Prepping for winter

摘要

The Spreader Ditcher can be used to plow heavy snow, spread ballast, reshape cuts in banks and cut trackside ditches. Weighing 160,000 to 170,000 pounds (depending on specifications for operational, ride and travel stability), it is equipped with an operator control cab, front plow, side wings, two non-powered bogies, AAR couplers and an auxiliary power unit (APU) for electrical/hydraulic power. The Spreader Ditcher High Plow can clear 16-foot snow drifts and widen snow cuts with main wings and bank slop-ers, and can "rip solid blue ice and handle slides mixed with rock, stumps and frozen matter," Harsco Rail officials said. The machine also cuts snow ditches for thaws and spreads snow in classification and switch yards.