it is calcium chloride. I hear that calcium chloride do damage to hubcap. so car enthusiast doesn't like it. they may like snow like suger better than salt.
Could have used this driving to work this morning. Major arterial street was solid ice for about a block. Fortunately I was driving my "Dodge" (pun intended).
Where I live in Scotland, the council has large salt 'bins' strategically located throughout the area. They stay year round, but are topped up when the weather worsens. I have one of those bins less than 10 metres from my house. :)
It seems every area takes care of their roads in a different way. Sometimes I don't quite exactly understand how they are doing it either. In my town they don't do anything, but in the city next to me in Tsuyama they have salt trucks. If you drive east along the upper edge of Honshuu they have water that comes out of the middle of the road that is constantly flowing. I have no idea if it is hot or cold though. In Hokkaido, they leave a small layer of snow on the roads (for traction?).
Once i took a retake, on looking at the spots where they had the bags at... Most of the spots do look like areas where water (melt off) may congregate and refreeze at, as Black Ice during the winter. And certain bridges with a lower Wind Circulation level, also tend to freeze up on occasion do to residual air based moisture from the rivers, but why they put some on a hilltop section of a road is beyond me ~,~'?!.. Only (high mountain or arctic area) roads will tend to freeze up a road summit...
Yeah I saw these bags on the side of road over bridges and steep roads in a mountain area just outside Tokyo around March . Had no idea what they were for ; now I do!
I get ice in my part of America, but I do find it very interesting that they just keep the bags of salt on the sides of the roads, where I live, people keep them in their homes to spread on their driveways and sidewalks as do some businesses and schools for their parking lots. For the public roads, I believe that salt trucks actually spread it on the roads.
The comments about stealing the bags are interesting. I don't think people would even consider it stealing where I live. They would think "Who the hell left these bags of salt lying around in the middle of nowhere? I hate it when people litter! They must have fallen off a truck. I will take these bags as a public service! I needed salt too. Everyone wins!" LOL
Ottawa, Canada uses an average of 150,000,000 kg of road salt annually! The salt is stored in giant silos and dispensed by a fleet of hundreds of salt trucks with salt spreaders.
Ottawa has 400 city employees operating 700 vehicles to remove snow on 6290 km of roads and 2042 km of sidewalks. Annually, it spends $69 million to remove 2,400,000 m² of snow, and uses 150,000,000 kg of salt. And these figures are just for the city government. Private snow removal would at least double these figures.
Some things... yeah, they'd be more useful on bridges, because the bridge has airflow going under it, which cools it down more, so ice will often appear on bridges. Another typically dangerous place is when you drive into or out of a tunnel.
About salt. It only really works in temperatures not much below zero. I do not know the exact mixture of what is used nowadays, but if it's just salt, then it will be good for -2...-5 Celsius but if it's -10 or colder you better use sand or nothing.
Here in Northern Indiana, we use a mix of salt and sand. But we have to use plow trucks that then spread it on the roads. Mostly at the intersections. Do they simply spread the salt by hand in Japan? Seems strange they wouldn't use a truck of some sort.
Score free salt! umm... that's what they would say in uncivilized countries, not here tho err... *takes bag and runs* (ima gona get a salt lick binge now bwahahaha) :P
It's just totally amazing how much the people over there can be trusted to not steal the public goods. Specially something so precious as de-icing salt. I have one question. The bags of salt are left by the roadside. Does that mean in case of ice random people would just spread the salt for the benefit of their fellow citizens? That kind of civility would be a totally alien concept in my homeland. Your videoa are always interesting. Next video, coming soon...
I live in Edmonton Alberta and all they do is spread sand on the roads and in summer use sweeper trucks to collect and reuse it next year. not a good idea as the small rocks in sand tend to get picked up with vehicles tires and tossed into your windshield and chips and cracks are the result. :(. bought a new truck and two days later the my window was busted
Wouldn't it be more efficient if they used trucks/vehicles like we do in Canada every winter??? That way you just have to drive on the road and let the salt fall as they drive.
I'm from New Hampshire, We NEED salt trucks here. I would worry that the bags of sold on the side of the road would get covered with snow and no one would be able to find them...
