Winter Survival Guide

Eight Snowplowing Safety Tips

Pre- and Post-treating Lots: 

Pre-treating parking lots, sidewalks, and parking structures with liquid brine before snowfall helps prevent mild accumulation and, more importantly, prevents the bond of snow and ice to the pavement. This allows better quality mechanical removal of snow and ice to occur thereby mean

ing you need to use less salt or deicer after you plow.

Introduction: 

Liquids are the future of snow and ice management. Offering much better consistency, accuracy, and adaptability and provides the best avenue for the future of mandatory chloride-free deicing. Many new sites around the US and Canada are already setting chloride reduction and chloride-free standards. It’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when. Don’t get left behind! 

Something that often gets forgotten about is the cleanup that occurs after a storm. This is often an afterthought during winter events. One of the benefits of liquid de-icing is the reduction in cleanup compared to salt or sand. 

BOSS has a vast selection of ice control equipment that will help you take on winter’s worst conditions. Along with this, there is a selection of accessories that you can purchase to upgrade your spreaders so that they can work for any job you take on. Click here to learn more about the accessories you can use to upgrade your equipment.

If you’re researching electric v-box hopper spreaders, you are learning quickly that the two types of material feed systems available are the auger and pintle chain. If you don’t have a lot of experience with these spreader feed systems, you may be having a difficult time selecting which system best fits your snow and ice management needs. BOSS offers a pintle or auger feed system on the VBX and FORGE line of spreaders. There are some key differences between the two feed systems that are important to understand. Read on to learn more about auger and pintle spreaders to help you decide which spreader is right for you.