China's People's Liberation Army vs the Snow storm...

[Qianglong]

http://i2.sinaimg.cn/dy/c/2008...21DT20080204080024.jpg
Flamethrower De-ice

http://i2.sinaimg.cn/jc/p/2008...F3DT20080204124539.jpg
Shoots heavy ice on cables


http://cimg24.163.com/cnews/20...0080202095727233af.jpg
T62 Deicing the road...

 

[imported_Imp]

I saw that they use APCs or "engineer"/support vehicles to crush the ice on the road, but if the above are real, wtf and nice job.

 

[Legendary]

What do you do?
I shoot icicles off lines off powerlines from directly underneath them.

 

[Juno]

for real?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Legendary
What do you do?
I shoot icicles off lines off powerlines from directly underneath them.

Bi Rong Li, you're lucky it didn't cut your eye! Those icicles have been known to kill people.

 

[George P Burdell]

This thread

 

[andylawcc]

dude, those pics look like 3 separate incident that has nothing related to combating the snow storm. (wouldn't the flamethrower dude be standing instead?)

 

[ric0chet06]

1. Make up a story
2. Go onto google images, find some random photos
3. ???
4. Profit!

 

[jjones]

They need to use ninjas

 

[CottonRabbit]

Are the soldiers calvary men? Does the snow storm have unlimited ammo? If so, I think the snowstorm wins, otherwise I think 450,000 soldiers can just dog pile the storm.

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: ric0chet06
1. Make up a story
2. Go onto google images, find some random photos
3. ???
4. Profit!

:laugh:

 

[olds]

e for effort.

 

[olds]

How I got rid of my squirrel problem.

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[sandorski]

Despite the OPs Fail, how the Chinese do clear snow from roads is rather inefficient to say the least. The news showed dozens of soldiers with shovels scraping away. They did a decent job no doubt, but I couldn't help but think that with snowploughs instead of a single bridge getting cleared the same amount of manpower could clear a thousand or more Miles/kms of road.

 

[Howard]

They probably don't have snowplows.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: Howard
They probably don't have snowplows.

I think that they use to hae snow plaows, but they were all destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

 

[her209]

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[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Despite the OPs Fail, how the Chinese do clear snow from roads is rather inefficient to say the least. The news showed dozens of soldiers with shovels scraping away. They did a decent job no doubt, but I couldn't help but think that with snowploughs instead of a single bridge getting cleared the same amount of manpower could clear a thousand or more Miles/kms of road.

.... i think they would have used snowploughs if they were available. but given the mass scale of the phenomenon, I don't think its possible.

It's like saying they could have just flown in supplies everywhere after Katrina.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother

Originally posted by: sandorski
Despite the OPs Fail, how the Chinese do clear snow from roads is rather inefficient to say the least. The news showed dozens of soldiers with shovels scraping away. They did a decent job no doubt, but I couldn't help but think that with snowploughs instead of a single bridge getting cleared the same amount of manpower could clear a thousand or more Miles/kms of road.

.... i think they would have used snowploughs if they were available. but given the mass scale of the phenomenon, I don't think its possible.

It's like saying they could have just flown in supplies everywhere after Katrina.

besides, southern china isn't used to this kind of weather, and manpower is something china has plenty of. all those soldiers have to be doing something.

 

[Imdmn04]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Despite the OPs Fail, how the Chinese do clear snow from roads is rather inefficient to say the least. The news showed dozens of soldiers with shovels scraping away. They did a decent job no doubt, but I couldn't help but think that with snowploughs instead of a single bridge getting cleared the same amount of manpower could clear a thousand or more Miles/kms of road.

In China, manpower is wayyyyyy cheaper than snowplough.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04

Originally posted by: sandorski
Despite the OPs Fail, how the Chinese do clear snow from roads is rather inefficient to say the least. The news showed dozens of soldiers with shovels scraping away. They did a decent job no doubt, but I couldn't help but think that with snowploughs instead of a single bridge getting cleared the same amount of manpower could clear a thousand or more Miles/kms of road.

In China, manpower is wayyyyyy cheaper than snowplough.

Maybe initially, but a plough can clear much more road and more quickly. The previous 2 posters mentioned lack of plows, which is likely true, but really shouldn't be the case. Even if snow is rare in the region, certain things need to be planned for and trucks/equipment should be on hand for these occasions. It may seem expensive, but what's worse than the expense is having the Economy grind to a halt because your waiting for amny days to get the main roads cleared by hand. Ploughs can clear those roads in a matter of hours.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Imdmn04

Originally posted by: sandorski
Despite the OPs Fail, how the Chinese do clear snow from roads is rather inefficient to say the least. The news showed dozens of soldiers with shovels scraping away. They did a decent job no doubt, but I couldn't help but think that with snowploughs instead of a single bridge getting cleared the same amount of manpower could clear a thousand or more Miles/kms of road.

In China, manpower is wayyyyyy cheaper than snowplough.

Maybe initially, but a plough can clear much more road and more quickly. The previous 2 posters mentioned lack of plows, which is likely true, but really shouldn't be the case. Even if snow is rare in the region, certain things need to be planned for and trucks/equipment should be on hand for these occasions. It may seem expensive, but what's worse than the expense is having the Economy grind to a halt because your waiting for amny days to get the main roads cleared by hand. Ploughs can clear those roads in a matter of hours.

Yeah.

Besides, snow plows aren't that specialized. You can get attachments for pickup trucks... that would be fine for clearing side roads.

No offense to any Chinese, but it seems they have a very simplistic way of thinking. This isn't the 1800s.. lol.. They have all this technology in front of them.

It shouldn't be hard for them to convert a few hundred, or even thousand heavy trucks into snow plows, and that's assuming they couldn't just ship them in by the boat/truck/train/plane load....

 

[soydios]

Originally posted by: Legendary
What do you do?
I shoot icicles off lines off powerlines from directly underneath them.

don't the high-voltage power lines get decently hot, like ~70C?