Iced drive

RSR · Oct 8, 2019

Ash from my wood boiler goes straight onto my very steep driveway.

wheelbuilder · Oct 8, 2019

Wood ashes, coal ashes work fine for me. The pellet ash goes furthest out, it is pretty fine and inky. The Missus does not like it in the house.

PILOON · Oct 8, 2019

wheelbuilder said:
Wood ashes, coal ashes work fine for me. The pellet ash goes furthest out, it is pretty fine and inky. The Missus does not like it in the house.

LOL, that's the downside of recycling, (ashes)

jbrumberg · Oct 8, 2019

Boxblade with scarifiers down and wood stove/grill ashes work for me.

Decent slip-on traction aids for footwear outside. One must be very careful about the quality of some Chinese-made knockoff products.

seville009 · Oct 9, 2019

The one and only solution

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Snobdds · Oct 9, 2019

It's just a matter of how much do you want to spend.

Enter the infrared heater...Problem solved.

RSR · Oct 9, 2019

Snobdds said:
It's just a matter of how much do you want to spend.

Enter the infrared heater...Problem solved.

Well, if we are talking of the absurd, why even bother with snow removal?

Heated driveways and radiant snow melting systems from Warmzone

Oh, I know why. Because then I wouldn't have an excuse to buy a tractor.

Fallon · Oct 9, 2019

I've used box blade scarfiers on some drives for some neighbors with steep gravel that got iced up. RIP until some of the gravel is pulled up & mixed in, or at least the ice is roughed up. No way I'd mangle my tiller on ice. Tillers just arent designed for that hard of material.

A lot of cold & snow here in Colorado, but rarely enough sustained issues for ice. The elevation & UV melt ice (and to a lesser degree snow) off in a hurry. Sand is the usual temporary solution & darkens up the ice to make it melt faster as a side benefit.

Today is a high of 80, tomorow high of 25 & 2-4" of snow. This weekend will be back I to the 70s. Spastic weather up here.

jpm · Oct 9, 2019

I had hoped there was something else i hadn't thought of short of a mig jet engine but no such luck. I'm going back to basics with a truck load of very course 3/8 stone
And build something over it.

seville009 · Oct 10, 2019

jpm said:
I had hoped there was something else i hadn't thought of short of a mig jet engine but no such luck. I'm going back to basics with a truck load of very course 3/8 stone
And build something over it.

In the end, there’s not really much you can do other than wait for it to melt. Even if you did melt your driveway, the roads would probably be iced over too.