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[AndyMan]

I came home from my trip last night to find, surprisingly, the road neatly plowed. (A rare occurrence in my rural area.) Then I found the new guy who just moved in down the road over the summer plowing his driveway.

He was on a little tractor thing with a plow attachment in the front. He was taking nice long sweeps, pushing the snow down his driveway, and into the road. The road in front of his driveway was nothing but piles of snow! Mounds and blobs and heaps of snow! Across the road from his driveway is an open field. He couldn't possible push the snow clear ACROSS the road and into the field. No, he pushes it into the road and leaves it there.

I just love neighbors. :thumbdown: Shall I report him to the town? Plow it all back up into his driveway? Leave him a nasty note? Rant about him on an on-line forum? :biggrin:

 

[JDgreen]

I came home from my trip last night to find, surprisingly, the road neatly plowed. (A rare occurrence in my rural area.) Then I found the new guy who just moved in down the road over the summer plowing his driveway.

He was on a little tractor thing with a plow attachment in the front. He was taking nice long sweeps, pushing the snow down his driveway, and into the road. The road in front of his driveway was nothing but piles of snow! Mounds and blobs and heaps of snow! Across the road from his driveway is an open field. He couldn't possible push the snow clear ACROSS the road and into the field. No, he pushes it into the road and leaves it there.

I just love neighbors. :thumbdown: Shall I report him to the town? Plow it all back up into his driveway? Leave him a nasty note? Rant about him on an on-line forum? :biggrin:

Go ahead and rant, we all do here. Believe me, I sometimes push snow to the shoulder, but NEVER, EVER leave it in the road. Report him, and if it were me I would tell him very firmly that is ILLEGAL, and if he causes a stuck car or accident he will be found liable.

Here is my rant...a contractor backed into my treated 4X4 mailbox post in late summer, they had it replaced the same day, even set the new one in concrete. I came home from a retirement party late Tuesday, the fricking county had clipped my post two feet off the ground, in broad daylight, bright sun, and no drifiting at all. I took pics of the whole mess, sent them to the county road commission, two days later, still no reply. First they hire drunks who hit posts in clear weather then they refuse to answer citizen complaints althought they say they will answer them promptly. So much for local government employees....

 

[indypower]

Report him to the city. Here, there is a $200 fine for putting snow onto the street. That includes throwing shovelful of snow onto the street to melt on a sunny day. You are allowed to plow across a street as long as you make sure it is all cleaned up.

 

[JDgreen]

Report him to the city. Here, there is a $200 fine for putting snow onto the street. That includes throwing shovelful of snow onto the street to melt on a sunny day. You are allowed to plow across a street as long as you make sure it is all cleaned up.

My next door neighbor is a city policeman, he says they will NEVER issue a citation to someone for putting snow in the street unless it's a blatant violation or causes an accident.

 

[KennyV]

Shall I report him to the town? Plow it all back up into his driveway? Leave him a nasty note? Rant about him on an on-line forum? :biggrin:

Heck ...
Do all four... It pays the same. :smile:KennyV

 

[BKBrown]

I'd stop and tell him that it should go across the road and not IN the road ---- then if he did not push it out of the road or it happened again ---- He might just find a driveway FULL of snow ! :biggrin: :tongue: :laughing:

 

[JDgreen]

I am engaged in an ongoing battle with the county road commission about repairing my damaged mailbox post. It's so obvious they hit it, as there is no farm or construction traffic on the roads this time of the year, and the several pictures I sent them clearly show plow scrape marks an inch away from the base of my mailbox post, and there are no wheel or tire tracks in the snow by the post, and it was broken off at a height about 34 inches from the ground, much higher than most vehicle bumpers. They say somebody came out to look at the damage (!!!!!) and because I had screwed a temporary pvc sleeve on to support the post so we could get our mail and news, they told me 'we see no evidence that one of our plows hit your post". DUHHHH. About what I expect from local government. A trench contractor hit the same post in the summer, they came to my door and apologized, and by the end of the day they had replaced the post. Contrast that to the local county road crew, send somebody out at $25 an hour just to kill time, then say "we didn't do it, tough luck".

And I pay taxes to support to support their operations while they hire incompetents who knock down mailbox posts on a perfect sunny day. WHAT A FARCE, I am going to start pushing my snow into the road from now on. SCROOM.

 

[KennyV]

I am going to start pushing my snow into the road from now on. SCROOM.

How will that effect them??... that only inconveniences you and your neighbors that use the road...

You have to continue contacting them until they return for a face to face, where you can show them the damage...
Or just replace it and consider it a cost of living in your county... :smile:KennyV

 

[AndyMan]

Around here, snowplows are a fact of life, and we have come up with a few different solutions to the mailbox problem:

1. Put the mailbox on an L-shaped arm, it looks like metal piping of some sort, with one arm of the L in the ground and your mailbox on the other end. When the plow hits the box, it simply swings away and swings back.

2. Anchor the mailbox post into a concrete block or an old milk jug (one of those 2-foot tall black jobs). Set the block or jug into position. When the plow hits the box, the whole thing tips over, and you simply stand it up again.

3. Keep repairing the post, bit by bit, adding on reinforcements as needed until spring. Replace the post each spring.

4. Get a Post office box. :biggrin:

 

[monica123]

We too have lost many a mailbox to the snowplough, we are also the last folks to be snowplough out in a storm because we are on the outskirts of town, if there is a big storm, you can expect days of delays.