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OMB No. 0704-0188
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1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YY)
2. REPORT TYPE
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
May 2002
Special Report
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Snow and Ice Control (SNIC) Equipment
and Its Use by Military Units Worldwide
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
5e. TASK NUMBER
Nicholas H. Collins
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
72 Lyme Road
ERDC/CRREL SR-02-1
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1290
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
HQ USAREUR
ATTN: ODSENGR
11. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S REPORT
NUMBER(S)
APO AE 09014
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Available from NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
When the U.S. Army moved into Yugoslavia in December 1995, it did so without snow and ice control (SNIC) equipment. The only
available tools--the bucket loader mounted on SEE tractors, scoop loaders, full-track tractors, the M9 ACE, and the motorized road
grader--were not designed for SNIC. These tools are specialized and dedicated to specific missions, and attempts to use them for
SNIC proved detrimental to both the equipment and the areas requiring snow removal. Upon receipt of an urgent call from HQUSACE,
it was determined that a SEE tractor snowplow prototype had been designed by the manufacturer that built and produced the SEE's
front loader bucket. Within six days, the company built a SEE snowplow and shipped it to Jericho, Vermont, where it was installed
on a Vermont Army National Guard (ARNG) SEE tractor. The snowplow was tested in various scenarios, at various snow depths, at
temperatures as low as 15F. It performed better than expected and 17 SEE snowplows were sent to Task Force Eagle in Bosnia.
Since then, snowplows for the 5-ton truck and HMMWV have been fielded to reduce the workload placed on the SEE tractor. The
viability of using this equipment on various snow-covered terrain by soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at
Fort Drum, New York, and the Ethan Allen Training Center in Vermont, was demonstrated.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
Frozen ground
SNIC
Snowplows
Ice
Snow
Spreaders
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17. LIMITATION OF
18. NUMBER
19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON
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Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98)
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