Best way to clear the ice under snow?

Rich1988 said:
also to the guy who suggested oil what a terrible idea! Ice covered oil sounds about the slippiest thing i can think of!
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Yeah, he was being quite ridiculous. It's Liquid Soap (Shower Gel, Fairy Liquid etc.) you want, not Oil!
 
best idea would just to leave it be :) most probably clear it away, go to work, come back and you cant get on your drive because of 4 inches of snow and that 2 inches of ice on the rest of the footpath and road leading to your drive :)

and


stock up on food, long winter ahead :D
 
Hire a large tent and put it up over the cars on the drive, leave the cars running.
Have a small LAN party on the drive around the cars. Only invite people with quad/hex core CPUs and powerful GPUs...

Ice will melt in approximately 8-10 hours.
 
Can you not fashion something for your shoes (or put golf/football/rugby boots) on and then just take the handbrake off and push the car out? Or are you not as Alpha and strong as you should be :p
 
Rich1988 said:
We have no sand/grit and no way of getting any either being the cars cant get out :P also to the guy who suggested oil what a terrible idea! Ice covered oil sounds about the slippiest thing i can think of!
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Ice covered oil? Everyone knows oil floats on water, the boiling hot oil melts the ice, and the water is displaced by the oil itself, et viola! No more ice.
 
isopropyl alcohol in a large garden spray bottle (kind used to spray weeds)

spray on ice, watch it melt.

or, pour over ice and watch the pretty flames devour ice, car, house, neighbors.
 
PhillyDee said:
et viola! No more ice.
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Just plenty of burning slippery oil...

Surely a small chefs blowtorch or something will be enough to make two tracks in the ice which you can then smash up and drive through. Just have to pull one of those out your arse and you're good to go!
 
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Get in the car and hold a controlled wheel spin in second gear on driveway for approx two hours, every few minutes (ensuring the handbrake is on) rotate the car left and right, the heat from engine will slowly melt the ice underneath the car, repeat the process up the driveway until clear
 
arknor said:
salt , sand , cat litter :P

dont you have a grit box on your street or near by?
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I dont live on a 'street' I live on a bank in a small village in the country side, no grit boxes, I do however have a heatgun although i suspect it might take some time, been told I dont have to work tommorrow but I would still like to be able to get out at some point :rolleyes:
 
Just put something not slippy over the ice, and drive over it!!!!!!!!

I think this is by FAR the best suggestion.
 
flame-thrower !

good excuse for a snowday off work ;p

also instead of watching paint dry u can use watching snow melt ;p
 
Our street hasn't been gritted at all. Car got stuck in snow yesterday just opposite our house, so left it (RWD) is crap in snow.

So thought I'd be a hero and dig the snow up today, kind of got to the road surface by bashing the snow with the shovel head and lifting it off. Floored the throttle in hope I'd get grip, but nothing.

So 4 guys came and offered help, reversed it out and reversed all the way out of the street. Then came back at speed and slid it into the drive. Never again!
 
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