[0:44] [music] [0:48] Hello. [0:51] Heat. [1:08] Okay, with the winter snow season upon [1:10] us again, uh, one of the ways that Ray [1:12] County is battling the snow and ice on [1:16] our highways is obviously through our [1:19] plow trucks with salt, but we also have [1:22] invested in a brine system which will [1:26] allow us to be more cost effective and [1:28] efficient in our snow and ice control [1:30] methods. So [1:33] we've invested in uh a brine making [1:35] system here and our brine making system [1:38] basically works like this. You put a [1:41] bucket of solar salt in a hopper. Water [1:44] is introduced into that hopper and [1:47] circulates. Once that water reaches a [1:51] desired salinity of salt, it is [1:54] transferred into this holding tank. And [1:58] this holding tank will recirculate that [2:01] salt brine and it will allow you to find [2:05] the optimum level of salt brine to um [2:10] fight snow and ice with. And that level [2:14] is 23.3%. [2:16] Um, so if we're running a little high, a [2:18] little too saturated, we have a water [2:21] filtration or a water system will [2:23] introduce fresh water into the system [2:25] and that will allow us to be in a [2:28] desired range. Once we meet that desired [2:31] range, that salt brine will be [2:34] transferred from this hopper through [2:36] this cabinet, which will read and ensure [2:39] that you are in your target salinity [2:41] levels. Once that is reached, it'll be [2:44] transferred to one of these uh 6900galon [2:49] holding tanks. And there is three [2:52] holding tanks here with straight salt [2:54] brine and two holding tanks which have a [2:59] calcium chloride premium liquid deicer [3:02] in them. What this does is it gives the [3:05] drivers the ability to utilize [3:08] temperature. The warmer it is, the less [3:11] premium deicer you need, the more [3:14] efficient salt brine works. Salt brine [3:16] is by far the cheapest product we can [3:19] produce to fight snow and ice with. And [3:24] um so then we also have the ability when [3:26] it gets colder though to introduce our [3:28] premium deicer at a desired percentage. [3:32] So it could be 80% salt brine, 20% [3:35] premium, 7030. And that'll allow you to [3:39] get down to the below zero temperatures [3:41] and effectively remove um ice and snow [3:45] from roadways. [3:49] [music] [4:21] >> [music] [4:27] [music] [4:41] >> Okay. So, another tool for snow and ice [4:43] control is uh I'm standing in front of [4:45] our tanker here. We use this tanker. Our [4:48] tanker 6,000 gallons and we use this [4:51] throughout the year. Um, but during snow [4:53] and ice control season, we use it for [4:56] transferring the brine from the brine [4:58] facility to our satellite shops. And so [5:02] we'll take a load of deicer and we will [5:05] take it to our out shop and put it in [5:08] one of those same style white tanks, [5:11] 6900gallon tanks, um, at the out shops. [5:14] So then we can transfer the same product [5:17] that we can make here efficiently [5:20] out to our out shop so they can utilize [5:22] it in all corners of the county. Um the [5:26] tanker itself is an old milk tanker that [5:28] we bought used. Uh we install baffles in [5:31] it to keep the product from slloshing uh [5:34] make it a little safer to use going down [5:36] the road. And what we do is we uh we [5:40] would back up to the brine facility much [5:43] in the same uh manner that we do with [5:47] the trucks. And we will hook up uh the [5:50] hose and the banjo fitting [5:53] from the brine facility into the back of [5:56] the tanker. [5:58] And then you can pump directly into [6:02] the uh the tanker. [6:06] see exactly how we got this thing here. [6:11] So, the guys will come in, we'll pull [6:13] this cap off, we'll we have a [6:14] connection, we'll hook up to here, and [6:16] then we'll pump uh, you know, up to [6:18] 6,000 gallons in there. And then when [6:20] they get to the out shop, they will just [6:22] come up. They'll hook up um right out of [6:25] this outlet pump and pump that uh onto [6:29] or into the standalone um dual wall [6:32] tanks at our out shops. One other thing [6:35] we use this for is anti-icing. We It's [6:38] got the spray bar set up on it now, but [6:40] we'll fill this prior to a storm and go [6:43] out on selected routes, areas the wind [6:45] doesn't blow too much, and we will uh [6:48] pre-treat roadways with it. And all we [6:50] did for that is we took an old piece or [6:53] some PVC and drilled holes in the bottom [6:55] of it. And we've got a onoff valve [6:58] that's controlled in the cab. And the [7:00] driver will drive selector routes and uh [7:03] pre-treat the uh roadway prior to the [7:06] storm to keep the hopefully the the [7:09] theory behind that is to keep the snow [7:11] and ice from sticking on the roadway and [7:13] it'll allow it to peel off easier. Uh [7:16] the method behind it is always they talk [7:18] like a pan that you fry your food in. [7:21] You know, you put butter or pam in there [7:23] and then it doesn't stick. So, it's the [7:25] same theory uh with snow and ice [7:27] control.