Snow melter with fighter jet engine - photo

**Altair** · May 29, 2022, 08:14 AM

Snow melter with MiG-15 fighter jet engine.

Previously:

Diesel snow melter - GIF
Jet-powered snow blower/melter - video
Thawing heavy equipment - GIFs
Snowdragon snow melter - video, photos, and patent

**IntheGroove** · May 30, 2022, 06:46 PM

I remember going to the first California 500 at the Ontario Motor Speedway and the jet engine mounted on the back of a truck to dry the track as it was a rainy day...

That was in 1970...

**mdhatter3** · May 30, 2022, 08:31 PM

Lancaster speedway in NY state had one for years.

**Fluffle-Valve** · May 31, 2022, 12:29 AM

They use the same sorta thing at Santa Pod, UK. A lot better designed that that Green Thing.

**trinketman** · Jun 5, 2022, 12:55 PM

We had a self contained rail cleaning machine with a jet engine that traveled the tracks at the steel mill. When they fired it up it scared everybody. You had to have a death wish to be anywhere near it. It cleared and melted snow and ice but it consumed huge amounts of fuel, which I figured would make the fire ball larger if it would blow up . Fortunately it would break down more than it ran.