We have a small piece of farm property south of Lake Erie, in an area designated by the professional weather-guessers to be within the “persistent snow band.” Anyone living in such an area is intimately acquainted with the sight of snowplows, snow blowers, show shovels, salt trucks, rusted vehicles as a result of the salt trucks, and, oh yeah…snow.
Welcome to the Frozen Tundra

Our place is on a dirt road, with a 750’ gravel driveway, which is flanked on both sides by hay fields. In spring, summer and fall, we can generally navigate the driveway without too much difficulty. In winter, however, with the hay mowed down and a foot or two (or four) of snow covering everything, the driveway could be just about anywhere.
In winters past, my efforts to chart the driveway’s location consisted of sticking a 4’ fiberglass rod with a reflector on top into the ground near the driveway at 75’ intervals. These efforts met with mixed results, as the ground there is fairly hard (especially when it’s frozen because I waited too long to install the markers — hey, who knew it was gonna get COLD in December…).

The markers that WOULD go in seldom took root in a pleasing, perfectly vertical fashion (picture a short, extremely skinny Leaning Tower of Pisa topped with a cracked blue plastic reflector). The markers that WOULDN’T go in got the persuader treatment, aka the hammer, which generally ended badly, with splintered fiberglass and shards of shattered blue plastic strewn around the yard. A week later, half of the reflectors would be face down on the ground, either blown over by the gentle Lake Erie breeze or knocked over by vicious, malevolent deer.
A Colorful, Multi—M’d Solution
The MMM folks developed the product because they were tired of losing THEIR driveways, and having THEIR reflectors (and lawns) mangled by errant snowplows. Their website has a short video relating how it all came to pass…
Staking Out My Turf

With the ground so flat it looks like the perfect opportunity to just put the truck in 4wd and hoon across the lawn making a new driveway with every pass.
Getting back to the point of your post though the mounts look great, very sturdy. Do they retain the markers or did the force of the plow pushing snow pull the markers out of the holder?
Yeah, we actually HAVE made a new driveway or two while trying to guess the approximate location of the REAL driveway. Not so bad, ’til the snow melts, and the edges of the driveway look like a monster truck rally track…So far, after several plowings, all the markers have remained upright and on the job. These things are a simple product designed to do a simple job, and they do it well.
As a follow-up, it is now mid-April, and for the first time, ALL our reflectors are still standing. Three or four rotated in the mounts a little, either from the gentle Lake Erie breeze, from snow tossed up by the plow, or possibly by marauding Bambis trying to scratch an itch. Otherwise all standing tall and straight. Hopefully we won’t have TOO much more snow this year, although it was in the 30’s yesterday…damn global warming!
A small piece of land with a 750 foot driveway? Nice…..!
Okay, a RELATIVELY small piece of land, for farm country…it’s 25 acres, just big enough to accomodate my antisocial tendencies ;] No shortage of projects there, either, which is helpful in that I never have to worry about what to do in my spare time.
Wow and we thought the snow here in the UK was bad at the moment! Never have to take precautions like this though…. 1 inch of snow here and the country comes to a grinding halt!
The same thing happens here, in Florida or Arizona, when they get a freak storm. They don’t have the equipment or the experience to deal with it, so everyone spends a day or so crashing into each other. The smart ones take a snow day, stay home, and make a snowman in the yard…