Paul Drake
Well-Known Member
Cat litter. CLEAN cat litter.
We use maple syrup for dusty dirt roads in the summer too.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
Actually a good thing to have in the trunk if you live in a place subject to icing.Cat litter. CLEAN cat litter.
The lumber company uses some kind of sealer that binds the dust together on logging roads. Don't know what it is.We use maple syrup for dusty dirt roads in the summer too.
I thought salt was an after treatment, granted it was 40 yrs ago when I was living in MN the salt trucks went out after the ice and snowThat's what it's looking like.
Some places use brine.
Not the clumping stuff though, That turns into a paste and will clog the Sipes in tires making them slicks.Cat litter. CLEAN cat litter.
This year is the first time I have seen "Pre Ice" road treatments.I thought salt was an after treatment, granted it was 40 yrs ago when I was living in MN the salt trucks went out after the ice and snow
I would think the moisture from whatever precipitation happens combines with the dried treatment to make a freeze resistant slurry.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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Mmmmm Cholula....love the stuffI 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 )
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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.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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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.I would think the moisture from whatever precipitation happens combines with the dried treatment to make a freeze resistant slurry.
It's not always dry. It gets sprayed on.I would think the moisture from whatever precipitation happens combines with the dried treatment to make a freeze resistant slurry.
I've seen the rig they use to spray I 80 going over the Sierra's, it has a type of outrigger so they can cover 4 lanes at once, pretty cool.It's not always dry. It gets sprayed on.
Don't get a parrot. I can't tell you how many times I was told to "hurry up" and "bad bird"I forgot to feed the dogs this morning and when I mentioned it, they both started barking at me.
Not nicely either, that was rude barking. They were sulking quietly, I guess.