What some people dont get Montreal has well over 1000 miles of road to clear every snow storm and is not like hicksville new jersey that may see one snow fall a year.We have the best moving equipment ,plows, graders and snow blowing equipment second to none.When we say get 2 storms in the space of 4 days whats on the bottom turns to ice because its compacted so much.Henceforth thats why they have to move the snow 3-4 times to soften it up and break up the ice underneath.In 1971 we had almost 4 feet in the space of 6 hours and it took them 2 weeks to clear all the snow off every street both sides .So when it comes to removing snow Montreal over time has become masters of snow removal and every bit comparable to places like Switzerland and the alps .
at 18:05 he said there is no fine...as a resident of LaSalle I know for a fact there is a fine for being parked in a no parking zone and a towing charge. I think the total is about $140.00. Snow removal here is From Monday to Saturday. On the parking signs there is a number you call for that area and the recording will tell you if the parking restrictions have been lifted or not.
Actually, eastern Québec such as Gaspésie, Charlevoix, Beauce and Québec City areas and regions get ...way more snow than the Montréal area. But very nice video!! Well filmed too. J'adore!! Merci!!
Looks like the loader with the blade is about twice as effective as the grader. I have no idea what the little guy on tracks is about, but driving it looks like fun.
There's a few things you got wrong 1. This snow removal system is certainly not unique and a lot of other cities do it that way as well 2. Montreal isn't the place where it snows the most in Canada. On average Montreal gets 209cm of snow per year while St. John's, Newfoundland gets about 335cm of snow per year. 3. The cars that get towed do get ticketed 4. There is usually temporary signs informing the citizens of when there's gonna be a snow removal operation along with a few other information ways. The signs you've been showing and talking about are in effect outside of snow removal operations 5. Not all streets are that wide, it all depends on when the area was constructed. In the oldest areas the streets can be quite narrow
Down here in maine, we get plenty of parking bans. If you're in the downtown area you will have your car towed during snow removal. They have flatbeds hauling 2-3 cars at a time all night long.
I don’t know what burrough this was, but when parking restrictions are in effect during the winter you definately get a parking ticket if your car is where it is not supposed to be during snow removal operations. You get towed AND you get fined. You are responsible for removing your car, which includes grabbing a shovel and digging yourself out of the snow bank, if not you get towed and the fine to go with it. The tow trucks aren’t driving around to help you, they are driving around to pull cars out the of the way for snow removal operations. I’ve lived in Montreal my whole life, 61 years, and I have never lived in a neighbourhood that used contractors like the chuckleheads that were preparing the snow for the blower.
Sorry but if they have o tow the car...the owner get a ticket; the City doesn't get the towing service for free. As a former police offricer in Montreal it was overtime duty to ride with the towing and give tickets and the officer has to write down the street and the nearest address of where the car was towed and take that list to the nearest police station so when the owner wants his car he calls the station or get there to find out where the car is. I know I worked on snow removal overtime duty.
In west Michigan big orange Volvo Dump trucks with big plows fly down the road at like 50mph at like 1-6am covering cars and knocking stuff down and they don’t pay for damage.
he is giving wrong information. The sings are for normal parking schedule. For snow removal they put sings with schedule. Some streets have lights indicating no parking. The removal of cars is not free.
As a person that does that for a living they are doing it the French way. Top the curb first, pull the gutter and place back a foot a way from the curb for the blower. Does not need to be broken up for the blower. All I can say is why the hell do they have so much roll on their boards? As for parked cars learn to setup the windrow around the car's that the blower can fallow without turning too much. Wish I had tow trucks to make life easier.
Would love to know which part of the city you're in. Some neighborhoods have very narrow streets, and that's much more difficult. Also, we usually get parking warnings put up a couple of hours before the plowing. So by the time the tow trucks arrive, there's usually not a lot of cars left parked on the street. Also, if you do get towed, you get a fine. It's not free. We're not THAT nice.... lolll! ;-)
FYI you do get a fine it’s $200 plus dollars . That’s the tow fee plus the parking infraction and if your car is towed you call the police they’ll tell you where’s it’s been moved to .
These people saying they get the most snow in Canada yet RCR is still in Newfoundland digging them out and still being snowed on try living in any maritime province a few years back pei had 16 foot snow banks
Great video thank you. Most of the cars are not stuck, I am not sure where you are getting that. Most people just don't hear the siren or are not home when the snow clearing happens. Or they misread the parking signs, etc. And there are plenty of places in Montreal where you simply cannot park on the street (or one side of the street) in winter at all, or certain days of the week.. Montrealers, although used to winter and snow, are surprisingly unprepared for it. In the rare instance that you do get stuck on the street (and it IS fairly rare) you simply need to keep a shovel and folding steel traction tracks and even some salt in your trunk. These items will help you get your car out of snow and ice - but rare is the Montrealer who has these in their car.
