Council gritter

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  13 December 2009     20:0134840
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  no cheap jokes please.
  
  the real one passed my window half an hour ago spreading it's load all over.
  
  good to see that they are on the ball.
• Guest 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
  • Posts: 3,391
  13 December 2009     20:3334843
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  snow forecast soon
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
  • Posts: 4,150
  13 December 2009     20:3734844
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  And a meteor shower. The Geminids. Possibly 100-120 an hour around midnight and after.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
  • Posts: 7,819
  14 December 2009     08:1534861
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  Yes they reckon its going to be a cold week... fetch out yer thermals lads and the cough syrup
  
  On a grimly serious note..I believe there isnt enough salt to go round, according to R4 this morning. Wot!...people been puttin it on their chips!?
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 10,540
  14 December 2009     08:5134863
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  According to info I have received, KCC have record amounts of salt for the roads and this year it will be applied "wet" as it works much better - apparantly.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  14 December 2009     12:5534874
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  i seem to remember that this time last year there was a shortage in some areas of the right type of salt.
• Guest 675

  • Registered: 30 Jun 2008
  • Posts: 1,610
  14 December 2009     18:2734892
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  I was at a Transport seminar in Ashford a week and a half ago when they assured us that they do have an ample supply of salt in stock. The gritters are now fitted with brine tanks which mixes with salt as it is spread to ensure that more of it sticks to the road where it can do the most good. It was also of note that all their vehicles now have dedicated snow-plows should the need arise.
  They receive three weather forcasts a day directly from the Met' Office and will ensure that the 54 primary routes on their list are gritted when required, in this region that amounts to 2,540 Km of A & B roads.
  Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
  Richard Armour
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  14 December 2009     19:1334898
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  that is good news, i wonder if it will stick to the car bonnets of drivers who insist on tailgating gritter lorries?
• Guest 660

  • Registered: 14 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 3,205
  14 December 2009     20:0734904
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  They were gtitting the roads last week and it wasn't cold,so they must have surplus salt.
  If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
• Guest 641

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 2,335
  15 December 2009     14:4834936
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  The gritters were out early this morning gritting all the roads in Dover and I must say that this new combination with brine certainly works, it actually does what it says on the tin 'It sticks!' (you wouldn't want to be too close behind one).
• Guest 693

  • Registered: 12 Nov 2009
  • Posts: 1,266
  17 December 2009     20:2335061
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  It's an age-old question - Billy Connolly once used used it in his routine - but still a valid question, I believe: if we all get snowed in, how does the snow plough driver get to work? Answers on a postcard please........
  True friends stab you in the front.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  17 December 2009     23:0035081
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  he has a stelth gritter parked outside his house.ive seen it.