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userbinator on March 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japan...

Keep in mind that bulldozers routinely shove other, equally dense, materials around.

jaclaz on March 19, 2017 [–]

To be fair, much denser materials. A cubic meter of ice (which is clearly heavier than snow) weights 1,000 Kg, any terrain/gravel/sand will weight between 1,600 and 2,000 Kg per cubic meter.

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