I absolutely love the fact that youtube recommends this to me a year later, with the opening line of "in the hamlet" where i live 😂 literally down the street from where this was shot, never once saw these breakers either :(
salt is harder on concrete than this roller. anyone who worked with concrete can tell you this technique is not doing any real damage when done properly. which appears to be the case. the force being applied is downward and the teeth are not chipping the surface.
this si the city of ottawa ... they cant even find the sidewalk half the time ... and you think they could use it properly ... where did you buy your drugs cuz they are darn good it seems ...
We had one of these pilot project about 20 years ago in prince George BC but they used it on pavement. Damaged the pavement severely! But looks like it works well on concrete!
Let me just say I use my lawn thatcher on the iced up sidewalk and it works grate this machine probably would be grate to plant grass seeds on a lawn that needs some help
me neither and gues blackburn hamlet in the middle of nowhere with little to no need for sidewalk clearing as much as ottawa downtown or the market or near schools ... and old age homes ... some places where it would be of a benefit and noticed by the public .... typical city of ottawa looking after their own municpal politicians sidewalks before the people they serve.
@@0623kaboom yeah. Like iva lived all over Ottawa for the majority of my life. Recently moved away, but still before I left never once seen one. Lived everywhere from South Keys, to Metcalfe and Greely, to Lowertown, Barrhaven and Kanata. Never once seen one. Classic political bullshit. Theyre feigning to care about the people for political crap.
Send 1000 of these to Texas. But seriously you gotta love this simple technology and just goes to show if a town is prepared it can battle weather much easier.
leglamps Its a simple concept, do what you expect others to do or face fines. At the end of every year I’m sure we could collect enough to fund new playgrounds and public areas that they keep saying they don’t have the budget for. But no, we just keep working and paying fines for laws that are only meant to collect revenue for government/city councils and they do whatever they seem fit with it. Everyone gets so mad when they get scammed but nobody bats an eye while our own government is the biggest scammers of this country.
leglamps Or you can take the simple and equal approach for all, and get rid or the fines for such bylaws that the city’s themselves cannot abide by. I once saw a bylaw officer sitting down the street in his truck just waiting for someone to start a vehicle so they could time them to make sure they didn’t go over the aloud idling bylaw, all while his own vehicle is sitting and idling , then he hands out a ticket , you see the problem with some of this nonsense? When will it be enough? All I’m saying is that if the public is to be fined then everyone is to be fined , what happened to equality? Oh yeah I forgot , that’s only when it benefits the ones in power.
@@CoryTheCanadian Not sure about other cities, but speaking for Toronto, they city now does major sidewalks themselves, while offshoots are still property owners to cover.
Ya'll need to install vibraters on em just like on the vi rating drum rollers for better compaction. With vibraters installed on these guys, it would help to break up the ice even faster & with less "back n forth" passes up n down the sidewalks. Awesome video!
interesting theory but it could damage the frozen concrete. thats a lot of weight vibrating over pieces of cut concrete. assuming they are scored every 6 feet or so. might crumble the edges where the slabs meet
Freeze and thawing cycle. It only takes one day to melt a lot of snow, then the whole city will be covered in ice once it freezes again. Hard to prevent that ice from accumulating of roads and sidewalks
@@wavelength3278 It gets really cold in Edmonton way more than Ottawa. So a freezing/melting cycle is more prevalent here in Ontario, and more ice builds up on the sidewalks.
@@stefansauer2382 makes sense for Ottawa but still, with the amount of taxes being paid all across Canada, and being a winter country, our sidewalk, roads and public transportation should be envied across the world. They don’t have these problems in Scandinavian countries.
As a resident of blackburn, I'll tell you. The city doesn't give us enough attention when it comes to snow removal, a lot of the streets dont get plowed until a day or so after sometimes. But a few days ago the city planned on overhauling all snow removal, so i've noticed a bit of increased activity here. More sidewalk plows, not these ice breakers sadly
Does this machine have some kind of a sensor or guard that stops the chippers from making too much contact with the concrete or does the operator just have to eyeball it and control how low it goes manually?
@@dabd8175 .... I've been in lots of pieces of equipment, some of them with sensors that control the level of the head (combines), just not one of these. That's why I asked the question looking for a civil answer instead of a reply some obnoxious smart ass looking for an opportunity to put someone down. Thanks for the info despite the method in which it was delivered.
can you take this to GATINEAU please!!! They don't know what they are doing with theirs. Recently, I've been forced to walk on the road!!!! with cars angry at me that I'm on the road. If Gatineau had this, then I wouldn't have to walk on the road! or I could walk safely on the sidewalks. They are not even salted!