What do you think they are doing...this is the street and sidewalk..they have more snow to plow around their cars then you...its a compact snowbank...its hell..im glad i only have 6driveways to clear...its less job then these guys have to do to get their one car out
the process is designed to be expensive plow the street to the sidewalk then plow the sidewalk onto the street 4 times then blow it into a truck and haul it off a cheaper option would be clear the road to the side then sidewalk into that then blow it all into a truck skipping several steps here in NB if theres already big banks at the side of the road in peoples lawns typically mid season the town will come by and use the snow blower and push it back another 6 feet even the frozen stuff industrial snow blowers cities and towns use can handle the froxen stuff they arnt a $299 Canadian tire special that will brake sheep pins and bend augers when you try to bite into the ice blocks
That depends how bad it gets. My city often does not bother moving the snow bank before they pass with the snow blower, but they like to get all of the ice and when it's glued to the road, the only way to get rid of it is to plow it off forcefully.
If they dump in the river it is easy to setup a trash and oils separator to keep the things you don't want in the water from getting out of the dump pits. You get the advantage of letting the water melt the snow so you don't end up with mountains that last till the next winter. Water dumping you can fit a lot more material into a smaller space with only the need to keep the trash from getting into the water body that can be done with a simple large box to dump into and drains below the surface to trap the oils in and screens to keep the trash in. After a round of use a vacuum truck can come along and suck the oil and trash up for disposal.
What part of montreal is this? I live in the East end and here they stick paper sines on sticks in the snow on the side of the street that indicate what side of the street will be cleared and at what time (usually between 7 am and 7 pm or 7pm to 7am) and if the tow truck passes with the warning siren and you don't move your car then you get towed close by but you get a 150$ish ticket. And iv lived in Montreal since 94 and it hasn't changed.
I guess those houses are good for summer time. In the winter probably better to live in a condo or apartment with a basement parking lot that goes down down and down
The grader goes over the snow to break up the frozen ice on the road not necessarily the packed snow. You daw the grader shift when it hit ice. The blower bottom scraper blade would break
My question is, I work as a machine driver I have a certificate in a national company Love to leave for the sake of developing my skill and is this specialization required? Thank.
holy shit they are a bit serious there ... but I can understand with the wasted money in the crew and equip costs of waiting for them to move the cars .
I live on the east side of Lake Michigan. I know all about lake effect snow. I can't believe how they are making a lot of work just to remove some snow. Here in Grand Rapids Michigan they don't do half as much work to remove the snow and Grand Rapids gets it's share of lake effect snow. This is really an inefficient way of doing things. No wonder it costs so much to remove it.
This is so funny as someone that lives in west Michigan! Here the snowplows go through EVERYWHERE between 11PM and 5-6AM at like 40-60MPH (even neighborhoods) with the blades down on their plows knocking down mail boxes and covering cars. The rule here is if you park your car on the street and don't think about it this ahead of time... tough luck dumbass! Even snow removal in Canada is nice! LOL
haha so true, PA here, if you don't move your car it will be buried in snow, literally people are still digging out their cars 2-3 days after the snowfall.
They do that there as well, this is done after several storms that the snow has just built up in needs the piles removed from the roads for future snow falls
@@paulobertrand1098 He was deicing no the ice wont break only steel concrete. block if we crush it only because it goes easier in the blower cause sometimes it s being trow back it wont break, the ice storm we had we blowed 90% ice!
i dont know how it is in bc but in montreal we get 10 cm storm often sometime it goes up to 100 cm and the snow take alot of room in the street ... when we get a 10 cm storm we need to remove it to make room for the other 10 cm that can follow
Thanks for sharing, very interesting video... So when the sirens come through these people should come start their car, clean it off and be waiting to be pulled out... To me common sense
In the winter of 1970, I lived on the corner of Boul Lacordaire and Charleroi st. in Montreal North and was four years old. A kid about my age was in a tunnel he'd built and was chewed up in a blower because in those days, the city didn't pay an additional salary for someone to walk in front of the machines and lookout for people. One measly salary could have saved this child's life perhaps...
