The recent cold snap will have made many look at what they can do to minimise the disruption that snow and ice causes.

Broadwood (which also deals with Wessex machinery) supplies salt and grit spreaders that range from 76 to 3200-litre capacity and can be mounted on anything from an ATV to a 7.5t truck.

Each SnowEx machine features a 12V DC drive motor mounted in a weather-tight enclosure, tough polyethylene hopper and modular steel frame, as well as different electronic specifications. Different mounts are available for each spreader, meaning you can tow the unit behind your truck, mounted on a telehandler or on the back of a tractor.

There are smaller, trolley-like pathway versions also available.