Does your Public Works Dept. of your town /city fill up the end of your driveway when they plow the streets?
They do in this hole I live in, and this morning it Sucked.The snow was wet and heavy& compounded with the freezing rain did not help.With the blower it took an hour.
When I was younger the town had a 'wing' on the plow and an operator to lift the wing at your drive.Minimal cleanup.Now they have two trucks,a 1 ton that clears the middle then the 5 ton that pushes it halfway up your drive. Not impressed. Our town has become a retirement community. This is a good way to kill the seniors ; heart attack when cleaning your lane! IDIOTS on council.
John
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It's not a whole lot different in the country with the exception of occasionally taking out the mailbox, but I don't really see a solution either. It's winter....in Canada! The only thing that could work (if it weren't for the cost) would be using snow throwers directly into dumptrucks like they do in the downtown areas of bigger cities - very expensive!
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I'm the last house, on the right hand side of a dead end street. I get the snow from the whole street pushed up at the end of my driveway. Then he backs into it, to turn around. Every year for the last 15yrs. I've been stopping the plow operator and politely tried to reason with them, seems like it's never the same operator.
I'm the last house, on the right hand side of a dead end street. I get the snow from the whole street pushed up at the end of my driveway. Then he backs into it, to turn around. Every year for the last 15yrs. I've been stopping the plow operator and politely tried to reason with them, seems like it's never the same operator.
I'm the last house, on the right hand side of a dead end street. I get the snow from the whole street pushed up at the end of my driveway. Then he backs into it, to turn around. Every year for the last 15yrs. I've been stopping the plow operator and politely tried to reason with them, seems like it's never the same operator.
Your problem is that you're being polite.
I suppose they couldn't do any worst if I'd be ignorant about it.
They used to do that to me that's why I put a chain drive on my blower. But last summer they put a sidewalk on my side of the street and blocked the center lane(3 lanes no one remembers why) and made it into a turning lane. anyway plow pushes snow onto sidewalk then some cat comes past with the sidewalk plow and takes care of that . I'm starting to like the sidewalk
Yeah , they packed me in pretty good at the end of the drive this morn . I don't have a sno-blower ....got the prototype called a &^%*$^# shovel .......I did the drive in 3 shifts , 1 foot deep , 55 feet long , double garage wide ....yep, 3 shifts of work and a little help from Jack Daniels .
Problem is, it might be the end of your driveway but most times it's their own municipal property they are putting it on. Not much you can say to them.
If a snowplow ever went down my street they would probably fill in my driveway but alas I live in northeast London and they only plow pavement here a minimum 5 days after it snows.
I'm the last house, on the right hand side of a dead end street. I get the snow from the whole street pushed up at the end of my driveway. Then he backs into it, to turn around. Every year for the last 15yrs. I've been stopping the plow operator and politely tried to reason with them, seems like it's never the same operator.
Your problem is that you're being polite.
I suppose they couldn't do any worst if I'd be ignorant about it.
This used to happen to us as well. end of road, ect. operator used to use my driveway to back in and turn around. Wouldn't drop his plow when he was pulling out and leave a 4ft high hard packed wall of snow/ice. We would find peoples garbage/mail from 3 blocks away in it. No lie.
And then I happened to be up one 3am morning when he did it again.
I flew out there and climbed up on the loader, yanked open the door and tuned him in right quick. Told him I knew where he lived and I'd jump in and fill up a western star and fill his driveway while he was out filling mine in.
Realised after I was in my housecoat and slippers and had just finished my last 14hr shift in a row of 8. That probably scared him more then my threat of filling his driveway.
Weird though, he never did it again. Try sending the misses out??? might work better.
The guy that does it now has been doing it a couple years. Old school guy. Knows how to do his job right. Never an issue now.
I'm half way down the street in my subdivision [down hill grade]snow plow starts at top of the road & by the time he gets to me, he's doing about 35MPH+ not only fills the top of drive but fires it 20' across the lawn & Drive way. Thank goodness for Allis chalmers garden tractor & blower, or I'd 'drop' from a "heart- a- stroke too!!!!
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Think their afraid there going to get stuck here, comes down the road about 40 mph, snow and ice just a flying but little fills the driveway. They took out the mailbox again this year, called the township office and told them they could fix it, when I came home they had propped it up in the snow, couple days later a superspike is pounded into the snow bank,if it ever melts will see how they finally fix it but the plow driver slows right down going past now??
No problems here with the snowplow, the plow operator here is a young woman and she really motors with the wing down, she plows at around 30-40 MPH, so the wing really throws the snow into the air, spreading it some distance, never have had a barricade of snow across the driveway.
Interesting to see her comming, with a big cloud of snow flying up 15ft or so, at times way higher than the truck, she does a great job.
I live in Vineland, the main street - Victoria ave - is a Regional road and show removal from the road surface falls to the Region of Niagara. The Region in turn contracts snow removal out to the least expensive bidder. These Contractors do a wonderful job - when they come out - of putting the snow on the sidewalk.
Now the sidewalk, that falls under the responsibility of the Municipality of the Town of Lincoln, not the Region. The Region's Contractors pile the show on the sidewalk, then the Town tells you if you don't keep your sidewalk clear they'll fine you. I contacted the Town and said " while I have a tractor and blade that makes snow removal pretty easy, a lot of the seniors here don't. The frozen slush placed on the sidewalk is not natural snowall and therefor not the responsibility of the land-owner"
The Town now sends a small tractor and blade out to clear up the Region's mess. Typical redundent Government crap. I still clear my own and a few neighbors, keeps my tractor fit and puts a little colour in my cheeks.
LOL...this thread reminds me of a little story....I used to live across the road from my parents, the house was on a corner lot. The town truck would come around the corner and the snow would just happen to end up in my driveway. Luckily, my dad a had a snowblower, so it wasnt a big deal....Thing was whenever this happened, the driver of the plow had a smile on his face. Dont know if that was a coincidence...Was it Kent?
I usually see the plow sitting up at the croner waiting for me to just get the lane blown out then he heads down to help me..he fills it back in at the bottom just help me the prik ..He does not know yet that I will be on the municipal council next year and he will be shoveling out my fng laneway with a fking tea spoon next year... Karma is a great thing..
I have a corner lot at the start of a dead end street. Sidewalk goes to the edge of the curb, then my driveway runs right beside it for about 150 ft. Sidewalk plow plows onto the street, then the big plow will plow from the sidewalk to the center of the road. He will then back down the street and plow from the center to his right and all is well! Sidewalk plows have not been out for about a week or so now. Ice is about 3-4" thick on the sidewalk and in my driveway. Hopefully the warm spell coming in this weekend will melt a bunch of that ice.
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Reading the comments about doing your neighbours driveways is the reason I moved my ass back to small town ontario. When my mom was dying of cancer and we were 24/7 taking care of her (i'd fly in weekends from alberta to relieve the old man), we never even got the chance to touch our driveway. Turns out the neighbours had decided it was one less thing we needed to deal with. That and apparently making dinner, random food was always at our doorstep.
Love thy neighbour indeed. :) So i've been returning the favour where-ever I can.
Its a great difference from living in Calgary where I only knew the elderly couple next door, everyone else pretended each other didn't exist.
And, If I find that !$@!@$%! Plow driver who fills my driveway 30 minutes before I leave for work!!! Oh well, price you pay for clean streets.
We would find peoples garbage/mail from 3 blocks away in it. No lie.
