Torn up roads due to Chains

scudzilla

Has anybody come across any roads torn up due to Snow Chains yet??

i THINK i found one earlier, driving down the N1 towards city, after the Airport turn off, just before the traffic joins up from the airport roundabout slip road there's a huge sort of mark.

Definitely made by a truck, it looks like chain marks and has ripped quite a long chunk out of the road.

Anybody else seen this or any others?

mickdw

The roads are in sh1t anyway due to the icing up/expansion of the base layers so I wouldnt be too worried about the very odd case of chain damage.

guil

i doubt any trucks have chains on them

omb0wyn5ehpij9

guil wrote: »

i doubt any trucks have chains on them

Agreed

101sean

Come the thaw you are going to see a lot of our poorly made roads disintegrate quickly.

BigEejit

Yeah, water in the intermediate layers freezing causes roads to delaminate all over the place. The surface of our road was destroyed, you could literally see like blisters of tarmac coming off the road.

Howitzer

Didnt see anyone with chains on in dublin, only the snow socks. Anyone see many chain users?

Biglad

Must have seen about a dozen of mainly oil and bin lorries up here with chains on using mostly back roads. It was the only way to get heat to people and bins emptied as conditions have been very bad.

Captain Slow IRL

I thought chains were illegal here?

BostonB

Any bit of snow and ice and our roads fall apart.

How do they avoid this in cold countries?

opinion guy

guil wrote: »

i doubt any trucks have chains on them

The truck that towed my knackered car had chains on it

pdbhp

BostonB wrote: »

Any bit of snow and ice and our roads fall apart.

How do they avoid this in cold countries?

My friend was living in Sweden or Finland and they used to re-surface the roads almost yearly due to them falling apart from ice / snow

cnocbui

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

I thought chains were illegal here?

Nope, damaging the road is , but if you use chains on ice and compacted snow you are hardly likely to tear up the road. In treachorous conditions they should just about be mandatory as life should come before tarmac.

That regulation should be repealed given the nature of the current and previous winter.

muffy

scudzilla wrote: »

Has anybody come across any roads torn up due to Snow Chains yet??

i THINK i found one earlier, driving down the N1 towards city, after the Airport turn off, just before the traffic joins up from the airport roundabout slip road there's a huge sort of mark.

Definitely made by a truck, it looks like chain marks and has ripped quite a long chunk out of the road.

Anybody else seen this or any others?

There are marks on the M1 left lane in the tarmac that have been there since road works, like tank track marks in the tarmac... they are not conducive to traction in any weather!

scudzilla

muffy wrote: »

There are marks on the M1 left lane in the tarmac that have been there since road works, like tank track marks in the tarmac... they are not conducive to traction in any weather!

Cheers, i only noticed them the other day and thought they could have been due to chains. Yeah, like tank track marks too

Biglad

BostonB wrote: »

Any bit of snow and ice and our roads fall apart.

How do they avoid this in cold countries?

They start of with proper roads in the frist place, foundation etc. I know in Holland they use that type of astfalt called ZOAB which is avery porous mixture with old tyres etc mixed in, water runs "through" it, they had to come up with specialized equipment though to inject a salt mixture on to it during snow and ice...

All I see here is layer upon layer of tarmac...there are tonnes of new potholes around here already.

rusty_racer94

guil wrote: »

i doubt any trucks have chains on them

Fire Trucks in Waterford use them.

jimmycrackcorm

BostonB wrote: »

Any bit of snow and ice and our roads fall apart.

How do they avoid this in cold countries?

A friend told me he went to lapland last year. The bus they took to their final destination covered 200km over pure snow roads easily in 2 hours because it had studded snow tyres. Easy though when you keep them on all year round.

fjon

Howitzer wrote: »

Didnt see anyone with chains on in dublin, only the snow socks. Anyone see many chain users?

I saw an eejit in the Dundrum Centre with snow chains on. He was coming out of the underground car park, so I assume he was driving with them on in there.

paddydriver

fjon wrote: »

I saw an eejit in the Dundrum Centre with snow chains on. He was coming out of the underground car park, so I assume he was driving with them on in there.

Was it a silver 5 series? I have seen one car with chains and it was parked in Dundrum town centre - was a 5 series on German plates; Ah ze efficient German's - that was on the 23rd and roads were fairly bad.

fjon

paddydriver wrote: »

Was it a silver 5 series? I have seen one car with chains and it was parked in Dundrum town centre - was a 5 series on German plates; Ah ze efficient German's - that was on the 23rd and roads were fairly bad.

Nope, was a red Civic, but was also on the 23rd. Can only imagine the damage that would do to the nice shiny car park floor in Dundrum.

Binder

Dublin Bus tow truck had them on, saw it in city centre

smcgiff

Howitzer wrote: »

Didnt see anyone with chains on in dublin, only the snow socks. Anyone see many chain users?

I saw a BMW (a 5 series if memory serves) at a petrol station in Fairview with chains on the rear wheels naturally.

rusty_racer94

Last year I saw an Almera with snowchains on the front wheels in SuperValu car park, Tallaght.