@@yessure5291 My gf is an immigrant from Southern Italy, Sh'e only on her 4th winter this year. She wears spikes that slip on to her boots. Once again, people would rather be generous with other people's money than take any self responsibility or spend 20$ of their own money.
Seems like an actual good idea, the tractors they use currently in toronto are pretty damn worthless in terms of actually getting compacted snow or ice off.
Keep the dam Plows on the highways and county roads and use MORE blowers and truck it AWAY from our waterways, my dam town puts the garbage snow next to OUR lake and wonders why people don't swim any more such wrongs will have concern over the future for our next gens.Criminal this is just criminal~
if your talking about timmins im from there born and raised and its a mining town you cant expect much more theyre paid of by gold corp to hide the fact that theyre poisoning their city
How much damage does this do to the sidewalk? Has anyone done a 30 year cost analysis factoring the potential cost replacing sidewalks early to save a bit of salt?
Calm down chief! Life is more important than $$. People are falling everyday costing taxpayers millions already. Save people first, do cost analysis later. It's a pilot anyway. I am sure they'll figure it out later. Stay safe!
@@LucVNO Keep in mind it's my money too that I contribute towards taxes. The point is, we might be spending too much already on fixing people's broken bones. In my humble opinion, it might be better to roll out a capability that can save people's lives (bones) first and then we figure out whether it's cost effective or not in the long term. I think they already stated that they will save on "materials", whatever it means. Anyway, I mean best for everyone. No hard feelings. Cheers!
@@sandeepgupta6980 I can't say you are wrong about the liabilities aspect, but I would suggest that would be a factor in a cost analysis. Those broken bones are fixed on the tax payer one way or the other anyways. No insults were slung, no hard feelings in debate buddy! =] Cheers!
salt and grit is proven to be more corrosive to sidewalks and roadways than any thing thus far we will find out how this machine affects in in the future at least we dont have to walk our dogs in salt and walk on ice....
In Montreal, they drop the plow to the concrete and scrape everything off leaving nothing to ice up. In Ottawa, I noticed that they raise the plow an inch off the sidewalk leaving snow to turn into ice. So repeatedly leaving an inch each time, you easily get 4-6” layer of ice. Ottawa needs to change that practice.
funny i havent seen one on my street in ottawa or on any other street in the city also buddy is exaggerating how thick that ice was they were breaking. sure maybe he did not mean that ice in the video.
Hate to burst your bubble jd, alberta gdp for canada was about 330 million (15% of the countries gdp), ontarios is 825 million (35%)... 2017 numbers... So i'll wait for the balance of your part of the dinner cheque, did you have the grill cheese or the crow?
I think if everyone had a six pack and just pissed on the sidewalk it would be cheaper and plus the benefits of just getting out in the fresh air and socializing.
21 people didn't like this? Slip & fall lawyers, maybe?
😂😂😂
@@10fttall6ftwide thats put money in your wallet
lazy expensive when i was a kid we used shovels
People just do it cause they think it's funny. 😠
@@Nathan-gj8ch and I still so
I absolutely love the fact that youtube recommends this to me a year later, with the opening line of "in the hamlet" where i live 😂 literally down the street from where this was shot, never once saw these breakers either :(
Me either lol
Same
I saw one today and RUclips recommended this to me 🤔
creepy
As i was leaving work a co worker said hey the new ice scraper! Then i open RUclips and this is recommendation #1. Ultra creepy.
Big brother is watching
RUclips can read your mind!!!
NSA Watching you!
salt is harder on concrete than this roller. anyone who worked with concrete can tell you this technique is not doing any real damage when done properly. which appears to be the case. the force being applied is downward and the teeth are not chipping the surface.
I wonder it’s not supposed to be instead of salt, it looks like a sidewalk plow is meant to follow it 🤷🏼♀️
Salt is absolutely the worst on concrete. It starts with the chipping and ugh...
@Ray Bourque 77 listen to your own advice
@@carramrod8232 LMAO
this si the city of ottawa ... they cant even find the sidewalk half the time ... and you think they could use it properly ... where did you buy your drugs cuz they are darn good it seems ...
So in the winter it breaks up the ice and during the summer it tenderize cattle.
Hey, great idea, could it work on flank steaks? Great vlog, thanks for posting and for sharing!
@@HenauderTitzauf ribs and patties
Great work! Our Blue GRYB is tested and proven to make sidewalks safer for pedestrians and is environmentally friendly!
