Winter salt supplies

It’s heavy stuff, rock salt, but fortunately the job of dishing it out onto drives, forecourts and pavements can be made easier by using a wheeled spreader. These labour-saving devices really ease the job of spreading salt and grit onto paths, walkways, drives or car parks, helping you and others walk freely around home or…

Driving in snow and severe winter conditions can be a dangerous lottery – so much so that one of the early signs of incoming bad weather is usually a warning from the police not to try it. But what if you have no choice, or want to ensure you’re covered against the possibility of getting…

Rock salt is everyone’s best friend when it comes to clearing icy drives and pavements – but it can be hard to find as, whenever snow hits, stocks fly off the shelf. In recent years, stories about how councils have almost run out of rock salt have become as much a traditional part of winter…

Most of us, faced with a demand to clear the snow from the drive, trample a path to the garden shed and grab a spade – but that might be making the job harder than it needs to be. Spades are cutting tools, designed to dig into the earth, so they’re not very efficient at…

Over in the US, where some areas get more snow, more often, than we do in the UK, snow blowers and snow throwers are a much more frequent sight than over here. Your average Brit can’t shake the feeling that it’s cheating to let a machine take the strain – they’d rather toil away heroically…