jacko
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 posted on 5/12/10 at 04:35 PM |
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Road salt / grit
Has the council in your area been salting /gritting the side roads?
Other years they have done the road where i live but this year it seem's there only doing the main roads and not very good at that 
Jacko
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RazMan
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 04:39 PM |
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Not a hint of anything off the main roads in my area - my car will be moving tomorrow morning for the first time in a week!
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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zilspeed
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 04:48 PM |
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They've managed a double whammy here.
They haven't done the streets, so people won't go there and are leaving cars scattered all over the main roads, because they can't
get into the streets with any guarantee of succes in either getting in or back out again.
Main thoroughfares have been reduced to single track roads all over the place as a result.
As I write this, our cul de sac is clear, that's because we did it ourselves.
There are tons of snow piled up 4-5 ft high all over the place.
Just round the corner, the lazy barstewards are sitting frozen in for the want of a few hours work.
They might even get to know their neighbours a bit better as a result.
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thunderace
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 04:51 PM |
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my local mp told me to save money they are only doing the main roads where i stay.
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thunderace
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 04:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
They've managed a double whammy here.
They haven't done the streets, so people won't go there and are leaving cars scattered all over the main roads, because they can't
get into the streets with any guarantee of succes in either getting in or back out again.
Main thoroughfares have been reduced to single track roads all over the place as a result.
As I write this, our cul de sac is clear, that's because we did it ourselves.
There are tons of snow piled up 4-5 ft high all over the place.
Just round the corner, the lazy barstewards are sitting frozen in for the want of a few hours work.
They might even get to know their neighbours a bit better as a result.
they cleared my mums bit as she offered the council guy a bottle of malt,it was cleard in 5 mins even cleaed her path and drive 
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 05:01 PM |
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FFS theyr'e not even gritting the main roads. I just passed 2 gritters on a 17 mile strech of cleared road which was icy and they were not
gritting but were loaded.
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 05:10 PM |
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quote:
hey cleared my mums bit as she offered the council guy a bottle of malt,it was cleard in 5 mins even cleaed her path and drive
I'm saddened that you think this is acceptable Many of us hard working working people are infuriated that a guy who's wages
we are paying can then be "bought" by an old lady with a bottle of malt. Effectively "WE" have paid for him to clear your
mothers drive AND he has benefited further from her donation of a bottle of Malt.
He should be shopped and sacked/reprimanded for his actions. He SHOULD have gone round later.
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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will121
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 05:13 PM |
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i believe there are only a certain amount of resorces available to grit roads and as its been such a perlonged cold spell they have been sticking with
the main roads and not able to grit back roads.
We all think they should do the roads we want to drive on but to please everyone would be endless.
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jacko
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 05:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by thunderace
quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
They've managed a double whammy here.
They haven't done the streets, so people won't go there and are leaving cars scattered all over the main roads, because they can't
get into the streets with any guarantee of succes in either getting in or back out again.
Main thoroughfares have been reduced to single track roads all over the place as a result.
As I write this, our cul de sac is clear, that's because we did it ourselves.
There are tons of snow piled up 4-5 ft high all over the place.
Just round the corner, the lazy barstewards are sitting frozen in for the want of a few hours work.
They might even get to know their neighbours a bit better as a result.
they cleared my mums bit as she offered the council guy a bottle of malt,it was cleard in 5 mins even cleaed her path and drive
A few years ago we gave the bin men a 6 pack of beer for xmas and for there thanks they knocked the tops off the bottles on my nice newly painted
garden gate .
Thats the last time we gave them anything
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Alfa145
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 05:48 PM |
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Would someone remind me what a gritter looks like, not seen one since January.....
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dhutch
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 05:52 PM |
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Main roads only here too.
- We live opposite the police station and they havent even done our road.
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jacko
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 06:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Alfa145
Would someone remind me what a gritter looks like, not seen one since January.....
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will121
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 06:11 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko
quote:
Originally posted by Alfa145
Would someone remind me what a gritter looks like, not seen one since January.....
its ok for us to want our roads gritted but who grits for the gritter??
