former captain of the first steamship in the Northwest, the Beaver. He had seen the forests earlier in the 1840’s and accompanied Hinderwell on his venture in the position of supercargo, (a representative of a ship’s owner on board a merchant ship, responsible for...
When I was living in the Midwest, the city would use either snow plows or large snow throwers. The trucks would also broadcast rock salt from the rear to prevent icing on the roads. I always thought the snow throwers did a better job, since they didn't leave huge mounds of snow alon...
Airports all over the world are equipped with a salt spreader to maintain the runways in the event of snow and ice. Once the salt has been applied to the runway or roadway, it continues to work for a long time. Salt spread on one area of a highway is spread along even greater dista...
On a validation drive of the new, 2011 Chevrolet Silverado HD heavy-duty trucks, engineer Brent Deep towed a 20,000-pound (9,072 kg) trailer for 245 miles...
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Since I have never driven a snow plow of any kind, I cannot say for certain, but I imagine that the machines made specifically for plowing snow are better than tractors and trucks that simply have snow pushing equipment attached to them. ...