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Western Products is an American brand name for snow plows and other professional snow removing equipment manufactured by Western Welding and Manufacturing. The company also manufactures a variety of truck-mounted sand and salt spreaders , snowplow replacement parts and snow removal accessories.
Operational rotary snowplow Xrotd 9213 on the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland. A rotary snowplow (American English) or rotary snowplough is a piece of railroad snow removal equipment with a large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it. The precursor to the rotary snowplow was the ...
Fisher Engineering is a subsidiary of Douglas Dynamics (NYSE:PLOW), which also owns Western Products, Blizzard, and TrynEx International, each producing their own snowplow brands. Fisher Engineering is one of the leading snow management equipment providers in the Northeastern United States . [ 1 ]
In Canada purpose-built snowplow cars (based on a box car with a cupola above and behind the blade) are in use in areas where significant snow falls (especially in Western Canada, Newfoundland and Northern Ontario). These cars were influenced by the Russell Plow from the United States and used in Canada in the 1880s. [15]
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The wedge plow or Bucker plow was first developed by railroad companies to clear snow in the American West. The wedge plow forces snow to the sides of the tracks and therefore requires a large amount of force due to the compression of snow. The wedge plow is still in use today in combination with the high-maintenance rotary snowplow.
Oct. 2—Two weekends ago, the remnants of Typhoon Merbok slammed into Western Alaska's coastline in a storm path described as a "near worst case scenario" for flooding and damage to the region.
The Korths' lifestyle came to public attention with James Campbell's 2004 book The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness. [1] In 2009, VBS.tv produced Surviving Alone in Alaska, a documentary film showing Korth's lifestyle. [2] He was also featured among others on PBS's "Braving Alaska" in 1992.