Hey, i'm gon na hit you to an old timer trick, a tip mind, and only for a minute. You got a family to feed. You got to make that money partner. You don't want to be spending it on road salt.
This stuff, what's got the blue crap in it. Generally, you don't need that food coloring. What you want to get? Well, here's the thing you let your wife slip and split her head, open, the kids and you will be shoeless and then gunny sacks and all the 30 minutes it's hopeless if she's stove up so get yourself, some rock salt. It's about a quarter of the price of the other stuff and it works a treat on account of it being a big chunk.
It says you don't track in to the house rock salt for water softeners. That's what you want!.
Just buy bulk. Have your local salt depot or contractor dump a ton or 2 someplace covered and use for years.
Here in the bastions of Oil Town, we don't need to buy anything. Every fire station parking lot has walled cubby filled with a couple yards mixture of sand and salt, free and help yourself, honor system one bucket at a time, use it when you need it. I think they figure it saves them so much on ambulances and such that anyone willing to self-serve and salt their own walk, cheapest thing to do is just give it away for free.
Beware that you may be salting the earth and killing soil fertility if you use NaCl.
Try a blend with less sodium chloride, or use magnesium chloride (MgCl2) instead.
That stuff looks more expensive than the typical driveway salt I buy, at $4 (CDN) or less for a 10KG bag stacking up now at most grocery stores and gas stations in this part of the GWN. It's just called Ice Salt. Doesn't have to be as clean as water softener salt so it's cheaper. I don't know anyone who buys the fancy multi-chemical blue ice melters.
Ditch the salt entirely. Just use some pointy gravel to give you some grip one the ice, instead of fighting windmills by trying to melt it all.
Don't know if you know this, it might not even be an issue. Road salting is a delicate balance, not enough salt and it does nothing, to much salt and the work becomes ineffective. like I said it might not be an issue, especially on your own private property. Brand ice salts can still be over or under applied as well.
Rock salt is all I've ever used. I didn't know y'all had special ice salt in the Great White North.
Where do i find that video about you mixing two very toxic elements into the ice for those toxic assholes? That was probably my favorite video and now i cannot find it
Tried cheeping out one year by spreading the stove droppings out on the driveway. The wife wasn’t very impressed with what me and the dog dragged in over the new rug.
I had to use about 6 50lbs bags of this on our driveway. Had an engine fire and the fire department put it out. Our drive had 3 inch ice for months.
One time I was following two women into a Yooper drug store and one said to the other "Look they put out ice cubes at the entrance for X-Mas.".
Rock salt works great in septic tanks that have root intrusion. People look down on copper these days. It kills the trees that caused the root problem.
I took a half worn out 2gallon sprayer and filled it about halfway up with salt, the rest of the way with cold water. It makes a nice brine to spray around the door and works to quickly blast that ice away. Sprinkle on some granules after to give it some legs. Beware if solution gets warm, then gets cold again, it may crystalize on the pickup tube- so I leave it outside under the porch to stay cold. If you have a pump sprayer on it's last legs- give it a try.
I also use it as a strong weed killer, Just keep mixing it into warm water until it can't disolve anymore, And hay presto 20 liters of weed killer to a bag for $7 for my garden sprayer, Way better than using that chemical cancer causing shit weedol at $30 for 5 liters? who big pharma own. Hmm!
I hope you are OK eventhough Canadia seems to be imitating Atlantis in some places at the moment.
Stay safe and cheers!!!!
Aye, AvE! We use that all the time here in Wiscronsum when the winter pixies set in. Tis cheaper for sure and hangs around longer because of the larger chunguses (chung-i?). Great PSA.