RAGE! I got Plowed!

[Archereus]

The subject tile says it all folks. Have you ever been outside shoveling(snow) and the plow comes by and makes where you need to shovel for another 20 minutes? or has the plow ever just ptu a massive load of snow in your drive way just because it could. I honestly think those bastards do it on purpose.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I have to be honest. I didn't come into this thread thinking about snow moving machinery...

Also, every facet of my being, wants to correct 'plowed' to 'ploughed'.

 

[WrongSprite]

I have to be honest. I didn't come into this thread thinking about snow moving machinery...

My thoughts exactly.

OT: I don't live in an area where there's enough snow to warrant shoveling, sorry.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I was visiting a friend of mine up in Phillie and I thought I would be nice and help him shovel the snow from his drive way, and there was a shit load of it. While were shoveling we had to get out of the way because the snow plow was coming in our direction and was throwing a snow in our direction, I could've swore that bastard was laughing.

We gave up and went into the house to play games, we took that as a sign to not go out.

 

[Bags159]

The plows don't visit suburbs in Columbus.

 

[NotSoNimble]

The subject tile says it all folks. Have you ever been outside shoveling(snow) and the plow comes by and makes where you need to shovel for another 20 minutes? or has the plow ever just ptu a massive load of snow in your drive way just because it could. I honestly think those bastards do it on purpose.

Yes, they do their jobs on purpose. After you've been through a few tough winters you will realize that without those plows, things would be a lot worse.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Dude I hate snow plows so much. In the town that I live in they go along the streets pushing all the snow to the side where it ends up in big piles. It wouldn't be a problem if they were just on the curb, but every time they pass the entrance to a neighborhood or business or anything else they leave a big ass snow pile right in the entrance. I drive a Geo Metro and it's hard as fuck to get through those piles, and if there's ice and the entrance is uphill it's impossible.

I feel your pain man, to put it colloquially, snow plows can eat a dick.

 

[Archereus]

The subject tile says it all folks. Have you ever been outside shoveling(snow) and the plow comes by and makes where you need to shovel for another 20 minutes? or has the plow ever just ptu a massive load of snow in your drive way just because it could. I honestly think those bastards do it on purpose.

Yes, they do their jobs on purpose. After you've been through a few tough winters you will realize that without those plows, things would be a lot worse.

I've gone through 20 harsh winters...still doesn't mean I need to like how they put most of the contents of the road in my drive way/

 

[NotSoNimble]

The subject tile says it all folks. Have you ever been outside shoveling(snow) and the plow comes by and makes where you need to shovel for another 20 minutes? or has the plow ever just ptu a massive load of snow in your drive way just because it could. I honestly think those bastards do it on purpose.

Yes, they do their jobs on purpose. After you've been through a few tough winters you will realize that without those plows, things would be a lot worse.

I've gone through 20 harsh winters...still doesn't mean I need to like how they put most of the contents of the road in my drive way/

It's okay, you're still young. One day you may realize that the options of what to do with the snow are 'limited' and just leaving it on the street isn't safe.

But yeah, who likes manual labor anyways?

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Slightly unrelated, but being plowed as a verb is slang for being fucked around here.

It makes this thread so hilarious.

 

[dmase]

Your welcome, as I passed by your house I decided you needed some more work.

I actually plow snow during the winter, well shovel, i'm the truck *****.(navigator, shoveller, salt loader) When we do big sub divisions its usually one truck doing several roads for hours we don't have time to put the snow perfectly in tact on one side. We open the road up by pushing through the center and putting our plow to one side. and we keep doing that for each side of that with the plow facing the ditch line, until we get to the ditch.

So here is option number two we start on the edge of the road and push the snow to the center of the road and eventually we have a fucking huge pile in the middle of the road. We can push it straight down without it over flowing the plow... for about 6 feet. Its gonna end up on the side of the road where your drive way is.

if we took the time to plow out the end of your drive way we would waste a huge amount of time and we don't know where your drive way ends or whats in it. Its covered in snow.

Anywho this old guy from NY got pissed off because he was shovelling snow while it was still snowing and we ended up putting a small pile in his... everyone on that roads driveway. He bitched out my driver, threatened to kick his ass told him he didn't know what he was doing etc etc. So we got our boss to call the lady that hired us and she said we pay you to clean the roads, shovel the mail boxes, and get the community owned buildings. Not to get the driveways.

shovel everything except the end of the drive way and throw down salt there. Wait for him to come through before you shovel the end thats my only suggestion. Or instead of salt go down to the hardware store and get calcium chloride or the good rock salt.

Edit: just to add that old man from NY... we know where his car is parked in that subdivision. And we ALWAYS plow that subdivision. So lesson: don't ***** out the plow truck guy.

 

[Stammer]

Usually they're nice enough to clean up the mess they leave on our driveway, but sometimes they leave piles of nearly unshovelable chunks of road-ice harder than rocks and bigger than basketballs at the end of our driveway and it definitely takes a good half-hour to clean up the mess.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well the plow that goes through our neighborhood after a heavy snow usually pushes some snow off to the side of the road, but they dump the really large amounts where people won't have to shovel. Sure it's annoying to have to shovel that extra foot or so (depending on the amount of snow), but considering how big my driveway is, I don't really complain that much. It isn't that much in the long run for me.

Plus, if the plows didn't clear the main road, there'd be no point in shoveling your driveway anyway.

 

[FalloutJack]

I live on a hill on a dead-end street in Pittsburgh.

Plows? HAH!!

 

[staika]

I know that feeling all too well, whenever I'm shoveling snow the damn plow is guaranteed to hit my street at that time and just piles it up at the end of my driveway and whats worse is that the snow he piles up is 20X heavier because of all the ice in it. so basically fuck you plow driver.