Awesome video! Wish we got that much snow in Kingston this year. Sad times trying to blow streets when it takes half a block to fill a truck some places.
@@MrMACHINE Yes, weather seems to push down the lake and then turn either north or south around Napanee. Likely because the lake hasn't really frozen in the last several years. Before that, we got more snow than Ottawa a lot of the time. We used to blow snow day and night non-stop, Now, we only do it at night, and this year only for a few weeks. Climate change I guess.
@@MrMACHINE Oh I get it. The only place snow is removed where I live is the occasional Shopping Center. I've plowed a few residential driveways longer then that street. It just baffles my mind to live somewhere where you would not be able to put the extra snow somewhere on your own property. No matter how much came. The thought that I'd have to pay the town to come in with all this equipment to remove snow so I could walk outside, to me is ridiculous, but that's America. Definitely a cool process to watch.✌
@@dand33911 Canada is in North America, but it is not in America, nor is it America. in your rush to judge people you made yourself look stupid, and then made yourself look even dumber, congratulations. also, there are plenty of places in northern Europe who have to do the exact same thing after consistent heavy snowfall. So on top of it all you also come across as blissfully ignorant.
I AM SO GRATEFUL AT THAT PERSON WHO DECIDED TO USE GRADERS YEARS AGO TO BE A HUGE PART OF SNOW-CLEARING, AS A CHILD IN MONTREAL THESE GREAT MACHINES WERE AROUND BUT NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF THEM IN THIS SITUATION???!!!
SORRY, NOT REALLY YELLING BUT HAD IT ON "YELL" WHEN I SPEAK OF TRUMP AND JUST LEFT IT THERE, WHEN I COMMENT DIRECTLY TO HIM AND CURSE HIM OUT, IT'S MORE NOTICEABLE!!
@@MrMACHINE I was in Qc last week. They were still removing snow and ice. Always impressive to see the Larue simply grind and gobble up the ice with no freaking effort.. And the front loader and grader scrape off the ice with ease. Ya we all have to wash our hands 100 times a day. Best thing to do.Yep!! Ben c'est ça!
Ottawa likes motor graders. When they have very icy conditions they can use a serrated blade like in this video I recorded. 👍 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-39K1RwOoBtQ.html
* cries in sheer-pin * I found a dumpster once with a Blanchet rotary blower on the front of a 966C made it halfway through the damn thing before I realized the sparks weren't rocks getting slung up the chute..... I can only imagine what would happen with a fire hydrant.
odd but even here in Montreal "all" dump trucks which take part in snow-clearing have a a wall on the left side of all trucks which allows tons more snow to be piled up, it's about 4 ft high and makes such a difference???!!!
And to think snow removal operations for 2022-2023 now costs City of Montreal a whopping 192 Million , which represents a mere 3% of their yearly total budget
Here in finland turku we have former city contruct ,now days named kuntec. Everyone hates us ,cos we don't do much work. Well in 2011 when kuntec was formed there was over 200 workers. Now only 55. No wonder we can't compete with others,who have came to the markets.
It is a combination of owner operators and employees for bigger companies. I'm guessing employees make about $30CAD per hour. Owner operators take home pay can fluctuate. These snow removal operations are run by the city with city equipment too.
We used to have these exact ones(link) in Sainte-Foy from 1987 til about 10 years ago . Were they ever impressive and powerful jeeezz. This era is all gone. But Larue with front-end loaders are quite great to watch too! www.giqauction.com/catalog/getItemDetails.cfm?l=1&auctionid=5947&itemid=666950&token=
C'est vrai. Another guy was wondering about that. You see it all the time on the Gatineau side but not in Ottawa. I agree you can put in so much more snow with just a couple feet wood boards. Anyone care to clarify why this is?
@@MrMACHINE Even in Québec (City and Sainte-Foy I"m from, they always had the tall boards like in Mtl. It carries so much more snow. Perhaps they were just having the city dump trucks that day, don't know.. Je me demande bien..
Yeah we generally don’t have to deal with that, anything short of a bolder is going to right through LOL. There are only 2 shear bolts, one for the top auger and one for the bottom and they’re behind the shield in the right hand side when you’re facing the front like we are here. So they’re fairly easy to replace. These are very serviceable!
Man these guys r doing this all wrong in my city first when they take the snow from the sides of the street they do both sides at once (only on certain streets) and put it in the middle of the street then they do the same thing with the snow machine but it's also bigger then this 1 Second the dump trucks don't have no side walls ( only on 1 side and in the front) on them buy having side walls it is faster to load and aim snow and u can get a little more in there they can clear a street (up to 10 blocks ) in less then 45 min looks like in this city takes longer but hey it could just be me because I don't do this job lol