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Salt before 2' of snow?
With the impending doom of the snow blizzard of DC 2016, I'm wondering if I should salt the driveway before the 20-30" of snow? I've always waited until after I cleared the snow, then put salt down. Am I missing an opportunity?
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I wouldn't. You'll end up with wet hard to plow crap under the stuff you'll be trying to plow. I'd just go out and plow it when it get's to be about 6" deep.
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Presalt before a storm is done in public and commercial places but useless for residential unless your afraid of prosecuting yourself in court if you slip in your drive way!
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Gilles. 1988 2072 401 54" hyd angled blade 1988 1872 364 snowblower/C50 deck 1976 1650/QA42A blower/44A deck/standby 1976 1450TS/Sleeve hitch/44A deck/in storage 1963 100 (red)/in storage 2010 Kubota 2380-2/42" infinity deck (engine swap) |
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Pre salting keeps the snow from bonding with the surface. If you are not going to be driving on it and packing it down then it is not needed. Municipalities pretreat to give them a little extra time to get crews out or if it will take them a while to get plows on secondary streets.
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I usually only salt the sidewalk / porch areas. Not the whole driveway. All that salt is hard on my snow thrower. |
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Thanks fellas. I'll salt the front stoop and sidewalk. I think I'll wait until tomorrow morning to blow snow - should be about a foot deep by then, then hit it again later in the afternoon before it gets to 20-30" total.
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If your using a blower Definitely Do Not salt it. Blowers don't like slush. Blow it when you get about 8-10" of snow and you should be just fine.
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Not to derail, just how deep can snow get and you guys blow it easily? Lets assume you have a 2-stage unit with Plenty of HP. Also, what do those things do in sleet? Looks like we are getting 2-4 inches of snow sleet mix. I have tried scraping pure sleet with farm tractors before and it was not fun, probably 4" deep or so.
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Salt after snow removal.
On my driveway; no salt. I'll keep that crap as far away from my cub as possible. It destroys my truck fast enough.
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Daniel G. . (May 1970) 147 w/an IH spring assist, 48" deck, 42" blade, 1969 73, #2 trailer, 10" Brinly plow and (on loan) Dad's #2 tiller. |
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