I notified my department of public works and I hope they buy these for our sidewalks. need them bad.
have they noticed any damage to the sidewalks, like tine damage or pockmarks?
Proper Canadian accent 👍
We had one of these pilot project about 20 years ago in prince George BC but they used it on pavement. Damaged the pavement severely! But looks like it works well on concrete!
It will be interesting to see how long it lasts on the sidewalks before they move them to the bikeways!
Toronto needs this.
Halifax needs these!!!
Sydney could use a few.
Add Tampa to the list!
Wow what an ingenious idea, I wonder why it took so long oh yeah I forgot it's in Ottawa...
LOL. Yet I've seen this in no U.S city.
Lmao , the city of bad planning and built on afterthoughts . Thank you limp dick lizard liberals
Let me just say I use my lawn thatcher on the iced up sidewalk and it works grate this machine probably would be grate to plant grass seeds on a lawn that needs some help
That's a great idea
i have never once seen these in Ottawa
me neither and gues blackburn hamlet in the middle of nowhere with little to no need for sidewalk clearing as much as ottawa downtown or the market or near schools ... and old age homes ... some places where it would be of a benefit and noticed by the public .... typical city of ottawa looking after their own municpal politicians sidewalks before the people they serve.
@@0623kaboom yeah. Like iva lived all over Ottawa for the majority of my life. Recently moved away, but still before I left never once seen one. Lived everywhere from South Keys, to Metcalfe and Greely, to Lowertown, Barrhaven and Kanata. Never once seen one. Classic political bullshit. Theyre feigning to care about the people for political crap.
Send 1000 of these to Texas. But seriously you gotta love this simple technology and just goes to show if a town is prepared it can battle weather much easier.
We need this In Minnesota asap
In my city in Minnesota we have one of these in a bigger version for the road!!
Excellent Idea.
I always thought icebreaker is a ship which runs in arctic. Learnt a new thing today.
Good innovation 👍
need these in london to and over the hearts of the government to break the ice off there grinch like hearts
Are you for real? When was the last time london or anywhere in the uk gets 4 inches of ice on the paths or 1 inch of snow let alone 1 inch of ice?
@@lincolntrains2639 Dude it was a joke, the icebreakers to chip the ice off the hearts..
or, get out and clear the snow quicker, before it gets compacted down and becomes ice.
ekuhl01 maybe if fines were involved like what’s in place for property owners then it would be possible 🤷♂️
leglamps Its a simple concept, do what you expect others to do or face fines. At the end of every year I’m sure we could collect enough to fund new playgrounds and public areas that they keep saying they don’t have the budget for. But no, we just keep working and paying fines for laws that are only meant to collect revenue for government/city councils and they do whatever they seem fit with it. Everyone gets so mad when they get scammed but nobody bats an eye while our own government is the biggest scammers of this country.
leglamps Or you can take the simple and equal approach for all, and get rid or the fines for such bylaws that the city’s themselves cannot abide by. I once saw a bylaw officer sitting down the street in his truck just waiting for someone to start a vehicle so they could time them to make sure they didn’t go over the aloud idling bylaw, all while his own vehicle is sitting and idling , then he hands out a ticket , you see the problem with some of this nonsense? When will it be enough? All I’m saying is that if the public is to be fined then everyone is to be fined , what happened to equality? Oh yeah I forgot , that’s only when it benefits the ones in power.
@@CoryTheCanadian Not sure about other cities, but speaking for Toronto, they city now does major sidewalks themselves, while offshoots are still property owners to cover.
well what do you do when you get freezing rain like we had most of the year .... salt on freazing rain will work but you will waist tons of it
Awesome tool
I love how he accidentally called it the sidewalk breaker 😂
Very nice
Toronto, are you watching this???
Ya'll need to install vibraters on em just like on the vi rating drum rollers for better compaction. With vibraters installed on these guys, it would help to break up the ice even faster & with less "back n forth" passes up n down the sidewalks. Awesome video!
interesting theory but it could damage the frozen concrete. thats a lot of weight vibrating over pieces of cut concrete. assuming they are scored every 6 feet or so. might crumble the edges where the slabs meet
@@veroman007 I never thought about that & ya make a very good point, indeed!
So it allows it to freeze inside the sidewalk instead of on the sidewalk.
Very good
So somebody reinvented the aerator... 😮🙄
Ottawa could use street sized spiked rollers too for the CAT 950M Wheel Loaders on the side streets.
A couple CAT 836K landfill compactors should do a great job!
Sweet idea
Here we are 2 years on and never once have my friends in Ottawa seen or heard of these machines. Not once.
Why do they let the ice on sidewalks get that thick to begin with?