Let me correct you of some of the things u got wrong that part of the city doesn t have to put warning orange signs because of the restrictions on regular signs must a part in the west of Montreal, They have to pay a fine if they get towed and they can move their cars by the way rarely if they re not able it may be due to water pipes leaking! These are not the bigest trucks we use 53 feet semi, don t wory the guys can go anywhere, they are very skilled. They dump in water sewer collector and it get purified before being dump in the river or in snow dump who by the way must not be on ground level for pollution regulation unless all the dumps are overfill! We dont dump directly in the river no more and it was done at Montrel port! I could tell u more but after a 12 shift nighttime On a loader blade I am tired... i ve been doing this for over 30 years and I still love it, go see my channel to see more!
It actually depends on where you live. The city of Montreal really lacks of parking space so they can't really force people to do otherwise... but, if you go outside of the big city, most of the smaller cities either ban parking during winter like your city or the day before they start the snow removal, they will put signs on the side of the streets which say that you can't park until they finished. However, in the last few years, with the "new" technologies like Facebook, the text messages and the phone, many cities will put no restrictions on whether you can park or not during winter, but the day before the snow removal, they will automatically call, text or put a post of their Facebook page saying that they will remove the snow in the next 24 hours.
2:39 - I do not understand how this evacuator cars works. When I park my car, I always use hand brake (which affects rear wheels) AND 1st shift (which affects front wheels), so there is unable to move a car like this. Are Americans do not use hand brake when parking?
You must be from a European country? When I have visited European countries I have seen that almost all cars have manual transmissions. In the US and Canada most cars have automatic transmissions. With a automatic transmission you don't have to set the parking break unless you're parked on a steep incline/hill. The transmission holds the car in park. It would still hold it on a steep incline but it's very difficult to get the transmission out of park if you didn't set the park break before shifting the transmission into park. Hope that's not confusing lol
99.99% of cars in the US and probably similarly in Canada are automatic. Never use the handbreak (except for steep hills for piece of mind), just put it in Park. For a front wheel drive car, like shown, the back wheels are free to spin when in park, and vice-versa for rear wheel drive. For an all wheel drive they can either disengage the rear wheels, break into the car and hit the shift lock release, or tow with dollies.
Most of the time we dont use hand brake. Manual transmition is very rare here. So when we put the automatic transmition on "P"ark, only the front wheel are locked. When the towing guy see that the rear wheels dont turns, he use the set of wheels that you can see on the top side of the towing truck. He set the rear wheels on those and go... You probaly have the same technic otherwise towing a car would be impossible
It seems the snow is so hard packed, it is moved a few times to break it up so the blower can handle it. Then they dump in a huge lot where big time blowers toss it up on hills over 100' high or some is dumped into quarries where it never melts. When I saw that video, I thought about the ground water contamination. Glad we are not up there, rather our 9 months of summerish weather in NC. Here we are, 1/14/2020 and it hit 70 degrees today.
It's way more efficient then that in Sherbrooke. The sidewalk plow and the big front end loader will pass simultaneously with their plows lined up to compress or move the snow bank in a single pass. When there's a lot of snow, it's not unusual for the snow blower to do a first pass without moving the snow bank and then move the rest and line it up for a cleaning pass. As far as I know, all of the snow removal operations are done during the night.
Sherbrooke is a very small town, when you have to deal with millions of people like the lady that did not respect the no parking sign, well it takes a lot more time and also there is way more street in Montreal than Sherbrooke, all needing urgent snow removal everywhere at the same time.
Souffleuse (snow blower) was invented here in 1925 by Arthur Sicard. Up until that time horses and shovel were used. archivesdemontreal.com/2013/02/15/arthur-sicard-1876-1946-inventeur-de-la-souffleuse-a-neige/
I'm not sure how they get away with letting their cars get buried...but..Over in Maine we have to dig our own cars out after every snowstorm, move them ourselves, or we get towed, fined by the city, and billed by the towing company for the tow, and then we pay a fee to get our cars back out of the lot. The graders could use chains on those tires, too.
Couple of things surprise me here: 1) why wasn't the siren in both English and French? Thought they had strict laws about that in the Great White North. 2) Sign was in French only? So English isn't allowed? Again....thought there were strict laws about required bilingual signage and such up there? As for the expense....well, if you have the confiscatory tax structure like Canada's, plus you don't spend anything on defense up there, then I guess you have plenty of money for snow removal, eh? But then again, I live in Florida.....where most of Canada is now anyway. Doesn't snow here!
