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I went out to plug the skid steer in so I clear snow this evening. I heard an engine revving and spelt burn't rubber. I took a look around the corner and couldn't believe it. A city sanding truck with a belly plow was stuck on the street. What's even worse, it was fully loaded with sand! There was another truck there as well and that driver was trying to help but the stuck driver didn't seem too bright. He was sideways at the entrance to a clover leaf/crescent and was blocking anyone else from getting through. It looks like he didn't want to drive another 200 ft where he just could drive around the crescent and right back out. I think he'd been there a while cause I remember hearing an engine rev about an hour before but never gave it much thought. They probably sent the other truck to help him get unstuck. I've seen some dumb things before but it usually takes a lot to get a 30,000 truck stuck on a residential street. Dave
 
The belly blades around here are what we call a wing and are just on the right side of a truck with a front blade to widen out further without getting off the pavement and getting stuck, they lift up plenty high and ride when down on spring pressure. The state uses them on single axle dump trucks while the countys only have tandem axle trucks and even tho they are larger do not use them, wish they did. Would make the roads stay open longer.
 
It wasn't a wing. It was under the truck and can be angled either direction. It folds back in the up position. The truck wasn't hung up on the plow though. The driver wasn't doing anything. He was trying to turn around in a space that was only slightly wider than the length of his truck. It was one of things that makes you shake your head and wonder what the heck the guy was thinking. Dave
 

Back in the day the h'way dept. would hang a 2 x 10 or 2 x 12 under the dump truck right behind the cab with chains to adjust the height, at an angle, and cruise up the road plowing the snow to one side. Apperantly this worked when the snow had just started and there wasn't much accumulation and ice hadn't got packed down. It was easier on the pavement than having a plow blade dip up some pavement occasionally. There must have been some problems because they soon went to the front mounted hydraulic blades. Or maybe someone got his palm greased. This was in SC BTW.

KEH
 
Gee, this wouldn't happen to be in New York City would it? We've seen what the loader drivers are like.
 
No wasn't in NY. That loader operator and the tow truck driver on the video have to be the worst though. This guy came close to backing into a street sign but only got stuck. He didn't cause thousands of dollars of damage because of his stupidity. Dave
 
i once had a winter job in a cheese factory the owner"s wife called and told me don"t come to work today i thought oh rats i"m going to fired.
she said a snow plow driver ran over a fire hydrant and most of the town is out of water.
they were having lots of bad weather had a bunch of people that didn"t know how to run a snow plow. i don"t think he drove snow plow again
 
That was back in the days that the county would send the chain gang out to clean out ditches, and if you knew the right people, they would bring a load of cinders to dump on your drive.. IIRC, back then, Mr.Finch was over the county roads..
 
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