State of NH could use some of these

[bclaker]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/L3j6HaAieEU?rel=0

[HellRaZoR004]

Originally Posted by bclaker

http://www.youtube.com/embed/L3j6HaAieEU?rel=0

Interesting concept but way too many moving parts. What's the warranty and cost?

[MAXUM]

That looks like way to much fun to use.

[VitaBene]

Cool video! NH DOT has them now- different brand but same idea. The NH Electric Coop uses them for around their lines too.

I have been looking at them for snomo trail work, but they are expensive to own and tough to rent. MB has one to rent but they only like renting to towns and the State due to insurance requirements.

[Lakesrider]

Wow. The way that swung around and did the post in a 360 degree arc was pretty neat. Engineers....LOL.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by VitaBene

Cool video! NH DOT has them now- different brand but same idea.

I'm not sure why...you don't see truck retread carcasses and rusted-through mufflers on Germany's roadsides.

Originally Posted by Lakesrider

Wow. The way that swung around and did the post in a 360 degree arc was pretty neat. Engineers....LOL.

At a brick-paved Autobahn exit, I happened to encounter one of those "concrete" posts at about 10-MPH—with the rear bumper of my rental VW. You may have noticed that the "concrete" post wriggled when trimming around it. They're not made of plastic, but whatever it is, they won't damage your bumper.

[Belmont Resident]

A lot of the pictured devices are and have been in use to some extent.
We see the end result on snowmobile trails and on logging roads where they need to clear away the canopy to get more sun on the dirt logging roads.
NH has no use for this, they hardly mow the roadsides anymore.

NH has changed, in years back you could tell just by how clean the roadsides were when you crossed the state line. Now many NH roadsides are covered with trash and hardly ever get mowed. Our taxes used to be hard at work, I wonder where that money got shifted to?

[fatlazyless]

Maybe not in your neck of the woods, but all the grassy side and median areas on Route 93 between Exits 28-Campton, and Exit 23-New Hampton look like they been cleaned of litter and grass mowed in nice neat contours that blend good with the highway esker hills.....some landscape art done with a large green John Deere tractor!

[VitaBene]

Originally Posted by Belmont Resident

A lot of the pictured devices are and have been in use to some extent.
We see the end result on snowmobile trails and on logging roads where they need to clear away the canopy to get more sun on the dirt logging roads.
NH has no use for this, they hardly mow the roadsides anymore.

NH has changed, in years back you could tell just by how clean the roadsides were when you crossed the state line. Now many NH roadsides are covered with trash and hardly ever get mowed. Our taxes used to be hard at work, I wonder where that money got shifted to?

To be fair to NH DOT, their budget has been cut to balance the budget without tax and fee increases. We will have to decide what the state prioritizes through our votes. Personally, I think there is a happy medium between the tax and spenders and Tea Partiers (hopefully this is not too poloitcal for this forum, if so sorry Don!)

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by VitaBene

To be fair to NH DOT, their budget has been cut to balance the budget without tax and fee increases. We will have to decide what the state prioritizes through our votes. Personally, I think there is a happy medium between the tax and spenders and Tea Partiers (hopefully this is not too poloitcal for this forum, if so sorry Don!)

Yes but it is also discouraging when you see 10 state workers on a job and most are standing around watching 2 or 3 work. I believe the state workers are way under worked and over paid.
I can not tell you how many times I've seen plow trucks driving down wet roads with the plow down. There is a huge waste of tax payer money in the DOT.
Sorry off topic