Does anyone here use a Prybar to break up Ice?

[Jarhead0408]

I take a prybar with me to work. It's excellent for knocking built up snow out of small wheel wells.

 

[woody 73]

The op is wanting to get the ice off his car windows in his area ; best bet is to use lots of salt and after it all melts to then coat all his windows down with fish oil and Vaseline to prevent further ice build-up. Of course if all else fails he could beat them real hard with an electric cattle prod.

 

[md21722]

Kind of a Captain Obvious statement.





The "It's a Colorado thing" I mentioned is cracked windshields. Not much dirt here in the Rocky Mountains... lots of "rocks". Windshields get chipped, which turn into cracks in the winter from the defroster technique.

It does not require the defroster either... even the heat from the sun can do it. If it's just a chip you can put a piece of clear tape to keep the water out.

 

[Finky198]

I remember in California seeing a car with a chip in the windshield turn into a crack from sitting out in the sun on a 105* day. A well sealed car can build up enough pressure if the windows aren't cracked open...

 

[Brian_WK]

I remember in California seeing a car with a chip in the windshield turn into a crack from sitting out in the sun on a 105* day. A well sealed car can build up enough pressure if the windows aren't cracked open...

Probably just the high temps causing it to expand quickly. Most acrs have these:

They vent the cabin pressure when you bring in fresh air usually in the back of the car.

Brian

 

[Finky198]

I'm sure both have some effect in causing stress

 

[woody 73]

I think someone said either the op lives on the east coast of New York or maybe the Philippines, not in California if that is the case the op could cover his whole car in dog-**** or better yet horse manure that would protect his car windows. better yet he could take some boiling hot water and get that ice off then proceed to wail away with a HF pry bar on sale at 20% off.

 

[lakeroadster]

No not really though. if you have a rock chip, repair it.....right? it's like $10 at parts store for a repair kit that takes 15 minutes to do.

both our cars have 1 or 2 rock chip repairs i have done and both don't crack or spread after the repair ever.

I lived 43 years in Ohio, so I get your point. Have you spent much time out of Delaware, like on the western half of the USA?

We just got back from a 60 mile drive into town.... dirt roads, snow, etc.

Out here you keep the windshield till it is hard to be seen out of.. then you replace. Chips are nearly a daily occurrence and the sandblasting of daily driving results in a haze. If a windshield lasts 4 years or more on a daily driver, you must not be driving much.

It does not require the defroster either... even the heat from the sun can do it. If it's just a chip you can put a piece of clear tape to keep the water out.

I'm thinking it's purely an expansion issue. I had the same cracking issue on a hot summer day.. when it started raining. If you think about it the defroster is heating the windshield.. not freezing any residual water. Sorry... this is all starting to sound like "Science ****".

 

[dnschmidt]

It's 66F here right now. I had to put on a light jacket to pick up the mail. Brutal. HEY, A MESSAGE FOR THE GUY FROM MINNY-SOTA. When you people come down here for the Winter speed up. You're clogging up the freeways. Local Phoenix rule: If you're not going 80 you're driving too damn slow.

 

[ChaseDE]

I lived 43 years in Ohio, so I get your point. Have you spent much time out of Delaware, like on the western half of the USA?

Nope never, hah, of course I have. Spent plenty of time all along the east coast, Midwest and southwest. All my family lives in Missouri, in the city and the sticks, spent lots of winters there.

Out here you keep the windshield till it is hard to be seen out of.. then you replace. Chips are nearly a daily occurrence and the sandblasting of daily driving results in a haze. If a windshield lasts 4 years or more on a daily driver, you must not be driving much

My 99 benz has the original windshield and it's quite pitted, I get that and it is a PITA. Rock chips every day though?

 

[btdobie]

I use a 500,000BTU weed burner. It works like a charm as long as the surface is sloped so the water drains before refreezing.

 

[1950mercury]

I thought we were all on the same page, I'm speaking ice that's on the drive way and pavement, not windshield

I think you are on your own page

 

[lakeroadster]

My 99 benz has the original windshield and it's quite pitted, I get that and it is a PITA. Rock chips every day though?

When is a "pit" classified as a "chip"

 

[T45]

I heard freezing a prybar in ice

and then hitting it

is a good way to break....the prybar

 

[woody 73]

I thought the op lived in the Philippines, do they get much snow there???

 

[rlitman]

On my driveway on Sunday, I just used a HF pneumatic floor scraper chisel and it was AWESOME. No more ice choppers for me!

 

[tdkkart]

I thought we were all on the same page, I'm speaking ice that's on the drive way and pavement, not windshield

Go back in the house, when you start seeing posts here about getting rid of gophers it'll be safe to go back outside.

 

[woody 73]

Since the op lives in the Philippines , do they even have gophers there? He could just use that 20% off HF pry bar and hit them over the head or do it this way:

 

[maxpower_hd]

For my driveway I use the sun and calcium chloride. I do have an ice chopper I rarely ever use. It looks like a flat grass edger, which I have use as well but only once.

On my roof for ice damns I once used an air chisel. Worked better than the claw hammer or hand chisel.

 

[woody 73]

No I don't think the op has any beavers in his ice dams, he has gophers in his attic in his house in the Philippines.