Westbrook Public Services’ Dan McMahan won the individual skills title at this year’s Cumberland County Snow Plow Rodeo competition.
This year’s event was held Thursday, May 12, at the Portland Public Works Department’s Outer Congress Street facility. The competition is a skills based event comprised of two-man teams operating a standard snow plow unit.
The plowing unit, consisting of a front plow and side wing, is driven through a series of obstacles designed to test the operator’s ability to negotiate the tight turning radiuses and spaces commonly encountered during winter snow plowing operations. Operators are assigned penalty points for each obstruction that they hit. Typical competition obstructions consist of cones, parking meters, hydrants and vehicles. Each two-man team is required to negotiate the obstacle course with the lowest combined score declared the winner.
McMahan and teammate Chris Bolduc finished with a combined score low enough to place them third in the overall competition behind teams from Cape Elizabeth and Cumberland. McMahan’s individual score proved to be the lowest of the day for all individual competitors.
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