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Title: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: scarr89 on 19 July 2013, 13:08
Just heard on the radio that Hampshire CC are sending there gritter outs to stop the road from melting. They are spreading crushed rock dust apparently... :huh:

Never heard anything like it before, a tad interesting I think...And definitely made me change my mind about washing my car; a quick pressure washing it is!

Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Jay on 19 July 2013, 14:04
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23315384


Some other people who live on my new build estate have had their drives ruined by the heat by simply turning their steering wheel while sat stationary.
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Dave_IOW on 19 July 2013, 15:10
Our roads on the Isle of Wight seem to have a habit of melting pretty frequently.

We had a lot of it last year, gritters were out a fair bit.

And just to think, we're usually the last ones to get anything! :laugh:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Diamond Hell on 19 July 2013, 21:46
Blazing ahead with our sh*t roads!

Yay us!
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: JC on 19 July 2013, 22:12
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: barrym381 on 19 July 2013, 22:17
this will be there excuse come winter when they dont grit the roads  :grin:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: opel on 19 July 2013, 23:16
Everybody always says they don't grit  :grin:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Gavv8 on 20 July 2013, 08:43
They've been dusting the roads in East Devon for a few weeks now.
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: leigh_harty on 20 July 2013, 11:29
We've recently had our road dug up and downgraded to black tarmac and I've already put 4 jack wheel holes in it  :whistle:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Khare on 21 July 2013, 14:31
I do like this hotter temperature, more grip available  :evil:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Wazzzer on 21 July 2013, 19:41
why don't they just use higher temp tarmac?
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Diamond Hell on 21 July 2013, 22:04
Because it breaks up in the frost, duh.
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: danny_p on 22 July 2013, 00:03
thers going to be a lot of crashing when it rains,

we were getting some irrigation water run off down the road,  you chould see how greasey the road had become with the heat bringing oils up out the tar/b!tchumin add a bit of water to it and it's a skidpan    all good fun as long as ou know it is  :grin:
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: Wazzzer on 22 July 2013, 19:01
Because it breaks up in the frost, duh.

it does that anyway lol
Title: Re: Hampshire gritting the roads...
Post by: kittie on 23 July 2013, 11:32
Melting might improve our roads - the potholes of Sheffield are notorious. They best sort it out before next year or we'll be fishing Tour De France cyclists out of sinkholes all summer  :rolleyes: