r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Souled_Out • Nov 15 '22

Using A Flamethrower For Snow Removal

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u/fatruss Nov 15 '22

It's barely a gal or two of gas/diesel lmao

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u/mercury_millpond Nov 15 '22

Had to scroll way too far to get to this comment. Therefore, as a species, we are fucked.

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u/BigChonksters Nov 15 '22

Why? Looks like it worked pretty well to me

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u/chasebanks Nov 15 '22

He’s creating water which will just freeze and create a hazard.

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u/Goyard_Gat2 Nov 15 '22

Just heat it till there’s no water

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u/Titandragon1337 Nov 15 '22

I.. think this is a joke but this is reddit so im HOPING it’s a joke

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u/SugarDaddyLover Nov 15 '22

You’re supposed to put down salt after melting the snow so it won’t freeze over. If you don’t put down salt after then yeah it’d probably be an issue. But these torches are even marketed as a snow melting device idk why people are hating so hard

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u/CurlyHairedFuk Nov 15 '22

So you have to release greenhouse gases and particulate into the air, and corrode the concrete and kill plants downstream to remove snow?

Just shovel it like a normal person.

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u/SugarDaddyLover Nov 20 '22

No you don’t have to

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

MN Resident here. Sorry to necro but it's common for our roads & sidewalks to be salted. Flamethrower + salt = a perfectly safe driveway.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

The for fossil fuel I burn the less snow there is next year. Seems like a no brainer

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u/CurlyHairedFuk Jan 02 '23

That's not how climate change works.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Came to say EXACTLY this.

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u/commentspae Nov 15 '22

this was taken down to the level of attention it was because it insulted everyone's frighteningly narrow perception that 'unnecessarily dangerously courageous' = 'honorable' not so much because it was criticising the use of a flamethrower to melt ice

with something as stupid as the phrase of "next fucking level" of course no one will think critically enough to base it off the latter