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Re: [OM] Winter in Maine

Subject: Re: [OM] Winter in Maine
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:09:27 -0500
The strangest snow plow I've ever seen belongs to a friend of mine who 
is a veterinarian.  He has always done the plowing for his long driveway 
at home and for his veterinary hospital about 1/4 mile down the road. 
His choice of car is a Cadillac Escalade SUV.  So he has a plow and 
hydraulic lift attached to the Escalade.  I suspect it's the only 
Cadillac snow plow in the world.  :-)

Looks like this one (sans plow)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Escalade#Third_generation>

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/25/2013 10:19 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Thanks, Chuck.  That sounds like intensive snow-clearing.
>
> When I was in charge of an airfield we had a snow-clearing operation
> throughout the winter, activated on the forecast at around 1500 each
> day.  Some of our gear was quite impressive, but some was just blades
> on the front of a fuel bowser.
>
> Chris On 25 Feb 2013, at 12:01, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> That sort of plough is very common in the northeast US, especially
>> for multi-lane highways where you may see two or three such trucks
>> running side-by-side but staggered front to rear such that the lead
>> truck's plough feeds the snow off to the side to be picked up by
>> the next truck and so forth until road and shoulder are fully
>> cleared.
>
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