Plowing of the roads up in UP.

[jimmyj]

My brother and I went up to the Keewenaw this past weekend and notice an odd pattern on the side of the roads where the snow is plowed. It looks like someone took a skid steet ever 200 feet or so and made a slight indentation in the snow. Any ideas of why they do that? I saw some other areas where someone took a skid steer and cleared out a continuous area in a similiar fashion. Just not sure what they are doing.

 

[Rupp Collector]

Preparing for meltdown so the water has somewhere to go other than down the roadside trapped by the snow banks is my guess.

 

[highhertel]

Probably a leprechaun.

HH

 

[chords]

Skid steet Ever 200 - its a local thing

 

[Pizza Man]

Are you sure they aren't using the side wing on the plow to to push the snow farther over.
Never saw a skid steer do that, to time consuming.

 

[HardwaterHoosier]

side wing on a grader most likely

 

[szotty]

They plow with pay loader to get water off road during melt down and on 45 north there plowing by powerpoles with dozer must be changing them

 

[snocrazy]

They do it with a road grader wing around here. Push back the banks for the melt. Perfect example is FFH13. Also there is always that chance of a freak storm that dumps feet of the wet stuff in the spring. Got to have room for that.