Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

DarkWeb

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Thats interesting...I never heard of beet juice and thought you nwere kidding til I looked it up. I guess different regions use different stuff.

Around here they use 3 things depending on the temps and conditions....Rock salt, calcium chloride when it's closer to zero or below, or a mix of sand and a melter
We use maple syrup for dusty dirt roads in the summer too.
 

DarkWeb

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I was doing so good on a bowl of raisin bran till I was smokin a dab joint and saw unattended sausage egg biscuits.

Wish I could of tasted the first 2 tacos, but I chewed the 3rd one.
(I thought the dogs stole one when both were gone in a flash, because of the breakfast rebellion :o)

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Mmmmm Cholula....love the stuff

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Did the same as yesterday except no peppers and it's on a few slices of fried sweet potato. Pretty good :bigjoint:
 
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DCcan

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This year is the first time I have seen "Pre Ice" road treatments.

Like you in the past it snow was reacted to after the fact. Now I'm seeing pre treating the roads on a wide scale.

How does that work?
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They can mix and spray a variety, calcium magnesium soidum chloride solutions, whatever is cheaper, and beet juice lowers the freeze temp further and helps it stick.
The treatment starts working so they don't have to be everywhere at once at some unknown start time, then they have time to spread sand and salt.
 

manfredo

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I would think the moisture from whatever precipitation happens combines with the dried treatment to make a freeze resistant slurry.
The steel bridges gets especially bad and they often pre-treat them. A lot of the suspended or tall bridges freeze before the rest of the roads, so you can be tooling along, hit a bridge and find yourself in a slide. Some of the real tall ones are actually heated.

 
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