A future drive after lockdown?

vitesse · 7th June 2020, 18:47

Big opening day yesterday in the mountains of Sweden for a road that is only open during the summer months. Cleared a height of up to seven metres of snow! Lots of Swedish text but perhaps the pictures are of interest: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artike...rtikel=7489923

Regards

FLYING BANANA · 7th June 2020, 19:29

That’s proper snow.

Ian G · 8th June 2020, 08:09

Such a beautiful country and lovely folk. I really enjoyed my visits to Sweden,enjoyed the racing at Anderstorp and I remember having a somewhat bizarre business meeting/dinner at "Big" Bengt Erlandsson's High Chapperall

Many years ago now though.

vitesse · 8th June 2020, 10:09

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Originally Posted by FLYING BANANA

That’s proper snow.

Nice to see you using the local "proper" - give it a couple of years and you'll be using "directly" too

vitesse · 8th June 2020, 10:16

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Originally Posted by Ian G

Such a beautiful country and lovely folk. I really enjoyed my visits to Sweden,enjoyed the racing at Anderstorp and I remember having a somewhat bizarre business meeting/dinner at "Big" Bengt Erlandsson's High Chapperall

Many years ago now though.

Shame that there are no ferries anymore, makes visits to Scandinavia difficult, hardly ever see UK license plates anymore. Same also true going the other way, years since I was back in England - it's not just the flying but the trouble of getting a hire car which you're unused to, sitting on the other side and changing gear with your left hand while trying to remember to drive on the other side. All too much trouble, reckon the tourist ministers should do something to revive the ferries.

Regards

reworht · 8th June 2020, 10:29

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Originally Posted by vitesse

Big opening day yesterday in the mountains of Sweden for a road that is only open during the summer months. Cleared a height of up to seven metres of snow! Lots of Swedish text but perhaps the pictures are of interest: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artike...rtikel=7489923

Regards

7 METRES ?? - the whole of the UK grinds to a halt if we get 7 MILLImetres of snow nowadays

planenut · 8th June 2020, 12:04

A bag of salt would have sorted that!

vitesse · 8th June 2020, 12:50

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Originally Posted by planenut

A bag of salt would have sorted that!

A father & his son started work clearing the snow on the 23rd of April. Had to stop work several times as the snow was so hard the sheer bolts on the snow blower broke and that is no Dinky toy.
One good thing about roads in the north is that it’s generally too cold for salt to work so the cars are usually free from serious rust.

Regards

WillyHeckaslike · 8th June 2020, 15:23

Do you use jet engines in some capacity for snow/ice clearance or are they confined for more specialised use such as airports/airfields.

vitesse · 8th June 2020, 16:22

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Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

Do you use jet engines in some capacity for snow/ice clearance or are they confined for more specialised use such as airports/airfields.

Interesting question as I've never heard of jet engines being used (expensive!) so I looked - here's the website for Stockholm's Arlanda airport, all in foreign I'm afraid but no mention of jet engines - just lots of big machines, snow ploughs & snow blowers mainly, you might find the pictures interesting. https://www.swedavia.net/airport/arl...%20version.pdf

Regards

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