GOD, I miss salt! We USED to salt the roads up here, but they found that after salting, and dumping all of the scooped up snow into the local river, it was changing salinity levels in the water. So they banned it. Now they use gravel. I'll tell you THIS much: gravel sure doesn't melt snow & ice!
They probably put em out where ice issues occur! Maybe they even put em out at specific places like they have a map of where accidents occur previous years. would make sense like hill a and bridge a get bad but not hill b and bridge b.....just an idea. plus makes more sense than salting every place in a truck which probably would not fit down all roads in japan since salt trucks are bigger.
this is the first winter where it hasn't snowed (I live ~25 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA and we usually get atleast 2 storms with 3 ft of snow each by now), so seeing a video like this is always welcome haha
@Dfireanime13 Salt trucks are pre-emptive. They use them in most countries when they think there is going to be snow or ice. In Japan, they're a reactionary measure. The salt iss laid down after snowfall. You ever get a second-hand imported Japanese car...the bodywork will be in amazing condition due to the lack of salt used on Japanese roads.
Probably an issue of space. Salt trucks are fairly large(at least, in my country they are) and they wouldn't probably fit thru all streetways in Japan. At least, from what I can tell from movies, pics and google maps, streets in Japan can be awfully cramped and small. The trucks would probably move ok on highways but eventually they'd have to go thru smaller areas. I dunno, just a theory. Plus, Japan has always done everything in it's own fashion.
@Dfireanime13 In heavy snowfall regions, you can see many salt trucks. But, perhapse as you know, they are very noisy. So, usage of winter service vehicles is rather limited.
@Dfireanime13 waste of gas and difficulties of having big salt trucks.... well that's most likely the idea. some dude can just walk outside and do it instead. japan is big on the whole environmental stuff
I live in Winnipeg/Canada and we use giant vehicles to spread the salt and sand on the roads but I think probably we might get more snow mosts years(maybe not this year). Also in January almost every year(except this year) it go's down to -50c for about two weeks and for the rest of the month its about -30c. This video is up now, so does that mean it hasn't snowed yet in japan?
Can I ask, when you say 'the local guys' spread the salt out, do you mean councils or the residents of the area? Because I know the councils spread the bags, as you've mentioned, but surely it would take too much manpower for them also spread the salt? Japan does seem to have this sense of community, and people doing it themselves doesn't seem too implausible, but I'm not sure.
Isn't road salt filled with other chemicals? I know it is around where I live so stealing this salt is useless. You can't eat it, you can't sell it, so what's the point?
@lemonrind You don't in japan. Have you seen their houses? Almost none of them have private places that need defrosting. Only the richer ones do, but they can afford their own salt.
also if you watch the video about stealing stuff in Japan linked in the info bar you'll see that it's not common (not saying that it doesn't happen) for Japanese people to steal.
@UsagiKuroChan I know its not common to steal, it doesnt make it less interesting to keep seeing it.
As for stealing being equated to use, thats not how thieves work here.
I worked for RGIS, we do inventory for stores. We had proprietary specialised equipment. It was unsellable. Maybe you could tear it apart, but it didnt even have good hardware in it. Not off the shelf hardware either.
We still had some of it stolen once in awhile. Criminals steal things without thinking.
I'm from Germany, so that salt thing isn't new for me, but nevertheless the video was interesting. If one would put those bags on the roadside over here, they probably wouldn't "survive" one single day. :)
В России бы давно спиздили... In Russia it would have been stolen before you see it. All your videos are just perfekt! I have taken much interesting from your videos and in many ways it changed my attitudes to many things. Thank you, greetings from Czech Republic.
@TheJapanChannelDcom i watched two guys stealing the salt out of a salt bin in the middle of a local town in the middle of the day (thats why i hate ireland and love japan)
@Asleepymystikal People in Japan don't even steal from garbage dumps, unchained motor-bikes (with keys in ignition!), and clothes-lines. Even the beggars seem to have a respect for other people's property. The worst you'll get are panty thieves who steal women's underwear.
