[AT] And Now For Something Different - A Tractor Problem

[Ralph Goff]

Larry D Goss wrote:
> OK, Charlie, now that you've mentioned that -- what is the base of that 
> solution?  They do it here weeks ahead of time and there seems to still 
> be some residual after rain storms.  What is it?

 From what I have heard this spray is pretty well the same as what we 
have in the rear tractor tires.........calcium chloride. So you can see 
the metal rusting properties that it would have. I've also heard there 
is evidence that the salt is eating the rebar in some of our bridges and 
overpasses. There have been incidents of unexplained collapses of some 
of these structures in recent years so it makes you wonder.
When the highways dry up here they literally turn white from the dried 
salt and there is "salt dust" trailing in the wake of the big semis.

Ralph in Sask.