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Originally Posted by Gobsgraham
How would all the people that didn't have garages like to spend two hours digging their cars out from behind the banks every morning after a snowfall.
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My mother lives on Ogden Rd and she needs to ( call me to ) dig her car out if she is parked on the street when it snows. It is part of life of living on a major street. You make sure you are off the street or you deal with digging it out.
Of course when the building next door to her decided to plow their parking lot with a bobcat and put the snow on Ogden Rd right in front of where she was parked, that was a bit extreme. She was boxed in from the side and front.
And as for a bobcat digging out ice and stuff that is on the streets now, I don't see it happening. Unless you have metal tracks and a very heavy machine there is almost no way you are going to do it, and even then it won't be economical. I have a hard time driving our companies bobcat on a little mud, let alone sheer ice, although we do have a wheeled unit.
A big front end loader like
this might get it done, but it would take 2-3 times as long since that is really not what it is designed for. Given machine hours and labour costs, I would not want to pay for anything other than a grader to be dealing with the ice that I see out there.