Thats really weird! There just sitting there! The bags i mean... In Scotland there is a big truck thing ((Gritter)) That drives all the roads ((mostly)) and the salt/grit gets spreaded out the back of it! Though at streets there is a big yellow box ((like 4ft high)) full of salt or grit.
Never seen it just sitting there in a bad at the side of roads though :L
@meronheddo ^Same deal in New England; big salt/sand trucks drive around when the snow starts and there are bins in the city proper with salt for the sidewalks.
@lordvincent1313 I was just going to post the same thing but, you beat me to it lol. I live in New England and have seen those trucks all my life. I never thought salting the roads would e a big deal. Heh, I guess it is all in what you grow up with.
I know around where i live there is a giant valley. the RM puts out steel barrels of sand/ salt mixture on the shoulder of the sides going up in the event it gets icy and traffic cannot get up the hill. but like you said there doesnt seem to be much rhyme or reason to the placing of salt there..
Yeah on the big salt trucks. I used to live in the northeast US and they use big trucks to scatter the salt. Especially on bridges, 'cause they freeze first. I'm surprised there are bridges that don't have salt waiting on them there since they DO tend to be dangerous when icy.
I know some places use sand or a really coarse grit which helps too. That's one of the things I HATE about late winter, that dried, dissolved salt all over the car, your boots, everywhere. Nasty, ugly, blech!
Where I live in Montreal, we have a combination of salt and little gravel rocks that trucks go around spraying on the roads after either icy rain or large snow fall.
They ship TRUCKS full of salt every day where I live :D
I once was riding my bike in autumn (last year) to the town center, the temperature began to hit zero and I noticed a lot of ice on the road. I stopped to look at it better - it was salt not ice o__O
Very interesting. I live in Nashville, Tn and we get snow and ice every year and we has warehouse's full of salt so seeing little bags of salt....LOL we have big trucks to carry and spread the salt. People here would probably steal the bags if left attended.
Definitely an interesting video as always! =) How and who gets elected the person to spread the salt? Is it someone that lives near by, or does people that work for the city do it?
@TheJapanChannelDcom Japan should do what the US does. Just have salt trucks that go around spreading it all over the roads. I don't know why they don't salt all the roads...
@suiton629 Probably to save money for other stuff.
I'd gues they only put them in certain areas where some research ahave shown it to be more prone for icing during winter and more accidents, so they put bags in those areas only to save money.
@Snuffsis I figured that much, but wouldn't it be more costly if there were car accidents, people slipping and falling on the roads, traffic jams, a truck sliding down a road and slamming into buildings & people? Yea those would be a little extreme, but it could happen. They could always import road salt from like the US if they really needed more which would help the Japanese and US economy at the same time. =P
@suiton629 Well, they could, but the traffic in Japan is very very different than in the west, like Europe or the US. They actualyl drive safely, follow rules and such. Which is the main contributor to them not having a lot of accidents, so they probably don't need to take that into account.
@Snuffsis Again, traffic and car related accidents aren't my only concern with this. It's also (for example) pedestrians. No matter how careful people are, we're all still human so (for example), a pedestrian could slip and fall. Or if there was an icy patch, a kid could run and side out into the middle of the road and get hit by like an oncoming truck (hope that kind of thing never happens though). All just examples... =)
it is calcium chloride. I hear that calcium chloride do damage to hubcap. so car enthusiast doesn't like it. they may like snow like suger better than salt.
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1103mix1103 1 day ago
It's another showcase of the differences in social pressures against crime. I mean, if you did that here, those bags would be gone the next day.
mekugi186 4 days ago
One of thinks we area ahead of Japan :D Because we have loot of show at winter. Maybe in Hokkaido they have better system.
wert668 4 days ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
Could have used this driving to work this morning. Major arterial street was solid ice for about a block. Fortunately I was driving my "Dodge" (pun intended).
jfan4reva 2 weeks ago
The council still grits the road, the bins are for garden paths, or the pavement outside your house. Anywhere the gritting lorries don't go.
dalriada842 1 month ago
Where I live in Scotland, the council has large salt 'bins' strategically located throughout the area. They stay year round, but are topped up when the weather worsens. I have one of those bins less than 10 metres from my house. :)
dalriada842 1 month ago
Very interesting and exotic thing to see since I live in a tropical country
oacmre 1 month ago
HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY GGGUUUUUYYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
playstation2bigs 1 month ago
is that safe to eat?
