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Most Idiotic Plowing Ever Seen?

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jro909 Senior Enthusiast

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just curious what you veteran plow guys have seen as far as dumb moves by other plowers...i've seen a guy plowing going 40 in a parking lot then throwing it in reverse going atleast 25 backwards...ended up hitting a car because he just slid on the frozen ground...

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hockeypro1411 Senior Enthusiast

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I saw a guy try to stack snow on the third storm of the season and he tried to push it just a little too far back and he buried the front end of the truck. We ended up digging around him and then pulling him out of his snow tomb.

Kodiak450 Senior Enthusiast

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Silliest thing I've ever seen was when I was heading up to plow my accounts up north and the highway was grid locked. We had 15-27" of snow from this storm and I was going no where sitting in the left lane (it was like something you see in a natural disaster movie, where people are trying to all head away from a massive storm and the highway gets all clogged up).

So I eventially made my way over to the shoulder which must of had over 15" of snow on it. I put my truck into 4wd and drove the shoulder through all this snow, some people in cars attempted to follow me thinking they would be able to get through, but didn't make it very far before getting stuck. As I finally was able to pass all of the standing traffic which was about 1 1/2 miles long, I saw that two tractor trailers had jack knifed under a bridge, and there was some idiot who had one of those mini van F150's with a plow on it trying to push the tractor trailers. (mini van F150 was the 97 body style). I had no idea what the guy was thinking, trying to push a tractor trailer with his plow on an F150.

Kodiak450 Senior Enthusiast

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I saw a guy try to stack snow on the third storm of the season and he tried to push it just a little too far back and he buried the front end of the truck. We ended up digging around him and then pulling him out of his snow tomb.

 

He probably got hung up with his mount, happened to me before a couple of times. Did the guy try using 4lo before you pulled him out? You be surprised how 4lo can get you out of stuck situations in the snow. Many guys don't even think of using 4lo. This one guy I came across got hung up after he was stacking snow and pushing it back further over one of those parking lot blocks. He had a city plow truck attempt to pull him out, but his strap broke cause the city plow truck was only able to attempt to pull him in an awkward positioned due to the limited space in the parking lot. Just before I was about to pull him out, i aksed him if he tried 4lo and he said no, so I told him to put it in 4lo and back up. He got right out with no problems.

hockeypro1411 Senior Enthusiast

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I saw a guy try to stack snow on the third storm of the season and he tried to push it just a little too far back and he buried the front end of the truck. We ended up digging around him and then pulling him out of his snow tomb.

 

He probably got hung up with his mount, happened to me before a couple of times. Did the guy try using 4lo before you pulled him out? You be surprised how 4lo can get you out of stuck situations in the snow. Many guys don't even think of using 4lo. This one guy I came across got hung up after he was stacking snow and pushing it back further over one of those parking lot blocks. He had a city plow truck attempt to pull him out, but his strap broke cause the city plow truck was only able to attempt to pull him in an awkward positioned due to the limited space in the parking lot. Just before I was about to pull him out, i aksed him if he tried 4lo and he said no, so I told him to put it in 4lo and back up. He got right out with no problems.

 

 

He was well beyond 4lo. The front tires were off the ground. He was basically high centered on the snow. I got him out with a gentle tug from the skid steer.

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I love those guys that plow balls to the wall..... Its a guessing game as to what will break first! Will the Tranny go out?, or will he hit a culvert/manhole lid doing 40mph across the parking lot. idiots. I haven't seen one hit a car yet, but I am sure no plow account is worth having to repair somebody elses vehicle! YIKES!

Kodiak450 Senior Enthusiast

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Know whats really stupid is NJ has this stupid snow plow law where city plow trucks are exempt from damages to personal property. If they take out your mailbox, or even hit your car, and even if it is caught on tape by a camera, they are not held liable. Luckily the insurance Co's don't raise your rates for going through your comp insurance. My first house I bought, the city would hire morons to plow the streets and they did such a horrible job on top of it. Many cars were side swipped over the years and the idiots would stack the snow right behind the parked cars on the street. So I started plowing the street on my own, and almost every neighbor would leave me a 12 pack and a thank you note on my porch. Cause I know with this stupid exempt law, these operators do not have to worry about being to careful.

Nytemare Senior Enthusiast

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They should have at least bought them some Nerf plows...than they cant hurt themselves or others...and they would do just as good a job with Styrofoam plows as they do with metal by the sounds of things.

 

 

That is the stupidest law I have ever heard of.

I could see it if your car was stalled or stuck in the middle of the road, and the plow hit it when it was covered with snow that they wouldn't be at fault...but just playing bumper cars down the street...that's not on man.

Kodiak450 Senior Enthusiast

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This law actually extends to all DOT trucks, whether they are snow plowing or not. When I spoke to some DOT official, because one of their drivers damaged one of my trucks at a dump site when I was unloading material, he told me about this law because NJ was getting to many lawsuits. I told him that maybe if they hired safer, more responsible drivers, that maybe, just maybe, there wouldn't be claims against their drivers. I remember times after cleaning up a certain commericial account of mine, one of the managers of the stores calling me up telling me that they got threatened a sitation if the snow is not cleared off the sidewalks. I asked him what sidewalks was he talking about, cause I just finsihed plowing and treating the ice there no more then 4 hours ago and he said the front. So I go back there and see that the stupid DOT snow plow operators literally pushed the snow from the edge of the road all on my cleared sidewalks I did hours before. And the inspector who goes around and answers calls that have sidewalks covered with snow tells one of the store managers if it is not cleaned up in 12 hrs, they will get a fine. If this guy had any common sense and bothered to look at the rest of the sidewalks, he would of seen that they were all cleared and treated, and that the DOT was responsible for this. Perhaps the idiot that plowed the snow onto the clean sidewalks, was in bed with this inspector so that he is able to meet his quota with sitations, who knows.

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my favorite is to be driving after dark after some clown plows out a driveway and leaves 2 snow banks across the road because he couldn't be bothered to clean the crap up.Plowing across a public road was illegal last I heard...maybe they should hand out fines to the clowns that cant be bothered to do the job right and create a driving hazard for the unwary motorist

jro909 Senior Enthusiast

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the law is similiar here too for municipal plow trucks...soon as the snow flys its like open season on mailboxes and lawn ornaments...its crazy how stupid people can be, alot of idiots get a plow and think they have some god like power and go hot rodding around and then end up in the ditch next to the kia rio lol

hockeypro1411 Senior Enthusiast

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Haha my city has ALWAYS taken responsibility for the crap that they hit. My mailbox has been plowed over on 2 separate occasions, and both times it was replaced by the city within a few days. The only thing they won't cover is a brick mailbox because that's considered part of your home and has to go through homeowner's insurance. Although something tells me that if they're up into the grass enough to hit a brick mailbox, they're not just going to scrape it. I see that truck coming to a rather speedy stop.

hockeypro1411 Senior Enthusiast

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Easy solution to protect your mailbox is place boulders on each side of it.

 

Or possibly set up a decoy mailbox. Hmm... :banghead:

 

That's what we do when we rake leaves into the street in the fall. Our town has curbside pickup on a certain day of the week and kids looove to go around the day before in their cars and drive through the piles. That stopped pretty fast when my neighbors started throwing cinder blocks in the piles of leaves. Lol

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