As a pedestrian I preferred that stuff to having everything turned into black slurry with salt as is customary those three afternoons a year we have snow where I live.
Is it common to use gravel in Finland, or sand-salt mix is also used?
That’s still a better option than salting everything until your shoes fall off from corrosion.
Mmm. Cookies ‘n’ cream.
How is it Finland, do they only use gravel or do they also salt roads, or does it depend on type of road? Also what about pedestrian sidewalks?
In Lithuania they tend to use sand and salt on roads and same for sidewalks. I kind of dislike it and would prefer gravel as I don’t think sand does that good of a job for pedestrians and when spread on roads it just ends up on the sidewalks in half an hour and just makes everything look dirty.
Being killed ? How fast would you drive our walk in that street anyway ?
May I just take this moment to say of all the countries in the world I do not understand I like Finland the most.
Finland is like the uncle you wished had picked you up from school more often. But when he did it was just awesome.
mmm.. stracciatella
I remember the time I (as an adult) tried to slide on my feet down a super-slippery icy hill. It went fast, and pretty well until I hit a crossing path with gravel on it. Don’t slide into gravel.
I wish they would leave a clean stripe somewhere, I miss my kicksled.
Is this gravel the kind that’s collected in the spring and reused next year?
Finland is a dangerous place to live in it seems.
This is so much better than the salt which is horribly destructive to the soil and makes for horrible driving on the slurry.
I seriously think to buy some extreme outdoor thing under my bots!
Any suggestions?
To everyone saying what a great solution it is, may I present the downside.
So, the snow keeps coming, and the grit is put on top. Regularly a snow plough or mini digger has to come along and scoop up the top layer of snow/grit and put it to the side of the road/pavement. By April you have 4/5 months of compacted snow/grit/spit/dog-shit/rubbish by the side of the road, which melts. Then they put a big brush in the bucket of the mini-digger and sweep it all up.
The dust, my GOD, the dust.
But then Finland is sparkly and clean again 🙂
best thing about the gravel is the sun shines on a cold day, heats the gravel and it sinks into the ice. next day it taunts you from under its fresh coating of refrozen ice.
Nice dragon fruit road you have there.
One annoying thing about this solution is that when ice melts you
cant easily go to rollers skating/skiing. Bicycling is also problematic
as empty tire tends to happen quickly. Even walking is risky because
i have seen some pieces of gravel through shoes that are long and sharp like spear.
That’s a lot of Oreos.
r/ForbiddenDragonfruit
What am I looking at?
They line the streets with dragon fruit?
Did they spray snow with the road?
That is one hell of a lot of rabbit poop.
Suddenly craving stracciatella 😆
Finland explain!
What? This is very good road, better than any road I see IRL.
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As a pedestrian I preferred that stuff to having everything turned into black slurry with salt as is customary those three afternoons a year we have snow where I live.
Is it common to use gravel in Finland, or sand-salt mix is also used?
That’s still a better option than salting everything until your shoes fall off from corrosion.
Mmm. Cookies ‘n’ cream.
How is it Finland, do they only use gravel or do they also salt roads, or does it depend on type of road? Also what about pedestrian sidewalks?
In Lithuania they tend to use sand and salt on roads and same for sidewalks. I kind of dislike it and would prefer gravel as I don’t think sand does that good of a job for pedestrians and when spread on roads it just ends up on the sidewalks in half an hour and just makes everything look dirty.
Being killed ? How fast would you drive our walk in that street anyway ?
May I just take this moment to say of all the countries in the world I do not understand I like Finland the most.
Finland is like the uncle you wished had picked you up from school more often. But when he did it was just awesome.
mmm.. stracciatella
I remember the time I (as an adult) tried to slide on my feet down a super-slippery icy hill. It went fast, and pretty well until I hit a crossing path with gravel on it. Don’t slide into gravel.
I wish they would leave a clean stripe somewhere, I miss my kicksled.
Is this gravel the kind that’s collected in the spring and reused next year?
Finland is a dangerous place to live in it seems.
This is so much better than the salt which is horribly destructive to the soil and makes for horrible driving on the slurry.
I seriously think to buy some extreme outdoor thing under my bots!
Any suggestions?
To everyone saying what a great solution it is, may I present the downside.
So, the snow keeps coming, and the grit is put on top. Regularly a snow plough or mini digger has to come along and scoop up the top layer of snow/grit and put it to the side of the road/pavement. By April you have 4/5 months of compacted snow/grit/spit/dog-shit/rubbish by the side of the road, which melts. Then they put a big brush in the bucket of the mini-digger and sweep it all up.
The dust, my GOD, the dust.
But then Finland is sparkly and clean again 🙂
best thing about the gravel is the sun shines on a cold day, heats the gravel and it sinks into the ice. next day it taunts you from under its fresh coating of refrozen ice.
Nice dragon fruit road you have there.
One annoying thing about this solution is that when ice melts you
cant easily go to rollers skating/skiing. Bicycling is also problematic
as empty tire tends to happen quickly. Even walking is risky because
i have seen some pieces of gravel through shoes that are long and sharp like spear.
That’s a lot of Oreos.
r/ForbiddenDragonfruit
What am I looking at?
They line the streets with dragon fruit?
Did they spray snow with the road?
That is one hell of a lot of rabbit poop.
Suddenly craving stracciatella 😆
Finland explain!
What? This is very good road, better than any road I see IRL.