If the sign is in english then it needs a french translation somewhere on it. If it's in french they don't need to translate it to english, but they should as a lot of people speak english in mtl
I don't get it. We're required to take care of our own driveways, aprons, sidewalks. It's then not an issue. The city places a parking ban and plows/salts the streets and we never have to remove snow in this manner. We get plenty of lake effect here in Cleveland. Seems like the residents are just lazy about doing their part.
Its more the fact that 90 percent of the city doesnt have private driveways. Certain boroughs, like the west island where its mainly houses with driveways, like everywhere else you csnt street park. But in the majority of the city that's not an option. Before you say "oh just shovel out your own spot" parking is tight already, snow mountains take up way too much space.
Dont Know where you got youre Story about people being killed by a Snoblower never Heard one in Quebec in the last 50 years ! The Frontman is there mainly to take out solid objects in the Winrow that can break the Snowblower !
I guess it's a good thing it wasn't curbside garbage pick up day!! BTW, that's amazing that those lazy home owners don't have to shovel out the snow bank in the end of their driveway after the snow plow goes by!!!
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What some people dont get Montreal has well over 1000 miles of road to clear every snow storm and is not like hicksville new jersey that may see one snow fall a year.We have the best moving equipment ,plows, graders and snow blowing equipment second to none.When we say get 2 storms in the space of 4 days whats on the bottom turns to ice because its compacted so much.Henceforth thats why they have to move the snow 3-4 times to soften it up and break up the ice underneath.In 1971 we had almost 4 feet in the space of 6 hours and it took them 2 weeks to clear all the snow off every street both sides .So when it comes to removing snow Montreal over time has become masters of snow removal and every bit comparable to places like Switzerland and the alps .
That happens in parts of Maine as well bud
I know last year Montreal got one meter of snow while close to it in a few years back in like 2011 2008 they got like 28 cm
It does look pretty well done to be fair.
In the tug hill platue we get minimum 200 inches a year sometimes 3 hundred and we do it much more efficiently there then here
at 18:05 he said there is no fine...as a resident of LaSalle I know for a fact there is a fine for being parked in a no parking zone and a towing charge. I think the total is about $140.00. Snow removal here is From Monday to Saturday. On the parking signs there is a number you call for that area and the recording will tell you if the parking restrictions have been lifted or not.
Actually, eastern Québec such as Gaspésie, Charlevoix, Beauce and Québec City areas and regions get ...way more snow than the Montréal area. But very nice video!! Well filmed too. J'adore!! Merci!!
why doesn't the grader just plow the snow into the road to start with..
Looks like the loader with the blade is about twice as effective as the grader. I have no idea what the little guy on tracks is about, but driving it looks like fun.
Little guys with tracks do the sidewalks and spread salt grit as they go.
Snow mixed with hard ice frozen to road. Grader needs to break it loose and move it to a better area for pickup
There's a few things you got wrong
1. This snow removal system is certainly not unique and a lot of other cities do it that way as well
2. Montreal isn't the place where it snows the most in Canada. On average Montreal gets 209cm of snow per year while St. John's, Newfoundland gets about 335cm of snow per year.
3. The cars that get towed do get ticketed
4. There is usually temporary signs informing the citizens of when there's gonna be a snow removal operation along with a few other information ways. The signs you've been showing and talking about are in effect outside of snow removal operations
5. Not all streets are that wide, it all depends on when the area was constructed. In the oldest areas the streets can be quite narrow
We don’t tag an tow where I’m from.
Down here in maine, we get plenty of parking bans. If you're in the downtown area you will have your car towed during snow removal. They have flatbeds hauling 2-3 cars at a time all night long.
Very nice video and great narrative. I live in the south but have enjoyed watching it.
I wish they did it this way in Upper Michigan.. No fines ! thats awesome
I don’t know what burrough this was, but when parking restrictions are in effect during the winter you definately get a parking ticket if your car is where it is not supposed to be during snow removal operations. You get towed AND you get fined. You are responsible for removing your car, which includes grabbing a shovel and digging yourself out of the snow bank, if not you get towed and the fine to go with it. The tow trucks aren’t driving around to help you, they are driving around to pull cars out the of the way for snow removal operations. I’ve lived in Montreal my whole life, 61 years, and I have never lived in a neighbourhood that used contractors like the chuckleheads that were preparing the snow for the blower.
That side walk clearer is quite clever... My town only has 1 small and old kubota tractor and 1 6x6 ATV with snow plows and 2 pickups for sidewalks.
Quite a system quite expensive . Should have a ten dollar bill every time he said that.
