Salt Bins & Road Gritting In Sheffield

[solarman 10]

after it ran out we all rang up to ask for it to be refilled, been out this morning to get some and found its been filled with sand

are they running out of grit already?

[bladelass22 10]

Looks like it, i was driving down near longley earlier today, and it looked like sand all over the road.

[Micky D 14]

It will be grit sand mixed with the white salt that was bought last year, not rock salt.

 

Where do you live? In the north of the city? There's a huge pile of grit sand mixed with white salt at Deepcar that's being used to fill grit bins in that area.

[WallBuilder 10]

A few dayss ago I checked four grit bins round Woodseats and they all had this ssand mix in and I would much prefer to of found something a bit more coarse but hope this stuff does the same job.

[FallenAngel6 10]

Hmmmmm excuse my stupidness but how on earth can you run out of grit????

Is sheffield not prepared for any snow fall at all...instead of using all the grit and getting more which is probably quite expensive why dont they just buy a second hand snowplow and hire someone to go round the streets shifting the snow....that would be alot easier...

 

God help us if we have really really bad snow like Canada...we'll go into complete lockdown lol.

[FallenAngel6 10]

Oh and in response to the salt my dad uses that on the snow on the steps and it disolves the snow as if it was a slug lol...so i reckon its quite good for clearning snow.

[H.P 10]

Hmmmmm excuse my stupidness but how on earth can you run out of grit????

Is sheffield not prepared for any snow fall at all...instead of using all the grit and getting more which is probably quite expensive why dont they just buy a second hand snowplow and hire someone to go round the streets shifting the snow....that would be alot easier...

 

God help us if we have really really bad snow like Canada...we'll go into complete lockdown lol.

 

Must admit, I think that makes perfect sense. Why don't the councill fit the plough attatchments to the grit waggons?

[FallenAngel6 10]

Must admit, I think that makes perfect sense. Why don't the councill fit the plough attatchments to the grit waggons?

 

Thats an even better idea!!!!

[quicken 10]

it was only a couple of weeks ago that we got a local paper telling us we had ten thousand tons extra grit salt this year and we was ready for anything.

[Halibut 12]

Must admit, I think that makes perfect sense. Why don't the councill fit the plough attatchments to the grit waggons?

 

Because we very rarely have sufficient depth of snow on the roads to make that a viable proposition.

[sheffielder2 10]

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[Mr_Squirrel 10]

Must admit, I think that makes perfect sense. Why don't the councill fit the plough attatchments to the grit waggons?

 

In many areas they do but for the ploughs to work effectively, the road surface needs to be level and smooth or they just tear big lumps from the road surface.

 

Now you know that, the main reason that Sheffield council dare not use plough's is.....

 

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