What Do Europeans Use to Plow Their Driveways?

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05/12/2014 at 11:53 • Filed to: None

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We in America have pickup trucks on to which you can put a snowplow to clear your driveway if it snows. In Europe they don't have as many pickups, so how do they keep a reasonably long driveway clear?

Do they all hire a guy with a commercial truck?

*note: I'm not asking about commercial highway trucks*

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DISCUSSION (21)


Kinja'd!!! Biased Plies > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 11:56

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Sunshine. :P


Kinja'd!!! 505Turbeaux > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 11:56

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if I lived over there...


Kinja'd!!! Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Biased Plies
05/12/2014 at 11:58

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I miss Arizona :(


Kinja'd!!! For Sweden > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 11:58

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Albanians


Kinja'd!!! RazoE > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 11:58

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They just surrender to it.


Kinja'd!!! Hoccy > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 11:59

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Usually a shovel of some kind. But since this is oppo:

Either one of these:

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Or one of these:

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Depending of the driveway, of course.


Kinja'd!!! dinobot666 > Biased Plies
05/12/2014 at 12:04

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Looks like Arizona to me.


Kinja'd!!! Arben72 > For Sweden
05/12/2014 at 12:09

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As an Albanian, can confirm.


Kinja'd!!! Biased Plies > dinobot666
05/12/2014 at 12:10

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Could very well be. I just googled 'Spanish driveway' and picked one that looked nice. I wans't going to put too much effort into the gag.


Kinja'd!!! For Sweden > Arben72
05/12/2014 at 12:11

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As Glorious Northern European, get back to work.


Kinja'd!!! Jobjoris > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 12:19

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The obvious Unimog or Pinzgauer:

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But most of our driveways are not long enough to buy one specifically for this reason. Too bad.


Kinja'd!!! KnowsAboutCars > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 12:32

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These things are handy:

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Kinja'd!!! Cé hé sin > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 12:41

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Some of us in Europe are lucky enough to rarely see snow more than once or twice a year so the question hardly arises!

Otherwise Poles.


Kinja'd!!! Tetrisaurus > Shoop
05/12/2014 at 15:34

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One of these and some elbow grease


Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > Jobjoris
05/12/2014 at 17:50

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What about a small/medium parking lot? What does a shopowner use for snow removal?


Kinja'd!!! Jobjoris > Dusty Ventures
05/13/2014 at 01:48

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It depends on where in Europe you live. Over here (Netherlands) it is snowing maybe one week a year so we don't use power-tools a lot. Shop-owners just have the snow removed, don't know anyone with their own removal-tool.

That should be different in places like Scandinavia. Austria/Switzerland perhaps although most of the urbanisation there is concentraded so no need for your own tool. Hiring a local guy with a truck is sufficient I suppose.


Kinja'd!!! Dusty Ventures > Jobjoris
05/13/2014 at 02:13

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If one were to hire a local guy with a truck what would the truck be? Would it have a plow similar to what we're used to here in the States?


Kinja'd!!! Jobjoris > Dusty Ventures
05/13/2014 at 02:26

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It would probably be a Unimog. You never can go wrong with a Unimog:

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Or a John Deere when in Countryside:

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Kinja'd!!! ZiptieMcBumper > Cé hé sin
05/13/2014 at 22:04

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South Poles, I assume. There's more snow down there.

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Kinja'd!!! thebigbossyboss > Cé hé sin
05/14/2014 at 12:02

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Man, only snow 1 week a year? Life of Riley!!

We had about 22 weeks of snow this year.


Kinja'd!!! samssun > Shoop
05/15/2014 at 05:55

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The upside of being taxed into tiny crapboxes that can't plow, is that you're kept from affording houses with driveways that need plowing.