Posted on Dec 9, 2014
In Helsinki, Finland, the amount of snow transported from streets and properties to snow dump sites during the winter of 2009–2010 was 210,000 truckloads, equaling over 3 million cubic meters.
It is estimated that Canada spends $1 billion on snow removal.[18] The employees who do this work are generally the same workers who do road maintenance work during the summer months, but in some US cities garbage trucks are also equipped with plows and used for snow removal.
However, we are in Summit County and we can remove your snow:
Are you looking for a snow plow contractor for your commercial property or residential property? Home Sweet Home Landscaping has a fleet of trucks with plows and sanders to handle all of your snow plowing needs.
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Commercial Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Residential Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Roof Snow / Ice Removal
As soon as the snow begins to fall, we are ready to assist in any snow removal needs. Contact us before the winter season starts, around early November to secure your snow removal contract. Our snow removal contracts run from November 1st - April 30th, which guarantees our service throughout the winter season.
Home Sweet Home Landscaping takes one-time jobs, or projects on an hourly rate, for anything related to landscaping or snow removal. We accept all major forms of credit cards.
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Posted on Nov 25, 2014
As automobiles replaced horses and carriages on the roads of the U.S., the snow problem got flipped on its head. It wouldn't be enough to clear the alleys and pack down the snow on the main roads anymore. Cars required dry, safe streets. Motorized salt spreaders were introduced, but they often didn't do enough, and urban sprawl meant most cities were just too big for horse-drawn plows to clean all the streets. In the early 1920s, Norwegian brothers Hans and Even Overaasen and New Yorker Carl Frink independently came up with designs for car-mounted snow plows. These were, apparently the perfect solution to the modern snow problem, and the company Frink started is still producing plows today.
As for the snow removal tool the average Joe is most familiar with, 100-plus patents have been granted for snow shovel designs since the 1870s. A woman named Lydia Fairweather invented one of the first designs that hit upon the “scrape and scoop” combo in 1889.
Are you looking for a snow plow contractor for your commercial property or residential property? Home Sweet Home Landscaping has a fleet of trucks with plows and sanders to handle all of your snow plowing needs.
Quality Snow Removal
Commercial Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Residential Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Roof Snow / Ice Removal
As soon as the snow begins to fall, we are ready to assist in any snow removal needs. Contact us before the winter season starts, around early November to secure your snow removal contract. Our snow removal contracts run from November 1st - April 30th, which guarantees our service throughout the winter season.
Home Sweet Home Landscaping takes one-time jobs, or projects on an hourly rate, for anything related to landscaping or snow removal. We accept all major forms of credit cards.
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Posted on Nov 11, 2014
HOME SWEET HOME LANDSCAPE & SNOW REMOVAL
By the mid 1800s, several different inventors had patented their own versions of a horse-drawn snow plow meant for clearing alleys and residential streets that saw more foot traffic than carriages. In 1862, Milwaukee became the first major municipality to try one out, and it was a hit. Over the next few years, the plows hit the streets in cities throughout the Snow Belt.
But horse-drawn plows didn't stand a chance against the Blizzard of 1888, which bludgeoned the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay up to Maine. After three days, some places were buried in up to 50 inches of snow, and high winds caused drifts up to 40 feet tall to form. The plow-pulling horses, like everyone else, had no choice but to stay inside and wait for the snow to melt. Cities in the region learned a valuable lesson about preparation, and the following year many implemented measures like hiring more plows and giving them assigned routes, and sending the plows out to start clearing the roads in the early stages of the storm.
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Are you looking for a snow plow contractor for your commercial property or residential property? Home Sweet Home Landscaping has a fleet of trucks with plows and sanders to handle all of your snow plowing needs.
Quality Snow Removal
Commercial Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Residential Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Roof Snow / Ice Removal
As soon as the snow begins to fall, we are ready to assist in any snow removal needs. Contact us before the winter season starts, around early November to secure your snow removal contract. Our snow removal contracts run from November 1st - April 30th, which guarantees our service throughout the winter season.
Home Sweet Home Landscaping takes one-time jobs, or projects on an hourly rate, for anything related to landscaping or snow removal. We accept all major forms of credit cards.
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Posted on Oct 29, 2014
For a good stretch of American history, getting rid of snow was of no great concern. In fact, people actually wanted it around. While this might blow the minds of modern Northeasterners and Midwesterners, keep in mind that these were the days of the horse-drawn vehicle, not the Prius. To improve travel in winter conditions, horse carts and coaches traded their wheels in for ski-like runners. With those things on, the more packed snow on the roads, the better! Historian and weather geek Eric Sloane wrote that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, "snow was never a threat" to road travel, "but rather it was an asset."