MrEatingPussy 1 month ago
Thank you for the video.
Nemesis093781 1 month ago
It seems every area takes care of their roads in a different way. Sometimes I don't quite exactly understand how they are doing it either. In my town they don't do anything, but in the city next to me in Tsuyama they have salt trucks. If you drive east along the upper edge of Honshuu they have water that comes out of the middle of the road that is constantly flowing. I have no idea if it is hot or cold though. In Hokkaido, they leave a small layer of snow on the roads (for traction?).
Kakarotsan 1 month ago
Once i took a retake, on looking at the spots where they had the bags at... Most of the spots do look like areas where water (melt off) may congregate and refreeze at, as Black Ice during the winter. And certain bridges with a lower Wind Circulation level, also tend to freeze up on occasion do to residual air based moisture from the rivers, but why they put some on a hilltop section of a road is beyond me ~,~'?!.. Only (high mountain or arctic area) roads will tend to freeze up a road summit...
lordlycius 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
In Canada there is sometimes salt in big plastic boxes with a locked lid to slow down people stealing it.
EnglishSpaceDog 1 month ago
would love one of those, im sick of going to work on a mirror-looking road..
Lolismad 1 month ago
would be stolen within moments in the UK tbh =.=' Fail at a community....
J4rming 1 month ago
Here in Berlin, the bags had been stolen after two minutes.
AnimePrayer 1 month ago
I don't mean to offend my country, but.... in here those salt would reaaaaally most likely be stolen in a day (literally speaking).
frealynn 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
A few bags seems like so little. Do they restock the bags as winter goes on? Or is there so little snow that it's all that's needed?
PRenaud713 1 month ago
I just had a great idea for an electricity powered truck that melts ice using thermal heating.
TheLifePerfect 1 month ago
New York is full of Italians so those bags wouldn't last but 2 seconds.
Mrstrongisland01 1 month ago
Yeah I saw these bags on the side of road over bridges and steep roads in a mountain area just outside Tokyo around March . Had no idea what they were for ; now I do!
TheLanternmusic 1 month ago
Up here in Maine, those salt bags would be gone in hours. A lot of people with icy driveways/walkways/stairs and no money.
CESkootchy 1 month ago
I get ice in my part of America, but I do find it very interesting that they just keep the bags of salt on the sides of the roads, where I live, people keep them in their homes to spread on their driveways and sidewalks as do some businesses and schools for their parking lots. For the public roads, I believe that salt trucks actually spread it on the roads.
CalebMush 1 month ago
The comments about stealing the bags are interesting. I don't think people would even consider it stealing where I live. They would think "Who the hell left these bags of salt lying around in the middle of nowhere? I hate it when people litter! They must have fallen off a truck. I will take these bags as a public service! I needed salt too. Everyone wins!" LOL
lemonrind 1 month ago 2
@lemonrind In Australia people would also use these to vandalise, not just steal.
dadsythe2 1 month ago
i live in New england, and here the rock salt they out on the road doesnt even seem to work because theres always so much of it. D:
zetsu12345678910 1 month ago
Ottawa, Canada uses an average of 150,000,000 kg of road salt annually! The salt is stored in giant silos and dispensed by a fleet of hundreds of salt trucks with salt spreaders.
Ottawa has 400 city employees operating 700 vehicles to remove snow on 6290 km of roads and 2042 km of sidewalks. Annually, it spends $69 million to remove 2,400,000 m² of snow, and uses 150,000,000 kg of salt. And these figures are just for the city government. Private snow removal would at least double these figures.
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Some things... yeah, they'd be more useful on bridges, because the bridge has airflow going under it, which cools it down more, so ice will often appear on bridges. Another typically dangerous place is when you drive into or out of a tunnel.
About salt. It only really works in temperatures not much below zero. I do not know the exact mixture of what is used nowadays, but if it's just salt, then it will be good for -2...-5 Celsius but if it's -10 or colder you better use sand or nothing.
reshjuk 1 month ago
Smart !
