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**Plow Action**
It was a snowy Saturday morning, and Dave decided it was the perfect time to show off his brand-new snowplow attachment for his truck. With the enthusiasm of a kid on Christmas morning, he hopped into his truck and revved the engine, ready to conquer the mountain of snow that had buried his driveway. After a few glory-filled laps around the neighborhood, he felt like a snow-clearing superhero—until he realized he had plowed his neighbor’s driveway too, accidentally creating a massive wall of snow that blocked their car in for the day.
The look on Dave’s face when Mr. Thompson emerged from his house—arms crossed and eyebrows raised—was priceless. As Dave tried to apologize while simultaneously defending his unintentional snow fort building, Mr. Thompson couldn’t help but chuckle. “Is this an invite to your winter wonderland, or did you just decide I needed an upgrade on my snow scenery?” Even as Dave watched his credibility melt faster than the snow in the afternoon sun, he couldn’t stop laughing. Turns out, saving someone from snow was a slippery slope to a neighborhood feud!
B
The snow that gets cleared gets pushed to the sides so the plow driver was trying not to create a pile of snow at the end of the driveway.
G
Thumps up is the crane signal for boom up, the driver may be an operator or maybe the signals are the same for plow drivers
S
I worked in a tractor supply, not the store, but like komatsu and bomag, and thumbs up was the same there
R
But are you forklift certified?
K
The important question.
T
Flex
I
Where I’m at, the “official” signal for up is: index finger pointed up, and twirled in a little circle. But a lot of us use the thumbs up anyway haha.
N
Finger twirl is cable up Thumb up is Boom Up Fingers pointing up and pinching motion is cable up slow. Thumb up and one handed clapping motion is boom up, carry the load (meaning cable down at the same time, so the suspended load doesn’t move up or down) Where are you at? I bet this is case there, as well.
I
That’s hoist up. [Boom is the thumb.](https://americanpridecrane.com/uploads/3/4/4/2/34424757/hand_signals.pdf)
S
He wasn’t watching the thumbs up signal. They lift the blade when they go past a driveway because it’ll make a little wall of rock hard snow.
B
LOL I wish.
D
They sure as hell dont do that at my driveway.
P
Interestingly that pile of snow has a name, it’s called a windrow.
M
Yeah but it ain’t got the bustle that my hedgerow has.
X
Don’t be alarmed now! It’s just a spring clean for the may queen.
A
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E
SATAN!
C
There’s still time to change the road you’re on. Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run. It’s just a clean spring for May Queen. If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now.
B
> windrow. And if you have a heart attack while shoveling it, it’s called a windrow maker.
C
Really? Where does that come from?
P
I’ve lived in a snowy region my whole life, and I never heard the term until this year when a local city got a new style of plow that cleans windrows. I have no idea where or when the term originated.
P
I just know it as a farming term. After you cut your hay it gets spread out to dry then it gets piled into windrows to be picked up/bailed/etc.
S
Interesting. We use the same word for a pile of dirt that blocks you from something in mining. You’ll have windrows along the edge of the pit and windrows along the edge of the roads.
C
It also makes sure they don’t accidentally knock over the mailbox with a big heavy pile of snow.
C
I went to shovel outside yesterday to find my mailbox bent sideways hanging off pole. Snowplows are the natural predator of mailboxes and trash cans
D
Basketball hoops, too, apparently. Last winter a plow took down my kids’ hoop. Something up high on the truck hooked the net and ripped the whole thing down, shattering the backboard and bending the rim to an oval, mangling the steel structure…
J
Where I’m from you have a summer and winter mailbox. They don’t avoid them.
R
Summer up and summer down
T
That would explain the mailboxes I’ve seen that have the post way back and the box at the end of a horizontal pipe.
P
They do this where my mom lives. I’ve never heard of them doing it anywhere else. Every place I’ve lived the plows just plow you in. When I live in Lansing, the drivers delighted in waiting a couple of days past when you hand cleared your driveway and the sun had come out to make an icy crust on top of the snow. Only then would they clear the street and plow a mound of snow, ice and sometimes part of your own yard into the apron of your driveway so you have to chip your way out with a pick axe. They would do this at 11pm so as to interrupt your sleep and make sure you were late for work the next day.
L
Go on any local sub and people are bitching that they got their driveways plowed in. No matter what they do, people are going to complain.
T
My issue is not the driveway, its the sidewalk. My town has issues a warning to all residents that they will be issuing $300 fines for failing to clean the sidewalk 5 hrs after the snow stops I had to clean the sidewalk 4 times, 2 of those times was because of the plow trucks. And this is not the fluffy, powdery snow anymore. Its 2 feet of hard compacted wet snow.
P
5 hours?! That … is not always enough time. That’s a very very aggressive timeline. What if the snow stops as you’re arriving at work or are otherwise unavailable? Even road clearing is nowhere close to that fast.
T
I guess im SOL.
I
So it’s pretty much triply expensive for you to go on vacation there? Come back to a multi-thousand dollar fine lol
S
Or you hire neighbors/a shoveling service
1
Seems like a problem that would be solved by everyone chipping in a small amount to collectively hire a professional with appropriate equipment. Like they already do with the roads
B
In Zürich, Switzerland, I see small snowplows working on the sidewalks all the time. I assume they are funded from taxes.
T
Pretty much
_
Five hours is insane. The ordinance where I grew up was 24 hours. Not sure about my current place… Feel like I should check…
U
Damn, I have a lot to complain about in my city, but at least they clear the sidewalks themselves.
L
5 hours is wild. People have jobs yo
D
I’d move outside city limits. Or run for city council/mayor with the platform of cutting that out. I’d bet you win! Actually sounds like the easiest mayoral race ever. Anyone with a sidewalk would vote for you
Q
They expect the citizens to clear the sidewalks? Isn’t that the municipality or city’s job?
F
I just think if 75% of the road is clear, they have done a good job.
W
How do you not expect the plow to put snow in front of your driveway, it’s just like how works….
L
Because people are insane and think they are the main character
T
Or it’s just a lot of work to shovel the heaviest snow out of the same spot multiple times so they lament it
L
That’s the joke and that’s the joke of life. It happens both ways and there will always be someone happy with something and someone sad or angry both either way. That’s life, what a joke. Lol
V
Not everyone. Neat trick, snowblow about a half cars width and 2 long before the plow comes by and it’s not an issue. It makes it significantly easier to deal with before it gets compressed.
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