Exeter - making milk deliveries in heavy snow 

Although it must have been freezing and exhausting, it does seem pretty cool too (no pun intended!) I think I’d enjoy your job :)

Hi Gary I live in Sydney Now have been for 16 yrs...it's great to see winters like that...I remember 1981 was the last time it snowed like that...I used to do a paper round around bonhay road...takes me back. Great vid...... Lee

It's nice to know that retired milkfloats are still coming in useful elsewhere! I was in the spare van that day, my usual one was off the road for repairs.

Thanks very much for your kind comments. Gary

@19beavers Hi, thanks, those bottles were freezing cold for about 6 months this winter, it was a real luxury when you picked up one that had only just been put out and was still nice and warm. Gary

Thanks a lot! Gary

It's so peaceful when it snows very early in the morning ^^. :)

@whiteknightmovies Hi. Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. There no problems with freshness that day. Did you see my other video called 'The River Exe frozen.....'? It was recorded on an even colder morning, you will see that all the milk had frozen solid. Gary

@johnrussellpatrick Hi, thank-you very much. The camcorder is a Sony HDR-SR10, the captions are standard RU-vid annotations. Gary

Thanks Merle!

Great Video it really took me back to when I worked for Unigate - 9 years on retail and 13 years on the wholesale. I took the redundancy when they got taken over again. Biy were those bottles cold !!!

@johnrussellpatrick Hi, yep, these modern HDD cams are fantastic. No tapes/DVDs required just plug it into your PC and take it off in seconds. I was holding the cam in my hand at all times when recording this vid. Gary

@garylq Hey I am the postie for West Garth Road!! How did you manage to drive your milk float up there? The H bus got stuck at the junction with Ridgeway!!

All the main roads are clear now, though more snow might change that.

Great video we have lots of heavy snow in New England do you still deliver the milk...here in the US its mainly brought at the store...!!!

possibly the most natural winter 4 a long time

Out milkman crawls up our steep road at 2 am to deliver, but as it's a dead end, he rolls backwards down the hill faster than the float can be powered by it's motor!

haha thats the same one i drive at work moving plants about

Surely that's the point, this isn't Canada, and in the UK snowfall is rare, so yes this would be considered a blizzard.

lmao u went past my house

@matty092286 Good suggestion, watch this space.

try drifting the old girl in the snow watch the milk