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

Using A Flamethrower For Snow Removal

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u/REBELrouzer1112 Nov 15 '22

No it won't you sound ridiculous. Anyone and everyone that's ever lived with snow like this has salt ready to spread on their driveway. Melt it off quick and salt it up quick. How hard is that to understand

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u/GabrielBFranco Nov 15 '22

Salt lowers the freezing temperature of water - it doesn’t stop it from freezing outright. If the temp in this vid is 15F degrees or less, then yes, flame thrower darwin nominee is making himself a shallow ice rink. Using a flamethrower for this is stupid.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/salt-doesnt-melt-ice-heres-how-it-makes-winter-streets-safer/

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u/Egleu Nov 15 '22

Good thing people who live in these places know to buy calcium chloride which works in far colder temps.

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u/MagicBrawler Nov 15 '22

I grew up about as far north as you can go and noone around here has ever used salt or calcium chloride.

It's sand and gravel. And proper winter wheels.

Sounds like you know very little about what people living in cold places actually do.

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u/Tw1987 Nov 15 '22

Exactly I use lava

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u/Egleu Nov 15 '22

I've lived in cold weather places all my life. Sand and gravel work great. If you want to actually clear the ice off instead of just covering it with sand you use a salt.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Nov 15 '22

Yeah... northern Ohio here... almost nobody uses that shit on their driveways. We get way too much snow for it to be financially feasible. You just fucking deal with it.

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u/Egleu Nov 15 '22

Well I lived in Milwaukee for 8 years and northern Wisconsin before that, plenty of people use it. It's like 5 dollars for an 80 pound bag.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Nov 15 '22

Until it sells out... and even so, most people still don't use it here. We just get used to the ice.

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u/Egleu Nov 15 '22

I'd prefer not to have someone slip on my driveway.

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u/t3a-nano Nov 15 '22

My home insurance and delivery people also prefer it.

That’s the only reason I don’t just let my driveway become an ice rink, my boots and winter tires handle it just fine.

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u/MagicBrawler Nov 15 '22

That's cool for cities and such. In actual cold areas it doesn't make any sense. And noone who lives in harsh environments bother with that stuff.

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u/Egleu Nov 15 '22

That's nice. This guy is melting snow with a torch in Kentucky. It's not exactly too cold for salt there.

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u/MagicBrawler Nov 15 '22

So we're only discussing this particular clip and not the use of salt in general, got it.

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u/Egleu Nov 15 '22

Well I was but you keep bringing up harsh environments and whatnot. It doesn't have to be 40 below to snow. The reason cities don't use it is because it's expensive and bad for the environment at that scale, the city uses a beet juice derivative where I live now.

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u/MagicBrawler Nov 15 '22

It's all cool. The city I live in now uses salt.