Snow removal

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thumb|TowPlow truck operating on a Missouri rural Interstate A snowplow (also snow plow, snowplough or snow plough) is a device intended for mounting on a vehicle, used for removing snow and ice from outdoor surfaces, typically those serving transportation purposes. Although this term is often used to refer to vehicles mounting such devices, more accurately they are known as winter service vehicles, especially in areas that regularly receive large amounts of snow every year, or in specific environments such as airfields. In other cases, pickup trucks and front end loaders are outfitted with at

heavy equipment machine

thumb|Embankment dam with two berms

job of removing snow

Tool for snow removal

shovel designed for snow removal

thumb|Windrows of straw, along with stubble. thumb|right|Grass for silage in a windrow awaiting collection. A windrow is a row of cut (mown) hay or small grain crop. It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mowing machine or by scythe into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mown. For small grain crops which are to be harvested, the windrow is formed by a swather which both cuts the crop and forms the windrow.

vehicle designed or adapted to clear thoroughfares of ice and snow

low skid resistance due to insufficient road friction

American gardening equipment company

system to prevent the build-up of snow and ice

Japanese diesel snowplough locomotive

container for a mixture of salt and grit

thumbnail|A mobile snow melter in Sapporo, [[Japan]]

process of manipulating snow