The blade from the plow unloads most of the snow that it carries into that clearing before it gets to your driveway. But the amount of effort put into clearing that section is probably equal to the effort in shoveling your driveway.
It's not so much the snow slop the plows leave behind that is the problem. It is the ice that snow turns into if you not fast on removing it before it turns to ice. Once it is ice there is no getting rid of it till it melts. Prevention is the best remedy.
I have to say I've been shoveling and I love shoveling for my neighbors and helping all my neighbors and whoever needs help but I can tell you right now my best friend is a heating pad I love my heating pad Happy Valentine's Day to all
Happy Valentine's Day! Got to try out shoveling snow down here in Texas with a cookie sheet because we have never had this much snow, so not enough to ever need a shovel. Heard y'all are super friendly neighbors up there, it warms my heart that you're one of the good samaritans! Cheers!
Unless of course the city cleaning crews have already thrown up a rock-hard mountain-range sized windrow on either side of your driveway entrance that stretches on for dozens of yards to either side. . . and then they don't bother trimming them down all winter. End result is you get home and you can't get into your own effing driveway because the cleaning boyz have shoved a 3-foot+ tall wall of glacial hardpack across the entrance. And, of course, the city by-law states that they aren't responsible for cleaning windows away from driveways regardless of the size. Come spring, I think I'm gonna hand my next-door neigbor a few garbage bags and tell him to fill them up to the brim with his dog's crap. Then, on a nice, warm Sunday morning, take said filled bags and dump out their contents at the front door of the city's civic office as a sign of "gratitude".
I've got an even better idea. When the snow falls, clear your entire city of snow and that way snowplows can't come out to block anyone's driveway. You'll be the town hero!
For this to work, you must do 30-40ft of the VDOT's work for them. You must shovel at least half of the street width, as well as your driveway, and its left lead, so the plow will run out of snow(& ice) before it gets to your driveway.
Yup... After 20 years of shoveling/snow blowing snow, cleaning the bus stop/fire hydrant and driveway apron multiple times (3-5 sometimes) per storm (corner lot no less), I finally figured this out. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to shoot the effing plow drivers as they'd pile snow a few feet deep on my freshly cleared driveway apron! Last winter I figured out that if I would blow/remove the snow at the curb for that 30-40' before the bus stop I keep clear (as a favor to my neighbors that ride the bus) and our driveway (which is around the corner), very little snow would be pushed into both spaces when the plows did their final clean up runs. It also helps to wait to clear both until the plows are nearly done with the storm. The removed snow is blown up onto space between the sidewalk and curb. After a few storms, this builds up high enough that the plows can't lift the snow up over the "snow wall", which keeps them from throwing snow back up onto the clean sidewalk (which has to be keep clean by the homeowner per town ordinance). In the end, you ARE doing your town or state DOT work for them, but ultimately it saves you a lot of extra work and aggravation (who hasn't thought of mauling the plow truck drivers, seriously??).
i have been doing this for years. I figured it out for my self. actually in fact, i just dit 7-10 feet along the sides off the curb and also all teh way across the street.
Stupid. If you can clear 10 feet to the left of your driveway, then you can just wait til the plow comes by instead and clear what he plows into your driveway. 6 of 1, half dozen of another.
That's the key, wait til the streets are clear! Most people are way too eager to get out there and shovel. Then it's our fault (snow plows). We are paid to clean the streets, not driveways.
I clear a snowblowers width past the pavement on both sides of the end of my driveway for about 20 to 30 feet along the road. That gives plenty of room for the plows to drop most of the snow and I don't have to worry about the slop they leave turning into an ice mountain overnight at the end of my driveway. It also help the melt find the gutter that is on our side and not stay in the road overnight to make a skating rink (no cars thru) or ice bog (lots of cars thru).
The question becomes: do you want to shovel or snowblow at the time you need to drive in or out of your driveway or would you rather do it when you have the energy or time to do it beforehand? The other key is if you can, remove the curbed snow before it gets too heavy or t frozen
my neighbor from across the street is putting his snow on my side of the street, talking about "dont worry the plow truck will pick it up" then i said no the plows gonna push it into my driveway and block me even more...
im not saying this idea is dumb, im saying its completely moronic. what i would have said is don't shovel the last 3 feet of your driveway until after the plow goes by and the snow you left there will block the plow from pushing a bunch more in. not perfect but it will save you some shoveling. shovel before the plow comes by and you're giving that snow an open invitation to your driveway.
"Run outta places to put this stuff". - Me too, I shovel mine into the street. We have a sidewalk and a fire hydrant so some of it gotta go in the road. I ain't shovelling uphill at my age, screw that.
I live on a court and the plows come in counter clockwise and I get 5 houses of snow across my driveway. Most snow one year was almost 7ft waiting to be cleared. Kids loved tho. Thankfully i have great neighbors and decided it wasn't going to happen again so I bought a plow and truck.
Just dont shovel the end of the driveway until plows are done Ive plowed over 30 years the plow dumps in the first empty spot it sees or will carry snow until it finds a opening (like your next door neighbor )
The plow dumps it all in my driveway on purpose. If I wait I will have a 5x25 foot block of ice to shovel. That would be after I shoveled my way to the driveway. No thanks. I am thinking of shooting it at the plow truck because I am so sick of this guy. He hits my garbage cans that are 5 feet off the road into my property. Also hit my mailbox multiple times. His boss does nothing about it either. We have put in complaints. Supposed to get 26 inches Saturday.