Sorry but if they have o tow the car...the owner get a ticket; the City doesn't get the towing service for free. As a former police offricer in Montreal it was overtime duty to ride with the towing and give tickets and the officer has to write down the street and the nearest address of where the car was towed and take that list to the nearest police station so when the owner wants his car he calls the station or get there to find out where the car is. I know I worked on snow removal overtime duty.
They cannot seriously expect everyone to always be there to move their car, it's unreasonable.
@@sadface they only put the signs up at least 12 hours before it's not like you have 5 minutes notice.
@@sadface but you know then its time to move the car, what days they plow is fixed days. so just move it.
really cool video !
Where I live we hardly get snow so when we did the farmers came out and cleared the roads
Why wouldn't they push the snow into a windrow in the middle. It would save on all of that huge machinery.
They have been doing it like this since before I was born. There must be a good reason. Keep in mind this method usually doesn't impeed traffic flow.
Jeff Adams you’d need a couple graders and a couple snow blowers with some trucks and you’d have it done in no time
No we cant, we would have no place to manoeuvre with cars because there would be too much snow in the middle, we dont have the choice
In west Michigan big orange Volvo Dump trucks with big plows fly down the road at like 50mph at like 1-6am covering cars and knocking stuff down and they don’t pay for damage.
Good job. Man that must cost a lot when you consider how many streets there would be.
I live out of town so they only do the road every 2 weeks and they push the snow in your driveway and then it’s yours to deal with.
Lol damn
he is giving wrong information. The sings are for normal parking schedule. For snow removal they put sings with schedule. Some streets have lights indicating no parking. The removal of cars is not free.
As a person that does that for a living they are doing it the French way. Top the curb first, pull the gutter and place back a foot a way from the curb for the blower. Does not need to be broken up for the blower. All I can say is why the hell do they have so much roll on their boards?
As for parked cars learn to setup the windrow around the car's that the blower can fallow without turning too much. Wish I had tow trucks to make life easier.
Rolling the board forward that far may help cut the hard packed snow, also if there are manholes that stick up the blade is less likely to catch them.
Would love to know which part of the city you're in. Some neighborhoods have very narrow streets, and that's much more difficult. Also, we usually get parking warnings put up a couple of hours before the plowing. So by the time the tow trucks arrive, there's usually not a lot of cars left parked on the street. Also, if you do get towed, you get a fine. It's not free. We're not THAT nice.... lolll! ;-)
FYI you do get a fine it’s $200 plus dollars . That’s the tow fee plus the parking infraction and if your car is towed you call the police they’ll tell you where’s it’s been moved to .
I have 5000 hours in a champion grader, much plowing snow, good heater, made like a tank, slow controls
USA be like: nah we’ll just push that shit to da side
These people saying they get the most snow in Canada yet RCR is still in Newfoundland digging them out and still being snowed on try living in any maritime province a few years back pei had 16 foot snow banks
Great video thank you. Most of the cars are not stuck, I am not sure where you are getting that. Most people just don't hear the siren or are not home when the snow clearing happens. Or they misread the parking signs, etc. And there are plenty of places in Montreal where you simply cannot park on the street (or one side of the street) in winter at all, or certain days of the week.. Montrealers, although used to winter and snow, are surprisingly unprepared for it. In the rare instance that you do get stuck on the street (and it IS fairly rare) you simply need to keep a shovel and folding steel traction tracks and even some salt in your trunk. These items will help you get your car out of snow and ice - but rare is the Montrealer who has these in their car.
When you don’t fine the people they won’t move their cars. Why get my ass out in the cold when they will move it for free. Love how they think.
Where I live, you buy a snow shovel and you get off your lazy ass when it snows and shovel out your car and parking spot.
What do you think they are doing...this is the street and sidewalk..they have more snow to plow around their cars then you...its a compact snowbank...its hell..im glad i only have 6driveways to clear...its less job then these guys have to do to get their one car out
Where I live in BC they put the snow in the middle of the roads then a big snow blower puts the snow into a dump truck
I live in the Hamburg (Buffalo, NY) snow belt. We get Lake Erie snow and it also gets deep.
You done nice job......
If the grader was equipped right for snow plowing there wouldnt be need for the caterpillar front end loader
Im in NY and we dont have that but im on the sid of canda
the process is designed to be expensive plow the street to the sidewalk then plow the sidewalk onto the street 4 times then blow it into a truck and haul it off a cheaper option would be clear the road to the side then sidewalk into that then blow it all into a truck skipping several steps here in NB if theres already big banks at the side of the road in peoples lawns typically mid season the town will come by and use the snow blower and push it back another 6 feet even the frozen stuff industrial snow blowers cities and towns use can handle the froxen stuff they arnt a $299 Canadian tire special that will brake sheep pins and bend augers when you try to bite into the ice blocks
That depends how bad it gets. My city often does not bother moving the snow bank before they pass with the snow blower, but they like to get all of the ice and when it's glued to the road, the only way to get rid of it is to plow it off forcefully.