Freeze and thawing cycle. It only takes one day to melt a lot of snow, then the whole city will be covered in ice once it freezes again. Hard to prevent that ice from accumulating of roads and sidewalks
@@stefansauer2382 Edmonton seems to do a much better job of maintaining their sidewalks.
@@wavelength3278 It gets really cold in Edmonton way more than Ottawa. So a freezing/melting cycle is more prevalent here in Ontario, and more ice builds up on the sidewalks.
@@stefansauer2382 makes sense for Ottawa but still, with the amount of taxes being paid all across Canada, and being a winter country, our sidewalk, roads and public transportation should be envied across the world. They don’t have these problems in Scandinavian countries.
As a resident of blackburn, I'll tell you. The city doesn't give us enough attention when it comes to snow removal, a lot of the streets dont get plowed until a day or so after sometimes. But a few days ago the city planned on overhauling all snow removal, so i've noticed a bit of increased activity here. More sidewalk plows, not these ice breakers sadly
Don't see this helping sidewalks stay in good shape...
less salt, less concrete breakdown
Do you even winter?
would it not damage the sidewalk?
You just need a snow plow with down pressure, Ventrac
Awesome 👍
If it would vibrate it would really do a good job
mite damage the pavement tho
So... fixing a problem is better than preventing it in the first place?
ok Mr. expert, explain this.
Two years ago and we still don't have this in Cornwall
Cool video aya 🙂 🇺🇸
Anything to reduce salt used.
I hear about salt smart guidelines but liability makes people use way too much salt.
Quebec should learn from this.
Does this machine have some kind of a sensor or guard that stops the chippers from making too much contact with the concrete or does the operator just have to eyeball it and control how low it goes manually?
You obviously never been in any piece of equipment in ur life. Most all equipment have a float setting that will automatically adjust it for you. 🤡
@@dabd8175 .... I've been in lots of pieces of equipment, some of them with sensors that control the level of the head (combines), just not one of these. That's why I asked the question looking for a civil answer instead of a reply some obnoxious smart ass looking for an opportunity to put someone down.
Thanks for the info despite the method in which it was delivered.
@@eldonelder7254 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣 no u haven't
should have the breaker thing on the front and a plow on the back to actually push the ice to the side.
Its a good idea don't get me wrong but we need icebreakers (patrol ships) in our severely neglected arctic, not on sidewalks in Ottawa.
That would be great to be used on interstate highways where it snows a lot.
we have that in Montreal, but they are not using it ! -_- my street is a nightmare
Wouldn't it kind of break up the sidewalk eventually to? I do have to admit it's super cool.
Doesn't those spikes damage the road surface?
I saw another video where they said they have to take care that the ice is at least 1 inch thick before they use this thing.
Nice
can you take this to GATINEAU please!!! They don't know what they are doing with theirs. Recently, I've been forced to walk on the road!!!! with cars angry at me that I'm on the road. If Gatineau had this, then I wouldn't have to walk on the road! or I could walk safely on the sidewalks. They are not even salted!
I live in Museum district Hull, I know your feels.
On my way!
Mark's work warehouse sell ice grippers for shoes.
@@yessure5291 My gf is an immigrant from Southern Italy, Sh'e only on her 4th winter this year. She wears spikes that slip on to her boots. Once again, people would rather be generous with other people's money than take any self responsibility or spend 20$ of their own money.
More money on equipment anb lest on art and culture and other stuff.
Nice that way we can fix the roads every year
The salt they use one roads isnt even Salt its chemicals that eat everything, thats what fucks the roads up
I live downtown and have never seen one of these guys in use... guess they're only for the 'burbs eh
Hope the driver stays alert and don't run over a wandering pedestrian
they should put a plow on the back so that the plow gets rid of the ice chunks
how about fixing the roads
So basically a steam roller with spikes on the roller?
Exactly! Except there’s no such thing as a steam roller.
@@mountainguyed67 umm there is such thing as a steam roller?
@@yzstormer I was a roller operator on an asphalt crew. It’s called a tandem steel wheel roller.
@@mountainguyed67 ok
Seems like an actual good idea, the tractors they use currently in toronto are pretty damn worthless in terms of actually getting compacted snow or ice off.
Wonderful mechanical technology.
Now why would anyone want to live in Ottawa and suffer those horrific winters in the first place?
Ask them and they’ll tell you all aboat it...
meanwhile back in the UK the country comes to a standstill for an inch of snow .....
The children are fast, but the ice breaker is faster
does it damage the concrete?
