road and pushed back the snow banken to make room for more.

[Chuck White]

Same thing happened here last week!

[thecfarm]

Awful thing to be doing at this time of year.

[Delawhere Jack]

I hates me some snow!!! 

We're near record snow totals for the year here in DE, about 30 miles south of Philly. The saving grace is that it's only come 6-8 inches at a time......over and over and over and over again.... :-\

A buddy of mine, a guy who used to be my manager at work emailed me Tuesday. Turns out he moved to Fargo ND two years ago........ Sucks to be him! :D :D :D

[chevytaHOE5674]

Our snowbanks have been pushed back about 6 or 8 times now and they will probably do them again once more so that when they melt the water will run into the ditch instead of onto the road surface.

[thecfarm]

Which ditch? They graded the road,it's dirt,and cut it down about 4 inches below the ditch. After it washed out in front of my driveway for the 3 time,I cut the road down level with the ditch, did not wash out again. They use to run up the road with some nice gravel every year. Times are tough. They tried some so called reclaim tar. But there was so much gravel in it,that did not work. At least they are trying.

[chevytaHOE5674]

If a road was built around here close to the existing grade, without 5'+ of fill it would only be usable a month or two in the late summer and then in the winter, so instead of digging down and adding fill they just toss the fill on top, this means most of our roads are built up quite a bit over the existing grade.

My road is paved and is 3-5' higher than my fields in most places so that means we have plenty big ditches to fill in with snow.

[Mooseherder]

My brother sent me a picture of the snowbank blocking our driveway up there.
The ditch is about 4 foot deep so the bank is close to ten foot deep.

 
Looks like they are getting some more to add to the pile.

[SwampDonkey]

They cleaned culverts here last week for the first time in 5 years. Then it snowed ever since. This last snow only dumped 2", I was out the door at 5:00 am having a peek. Nice starry sky with the moon out. ;D

[snowstorm]

they shelf it so they have room for more and so it melts in the ditch. its also easier on the truck and wing. not so many rocks to hit and it isnt frozen quite as bad. on narrow roads one bank will be higher than the other. coming in both plows are full  going out only one

[SwampDonkey]

At daylight it began snowing again.  ;D

[Peter Drouin]

I went around and push all the snow back , And open the driveway in front of the house too . Now I have room I'm not going to wait for spring  ;D

[coxy]

chuck how much snow is up there yet

[Dave Shepard]

Not much snow left on the level here. Just the snow piles left where we pushed it up off the driveways. More under the trees at the edges of the fields.

[Chuck White]

chuck how much snow is up there yet

In the woods, there's about 3-4 inches above the knees!

Makes me glad we have lots more pipeline than buckets!

[Billbob]

chuck how much snow is up there yet

In the woods, there's about 3-4 inches above the knees!
Makes me glad we have lots more pipeline than buckets!

That's about what we have here too, Chuck.  I think it's going to be one of those years where , in June, you find little patches of snow in the woods hidden here and there under the small spruce trees.

[SwampDonkey]

That's just normal for out in Deersdale and Napadogan. See it every year.

[GAB]

Billbob wrote: "I think it's going to be one of those years where , in June, you find little patches of snow in the woods hidden here and there under the small spruce trees."
In the spring of '79 I was in N. Dak and saw a sign that read Indian Snows Apache here and Apache there.  Is that what they were referring to?  Gerald

[Chuck White]

chuck how much snow is up there yet

In the woods, there's about 3-4 inches above the knees!
Makes me glad we have lots more pipeline than buckets!

That's about what we have here too, Chuck.  I think it's going to be one of those years where , in June, you find little patches of snow in the woods hidden here and there under the small spruce trees.

Don't know if I've seen it in Jun, but I know I've seen it in late May!

Either way, it wouldn't surprise me!

[SwampDonkey]

I usually venture out to Deersdale on the last week of May and there is always snow in the ditches where there is shade.  Someone was out there 2 weeks ago and said the road was never plowed most of the winter from the Clearwater stream onward.

[Ed]

County motorgrader came through last week, did the same thing.

It's done to get the snow back over into the ditch to prevent flooded roads instead of making room for more snow.

In some spots, he set the wing plow into the ditch and shoved the snow back into the field to let the ditch melt off first.

Ed

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, as Ed says. Otherwise the roads would be iced over at night from freezing run-off. They clean the culverts to, not just push back. That's what they do here at least. And it's only done near the culverts, not all the way down the road.

[isawlogs]

Here we wing the snowbanks back to make room for any further storms. Some cottage roads are in need of being winged back, we are  hoping the sun comes out and the snow will melt away. Was -18°C this morning, hard to get snow to melt and don't even think of maple sap.   :-\

  Mesquite....  SEND SOME   

[SwampDonkey]

When it closes in bad, they have to use the grader here with a blower.  I've seen big plows as big as anywhere not able to push much in those hard springtime banks. The cleaning here is with pay loaders. It narrows here just above the house and the plow can't wing that denser stuff nowhere.

[chevytaHOE5674]

Here is what the snowbanks look like on my road today after they have been winged back a few times and melted a little bit... Bank is about the same height as the top of the side windows. Road is about 3' higher than the surrounding field in this spot.