If they dump in the river it is easy to setup a trash and oils separator to keep the things you don't want in the water from getting out of the dump pits. You get the advantage of letting the water melt the snow so you don't end up with mountains that last till the next winter.
Water dumping you can fit a lot more material into a smaller space with only the need to keep the trash from getting into the water body that can be done with a simple large box to dump into and drains below the surface to trap the oils in and screens to keep the trash in. After a round of use a vacuum truck can come along and suck the oil and trash up for disposal.
Grader is a great snow remover But, looks it doesn't need here when mounted blower and sidewalk plow there
What part of montreal is this? I live in the East end and here they stick paper sines on sticks in the snow on the side of the street that indicate what side of the street will be cleared and at what time (usually between 7 am and 7 pm or 7pm to 7am) and if the tow truck passes with the warning siren and you don't move your car then you get towed close by but you get a 150$ish ticket. And iv lived in Montreal since 94 and it hasn't changed.
This is Lasalle
In Detroit they just wait until May when the snow melts!
I guess those houses are good for summer time. In the winter probably better to live in a condo or apartment with a basement parking lot that goes down down and down
The grader goes over the snow to break up the frozen ice on the road not necessarily the packed snow. You daw the grader shift when it hit ice. The blower bottom scraper blade would break
My question is, I work as a machine driver
I have a certificate in a national company
Love to leave for the sake of developing my skill and is this specialization required?
Thank.
Plowed the same snow 5 times????
In my city if you don’t get your car in 24 hours they put your car up for auction
holy shit they are a bit serious there ... but I can understand with the wasted money in the crew and equip costs of waiting for them to move the cars .
really !
I live on the east side of Lake Michigan. I know all about lake effect snow. I can't believe how they are making a lot of work just to remove some snow. Here in Grand Rapids Michigan they don't do half as much work to remove the snow and Grand Rapids gets it's share of lake effect snow. This is really an inefficient way of doing things. No wonder it costs so much to remove it.
What do you guys do instead?
whick part of nova scotia you from.im from pictou ns.
This is so funny as someone that lives in west Michigan! Here the snowplows go through EVERYWHERE between 11PM and 5-6AM at like 40-60MPH (even neighborhoods) with the blades down on their plows knocking down mail boxes and covering cars. The rule here is if you park your car on the street and don't think about it this ahead of time... tough luck dumbass! Even snow removal in Canada is nice! LOL
We even have a nice side arm that comes down to clean the driveways. So you don't have to shovel a 4ft wall of snow at the road.
haha so true, PA here, if you don't move your car it will be buried in snow, literally people are still digging out their cars 2-3 days after the snowfall.
They do that there as well, this is done after several storms that the snow has just built up in needs the piles removed from the roads for future snow falls
can't believe that something so inocuous as cleaning snow brings out comments of racism, dirision, jingoism and jealousy
What was the sense of the grader pushing the snow in first if the front end loader is just gonna push it back out again??
its for breaking ice block that can damage the blower ,they grind it up for hit...
If you would watch the video all the way through you would know why . . .
@@paulobertrand1098 He was deicing no the ice wont break only steel concrete. block if we crush it only because it goes easier in the blower cause sometimes it s being trow back it wont break, the ice storm we had we blowed 90% ice!
@@paulobertrand1098 are getting anything that's not snow/ice out
The town in B.C I’m from, this never happens no matter how much snow we get
So cars just get stuck behind snow banks all winter?
i dont know how it is in bc but in montreal we get 10 cm storm often sometime it goes up to 100 cm and the snow take alot of room in the street ... when we get a 10 cm storm we need to remove it to make room for the other 10 cm that can follow
We have no residential street plowing in winter....
Actually there is a fine, about 100$. About 10 minutes after the car is towed you can call and the car's location will be given.
The loader or a grader equipped with A front plow should be first
In Québec city, it's different !!
Thanks for sharing, very interesting video... So when the sirens come through these people should come start their car, clean it off and be waiting to be pulled out... To me common sense
In the winter of 1970, I lived on the corner of Boul Lacordaire and Charleroi st. in Montreal North and was four years old. A kid about my age was in a tunnel he'd built and was chewed up in a blower because in those days, the city didn't pay an additional salary for someone to walk in front of the machines and lookout for people. One measly salary could have saved this child's life perhaps...
