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If you don't have a garage, covered parking is the next best
thing. But it has to be sturdy or the weight of snow can
collapse it.
Instead of solid panels for the roof, make the cover of
weatherproof/waterproof canvas in the form of a conveyer
belt. It could made in sections if the covered
area is too big for
a single canvas. Have one or more electric motors turn it slowly
and continuously while it's snowing, to convey and dump snow
along the side of the driveway.
Conveyor belts simplify rooftop snow removal
https://www.sunkidw...ooftop-snow-removal
Ooh, I hates it when this happens - not a new idea [kdf, Feb 16 2021]
[link]
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//has to be sturdy or the weight of snow can collapse it// Best to store heavy posessions like snow somewhere else, shireley? |
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"Best to store heavy possessions like snow somewhere else"
—pocmloc, Feb 16 2021 |
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You're welcome to come take it. We have more than we
need. |
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With a flexible solar panel material, another function with self wiping. One side for snow the other for photons. Angle, orientation has to be right, though. |
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Build your garage out of ice, snow is just nature's free roof insulation. |
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I'll give myself a [marked-for-deletion] but leave this up for a
few days to see if anyone can improve on it. |
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The [link] is a bit different, not actually a conveyor roof. More like a snow gutter to help remove snow from large roofs. |
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Depending on the roller mechanism, varying the material of the carport roof would be possible. A bit like and old tape cassette but wider. |
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Agree link is different, link looks like a ~2ft width
conveyor belt as found on some easy ski slopes,
repurposed for snow removal. |
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One alternative might be to make the canvas roof
frame on rollers allowing tangential motion, with
springs to hold it centered, so when snow
accumulates it could be winched back and then
released to shake off snow in the manner of a wet
dog. |
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Some aircraft have "deicing boots" on the leading
edge of the wings which periodically inflate to shed
ice. |
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I wouldn’t want to shake the ice off, I figure a
steady rolling of the canvas would keep it from
accumulated at all. |
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If it's anything like the snow we get here you'd need quite the berm to ensure that all conveyed snow does nothing but pile further and further across your driveway, (in a now compacted ice sheet), which will be quite a bit harder to shovel. |
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-I've had to shovel four feet of overnight snow from the top of a vehicle before I could drive it to work.
-Our family woke one morning to our entire front entry drifted with snow and had to shovel our way out. |
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Sorry, but your tarpy conveyor thingy won't work on anything without a drop-zone. |
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A different approach would be to install an inflatable plastic
bubble-dome covering the front walk and driveway cover,
then allow it to be buried under the snow over the course of
the winter. |
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You guys like REALLY underestimate the power of ice. |
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It will shred your shit with weight and pressure that is hard to comprehend until seen.
Like lift the foundation of your house several feet in the air if it wasn't dug deep enough below the frost-line. |
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Split cliff faces from mountains and stuff. |
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Well, there’s snow, and then there’s SNOW. |
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I’m thinking of this product for a region where a
6” to a foot of snow coming down overnight
happens maybe once season, with smaller amounts
being more common. Folks who have to routinely
dig out 4 feet of the stuff need other options, like
moving to the tropics. |
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Hmm... make it sloped 10-15 degrees.
For light snowfall, runs slowly "downhill", snow accumulates
in a small pile next to driveway.
For heavier snowfall, runs much faster "uphill", launching
snow further away from driveway (preferably as far as the
neighbours yard...). |
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This idea depends on snow NOT accumulating on the cover
(lest the weight of snow causes the cover to collapse). So
there would never be enough to throw in the neighbors yard.
I'd arrange create my "drop zone" simply be having the cover
extend a foot or two beyond the edge of my driveway - and
perhaps a raised berm on the ground to make sure that it
didn't have a chance to pile up or drift back on to the
driveway. |
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If you build it with a steep roof you can do away with the conveyor... |
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