Snowplough

Dagegen fahren hier ja nur Spielzeuge rum!

Im Vergleich zu dort haben wir auch nur einen Spielzeugwinter;-)

Na das nenne ich doch Mal eine effektive "Schnee-Schaufel..." :-))

Vielen Dank, Udo! Ist nötig dort, vor allem wegen der Schneeverwehungen, da kann die Strasse schnell zu sein, auch wenn es gar nicht schneit.

Kraftmaschine ;-)))

Ist dort auch nötig:-)

Damit möchte ich auch mal durchs endlose Weiss brettern! ;-)

Vor allem bei Pulver-Neuschnee.Bei starkem Wind empfiehlt sich Brettern nicht, da hat's schon Reisebusse umgeschmissen.

Beruf: für mehrere Monate Schneepflugfahrer:
Klasse Bilder und Danke für die Infos Gudrun!!

Herzlichen Dank, Walter! Da kannst du dir sicher gut vorstellen, was die dort zu tun haben:-)

Interessant, Gudrun !

Besten Dank, Uli!

Wow! That should do the job!!
Terrific shots Gudrun!

Thanks a lot, Rosa! They have spikes on their tyres and often also have to use chains.

Very interesting and well taken pictures!

Thank you so much, Adele!

schöne Aufnahme - aber dort ist es doch deutlich kälter wie bei uns.
Ich sehne mich nach dem Frühling

Danke vielmals, Reinhard! Derzeit hat's dort miinus 7 Grad, gar nicht so arg kalt;-) Das wäre mir allemal lieber als unser Regenwetter....

Wow, das muss schon beeindruckend sein. Wünsche Dir ein gutes Wochenende, Gudrun !

Besten Dank, Percy! Ich saß im warm beheizten Bus, der hinter dem Schneepflug herfährt;-)

Oh lala ça craint !****************
HFF Gudrun.

Merci beaucoup, Jocelyne, have a good weekend!

I love seeing these, Gudrun. Here we are experiencing the hottest summer on record...it was 46C last week. I love looking at snow and reading about your weather!

Thanks a lot, Diana! The weather where I live in Germany is dull, 4 degrees plus and rain...I'd prefer real winter but wouldn't want to have your heat!

Interesting pictures and notes Gudurn.

Many thanks, Doug!

Hi Gudrun

Very nice picture of a very big snow plough!
And we think it is bad here when we get a few cms of snow!

Best Wishes, and a good weekend
Peter

Thank you so much, Peter! Lol, it's the same here, people simply aren't used to snow any longer... Up north it's just normal and everyone takes it in their stride.

Impressive looking machine.....................and very necessary in the sort of weather in that part of the world.

Thank you, Keith! The worst bit are the snow drifts, it's an exposed plateau there and it can get extremely windy, so much that buses are blown off the road...

Ich musst erst mal überlegen, was das ist. Aber durch's PiP wird es klar. Das rote Licht wirkt klasse.

Schönen Dank, Susanne! Es gefiel mir, wie da überall der Schnee festhing:-)

Starkes Teil!

Großen Dank, Volker! Das muss auch durch große Schneewehen durchkommen:-)

Now _that's_ an interesting way to do things! It guarantees, I guess, that snow won't have time to drift back over the road.

And still it often manages to drift back, especially over night and in spite of some serious snow fences....

I tell you my experience of the convoy in Norway : on 2018 march 26th we took a convoy organised between a place north of Lakselv and Honningsväg (75 kms).
At time, the snowplough started and behind there were about twenty cars and trucks. After 3 or 4 kilometers, the snowplough was driving at 70/75 km/h ( the driver was late ?)
In a snowstorm at dusk (it was - 20° in the wind), on an iced road, it is very difficult to drive at such a speed, so all the cars were lost after 25 kilometers (even the norwegian drivers).
We encountered lost cars from the previous convoy and cars from our convoy planted in the snow on the side of the road. In this case the first one to pass stops to help..
After more of an hour, we found the lodge lost at Sarnes near Honningsväg. Thanks to my daughter who was driving but no thanks to the Finnmark road department members.

Goodness, that was a rogue driver! They aren't supposed to do that... Good to hear you managed to get through!
The few times I have been to the North Cape the snowploughs actually were rather slow to keep the tour buses and tourist cars from speeding.

That's an impressive snow plough, Gudrun, but I was surprised when I looked at your other image that it isn't running on tracks. I note though, that you mention it uses spikes and chains on the tyres.

Thanks a lot, George! Norwegian cars always use spikes in winter, that's why the roads are cleared of excess snow but not salted. The chains usually come into play if there's ice (rain on frozen ground). In the PiP you can see there's ice underneath the snow, I saw people slipping and falling even with shoe spikes on.

Impressive machinery Gudrun. Awesome perspective. What a beauty, but don't get too close to it.

Thank you so much, Zulma! It was stationary, so there wasn't any danger:-)

... taken out of context, and if the front end rather than the back -- it could be some Star Wars mega-machine on a frozen planet ...
... an unusual point-of-view; thus, well seen ... and of course, well done ...
(and informative PiP) ...

... modern inventions and equipment: have revolutionized so much of what we do ... could you imagine what that trip would be like without the plow or the heated bus? ...

Thank you, Wally! I guess nobody would go there in winter;-) In former times there wasn't even a road. People went by boat and then had to climb up onto the plateau via a very steep path.

Fantastic pictures, Gudrun! My definite favorite though is your inset, it's just outstanding! I love the pov so much, the snow plow is so HUGE! :D Great job with your pictures, and thank you so much for the information too. I don't know what it's like to live in a place where it's so cold all of the time so I am fascinated by your stories! :)

Thanks very much, Janet! I was only there as a tourist but amazingly quite a few people not born in the far North are living there ( even from as far as Thailand or Sri Lanka...).

so übermäßig groß ist der Schneepflug jetzt nicht - bei uns fährt auch ein Drei-Achser im Winterdienst.....
interessante Geschichte, mit den Konvois.

Besten Dank, bk! Ja, bei euch hat's auch ein wenig mehr Schnee als im warmen Stuttgart;-)
Das mit den Konvois ist dort oben im Winter üblich, da sind viele Strassen nur 3x am Tag befahrbar. Aber hedes Jahr ist dort oben auch mal alles komplett gesperrt, wenn's ganz übel stürmt...

Ich kann mir Vorstellen, das bei den Scheeverwehungen auch dieses Gerät zu kämpfen hat.

Danke vielmals, Leo! Das nehme ich auch an! An manchen Tagen ist die Strasse auch gesperrt. Vor einigen Jahren hat's da mal im Sturm einen vollbesetzten Bus umgeschmissen, seither sind sie vorsichtig....

Also ich würde mit einer Kanne Tee freiwillig auf dem Schneepflug mitfahren :-)

Schönen Dank, Uwe! Das macht sicher Spass;-) In Norwegen ist immer Kaffee dabei, meist Marke Spülbrühe;-)

I was there in August. I saw the video of conditions there in the winter and I am impressed that you are there.

Thanks a lot, Esther! I only took the Hurtigruten excursion, you get off the boat into a bus and let yourself be driven to the North Cape, a good two hours there and back again....

Nice detail in the main image Gudrun but the PIP is great - excellent composition.