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adithorp
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 06:29 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
FFS theyr'e not even gritting the main roads. I just passed 2 gritters on a 17 mile strech of cleared road which was icy and they were not
gritting but were loaded.
They were probably on thier way to the route that they werte asigned to grit. If they just started gritting every raod they drove along only the roads
near the depots would get done.
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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MikeR
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 06:48 PM |
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modern gritters should (if they bought the s/w) have a GPS system that knows the expected temperature in each area its driving in. It will then drop
the appropriate amount of grit for its run. Someone may have already dropped the grit or someone may be going to drop it later when its more
appropriate.
(or they could not have bought the system and it could just be down to a written instruction the driver has been given when he left the depot)
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 06:54 PM |
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I live in a cul-de-sac and they even did up here, by reversing a wagon slowly with a guy stood in the back, shovelling out grit as they went. Not very
keen on health and safety out here.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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jacko
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 06:56 PM |
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Wouldn't it be good if the gritters had trackers fitted so we could see were they are on a web site 
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zilspeed
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 07:35 PM |
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They will have trackers fit.
All of our vehicles do.
Speaking of which.
Talking to one of my neighbours yesterday, he was telling me that his bosses have decided that GPS trackers in the vehicles aren't enough.
They want them to wear tracker watches.
Hes doesn't work for a council incidentally, a private contractor.
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marcjagman
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 08:06 PM |
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Due to the fact that I'm extremely poor I can't afford any snow clearing stuff and the only things my neighbours have are spades. I keep
warm by helping push cars up the quite steep hill that we live on, which is also a cul de sac. What gets me is in the mornings my car is penned in by
abandoned cars so I can't move even if I wanted to then they come back with their mates to dig their cars out and throw the snow around my car.
I don't even know if my car is still there due to all the snow piled up, could have been nicked and I really wouldn't know.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 08:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
They want them to wear tracker watches.
Then every time I go to the toilet I'm gonna be shaking my arm in a "w**king my 4-foot richard" motion and see how long it is before
something's said.
Where I am at the moment it's half and half, like a main residential road. Last time I saw a gritter it was doing about 35mph, very safe
considering they're supposed to be driving on icy roads..
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sonic
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 09:22 PM |
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A fella opposite me works for the council and he has told me they are only griting main roads and only if they have too.
The reason being is that they don't expect to be using this much grit at this time of year and are saving stocks for early 2011 when they expect
the bad weather,there is only so much budget he said and cannot afford to over spend.
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 10:04 PM |
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We've had snow and ice about 8 inch in the town all for a whole week.
No gritters on Friday
every man and his shovel/digger/gritter/street/pavement plough out on Saturday
Nothing on Monday
Nothing on Tuesday
Nothing on Wed
1 Street gritter on Thurs
Nothing on Friday
EVERY MAN JACK OUT ON SATURDAY.
DO I SENSE A PATTERN yes I do it's called time and half or double time.
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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sonic
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 10:23 PM |
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Once upon a time we would all go outside and help each other clear the snow and dig cars out etc,i was reminded the other day that clearing your drive
if it cuts across a public footpath is a know know!! basically because if joe public walks across and slips you will be held accountable because you
modified the conditions!!
If they fall on an act of god ie snow there is nothing that they can do unless the council can be proved at fault.
We live in a crazy world and that is why people won't clear it anymore
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 10:47 PM |
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Seems pretty good around this way, my road looks like it got at least a token dusting once, more than it's ever had before. A grit bin has also
appeared on the corner of the road. No grit in it mind, but it's a start 
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 5/12/10 at 10:52 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by sonic
if joe public walks across and slips you will be held accountable because you modified the conditions!!
Only if you do a crap job of it. If you just scrape off the top layer of snow and leave behind a layer of smooth compacted snow/ice then it's
clearly more dangerous than it was before you got there. Clear it properly and put down some grit and roberts your mothers brother.
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