Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts
24 February 2015
Winter Cycling ~ Wagenbuur Shares Dutch Ways!
Bicycle Dutch's Mark Wagenbuur shares his talk at the Winter Cycling Congress 2015 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands...
09 February 2015
Snow Pros ~ Competent Removal vs Shitshow
Watching the local yokels here in Boston keep pushing snow around from street to sidewalk (and then back again) and dealing with it in what is surely the most incompetent possible fashion, inspires our visit to places that actually know what they're doing. First, Montreal... (But don't Get Plowed by the Canuck Mob while you're at it!-)
Next, Helsinki... Norway... Netherlands... Italy... Japan... Finally, stop your excuses, here's Hokkaido, Japan...
26 January 2015
Snowzilla ~ Clearance Technologies Over Time!
The Globe spotlights the history of snow clearance technology over time, including my favorite -- Snowzilla!
And here's it is in full blow!
"A powerful but homely creature, Snowzilla sounds like 10,000 hair dryers running at once and resembles a cross between an aardvark and a tollbooth. It sits on railroad wheels, weighs 26,000 pounds, and measures 8 by 12 by 27 feet -- though most of that length is taken up by its elongated snout. Its thirst for fuel is so great -- it guzzles 900 gallons in a single run -- that a tanker truck must follow it from station to station."
And here's it is in full blow!
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