icy pavement - PICK YOUR WEAPON

[bazookaman]

You just need some of the automatic chains that emergency vehicles use.

[mattkime]

bazookaman wrote:
You just need some of the automatic chains that emergency vehicles use.

on my feet??

[mattkime]

I'm highly skeptical of claims that salt ruins concrete. proof - all paved surfaces in wisconsin.

[bazookaman]

mattkime wrote:
[quote=bazookaman]
You just need some of the automatic chains that emergency vehicles use.

on my feet??
Well you never said you were walking.

[D-Rod]

wurm wrote:
One problem with salt is that once it melts the ice, if it's still cold enough, the water will just freeze again. At least sand might buy you some more time and get you where you need to go.

I’ve never had the water refreeze after melting from using salt. The water usually flows onto the grass so there is nothing to refreeze. If you have it melt and stay in puddles then refreeze you might have drainage problems.

[NewtonMP2100]

......The Weapon of Choice......???

[Buzz]

Ideally, chop up people on the sh!t list and use their bones for traction, but since it doesn't snow, or get icy here, we'll have to abstain from this poll.
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[3d]

Buzz wrote:
Ideally, chop up people on the sh!t list and use their bones for traction.
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Interesting.
The human body contains many salts, of which sodium chloride (AKA common table salt) is the major one, making up around 0.4 per cent of the body’s weight at a concentration pretty well equivalent to that in seawater. So a 50kg person would contain around 200g of sodium chloride – around 40 teaspoons.

[chopper]

Salt. Then more salt.

[Speedy]

We rarely have any ice once it gets cold, or even before. I just snowblow the drive and walk down to bare concrete. We may get a little ice again in the spring but by then everyone knows how to do the Minnesota shuffle.