Good concept, and I'm tempted to do that, but letting it pile up at the end of my driveway would be too much for me especially if the snow is mixed with rain or ice.
@@IanRLewis The city plows old embankments of ice that have been there for weeks into my driveway. It's like huge cement boulders of solid ice that no shovel or snow blower can get through. I always complain and the city workers do nothing to help.
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@@rezphilosophy We live in a thickly-settled area and get way too much snow for this to be practical. This would actually double the effort to get the driveway cleared. If the road you live on isn’t extremely busy, it may work better.
I remove all of the snow between the road and the sidewalk on both sides of my driveway using my snowblower. It is a bit more work, but not too bad if I do it all season long.
Or just leave a bank of snow across the driveway till after the roads have been plowed, then clear it. That would prevent the plows from unloading into the open space just by not having any open space to begin with. Of course, the packed snow bank would be much harder to clear than the rest of the driveway.
That's all wrong. If you have six inches of snow in the street at the end of your driveway, then that six inches of snow is going to wind up across the entrance of your driveway. Period. In order to prevent that, you'd have to shovel more than half the street in front of your driveway and to the left (in the USA and similar countries).
Suggest your idea to Tesla corporation, they've become famous for turning science fiction into scientific fact lately. If only those household reactors department of energy dreamed of back in the fifties had since become reality. They've got electric tape for gutters and pipes but only thing I have seen successful so far is underground radiant heat.
That’s a good idea I put it on the right side so it goes down the street plus I don’t have a driveway on my rite but have one to the left that is connected to my driveway
With tech now I would use a electric snow shovel and just hit a 5ft semi radius from the driveway.then make the 2 pockets as both would allow trash can spots and that excess...with the semi radius done they will pick up snow after your house instead.
I lived in Tonawanda for 17 years. The town would stick a plow on a bulldozer and the guy would leave a huge boulder at the end of the street. One day, I just got done shoveling my driveway and the guy left a huge eight foot boulder at the foot of my driveway. I told to get his fucking snowball out of my driveway before I hop on his plow and kick his ass.
*So, in other words:* Shovel *75 square feet* of snow to the _left_ of your driveway, so that when the plow comes you won't have to shovel what would've been just *50 square feet* of snow in _front_ of your driveway. This video is RIDICULOUS for SEVERAL REASONS: 1) IN ADDITION to the 75 sq ft. of snow you shoveled, there will STILL be at least _some_ snow left by the snow plow in _front_ of your driveway. 2) The snow that is being pushed into the space in front of your driveway is NOT the _snow from the _*_parking space_*_ to the left of your driveway._ It's the snow from the *STREET* that the plow truck is plowing that is being pushed in front of your driveway. So, for every inch of street that the plow is moving forward, it is pushing snow with that angled blade and directing it to the side of the road - i.e. in front of your driveway. If you want there to be no snow coming off of that plow blade as it passes by _your_ driveway, you'd have to shovel the snow *in the street* (not the snow in the parking space to the left) in front of the house to the left of you.*
When the city plows come by my house they have powerful snow plows. Sometimes they will throw the snow up to my garage. So I still have to shovel at least three times or every time they come down my street, so this tatic will not work.
Ummm, not really sound advice. Who has the additional time to shovel MORE snow than they need to? I just make sure to push the snow within the same line the snow plow makes, that way, they are not pushing anything back into my driveway because there is no snow there. Not sure how else to explain it. But just make sure the snow on either side of your driveway lines up evenly with each other. The snow plows usually stay within the line as don’t push it back in.
Simple solution; Use wheel loaders with u-blades in narrow streets instead of these shitty trucks, fold the wing just before you're about to pass the driveway and open it once you've passed. Why they're plowing that street @1:50 with a truck like that is beyond me.
Why would clear an area 10 feet past your driveway when your driveway is only 10 feet? You'd be better if you bought a few slabs of plywood and mounted them up so you could BLOCK the end of your driveway from being plowed in.
This video just needs to be mashed up with that video where to guy builds such a realistic snow covered car snow sculpture that the cops try and give it a ticket. Yep, just sculpt one of those out in the street before your driveway for the plows to go around. Problem solved.
ok what's the point because if you how to dig out a spot for the snow to go to it's no different and digging out the snow that they put in your driveway either way Eugene out the same amount of snow whether you dig it out before they put in your driveway or after they put it in your driveway I don't think half of the people are going to understand what I just said that just goes to show you how much people think people don't use their heads anymore you might actually be shoveling out even more snow by shoveling 10 feet on each side then you would be if you just yelled out what they put in your driveway
@@WHJeffB Snowblowers jam up with the heavy stuff and make it harder than just shoveling. They won't throw wet snow or ice. One time I had to drag mine all the way back to the house. Not fun. If it is light powder snow they work great but then again so does a shovel.
I throw the snow from the blade driver back out into the street. Snow that falls in the street is the cities maintenance problem. Snow that falls in my driveway and walkways is my problem. If city maintenance doesn’t like that oh well. That’s not my problem.
Dean Henthorn: It could be your problem since in many places it's illegal (and fineable) to shovel snow from your property onto a public street, for good reasons. Thinking cooperatively is usually better for you and for the rest.
Laurence Roche: It's illegal to do that, for good reason. Maybe it's faster but it could be more expensive for you, not to mention its being narrow focused.
