Handbook of construction equipment, its cost and use
SECTION 71 PLOWS Railroad or Grading Plows Number of Weight Price horses in lb. ... •All steel road plow 2 150 26.75 •All steel road plow 4 175 31.00 •Heavy ...

Special agents' series
The former is more desirable for light work, the latter for heavy work, ... Disk -plow equipment. — All disk plows, except in a few isolated cases, ...

Roads and streets
Plowing Routine. Heavy slides and snowdrifts are cut through first with rotary ... Connecticut Turnpike Awards Snow Plow Equipment A contract has been ...

Engineering and contracting
Care must be taken by the officials of the mechanical department to have snow- plows, in fact all snow-fighting equipment, in readiness at a date not later ...

Managing roadway snow and ice control operations
CHAPTER SIX EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES PLOWING EQUIPMENT Plow Tripping Mechanism ... Standard mold boards are used for light or moderately heavy snows and are ...

Snow buries Cordova and Valdez ; Nome is cold

Records are being broken or challenged by blizzards in Prince William Sound and cold temperatures in Nome.

A glut of snow during the first week of 2012 choked roads in Valdez and Cordova and collapsed warehouse roofs in both of the Prince William Sound cities, which were still digging out Friday as the snowfall threatened to continue into the weekend.

According to the National Weather Service, Valdez received 42 inches in the most recent storm, for a total of more than 18 feet this winter and a snow depth of an even 6 feet. Cordova saw about the same, the weather service says, and forecasts for the weekend indicate more is on the way.

The Richardson Highway, which connects Valdez to the state highway system, was shut down indefinitely at Thompson Pass, the Department of Transportation said. Cordova isn't on the state highway system, but the only major roadway out of town, the Copper River Highway, was cut off by avalanches between the town and the airport, according to the city.

Source: TheNewsTribune.com

Arctic Snow & Ice Control Products Offers Sectional Sno-Plow for ...

by cprewitt

BRADLEY, Ill — Sectional Sno-Plow ä , a product division of Arctic Snow and Ice Control Products, offers its line of HD Plows . Created by an experienced snow and ice management contractor, the snow pushers include a host of innovate features designed for maximum productivity, and are compatible with a variety of large pieces of equipment including wheel loaders, backhoes, skid-steers, tractors and telehandlers. Sectional Sno-Plow’s HD line is ideal for established snow and ice management professionals, as well as fleet owners looking for a productive solution for idle equipment during the winter months, including facility managers, and construction and landscape contractors.

The HD plows include several unique, patented features designed to increase pushing efficiency, increase fuel savings, greatly reduce salt usage and eliminate follow-up plowing. Constructed of durable steel, the patented moldboard design features individual 32-inch-wide sections, equipped with independent, spring-loaded trip edges. Each section of moldboard responds to changes in the pavement and moves up and down on its own, allowing the plow to contour to uneven surfaces and reduce the amount of snow left behind to re-plow.

Every individual moldboard section features an AR-400 hardened-steel trip cutting edge. Unlike competitor’s plows that offer rubber or polyurethane cutting edges, the steel edge is designed to scrape snow and ice down to the pavement and offer cleaner removal with a single pass. If a cutting edge is damaged, just that section needs to be replaced, resulting in significant cost savings. With typical one-piece moldboard plows, several feet of expensive cutting edge, often equal to the entire length of the plow, must be replaced upon damage.

Designed for faster, easier and more efficient operation, Sectional Sno-Plow’s patented Slip-Hitchä system is included on every HD plow. The system automatically and continuously adjusts the plow to the pavement grade, resulting in fewer missed areas and less follow-up plowing. And because it adjusts to the pavement mechanically, less operator time and effort is required to position the plow, making it ideal for inexperienced operators. It also allows the plow to operate independently of the equipment, ensuring full traction and eliminating drag, as well as loss of horsepower.

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With winter storm approaching, public works tools up to handle the ...

by Brian Slodysko

Downers Grove work crews are ready for the Chicago area’s first big winter storm, Stan Balicki assistant public works director says.

For the past couple of months Balicki said the public works department has been gearing up for the winter season. Now the plows have been attached, the rock salt stockpile has been treated with deicing fluid, and beginning Thursday, trucks were out presoaking the streets with a concoction of beet juice and salt brine that is expected to prevent snow from adhering to asphalt during the anticipated weekend shellacking.

“They’re not the kind of beets that you eat at diner. These are white sugar beets; We treat the salt with the same beet juice product,” he said.

Based on records Balicki has been keeping since 1987, the village in the past three years has been coated with an inordinate amount of snow, with about 52 inches dumped across the area the last two years, and about 60 inches the year before that.

The previous village norm, he says, averaged out to be about 30 inches of snowfall a year.

Both Balicki and Village Spokesman Doug Kozlowski said that in anticipation of the winter season they have one big request of drivers motoring around: Stay away from the snow plows.

“The feedback we get from our drivers is that people are impatient. We’re all in a hurry and we don’t think about what that plow driver has to deal with,” Balicki said.  “Things … can happen when a plow hits a snow drift. It’s a big heavy piece of equipment on the road under conditions when it’s not the safest time to be driving.”

Balicki said there will be a tiered order in which streets are plowed, and he urged residents living in cul-de-sacs and back avenues to be patient.

He said major thoroughfares – streets that are typically conduits for thousands of cars a day – are at the top of the priority list, with roads near schools and the hospital following shortly thereafter.

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