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[svtrit]

That's one reason they started using the calcium chloride as it is a plant fertilizer.

We used to treat all of our fertilizer spreaders and the frames of the trucks that hauled fertilizer with Fluid Film. Plant fertilizers are nasty on metal.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

They use so much rock salt here its like driving on pea gravel.

I've lost traction before due to the amount of roadsalt before

 

[SHOZ]

We used to treat all of our fertilizer spreaders and the frames of the trucks that hauled fertilizer with Fluid Film. Plant fertilizers are nasty on metal.

Most fertilizers are acidic, the NPK type. Calcium chloride is not, it's technically a mineral supplement and calcium is a base mineral pH wise. It won't burn plants like too much regular fertilizer.

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