VegardMinde 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
Here in Northern Indiana, we use a mix of salt and sand. But we have to use plow trucks that then spread it on the roads. Mostly at the intersections. Do they simply spread the salt by hand in Japan? Seems strange they wouldn't use a truck of some sort.
jjaagg5050 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
Score free salt! umm... that's what they would say in uncivilized countries, not here tho err... *takes bag and runs* (ima gona get a salt lick binge now bwahahaha) :P
VidzOnComputer 1 month ago
ah yes road salt.. it makes the ice melt and the cars ruuuust
y2kxj 1 month ago
It's just totally amazing how much the people over there can be trusted to not steal the public goods. Specially something so precious as de-icing salt. I have one question. The bags of salt are left by the roadside. Does that mean in case of ice random people would just spread the salt for the benefit of their fellow citizens? That kind of civility would be a totally alien concept in my homeland. Your videoa are always interesting. Next video, coming soon...
C6BD 1 month ago
I live in Edmonton Alberta and all they do is spread sand on the roads and in summer use sweeper trucks to collect and reuse it next year. not a good idea as the small rocks in sand tend to get picked up with vehicles tires and tossed into your windshield and chips and cracks are the result. :(. bought a new truck and two days later the my window was busted
s3xyScorp 1 month ago
Wouldn't it be more efficient if they used trucks/vehicles like we do in Canada every winter??? That way you just have to drive on the road and let the salt fall as they drive.
bee5120 1 month ago
I'm from New Hampshire, We NEED salt trucks here. I would worry that the bags of sold on the side of the road would get covered with snow and no one would be able to find them...
Kevin192291 1 month ago
@@ i've use these to make ice cream b4 fun stuff
chiuuuuuuuuuu 1 month ago
I'm from Texas. It never snows here. I didn't even know salt trucks exists.
PeircedinBlood 1 month ago 4
Steal and sell as kitchen salt
maerijn 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
GOD, I miss salt! We USED to salt the roads up here, but they found that after salting, and dumping all of the scooped up snow into the local river, it was changing salinity levels in the water. So they banned it. Now they use gravel. I'll tell you THIS much: gravel sure doesn't melt snow & ice!
Oh, that beautiful, beautiful salt!
patientzero532 1 month ago
@patientzero532
well,of course not.it´s supposed to give you more grip
RapiDEraZeR 1 month ago
@RapiDEraZeR Doesn't really. Salt still did the job.
patientzero532 1 month ago
It's funny because even those plain ole' bags of salt would get stolen by somebody in America. :)
furubamaiden 1 month ago 4
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[Sigh....] The Japanese are right, we are barbarians....
jfan4reva 1 month ago
They probably put em out where ice issues occur! Maybe they even put em out at specific places like they have a map of where accidents occur previous years. would make sense like hill a and bridge a get bad but not hill b and bridge b.....just an idea. plus makes more sense than salting every place in a truck which probably would not fit down all roads in japan since salt trucks are bigger.
watashiwahjolan 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan. 2
could use some pepper too...
Sinjinator 1 month ago
this is the first winter where it hasn't snowed (I live ~25 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA and we usually get atleast 2 storms with 3 ft of snow each by now), so seeing a video like this is always welcome haha
awsomguitarman 1 month ago
...why don't they just use salt trucks?
Dfireanime13 1 month ago 37
@Dfireanime13 Salt trucks are pre-emptive. They use them in most countries when they think there is going to be snow or ice. In Japan, they're a reactionary measure. The salt iss laid down after snowfall. You ever get a second-hand imported Japanese car...the bodywork will be in amazing condition due to the lack of salt used on Japanese roads.
d245470k 1 month ago
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Probably an issue of space. Salt trucks are fairly large(at least, in my country they are) and they wouldn't probably fit thru all streetways in Japan. At least, from what I can tell from movies, pics and google maps, streets in Japan can be awfully cramped and small. The trucks would probably move ok on highways but eventually they'd have to go thru smaller areas. I dunno, just a theory. Plus, Japan has always done everything in it's own fashion.
