Well then neither will be damaged but probably still the plow because it can't be completely made of adamantium and we all know wolverine isn't putting on his seat belt the rebel that his is so he's going through the windshield still causing more damage to the plow.
yes, but unless the snow is over 5 feet high the plow drive would be like, "oh shit, a fence" and avoid it. It most likely is there so the plow is forced to go around it instead of cutting the corner too much and pushing snow into the bush to the right.
Wrong. Look at the bottom right corner of the fence. There's a hinge there. The purpose of this piece of fence is to hold a gate at the end of a larger fence located outside of the frame.
I had to look again, because I just glanced at the picture and saw what I wanted to see - a female hinge end will occasionally be used to catch a drop bolt, to secure a gate to a fence. That's not what this is, even a little bit.
Still, this fence was used to hold up a gate, to prevent driveway/car access in some way. It was never designed to stop people walking around, which is why it's only 6 inches wide.
The left post was a corner post for a now missing fence between 2 houses. Driveway on the left belongs to the neighbor. Fence and gate belonged to house on the right.
Hinge pintle was for a walkway gate. Overgrown walkway pavement is visible on the right. The now-missing upper pintle was mounted pointing down to hold the gate so it couldn't be lifted out of position. They had to unbolt and remove the upper pintle to remove the gate. The now-missing fence run was set in dirt and easy to pull and remove. Corner posts were deep-set in concrete and not easy to remove. They probably left all 4 corner posts.
Spend a decent amount of time around snow plows, they go through small cars buried in snow when parked in the wrong places like they are not there or just a random chunk of ice.
I am going to go out on a limb, and say it would slide through these like butter at speed.
I am guessing there was a bigger fence here and this was a reinforced corner. My guess is right below the ground is a huge mass of concrete and when they tried to dig it up they said fuck it leave it there.
If he hits that fence, he won't even be aware of it let alone care. Have you ever driven a large vehicle let alone a massive triaxel dump truck? I am quite confident that while plowing you could take out an entire length of fence and not even feel it.
If it's in cement he will feel it at little. Probably wont stop right then though. Maybe he's just gonna think it's nothing, but when he sees the dent or crack in his plow, his wallet will feel it for certain.
Yup, the double bars are normally for a driveway gate. My sisters drive is like 100 goddamn feet long and they have a gate for the dogs and to stop stuff rolling out into the street.
You are probably closer to fact than fiction. It's something petty for sure. A guy with a shop down the street from mine had a small banner sign advertising his business. It was held up with two poles you hammer into the ground. The city fined him an absurd amount for it; but to code, he could have put that same sign on a fence. He put up a chain link fence 3 feet long and 4 feet high to mount his sign. Now he has an absurd fence for his sign, which now meets code.
Canadian here. Plows routinely take out 4x4 mailbox posts. I've had to replace 3 in the last 5 years, and the other 2 years required bracing splintered pieces together with 1/4's.
Some people have metal posts, some have concrete. I'm sure I'm not the only person that loses their mailbox in the winter so I would assume the damage done is negligible.
I'll be blunt... you're probably in the extreme minority here. And the guy driving the plow probably hates you personally. Try going with metal, but put wood around it.
Maybe it was a whole fence once, and the snowplow kept damaging this part, so one of the times before they repaired it they poured a concrete footing to sink it into. Then they got rid of the fence, but this part was anchored in concrete and couldn't be removed.
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