You gotta think this will age the concrete sidewalks considerably.
i haven’t even seen these in ottawa
does it damage the sidewalk
Yes
Keep the dam Plows on the highways and county roads and use MORE blowers and truck it AWAY from our waterways, my dam town puts the garbage snow next to OUR lake and wonders why people don't swim any more such wrongs will have concern over the future for our next gens.Criminal this is just criminal~
if your talking about timmins im from there born and raised and its a mining town you cant expect much more theyre paid of by gold corp to hide the fact that theyre poisoning their city
We need this in Halifax Nova Scotia
🙂👍
Cool
How much damage does this do to the sidewalk? Has anyone done a 30 year cost analysis factoring the potential cost replacing sidewalks early to save a bit of salt?
Calm down chief! Life is more important than $$. People are falling everyday costing taxpayers millions already. Save people first, do cost analysis later. It's a pilot anyway. I am sure they'll figure it out later. Stay safe!
@@sandeepgupta6980 You are so generous with other people's money sir.
@@LucVNO Keep in mind it's my money too that I contribute towards taxes. The point is, we might be spending too much already on fixing people's broken bones. In my humble opinion, it might be better to roll out a capability that can save people's lives (bones) first and then we figure out whether it's cost effective or not in the long term. I think they already stated that they will save on "materials", whatever it means. Anyway, I mean best for everyone. No hard feelings. Cheers!
@@sandeepgupta6980 I can't say you are wrong about the liabilities aspect, but I would suggest that would be a factor in a cost analysis. Those broken bones are fixed on the tax payer one way or the other anyways.
No insults were slung, no hard feelings in debate buddy! =] Cheers!
salt and grit is proven to be more corrosive to sidewalks and roadways than any thing thus far we will find out how this machine affects in in the future at least we dont have to walk our dogs in salt and walk on ice....
Вот это номер. А как же дворники с ломом, лопатой и тележкой с песком, чтобы раздолбать весь асфальт и потом устроить там грязищу из песка и соли.
Finally people don't have to have a fall.
Montreal please get this
So now the sidewalks are going to have pot holes too 😉
Thats cool
They need these at airports
Imagine running over someone by accident with this
Golf shoes on heavy people can do this too.
Just heat the sidewalks. No salt, no ice, no falls,...
UH OH No mo need fo Quick Joe! Leave it to the Canadians.🇨🇦👍
In Montreal, they drop the plow to the concrete and scrape everything off leaving nothing to ice up.
In Ottawa, I noticed that they raise the plow an inch off the sidewalk leaving snow to turn into ice. So repeatedly leaving an inch each time, you easily get 4-6” layer of ice. Ottawa needs to change that practice.
Cool, Thanks! !!! Less money in Trudeau's pocket!!
' in a few paaahhhsssess'
Why not pre treat sidewalks with salt and sweep more verse plow and and create ice build up
Just plow the snow on the first night it snows, before it turns to ice.
will work great on expensive granite patios and walkways ;-)
You tard, it is for concrete sidewalks.
Wont that wreck the concrete
funny i havent seen one on my street in ottawa or on any other street in the city also buddy is exaggerating how thick that ice was they were breaking. sure maybe he did not mean that ice in the video.
I havent seen any and I actually live in blackburn, we've only had the usual sidewalk cars
Come to Halifax please
Bruh the sidewalks are going to be absolutely dummied
I would worry about the weight of the equipment on thin sidewalks which are typically only 4" thick.
Anything that reduce the amount of salt costing millions of dollar in car repairs adn replacement is good
Got a chance to test one only problem is if you hit a dry spot damages the concrete especially if you turn a little..... more taxpayer dollars wasted
Please clear in front of my hoose.
Tipical Ottawa wa wa wa!
So they need to let 3inch to be able to use it, plenty of time to hurt yourself before they use this...
...until you have to replace the sidewalk in the summer
It wouldn't have any effect on the sidewalk. If the sidewalk is bare, the roller is lifted hydraulically.
Alberta and Sask have been giving Ottawa way to much of our money to Quebec and Ottawa
This is the city. It's funded by property taxes.
that's such a low IQ argument
Hate to burst your bubble jd, alberta gdp for canada was about 330 million (15% of the countries gdp), ontarios is 825 million (35%)... 2017 numbers... So i'll wait for the balance of your part of the dinner cheque, did you have the grill cheese or the crow?
Heywoodj1969 lol. Do you know how many people live in Alberta compared to Ontario. That is like saying India GDP is higher than Canada
I think if everyone had a six pack and just pissed on the sidewalk it would be cheaper and plus the benefits of just getting out in the fresh air and socializing.