FadedSilkandGhosts 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
@Dfireanime13 I'm guessing they dont have to use it often enough for it to be worth the cost?
fredflak 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@Dfireanime13 In heavy snowfall regions, you can see many salt trucks. But, perhapse as you know, they are very noisy. So, usage of winter service vehicles is rather limited.
Gardaint 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@Dfireanime13 waste of gas and difficulties of having big salt trucks.... well that's most likely the idea. some dude can just walk outside and do it instead. japan is big on the whole environmental stuff
ydoiwatchthese 1 month ago
Great, I'm getting loads of ads trying to sell me salt now. :)
tomwash1 1 month ago in playlist More videos from TheJapanChannelDcom
no salt trucks?
Kayzzzzification 1 month ago
in my country if you find sacks fill with anything..you will not see it anymore.
sadiel1 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
I love the writings on the bags.
DarkDFlame 1 month ago
I have never seen anything like that before. Thanks Japandude
shkdbsahbdlabf1 1 month ago
I live in Winnipeg/Canada and we use giant vehicles to spread the salt and sand on the roads but I think probably we might get more snow mosts years(maybe not this year). Also in January almost every year(except this year) it go's down to -50c for about two weeks and for the rest of the month its about -30c. This video is up now, so does that mean it hasn't snowed yet in japan?
TheShadowofDormin 1 month ago
I have never seen it just left out like that before, we use bulk. Had a town here use garlic salt from a local factory once, quite an odor, no joke.
Tcadkisson 1 month ago
50 kilos of salt will do close to nothing to prevent even a small bridge from ice
i thought the japanese were smarter, more efficient than that
MrUlutraman 1 month ago
@MrUlutraman I think in japan there is not a lot of snow, so a few bags of salt will do the job.
Bupalumpa 1 month ago
@Bupalumpa In the north-western part of Japan is where the heaviest snowfall occurs in the entire world.
Smegma007 1 month ago
@Bupalumpa Sapporo is the name of the city. Wiki-it-up
Smegma007 1 month ago
We salt the roads in Norway, but there are huge trucks doing the job.
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Jogeta5 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
Can I ask, when you say 'the local guys' spread the salt out, do you mean councils or the residents of the area? Because I know the councils spread the bags, as you've mentioned, but surely it would take too much manpower for them also spread the salt? Japan does seem to have this sense of community, and people doing it themselves doesn't seem too implausible, but I'm not sure.
Thanks in advance if you can clarify this!
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DrownedBeliefs 1 month ago
Isn't road salt filled with other chemicals? I know it is around where I live so stealing this salt is useless. You can't eat it, you can't sell it, so what's the point?
2dFXman 1 month ago
@2dFXman You can melt the ice in front of your own house. ;)
I have two (smaller) bags of salt in my garage. But it seems like we don't get winter this year. :/
guardian040 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
@2dFXman People need road salt for private driveways and walkways. It is actually a very valuable commodity.
lemonrind 1 month ago
@lemonrind You don't in japan. Have you seen their houses? Almost none of them have private places that need defrosting. Only the richer ones do, but they can afford their own salt.
2dFXman 1 month ago
"Hey guys" haha awesome
phobak 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
As has been said, the most interesting thing is salt being left out unstolen.
waltermh111 1 month ago
@waltermh111 it's mixed with grit anyone could really use it for anything else :)
UsagiKuroChan 1 month ago
@UsagiKuroChan you mean they couldnt use it for anything else?
And thats not always why people steal.
waltermh111 1 month ago
@waltermh111 is there any other use for it? o.O
also if you watch the video about stealing stuff in Japan linked in the info bar you'll see that it's not common (not saying that it doesn't happen) for Japanese people to steal.
UsagiKuroChan 1 month ago
@UsagiKuroChan I know its not common to steal, it doesnt make it less interesting to keep seeing it.
As for stealing being equated to use, thats not how thieves work here.
I worked for RGIS, we do inventory for stores. We had proprietary specialised equipment. It was unsellable. Maybe you could tear it apart, but it didnt even have good hardware in it. Not off the shelf hardware either.