To keep roads in optimal snowy condition, many municipalities employed a "snow warden" to pack and flatten the snow with a crude vehicle called a snow roller—essentially a giant, wide wheel weighed down with rocks and pulled by oxen or horses. A far cry from the winter road work we see today, it was more like maintaining a ski slope or smoothing out an ice rink. Stranger still, snow wardens actually had to install snow on the pathways of covered bridges so that travel would not be interrupted.
Not like that today!
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Posted on Sep 30, 2014
History of the snow plow:
The first snow plows were horsedrawn wedge-plows made of wood. With the advent of the automobile, a number of inventors set about to improve existing snow plows. In the US, patents were issued for snow plow improvements at least as early as 1920. The first snow plow ever built specifically for use with motor equipment was in 1913. It was manufactured by Good Roads Machinery in Kennett Square PA. and was designed to meet the exacting requirements outlined by engineers of the New York City Street Cleaning Bureau. Good Roads is therefore unofficially credited as the originator of the modern snow plow, though their horse drawn steel blade road graders were used to clear roads of snow as early as the company's founding in 1878 under their original name American Road Machinery. Good Roads patented the first four wheel grader in 1889 thus making it the first pull grading apparatus patented in the United States. Unlike most early snow plow manufacturers, Good Roads continues to manufacture snow removal equipment today under the name Good Roads Godwin, now located in Dunn, North Carolina. In the early 1920s Good Roads often advertised in The American City magazine that "three out of every four snow plows in use throughout the whole United States are Good Roads Champions." By the mid-1920s Good Roads was manufacturing snow plows of various shapes and sizes for use on a wide variety of motorized equipment. Other snow plow manufactures began to follow suit as motorized plows were proven more efficient than other methods of snow removal.
In 1923, the brothers Hans and Even Øveraasen of Norway constructed an early snowplow for use on cars. This proved to be the start of a tradition in snow-clearing equipment for roads, railways and airports, as well as the foundation of the company Øveraasen Snow Removal Systems. Carl Frink of Clayton, New York, USA was also an early manufacturer of automobile-mounted snowplows. His company, Frink Snowplows, now Frink-America, was founded by some accounts as early as 1920.
Home Sweet Home Snow Removal:
Are you looking for a snow plow contractor for your commercial property or residential property?
Home Sweet Home Landscaping has a fleet of trucks with plows and sanders to handle all of your snow plowing needs.
Quality Snow Removal
Commercial Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Residential Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Roof Snow / Ice Removal
Landscape Winterizing:
Flower Bed Weeding
Spring / Fall Clean-ups
Mulch & Re-mulch
Tree Stakes Adjustment & Removal
Tree Service
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Posted on Sep 16, 2014
Serving our commercial and residential customers with full lawn and landscape maintenance and complete snow removal services.
We are a family owned business, based in Summit County, Colorado. We are true to our estimates and promise quality work for a very competitive price compared to other companies in Summit County. We are confident that we will exceed your expectation, and once you work with us, you will not look for another provider.
Snow Removal Policy for Summit County, by Summit County:
Winter maintenance / snow removal is one of the most important functions of the Summit County Road and Bridge Department. Our staff members are dedicated to the task of maintaining the 146 miles of road under Summit County’s jurisdiction during the winter season. This responsibility does not include state highways, streets in incorporated towns, or private roads. Arterial roads, such as the Dillon Dam Road, Swan Mountain Road and school bus routes, receive priority maintenance. Secondary priority is given to collector roads through subdivisions, followed by other lower volume roads. Due to the size of the territory under the county’s responsibility, some roads may not be plowed until late afternoon.
Home Sweet Home:
As soon as the snow begins to fall, we are ready to assist in any snow removal needs. Contact us before the winter season starts, around early November to secure your snow removal contract.
Landscape Winterizing:
Flower Bed Weeding
Spring / Fall Clean-ups
Mulch & Re-mulch
Tree Stakes Adjustment & Removal
Tree Service
Contact us for your entire landscape, snow removal needs at:
Posted on Sep 3, 2014
Home Sweet Home Landscaping, Inc.
Locally owned and operated:
Winter is around the corner, time to winterize your landscape where needed and to prepare for snow removal, we do it all.
Home Sweet Home Landscaping and Snow Removal is ready:
Quality Snow Removal
Commercial Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Residential Snow Plowing & Shoveling
Roof Snow / Ice Removal
As soon as the snow begins to fall, we are ready to assist in any snow removal needs. Contact us before the winter season starts, around early November to secure your snow removal contract. Our snow removal contracts run from November 1st - April 30th, which guarantees our service throughout the winter season.
Landscape Maintenance:
Flower Bed Weeding
Spring / Fall Clean-ups
Mulch & Re-mulch
Tree Stakes Adjustment & Removal
Landscape Winterization
Tree Service
We now accept all major credit cards for the landscaping projects that we perform. If you have any questions, please feel free to call us today. Get a free consultation on your next landscaping project here in Summit County, Colorado.
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