Was the kid deaf? He would have heard the huge Detroit Diesel coming at him.
Let me correct you of some of the things u got wrong that part of the city doesn t have to put warning orange signs because of the restrictions on regular signs must a part in the west of Montreal, They have to pay a fine if they get towed and they can move their cars by the way rarely if they re not able it may be due to water pipes leaking! These are not the bigest trucks we use 53 feet semi, don t wory the guys can go anywhere, they are very skilled. They dump in water sewer collector and it get purified before being dump in the river or in snow dump who by the way must not be on ground level for pollution regulation unless all the dumps are overfill! We dont dump directly in the river no more and it was done at Montrel port! I could tell u more but after a 12 shift nighttime On a loader blade I am tired... i ve been doing this for over 30 years and I still love it, go see my channel to see more!
I assume they get paid per load, is someone keeping track or do they hand out tickets to be sent into the city for payment.?
You cant park on the streets here in Ontario after sept 4 till sometime in march
Riley Hoddinott where in Ontario is that?
It actually depends on where you live. The city of Montreal really lacks of parking space so they can't really force people to do otherwise... but, if you go outside of the big city, most of the smaller cities either ban parking during winter like your city or the day before they start the snow removal, they will put signs on the side of the streets which say that you can't park until they finished. However, in the last few years, with the "new" technologies like Facebook, the text messages and the phone, many cities will put no restrictions on whether you can park or not during winter, but the day before the snow removal, they will automatically call, text or put a post of their Facebook page saying that they will remove the snow in the next 24 hours.
Near London and most of southwestern Ontario it’s like that overnight though. From 3am-5am no street parking
November 15 to March 15 here
In NYC snow is so annoying and never looks pretty. It's just brown slush everywhere because of the card
Good video!
Those are small dump trucks compared to Michigan. We have 10 axle trailers.
We have them too.they are not used unless a big storm
No.room.in mtl
You do get a fine.
Yo do get a ticket when they move your car, even to the next street. Got a few in my life.
How much do blower cost I need to buy one for my city
i think there like 40 grand
Welcome to my beautiful city of Montreal!!!! Now get busy paying the taxes we pay
2:39 - I do not understand how this evacuator cars works. When I park my car, I always use hand brake (which affects rear wheels) AND 1st shift (which affects front wheels), so there is unable to move a car like this. Are Americans do not use hand brake when parking?
You must be from a European country? When I have visited European countries I have seen that almost all cars have manual transmissions. In the US and Canada most cars have automatic transmissions. With a automatic transmission you don't have to set the parking break unless you're parked on a steep incline/hill. The transmission holds the car in park. It would still hold it on a steep incline but it's very difficult to get the transmission out of park if you didn't set the park break before shifting the transmission into park. Hope that's not confusing lol
99.99% of cars in the US and probably similarly in Canada are automatic.
Never use the handbreak (except for steep hills for piece of mind), just put it in Park.
For a front wheel drive car, like shown, the back wheels are free to spin when in park, and vice-versa for rear wheel drive.
For an all wheel drive they can either disengage the rear wheels, break into the car and hit the shift lock release, or tow with dollies.
fyi, this is canada. But, nah none that i know of, unless its a manual transmission then maybe yeah
Most of the time we dont use hand brake. Manual transmition is very rare here. So when we put the automatic transmition on "P"ark, only the front wheel are locked. When the towing guy see that the rear wheels dont turns, he use the set of wheels that you can see on the top side of the towing truck. He set the rear wheels on those and go... You probaly have the same technic otherwise towing a car would be impossible
Very interesting
Thanks
It seems like they keep moving the same snow a lot, just say.
It seems the snow is so hard packed, it is moved a few times to break it up so the blower can handle it. Then they dump in a huge lot where big time blowers toss it up on hills over 100' high or some is dumped into quarries where it never melts. When I saw that video, I thought about the ground water contamination. Glad we are not up there, rather our 9 months of summerish weather in NC. Here we are, 1/14/2020 and it hit 70 degrees today.
lol the girl at the end arguing with you like you wrote the laws and towed her car
Check out the camber on that grader 😂
It's way more efficient then that in Sherbrooke. The sidewalk plow and the big front end loader will pass simultaneously with their plows lined up to compress or move the snow bank in a single pass. When there's a lot of snow, it's not unusual for the snow blower to do a first pass without moving the snow bank and then move the rest and line it up for a cleaning pass. As far as I know, all of the snow removal operations are done during the night.