We still had some of it stolen once in awhile. Criminals steal things without thinking.
waltermh111 1 month ago
@waltermh111 To be clear, it didnt look like anything you could buy in a store. It was like the hand scan machines you might see at a retail store.
waltermh111 1 month ago
Thats how they do it in countries where there is not a lot of snow. Usually there are trucks spreading salt on the roads
ThePapyJay 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
LoL...Where I live, these bags would probably last 1 day...
frepi 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
@frepi where i live they would not even last 1 hour LOL
Jqueline186 1 month ago
Oooh, drive on my salty Japanese roads, get in your car and drive 'em!
deamondeathstone1 1 month ago
Thats a weird way to do it.
Degenskonto 1 month ago
I really like this video actually o.O
zepherighost 1 month ago
do people jog or run on japanese roads? the roads look runner friendly.
jmc647 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
I was wondering how they did the salt! Thanks!
MochiMegan 1 month ago
in my country once the snow falls a special truck comes out that sprays salt grains behind it. if left like that the bags will be stolen 110%.
EWGFus3r 1 month ago 2
I'm from Germany, so that salt thing isn't new for me, but nevertheless the video was interesting. If one would put those bags on the roadside over here, they probably wouldn't "survive" one single day. :)
1337anonym 1 month ago 25
@1337anonym haha so true mate
Mahaweilo 1 month ago
@1337anonym Here in Québec they wouldn't last one second.
C6BD 1 month ago
@1337anonym ich stimme dir da zu... obwohl ich net verstehen kann was einer mit 25 kilo nicht essbarem Salz anfangen will...
Wellenwolf 1 month ago
@Wellenwolf Verkaufen? Als es hier einen großen Salzmangel gab, haben Leute ihr Salz sehr lange zurückgehalten um es dann teuer verkaufen zu können.
1337anonym 1 month ago
They wouldn't have to collect them at the end of the snow season in NY cause they wouldn't last 10 minutes there.
JetMechInJapan 1 month ago 2
yea.... for north europeans the same thing! ;/
Nightberrii 1 month ago
Bridges freeze first so that makes sense but why such a small amount? Those bags would take care one icy morning, if that.
nokomarie1963 1 month ago
В России бы давно спиздили... In Russia it would have been stolen before you see it. All your videos are just perfekt! I have taken much interesting from your videos and in many ways it changed my attitudes to many things. Thank you, greetings from Czech Republic.
KamchatkaChannel 1 month ago
those bags would get sooo nicked over here xD japan ftw!
guguigugu 1 month ago
Gotta love grit.
fourthlemon 1 month ago
nobody steals them??? 0_o
Asleepymystikal 1 month ago
@Asleepymystikal
Have a look at the "Stealing stuff" video under this comment.
TheJapanChannelDcom 1 month ago 9
@TheJapanChannelDcom i watched two guys stealing the salt out of a salt bin in the middle of a local town in the middle of the day (thats why i hate ireland and love japan)
sskev247 1 month ago
@Asleepymystikal People in Japan don't even steal from garbage dumps, unchained motor-bikes (with keys in ignition!), and clothes-lines. Even the beggars seem to have a respect for other people's property. The worst you'll get are panty thieves who steal women's underwear.
RelVleDy 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Thats really weird! There just sitting there! The bags i mean... In Scotland there is a big truck thing ((Gritter)) That drives all the roads ((mostly)) and the salt/grit gets spreaded out the back of it! Though at streets there is a big yellow box ((like 4ft high)) full of salt or grit.
Never seen it just sitting there in a bad at the side of roads though :L
meronheddo 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
@meronheddo ^Same deal in New England; big salt/sand trucks drive around when the snow starts and there are bins in the city proper with salt for the sidewalks.
lordvincent1313 1 month ago
@lordvincent1313 I was just going to post the same thing but, you beat me to it lol. I live in New England and have seen those trucks all my life. I never thought salting the roads would e a big deal. Heh, I guess it is all in what you grow up with.
Lucailey 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
In canada we have big trucks for that
xradio86 1 month ago
Calcium chloride
a241155 1 month ago
I know around where i live there is a giant valley. the RM puts out steel barrels of sand/ salt mixture on the shoulder of the sides going up in the event it gets icy and traffic cannot get up the hill. but like you said there doesnt seem to be much rhyme or reason to the placing of salt there..
thestuffz 1 month ago
Yeah on the big salt trucks. I used to live in the northeast US and they use big trucks to scatter the salt. Especially on bridges, 'cause they freeze first. I'm surprised there are bridges that don't have salt waiting on them there since they DO tend to be dangerous when icy.
