Scottish Gritter Names

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[PTA]

What a novel concept! Gritters actually prepared for the weather in Scotland, whereas here in England................ 😡😡

 

[otherclive]

What a novel concept! Gritters actually prepared for the weather in Scotland, whereas here in England................ 😡😡

That’s probably your local perception and not necessarily a national position. I came down from Coventry on Saturday evening and followed a gritter from Halford on the Fosse right to the Gloucestershire border. As we were following it another passed in the opposite direction. In our local area the A429/350 had been gritted, and yesterday most of our roads were easily passable.

So I think that you will have to Grit and Bare It if your council isn’t up to par. Or listen to a Gritney Spears track.

 

[Parksy]

Our local council do a great job of keeping the main roads safe and clear, and the gritting wagons all have names.

 

[Beachball]

So far our coucil do a great job in keeping our main roads safe in north lincs

 

[Sam Vimes]

We're lucky enough to have Angus the Gritter as a neighbour. He does a great job going out early but it looks like cutbacks have hit even this service. In past years there would be piles of grit at intervals along the steep roads in our community - not any more.

Not sure if there was something wrong with the gritter yesterday or its more cuts but it seemed to be dumping the grit every 20m or so. Perhaps like when they fix the roads but chucking down loose chippings and getting the cars to embedded it in the wet tar, they're relying on the cars to spread it around 🙂

 

[PTA]

We live in a long cul- de-sac .Haven't seen a gritter down here for at least 20 years. We keep our own bags of. grit/sand..

 

[otherclive]

We live in a long cul- de-sac .Haven't seen a gritter down here for at least 20 years. We keep our own bags of. grit/sand..

We live in a close and we are at the bottom of the slope, so don’t expect gritters to do any gritting. About 0.5 mile away there is an estate minor through road which has a grit bin at the bottom of the slope where that road joins another at a T junction. Yesterday I took an empty chicken pellet container and my trowel and put some road rock salt into it. I then used it to grit around the four house at our end of the close. Worked very well.
I won’t use it on our paths around the house just in case anyone has tried to report me taking it from the council bin which is marked “ Highway use only”. And I am 100% compliant. 😂

 

[Hutch]

I use Granular salt, which is used for industrial dishwashers, for my driveway and footpaths around the house. It is cleaner than "Grit" and it stops the moss growing in the block paving. Last time I bought a 25kg bag it was about £15.

 

[otherclive]

I use Granular salt, which is used for industrial dishwashers, for my driveway and footpaths around the house. It is cleaner than "Grit" and it stops the moss growing in the block paving. Last time I bought a 25kg bag it was about £15.

I tried water softener salt once and it drilled down into concrete on the drive. Never risked it again.

 

[Beachball]

We live in a long cul- de-sac .Haven't seen a gritter down here for at least 20 years. We keep our own bags of. grit/sand..

We also got a couple of bags of Rock salt for paths around our bungalow

 

[Raywood]

One local authority actually held a competition for school children to name the gritters and there were some real beauties in the list. Must try and read them on the gritters and post the names.

 

[otherclive]

One local authority actually held a competition for school children to name the gritters and there were some real beauties in the list. Must try and read them on the gritters and post the names.

Our local council road sweeping truck is “Sweep Caroline”