Yeah well where I live in Montreal it's the same thing you are describing idk why his neighborhood is different...
Sherbrooke is a very small town, when you have to deal with millions of people like the lady that did not respect the no parking sign, well it takes a lot more time and also there is way more street in Montreal than Sherbrooke, all needing urgent snow removal everywhere at the same time.
Its funny to see people arguing when they wrong lol the guy in the vid dosent know what hes talking about
what did you guy's do before all of this mechanization ?
City employees did it by hand shovel.
Yes, I am serious.
cried
Souffleuse (snow blower) was invented here in 1925 by Arthur Sicard. Up until that time horses and shovel were used.
archivesdemontreal.com/2013/02/15/arthur-sicard-1876-1946-inventeur-de-la-souffleuse-a-neige/
Back in the old days, they use to compact the snow with heavy rollers pulled by horses.
I never seen this tow truck...usually it says not to park on one side of the street..they tow the cars near by without warnings
That would be a awesome snow fort ware they dump it
where you from in NS?
you receive a fine of $120 if they tow your car......because you forgot....cars are not stuck in the snow
Then the snow is transported to a snow cone factory.
The contractors are amazing people because it usually takes longer than 4 to 5 months for the idiots in accounts payable to pay the bill.
we get even more snow in Quebec city
I'm not sure how they get away with letting their cars get buried...but..Over in Maine we have to dig our own cars out after every snowstorm, move them ourselves, or we get towed, fined by the city, and billed by the towing company for the tow, and then we pay a fee to get our cars back out of the lot.
The graders could use chains on those tires, too.
It's the same in Montréal, he just had bad info :)
Great!
4:44 another issue is NO weight on steers all the weight is on drives where the engine is at
it as weight in the front but not as much as the back as ... that why the wheel can tilt from left to right it help to steer the grader around
This, to me, is snow removal done right.
Duh thats how its done in the lower 48..
Couple of things surprise me here: 1) why wasn't the siren in both English and French? Thought they had strict laws about that in the Great White North. 2) Sign was in French only? So English isn't allowed? Again....thought there were strict laws about required bilingual signage and such up there? As for the expense....well, if you have the confiscatory tax structure like Canada's, plus you don't spend anything on defense up there, then I guess you have plenty of money for snow removal, eh? But then again, I live in Florida.....where most of Canada is now anyway. Doesn't snow here!
The law requires French Signage in Quebec.
If the sign is in english then it needs a french translation somewhere on it. If it's in french they don't need to translate it to english, but they should as a lot of people speak english in mtl
nice video and to all the negative bull shit about money, well just stay where you are and don't go to Montreal.
I don't get it. We're required to take care of our own driveways, aprons, sidewalks. It's then not an issue. The city places a parking ban and plows/salts the streets and we never have to remove snow in this manner. We get plenty of lake effect here in Cleveland. Seems like the residents are just lazy about doing their part.
ImpsMyPimp I guess they have so much snow there that salt would be too expensive
Its more the fact that 90 percent of the city doesnt have private driveways. Certain boroughs, like the west island where its mainly houses with driveways, like everywhere else you csnt street park. But in the majority of the city that's not an option. Before you say "oh just shovel out your own spot" parking is tight already, snow mountains take up way too much space.
Dont Know where you got youre Story about people being killed by a Snoblower never Heard one in Quebec in the last 50 years ! The Frontman is there mainly to take out solid objects in the Winrow that can break the Snowblower !
I heard about it too,and one elderly woman who needed meds passed out in a snowstorm..a young boy playing in his fort..
An alcoholic old men
Where I live they just move the snow and put salt down, the prowlers they are fast and don't stop. One time they almost hit someone and kids.
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I think it was filmed in LaSalle
LaSalle Ontario?? If so, you guys are in the "banana belt" , you don't get snow like this! LOL
He's wrong, you get a 180 dollar ticket. Its a fine.
Meanwhile in phoenix arizona...
Dat Sun you get sand storms not snow
Good ole' Lasalle
It's hilarious that he thinks that is a lot of snow, come to Atlantic Canada ha ha.
he is from the maritimes he says earlier in the video, 1:23
Interesting.
wow unreal in the u.s. they fill ypur driveway entrance as they go by and its sorry about your luck.
sweet snow clearing
must be high property taxes there ha ???
yes I snow
I guess it's a good thing it wasn't curbside garbage pick up day!! BTW, that's amazing that those lazy home owners don't have to shovel out the snow bank in the end of their driveway after the snow plow goes by!!!