Things you'd like to say, but can't

[TVC]

The Council grit bin is for salting the road, not for you to help yourself and clear your drive. Now empty your bucket back into the bin and sod off back round the corner where you live, you selfish b*stard.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I was an arse..I'm sorry.

 

[Speicher]

The Council grit bin is for salting the road, not for you to help yourself and clear your drive. Now empty your bucket back into the bin and sod off back round the corner where you live, you selfish b*stard.

The grit bin at the end of this road is not for the Council to use, alledgedly. The people who live on the houses on that bit of road use it to grit the road because it is a short but steep section just before a T junction.

 

[TVC]

The grit bin at the end of this road is not for the Council to use, alledgedly. The people who live on the houses on that bit of road use it to grit the road because it is a short but steep section just before a T junction.

Same here, we grit the road at the T junction in front of my house because I don't want anyone sliding their car into my front wall. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult when people have nicked the rocksalt to do their own paths.

 

[ColinJ]

The grit bin at the end of this road is not for the Council to use, alledgedly. The people who live on the houses on that bit of road use it to grit the road because it is a short but steep section just before a T junction.

Grit bin #2 round the corner is for the council to fill and for the residents to use to do the pavements and cobbled back streets on which we live. In our case, our own paths are the pavement outside the houses (think Coronation Street) so there is no argument about that!

Grit bin #1 round the other corner is apparently neither for the council to fill nor for the residents to use to do the pavements and cobbled back streets on which we live. Several years ago, I reported to the council that they were not filling the bin. They replied that it wasn't theirs because it wasn't on their database! (Actually, they had been filling it for years before that!) Eventually, instead of adding it to the database, they gave us a new bin instead. Presumably, there isn't an 'add existing bin to database' button in the council's grit bin management software!

 

[Speicher]

Same here, we grit the road at the T junction in front of my house because I don't want anyone sliding their car into my front wall. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult when people have nicked the rocksalt to do their own paths.

Yes, I agree with why you wanted to shout at people nicking the grit for personal use. Last winter there seemed to be a team of people spreading the grit along that section or "our" road. I imagine that in very cold weather, spreading grit properly on a road, is more difficult than it looks. Fortunately for the two weeks that we had about six inches of snow round here, I just put on my nine-league boots, and walked into town.

 

[Arch]

I imagine that in very cold weather, spreading grit properly on a road, is more difficult than it looks.

I think there's just a knack to it, especially to using it sparingly. Ideally, you need a spreader and a treader in, to get it working at melting the ice.

I watched a chap in the city centre last year outside the minster, who had a very good technique and managed to make one small shovelful cover a huge area with a sort of scything action that sent the grit skating across the ice...

 

[Theseus]

For gritting our path and driveway (using our own shop bought grit) I find a Pringles tube useful. Fill it with grit and apply it shake'n'vac stylee.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I think there's just a knack to it, especially to using it sparingly. Ideally, you need a spreader and a treader in, to get it working at melting the ice.

I watched a chap in the city centre last year outside the minster, who had a very good technique and managed to make one small shovelful cover a huge area with a sort of scything action that sent the grit skating across the ice...

Reminds me vaguely of the technique we saw the steam loco firemen at Wolzstyn doing do get the maximum amount of coal over the maximum amount of area. Many years of practice would culminate in coal covering large areas with just a deft flick of the wrists.

Either that or they would scrape the bottom of the firebox door with the shovel at just the right angle as they, err, shoved it in, catapulting the coal right to the back.
I tried it but misjudged it, creating a small pile of coal on the floor instead

All age old techniques I suppose.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

They're always training.

Aren't we all?

 

[PBancroft]

Same here, we grit the road at the T junction in front of my house because I don't want anyone sliding their car into my front wall. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult when people have nicked the rocksalt to do their own paths.

That happened to our house a few years back. Chap in a Jag miscalculated the amount of ice and slope of the road as he turned the corner. Plowed through two sets of fences, across our drive and into our hedge where he came to a standstill. He must've been going some to do that. I knew nothing of this until I went to get myself a drink from the kitchen, and saw half the neighbourhood trying to help him back onto the road... nobody thought to knock on our door! The drive was too icy to shift the thing off our drive, so in the end it was left there overnight.

Luckily there was no lasting damage - he paid for the fences to be replaced, and the box hedge came off better than the car. In retrospect I'd like to have called him a twat and given him a piece of my mind for driving too fast in dangerous conditions when he could have very easily killed someone.

Funnily enough the Council put a grit bin on that corner the following year. I make sure that corner gets a dose every time its icy.

 

[Manonabike]

Animal right activists... yeah I get it and I also condemn animal cruelty BUT when these people start talking and making speeches which usually contains threatening language I feel it's time to set the human right activists onto them

 

[fimm]

You do realise that the excessively close pass you pulled on me merely confirms in my mind that I was right to take the lane in order to deter you from passing me on that blind bend?

 

[Archie_tect]

Me: [getting up gingerly]
Lady with small yappy-type dog: "You want to be more careful, it's slippy you know"
Me: [I'm sorry I hadn't realised that, good of you to point it out....] "Thanks."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ok so you've cleared your drive by piling up the snow onto the pavement so we all have to climb over a mountain of the stuff to get past but don't worry because I've kicked it all back onto your drive, peanut!

Did this last year too, different house, and the chap came out to ask me what I thought I was doing, so I explained what I was doing and why and we had a lively exchange of banter!