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1470 PLOWS— Rotary Snow— Cooke Locomotive and Machine Co., Paterson, NJ Deere & Co., Moline, 1ll. 1471 PLOWS— Steam Snow— Bradley Manufacturing Co., David, ...

Popular Mechanics
IMPROVED ROTARY SNOW PLOW This form of rotary snow plow was developed after many experiments with large models, and the result is a Side View of Expeller ...

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Locomotive firemen's magazine
On the 27th of January the rotary snow-plow went over the range to Basalt. Then they could not get back. On the 28th of February they came to Leadville via ...

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's magazine
Rotary Snob) Plow, V., N.-W. & P. Ry. The illustrations herewith are of a rotary snow plow which has recently been built at the Cooke Works of the American ...

Official proceedings of the New York Railroad Club
ROTARY SNOW PLOWS Rotary snow plows have b;en in successful operation unde the most trying conditions for over twenty-five years. They keep the road open. ...

New Susquehanna Township School District sidewalk helps students avoid narrow lane

“It was deep, and you’d fall down in the snow,” the Holtzman fifth-grader said.
    
While Abby worried about stepping in piles of snow, grown-ups worried about students walking, instead, on a narrow road leading into Holtzman. Now, Susquehanna Twp. School District officials are hailing the safety benefits of a new sidewalk that takes pedestrians off the street.
    
“If it ever snows, we can take the sidewalk instead of going through the grass,” Abby said.
    
The sidewalk takes the school’s third- through fifth-graders out of the lane driven daily by vehicles. It spans about 150 yards of Weatherford Way until connecting with an existing sidewalk that links to Linglestown Road.
    
Students from the Deer Path Woods neighborhood typically cut through the Holtzman ballfield to get from school to Crooked Hill Road, but on snowy or wet days, they were forced to

Source: PennLive.com

A History of Snow Plows & Snow Plowing

by John Snoly

Snow plow consists of a large pick-up truck with a large plow that is permanently attached. Some plows will an electric and/or hydraulics used to raise and lower them. Even bigger plows may be affixed to a very large tractor, backhoe or loader. Some of which may contain more then one large plow and even distribute salt as they plow. Aside from pickup trucks, snow plows were issued as far back as the early 1920's. The first infamous plow for vehicles was created by two brothers named Hans and Even Overaasen from Norway. They constructed a plow for use on vehicles which was soon paved the way for traditional equipment used today to clear roads, railways and airports. Soon after the Overaasen snow is lifted through a channel and forced to the top out the chute. The operator sits up top in a cab behind the chute he or she has the ability to control the direction of the chute and rate of speed of the blades. These controls eventually led back to the 'pushing' engine so that the operator of a pushing locomotive could have control. In areas where severe snow continued to accumulate after going in one direction.

The earliest rotary blades were power by stem engines while newer ones are powered by gas or electricity. Due to the advancement of newer technologies rotary blades are seldom used anymore. They are also very expensive to maintain an only used as a last resort by many railway companies.

Plows were a godsend to citizens in the late 1800's. It helped ease the stresses of transportation. While horse-drawn plow was uncommon in most cities in North America in the 1860's - it soon became widespread with popularity. However with the clearing of roadways came a new problem that we still see today. While plowing effectively cleared roadways it blocked the sidewalks and side roads that pedestrians used to travel on. Piles of

Source: A History of Snow Plows & Snow Plowing

history of snow removal

by ccoughlin

) With the arrival of motorized transportation, gone was the need to have the roads functioning like perfectly groomed ski hills. Instead, the roads and sidewalks needed to be cleared in an efficient manner so that people could safely drive and walk from one place to another.

The quest to develop a machine with the power to stand up to good ol’ Jack Frost was on…

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News

Cleaning up!

Laurel Outlook - Dec 01, 2010

Wheeler said the rotary snow blower the city purchased 10 years ago is getting a good workout this year. “Last year we only used it one time, but this year

Storm brings suburbs' first snowfall

Chicago Daily Herald - Dec 04, 2010

“I do my two neighbors' driveways, and I plow the sidewalk from Meddowlark to Cardninal every year,” said West. “Our little neighborhood is these three

Salem: Town Buys First Plow After Big 1924 Snowstorm

WMUR Manchester - Nov 24, 2010

A Salem resident named Will Meserve built his own rotary snow remover, and it seemed to do the trick. It worked so well, the city of Lawrence bought one

Parks director full speed ahead

Lansing State Journal - Nov 28, 2010

One example he cited was the possibility of asking local governments in the southern part of the county to help with plowing snow in the parks there,

The Toro Groundsmaster 360 represents an entirely new category of mower.

Pitchcare (press release) - Nov 23, 2010

Winter attachments include snow thrower, rotary broom, angled blade, and v-plow. These same attachments also function with the GM7200 PolarTrac™ QAS.