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Black Ice In Donegal

  • 04-12-2010 3:48pm
    #1
    Farls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭


    Black ice up in Annagry in Donegal even caught out the local County Council this morning :eek:


Comments

  • #2
    homer90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭homer90


    Man, can we do anything right ?:D


  • #3
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    Hope the lads were ok, Kudos for them venturing out on those roads.


  • #4
    pajero12
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    Them lads really dont get enough credit! Very lucky that lorry didnt roll over!


  • #5
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Tea drinker wrote: »
    Hope the lads were ok, Kudos for them venturing out on those roads.

    Not being rude, but thats their job.


  • #6
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    He nearly lost a shed load of his cargo there :p.


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  • #7
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭positron


    Do they only grit behind them? If so that's probably a design flow that needs to be looked at - shouldn't be too hard to spring some at the front too?


  • #8
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    Tallon wrote: »
    Not being rude, but thats their job.
    It is part of their job, but lots of people didn't go to their job because of dangerous conditions.
    Some of these guys went above and beyond, working long and unsociable hours. Credit where credit is due, they literally risked their lives to keep the roads open FFS.


  • #9
    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    positron wrote: »
    Do they only grit behind them? If so that's probably a design flow that needs to be looked at - shouldn't be too hard to spring some at the front too?
    Not sure how much difference that'd make unless it's some new 'Instant melt' grit.


  • #10
    Andrew42
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 137 ✭✭Andrew42


    Savman wrote: »
    Not sure how much difference that'd make unless it's some new 'Instant melt' grit.

    I'd reckon a quiet word in the drivers ear explaining to him that the grit comes out the back and will have zero benefit for him might help. As the grit truck has to travel on the most dangerous surface it would make sense to fit studded tyres to the truck for the duration of the freeze.


  • #11
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭positron


    Savman wrote: »
    Not sure how much difference that'd make unless it's some new 'Instant melt' grit.

    Grit is rock salt, isn't it? If they spray it ahead of them, it *should* come effective when the trucks wheels rolls over it, crushing it and mixing it with water and making it, brine? I would say it would be somewhat effective, which would be better than nothing I would imagine!


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  • #12
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Tea drinker wrote: »
    It is part of their job, but lots of people didn't go to their job because of dangerous conditions.
    Some of these guys went above and beyond, working long and unsociable hours. Credit where credit is due, they literally risked their lives to keep the roads open FFS.

    It's their job, full stop. They get paid to do that.

    It's not unsociable hours, thats the hours they need to do it and are employed to do so.

    I risked my life driving to work all week and not missing a day because they didn't grit the roads around where I live for the first couple of days... Some roads are still not gritted here.


  • #13
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    Tallon wrote: »
    It's their job, full stop. They get paid to do that.

    It's not unsociable hours, thats the hours they need to do it and are employed to do so.

    I risked my life driving to work all week and not missing a day because they didn't grit the roads around where I live for the first couple of days... Some roads are still not gritted here.

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Troll more?


  • #14
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Tinley Aggressive Mulberry wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Troll more?
    Excellent input to this 2 and a half week old thread.

    Retarded post


  • #15
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Tinley Aggressive Mulberry wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Troll more?

    What a stupid post.


  • #16
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    SV wrote: »
    What a stupid post.

    He is trolling you two real well though.. :p


  • #17
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Dam....... I never noticed :p lol


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