I know some places use sand or a really coarse grit which helps too. That's one of the things I HATE about late winter, that dried, dissolved salt all over the car, your boots, everywhere. Nasty, ugly, blech!
SpookMrsSpooky 1 month ago
Where I live in Montreal, we have a combination of salt and little gravel rocks that trucks go around spraying on the roads after either icy rain or large snow fall.
cynthiacorsa 1 month ago
They ship TRUCKS full of salt every day where I live :D
I once was riding my bike in autumn (last year) to the town center, the temperature began to hit zero and I noticed a lot of ice on the road. I stopped to look at it better - it was salt not ice o__O
VladPayne 1 month ago
That.. Might be more economical than the salt trucks, i have to admit. They're probably placed according to accident statistics, i'd guess.
Namaechan 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
It's cool that no one steals them. Seems like people in a lot of places would just wander off with them for giggles.
jebusfishy 1 month ago
Very interesting. I live in Nashville, Tn and we get snow and ice every year and we has warehouse's full of salt so seeing little bags of salt....LOL we have big trucks to carry and spread the salt. People here would probably steal the bags if left attended.
ataylorai1 1 month ago
I thought they were free... 8D;
Kinda reassuring that no one steals them. x3
akito989 1 month ago
This video was interesting to me because of the culture. My country uses city trucks to spread salt on roads.
If they were to put salt bags everywhere, they would just be stolen by people wanting to use it for their own driveway.
Refalm 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan. 2
Definitely an interesting video as always! =) How and who gets elected the person to spread the salt? Is it someone that lives near by, or does people that work for the city do it?
hcsurfer26 1 month ago
CERCL
SmilingMaram 1 month ago
If they did that in my city those bags would be snatched up within a day. Sad, really.
Epirc 1 month ago
randomness is always entertaining on your channel :)
sarahz1981 1 month ago
Here in Norway we have big trucks driving around spreading the salt on all the roads
ViriuZ7 1 month ago
Definitely interesting.
gartini 1 month ago
@TheJapanChannelDcom Japan should do what the US does. Just have salt trucks that go around spreading it all over the roads. I don't know why they don't salt all the roads...
suiton629 1 month ago
@suiton629 Probably to save money for other stuff.
I'd gues they only put them in certain areas where some research ahave shown it to be more prone for icing during winter and more accidents, so they put bags in those areas only to save money.
Only a guess though. :P
Snuffsis 1 month ago
@Snuffsis I figured that much, but wouldn't it be more costly if there were car accidents, people slipping and falling on the roads, traffic jams, a truck sliding down a road and slamming into buildings & people? Yea those would be a little extreme, but it could happen. They could always import road salt from like the US if they really needed more which would help the Japanese and US economy at the same time. =P
suiton629 1 month ago
@suiton629 Well, they could, but the traffic in Japan is very very different than in the west, like Europe or the US. They actualyl drive safely, follow rules and such. Which is the main contributor to them not having a lot of accidents, so they probably don't need to take that into account.
Snuffsis 1 month ago
@Snuffsis Also forgot to add that the roads in Japan, from what i can understand, is very well maintained and of high quality.
Snuffsis 1 month ago
@Snuffsis Again, traffic and car related accidents aren't my only concern with this. It's also (for example) pedestrians. No matter how careful people are, we're all still human so (for example), a pedestrian could slip and fall. Or if there was an icy patch, a kid could run and side out into the middle of the road and get hit by like an oncoming truck (hope that kind of thing never happens though). All just examples... =)
suiton629 1 month ago
It's really interesting to see that from japan o_O first time i see that o_O
gerry1888 1 month ago
Japanese is awesome because they have smily faces in the alfabete
chrstilen5 1 month ago
Just like Norway during winter. It eats off the chassis.
sjureman 1 month ago in playlist Wheels in Japan.
o_O sour about those roads >.>
gerry1888 1 month ago